I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer to other organizers. Is this a good idea? During the days of McCarthyism in the 1950s, and probably before then, self-righteous conservatives...
Dissident Voice
“Thou Shalt Not Kill”: The World’s Silence Is Complicity
I do not write from comfort. I write from the salt of grief. From the agony of watching the world orchestrate its distractions while an entire people are burned, buried, and erased. The world has failed the Palestinian people. Utterly and entirely. This is not a...
Lisa’s Bed
“Before I give you the grand tour,” says Gus, “put down those silly suitcases. Right over there, okay? This’s gonna be your bedroom for the next couple of weeks. Or longer, if you want to stay longer.” We look inside. On a king size bed there’s an old Nautilus...
Depiction of a Win-Win Relationship
It is often stated that China engages in win-win relationships with its partners. In Africa, in exchange for the commodities that China receives, the African country will have Chinese-built ports, airports, highways, railways. In addition, China will train local...
Blood and Ashes: Genocidal Deathscapes from Treblinka to Gaza
“He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right...
Lisa’s Bed
“Before I give you the grand tour,” says Gus, “put down those silly suitcases. Right over there, okay? This’s gonna be your bedroom for the next couple of weeks. Or longer, if you want to stay longer.” We look inside. On a king size bed there’s an old Nautilus...
Depiction of a Win-Win Relationship
It is often stated that China engages in win-win relationships with its partners. In Africa, in exchange for the commodities that China receives, the African country will have Chinese-built ports, airports, highways, railways. In addition, China will train local...
Blood and Ashes: Genocidal Deathscapes from Treblinka to Gaza
“He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right...
Louis Theroux and the West Bank Settlers
He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched. But what makes Louis Theroux’s The Settlers troubling is its examination of a seemingly inexorable process in the West Bank, one that has,...
Greed: The Survival of a Primitive Emotion
Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well. Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that...
We Will Never Forget that the BBC Has Helped to Enable a genocide
A damning report has now confirmed what many of us already knew: that the BBC’s reporting of Israel’s war on Gaza is far from impartial. The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) analysed the BBC’s coverage of the 12 months following Hamas’ one-day attack on 7 October...
Dangerous Books?
The world of literature has turned purple, not knowing which color, blue or red, fits the current dilemma that’s causing serious students of the art to tear their hair out. The age of social media has opened the door to a cascade of new challenges to literary freedom...