It is dangerous to research history where the established authorities are smoking crack
One of the more conspicuous paradoxes of the Gazan genocide is the weaponization of nominally progressive values to rationalise it ideologically. https://bendebney.substack.com/p/zionism-and-liberalism-are-getting One of the more conspicuously bizarre features of…
You know that old riddle about the chicken and the egg and which came first? I had an idea about how to answer that, which is neither and both since…
Originally published on Znet: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zionist-conspiracism-shares-self-fulfilling-prophecies-with-kindergarten-sandpits In looking at conflict in history, we can only tend towards the conclusion that many political leaders, wielding great power as wholly owned subsidiaries of…
It is a particular irony of imperialist aggression in the Middle East that, thanks to decades-old geopolitical arrangements known as ‘petrodollar recycling,’ the Middle East finances its own invasions. https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/petrodollar-genocide…
In the current waking nightmare and trauma mill into which Mesopotamian geopolitics has degenerated, one question stands out above all others: how do ethno-fascist imperialists not perceive the historical continuity…
School closures during the Covid pandemic have placed an added burden on parents to perform at home what is ordinarily a paid role within the school—teachers’ aide. The expectation from…
Despite its very conspicuous lived history of indifference and neglect towards indigenous people, the Federal ALP touts the Voice to Parliament as an opportunity to ‘make history,’ like it’s own…
Originally published on Counterpunch. Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely disappoints. Since coming to power in the federal election in May,…
Living the values articulated in speech has never been a strong suit of progressive forces, much less to say the anti-capitalist left. Proof of this fact abounds amongst the global…
Originally published at Counterpunch If dispassionate debate of ideas is the theoretical means by which policy is formed in liberal democracies, in these increasingly hostile and desperate conditions of late…