Permission to write about The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010) as
a portrayal of the future of the U.S. comes from the title.
Justification comes from a correspondence between the film, specifically
a brief and selected view of the life of Jack, called “Mr. Butterfly,”
played by George Clooney, and a condensed allegory of the present
darkening of the American Dream and its ominous future.
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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