For Americans, the aughts began with the fearful Y2K and ended on
Christmas Day 2009 with a terrorist attack, thankfully failed, on board a
plane from Amsterdam to Detroit. Call these ‘macro-fears’ and include
everything that is going on in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, North Korea, Yemen, Somali and the newest
exotic locale which a primarily xenophobic American cultural
consciousness has no “ap” for.
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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