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June 2025

When the Rich and Powerful Weaponize Anti-Semitism
Manufactured fear of Jews was once a ruling class weapon deployed against socialist challenges. Now, in NYC, it's a manufactured fear of anti-Semitism…
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Call it what it is: A war to maintain the regional nuclear monopoly of a genocidal state
The countries attacking Iran both have nuclear weapons -- one has used them, twice, in the greatest instant massacres of civilians the world has ever…
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Tony Judt was right about Israel, wrong about the West. Bob Marley did warn us
As long as we rely on the existing constellations of nation states, decolonization will remains a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained
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Israel's Iran attack is designed to stop the world turning its attention to Gaza
Invoking a bogus "Iran threat" is Netanyahu's time-honored tactic for changing the subject from his war crimes against Palestinians. But now he's…
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How to measure success in Zohran Mamdani's run for NYC mayor?
The U.S. electoral system may be designed to prevent fundamental change, but election campaigns offer an opportunity to build long-term transformative…
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Normalizing Nukes Was Our First Mistake
Re Iran, remember that strategic logic propels any country facing nuclear-armed rivals to consider a nuclear deterrent of its own. As Joe Strummer once…
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May 2025

Did Images Ever End a War?
Deafening Western silence over the images of the daily horrors of Israel's genocide that fill our phones prompts comparisons with an iconic Vietnam…
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Notes on the Trump-Ramaphosa White Riot
Eight quick thoughts on a ritual humiliation tableau, and the long game
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Why Has Trump Called South Africa's Ramaphosa to the Office?
Why has South Africa's president been summoned to the White House? The U.S. presidency is centered on spectacle and transaction: So what cards does SA…
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April 2025

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