Nothing new on the Middle Eastern front
The tragedy is that Israel, which resulted from Europe’s guilt over the Holocaust, is becoming a symbol of European oppression and colonisation.
1m ago
Civil war in Sudan: Global capitalism and perpetual war
The situation in Sudan exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.
1m ago
We are all biomass
We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.
4m ago
Assange is free, but are we?
I fought for years with and for Julian Assange. In what sense are we who breathe the fresh air outside prisons still free?
5m ago
The spectre of neo-fascism is haunting Europe
If enough people despair of emancipatory politics and accept the withdrawal into buffoonery, the political space for neo-fascism widens.
5m ago
Protests of despair
Today’s anti-war protests are but a desperate plea simply to stop the killing of Palestinians in Gaza.
6m ago
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.
7m 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.
1y ago
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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