No barbarism without poetry
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
3w ago
The real dividing line in Israel-Palestine
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
6m ago
Freedom without justice
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
7m ago
In Russia and Israel, national derangement runs wild
Whenever a country’s social contract unravels, conditions become ripe for rumours and absurdities to circulate.
8m ago
Without whistleblowers, the West is lost
We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”
10m ago
The Post-Human Desert
A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.
1y ago
The Dark Side of Neutrality
Those who would claim neutrality forfeit their standing to complain about the horrors of colonisation anywhere.
1y ago
Death or Glory in Russia
Russia’s reversion to warlordism is fuelled by a religious fundamentalism.
1y ago
October 17, 2022
The Ukraine Safari
Peaceniks argue that Russia needs a victory or concession that will allow it to 'save face.'
October 5, 2022
Women, Life, Freedom, and the Left
We in the West have no right to treat Iran as a country that is desperately trying to catch up with us.
September 17, 2022
Ukraine Is Palestine, Not Israel
By treating Israel’s colonisation of Palestine as a defensive struggle, Ukraine is validating its senseless aggression.
August 31, 2022
Ukraine’s Tale of Two Colonisations
More is at stake in Ukraine than many commentators seem to appreciate. In a world beset by the effects of climate change, fertile land will be an increasingly valuable asset.
August 25, 2022
Degeneracy, Depravity, and the New Right
The mundane origin of the Kosovo crisis shows how easily a spark can be fanned into a conflagration.
August 4, 2022
What the 'Woke' Left and the Alt-Right Share
Western political correctness (“wokeness”) has displaced class struggle, producing a liberal elite that claims to protect threatened racial and sexual minorities in order to divert attention from its members’ own economic and political power. At the same time, this lie allows alt-right populists to present themselves as defenders of “real” people against corporate and “deep state” elites, even though they, too, occupy positions at the commanding heights of economic and political power.
July 18, 2022
The Betrayal of the Left
The left should maintain solidarity with those who resist aggressive, arbitrary power, whether in Ukraine or elsewhere.
March 27, 2022
From Cold War to Hot Peace
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are entering a new phase of warfare and global politics. Aside from a heightened risk of nuclear catastrophe, we are already in a perfect storm of mutually reinforcing global crises—the pandemic, climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water shortages.
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