“Graham Platner and the machines of power.”
The Floutist responds to its readers. 16 JULY—Many readers, scores, responded with exceptional insight to the piece we published after Graham Platner was forced to withdraw from the contest for a Maine Senate seat. We read the comment thread carefully,…
“The political assassination of Graham Platner.”
The futility of change ‘from within.’ 10 JULY—The clearest things said about Graham Platner as he was forced to suspend his triumphantly buoyant campaign for a Maine Senate seat this week came from Graham Platner. Here is a little of what…
“In the West Bank, it’s a showdown now.”
“What we are talking about here is an Israeli establishment that is aiming at extermination of the Palestinian people. In every possible way. Not only in Gaza but in the West Bank.”— Mustafa Barghouti, interview, @MEEunapologetic 7 JULY—As Americans celebrated…
“Yankee Doodle Dandy is done and dying.”
Some notes on America at 250. 3 July—The semiology abroad these past days and weeks, as Americans prepared for the 4th—or have been prepared for it, I think is better put—has fascinated me. Amid all the images, the themes of…
“Let us now ‘embrace defeat.’”
Do this and we can begin ‘the transformation we have to make.’ 26 JUNE—I have been preoccupied with what I will call the quality of defeat for some years. By this I mean those benefits a people can derive from…
“Naked Sadism.”
A settler, a dog, a beating, a video, and learned sociopathy. “Most Israelis view Palestinians like they’re dogs.”-Anonymous 25 May—A text arrived on Friday, 15 May, from the village of Kisan. It was Adnan. He had sent a video then…
“For Trump, it’s Israel über alles now.”
He’s about to sacrifice the global economy to the Zionists’ pathological determination to destroy Iran. Renewed warfare may be imminent. 18 MAY—As I have argued elsewhere, President Trump faced himself with an unforgiving choice when he let Bibi Netanyahu drag him into…
“Dignity in a West Bank refugee camp.”
A brief appeal to our subscribers and readers. 16 MAY—Later this month, West Bank Palestinian families will celebrate Eid al–Adah, one of two major Islamic holidays, in the New Askar Refugee Camp in Nablus. I’m raising funds to provide food…
“When democracy fails: Reports from the West Bank.”
The admittance of Israel to the United Nations as a full member state in May 1949, and all that preceded and followed this event, reflects the catastrophic failure of Western democracy. 7 MAY—I’m dissatisfied, it’s time to state bluntly, with…
“The myths of ‘Russian aggression.’”
A RAND study explodes the West’s ‘Irrussianality.’ 29 APRIL—’Arte, ‘the’ Franco–German television channel, broadcast a documentary earlier this month titled L’Europe dans la main de Poutine? “Europe in Putin’s grip?” opens with a scene in the Kremlin on 18 March 2014, when…
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