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The optics of imperialism are ghoulish, but opportunities are ripe
Revised version. Originally published at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-optics-of-imperialism-are-ghoulish-but-opportunities-are-ripe/ THE SYSTEMATIC extermination of the people of Gaza by a rampaging ethnofascist global pariah…
ALP deflection from complicity in crimes against humanity
As the historical example of the Nazis shows, totalitarianism is characteristically deflective. Collective tantrums over the wheels falling off the…
Zionist Conspiracism Shares Self-Fulfilling Prophecies With Kindergarten Sandpits
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…
Petrodollar Genocide
It is a particular irony of imperialist aggression in the Middle East that, thanks to decades-old geopolitical arrangements known as…
‘Green Wall Street’: on the extractivist co-option of ecological politics
Originally published on Counterpunch. Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely disappoints. Since…
Weaponising Progress
Living the values articulated in speech has never been a strong suit of progressive forces, much less to say the…
Culture wars defend the minority of the opulent from the majority
Originally published at Counterpunch If dispassionate debate of ideas is the theoretical means by which policy is formed in liberal…
Totalitarian attacks on reproductive justice
Originally published on Counterpunch Reproductive justice has always been a bugbear for reactionaries and totalitarians. A woman who enjoys bodily…
Marxism against Marxism
Well, it’s that time once again for ‘Marxism vs. Anarchism’ debates, and the further polarising of the left. This essay…