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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 state is certainly creating some terminal problems for international law.…
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 bandwagon of endless upward mobility reject any concept of social…
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 political leaders, wielding great power as wholly owned subsidiaries of…
Petrodollar Genocide
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…
‘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 coming to power in the federal election in May,…
Weaponising Progress
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…
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 democracies, in these increasingly hostile and desperate conditions of late…
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 autonomy and controls her own womb is free of the…
Marxism against Marxism
Well, it’s that time once again for ‘Marxism vs. Anarchism’ debates, and the further polarising of the left. This essay queries the necessity of this approach. It does so not…