So we note that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – call
it the celebrity half of the spectacle of celebrity/commodity culture —
wants to attract a young demographic, and, marketers of products and
services – call it the commodity half – want to attract an even younger
demographic, 49 being about 20 years too old. Having spent the last 15
years living with twentysomethings on extended “Eurotrips,”
That is Gaza behind me. The fence line is 600m away. The northern part of Gaza, where Israel is carrying out a genocide within a genocide, systematically starving 300,000 Palestinians [...]
After the election, some Trump voters told reporters they don’t pay much attention to what Trump says. They pay attention to their bank accounts (if they still have them). And [...]
On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar Allah and of the government of Yemen, [...]
Two weeks after the acts of violence on the sidelines of the game between the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax, in Amsterdam, on November 7th, there are those [...]
There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket worry that their assumptions on conflict have been upended. There they were, happily funding, planning and preparing to battle [...]
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