Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

“Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and its victims’ recourse to human rights as a final forum for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the wretched of the earth, whoever and wherever they may be. The consequences cannot be overstated.” @joelleabirached.bsky.social

Statements like this require actions now (not in September)

Dr Assal Rad—

"The UN Human Rights Office released this statement yesterday. It’s gotten no media coverage.

"You whitewash genocide when you refuse to report it."

The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before The documentarian manages to stay calm and polite as guns are repeatedly pointed at him in the West Bank. Then someone shoves him …

The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before

“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity We speak with the award-winning author and journalist Omar El Akkad, whose new book about the war on Gaza is titled One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The book expands on a viral tweet...

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This": Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

ICYMI: We're back cataloging Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

Rashid Khalidi: ‘After Friday’s capitulation, Columbia barely merits the name of a university … it should be called Vichy on the Hudson.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.

Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:

www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

“Capitalism subsumes these life-processes, these flows of energy, these microbial dependencies, within its own molecular flow. It subordinates them to the homogenising frame of value-production: M-C-M’.”

by Salvage Editorial Collective

salvage.zone/the-tragedy-...

“My students have been shaped by a culture that has long doubted the value of being able to think and write for oneself—and that is increasingly convinced of the power of a machine to do both for us," writes Troy Jollimore. thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-...

Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933! #RIP #history #politics #revolution #Marx #Lenin #democracyatwork #democracy

I knew there was some trumpy talk before last night’s game but had not see all of this salivating. 🤮. As several commenters here note: embrace him at your peril. Everything he touches dies, and without first turning into gold. The anti-Midas touch.

Reading about what's happening in DC can be paralyzing and panic-inducing. Dems not coming to the rescue, so the best way to stay sane and successfully fight the billionaire coup is to organize where we work and live.

Fantastic and clear eyed piece from @lfelizleon.bsky.social

Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system la...

"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion D.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command.

The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:

Graph showing health outcomes related to spending with the US doing the worst

This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.

Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…

Fantastic roundup of the Musk coup by @mmasnick.bsky.social; Musk's unappointed cronies have infiltrated more of the federal government than I'd heard.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

Check out this reading group starting tomorrow with comrades from the #Marxist Education Project! #educate #agitate #organize Register here: marxedproject.org/event/marxs-...

Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.

It’s all about labour 🧵

BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide “We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire

"Even the most kindhearted and well-intentioned among us struggle to bring about positive change, because the very fabric of our society is stacked against truth and kindness."
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-you-wan...

The United States of Arms U.S. weapons exports from 1950 to 2017. Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Arms Transfers Database. Units are expressed in trend…

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Militarized accumulation geo-graphic.
War is big business—empires making bank off war always promote more conflict and make peace seem radical.