Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a Great Metaphor for the US Response to 9/11, Amongst Other Things
The 2014 remake of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a great movie. It also features a sequence which, from the point of view of the history of…
Falasteen Habibti
Cover design for David Rovics’s new CD ‘Falaseen Habibti’ (‘I Love Palestine’).
Iced Tea
This recipe is called the Bomb Diggity because that’s what it is. I’ve made a few shitty batches of iced tea lately, but then today I made this and it…
Modern Newspeak Dictionary
With the amount of information good and bad flying around across the internet it can be nigh well on impossible to make sense of what’s going on in the world.…
Panic Hiding in Plain Sight: The Terror Scare
The use of the term ‘War on Terror’ to describe the West’s campaign of military aggression in and around Iraq over the last decade has long been contentious. How do…
Crises Worthy and Otherwise: Terror Scare vs. Climate Change
‘Never let a good crisis go to waste,’ Winston Churchill famously remarked. Famed for leading the Allied opposition to Nazi aggression during WW2, Churchill was no doubt aware more than…
Israel & Palestine: The Sandpit Chronicles
Two toddlers, let’s call them Israel and Palestine, were sitting in a sandpit. Palestine had a spade; Israel wanted the spade so it hit Palestine and took it. Palestine began…