“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…
“We must learn to disobey.”
‘How does one live in dignity?’ BAZENHEID, Switzerland, 20 April—When I arrived here earlier this month for another of the lectures I am invited to deliver twice-yearly, my remarks were partly written and partly still in sketched-out notes. That evening,…
“‘This war is the result of a coup.’”
The long, steady Zionist takeover in Washington is now complete. There is no longer any flinching from this. We were as stunned as many others to read the closely reported account of how, minute-by-minute, Bibi Netanyahu led the Trump regime…
“The ‘civil death’ of Hüseyin Doğru.”
A 21st century narrative of dread. 7 April—It will be a year ago next month that Hüseyin Doğru, a German journalist residing in Berlin, has lived under European Union sanctions. He is the first German citizen to find his name…
“The defense of Palestinian culture.”
In conversation with the director of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. “They want to erase our memories.”—Amer Shomali 31 March—I will always remember my first sight of the Palestinian Museum. Its austere geometry and dazzling white limestone is arresting in every…
“The ‘empire of pretend’ goes to war (again).”
A podcast exchange with Patrik Baab. 16 MARCH—“The information age is actually a media age,” the late John Pilger once observed. “We have war by media, censorship by media, demonology by media, retribution by media, diversion by media—a Surreal assembly…
“Iran as ‘the evil one.’”
The return of the ‘end time.’ 11 MARCH—It is remarkable—and there are stronger words for this—how Americans swoon into states of religious fervor in times of crisis, or when their character or national identity, or their conduct toward others, is…
“The not-to-be-forgotten.”
The war as it is in the West Bank. 10 MARCH—It is 11 days into the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and there are no reports in corporate media on the impact of this aggression in the West Bank even as…
“Radical trust.”
Kindergarteners get a playground in al–Mughayyir. First thought, best thought.—Allen Ginsberg 8 MARCH—My first thought as Marwa, my guide and interpreter, drove us away from a tiny two-room kindergarten in the remote West Bank village of al–Mughayyir was one I blurted…
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