By Chris Hedges* – Original to ScheerPost I have been in urban warfare in El Salvador, Iraq, Gaza, Bosnia and Kosovo. Once you fight street by street, apartment block by apartment block, there is only one rule — kill anything that moves.
By Shlomo Ben-Ami* – Project Syndicate By ruling out any political process in Palestine and boldly asserting that “the Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s fanatical government made…
Sachs* Following Hamas’s heinous attack on innocent Israeli civilians, senior Israeli military strategists are threatening the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This would be another Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), akin to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land in…
By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox (*) – TomDispatch Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Without soul or memory, Europe is incapable of seeing the similarity between the images of death and destruction in the Warsaw ghetto, during the desperate Jewish uprising on 19 April 1943, and the images we see today of the Gaza Strip. The fate…
By Newsroom – Modern Diplomacy Following reports of continued fighting between government troops and local militias in Ethiopia, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide is sounding the alarm about the heightened risk of genocide and related atrocity…
The Conversation, Interview: Simon Mabon* The surprise attack by Hamas launched on Israel on October 7 has already led to thousands of deaths in both Israel and Gaza, and sparked concerns that the conflict could escalate across the Middle East. An expert in the politics…
Reich* – AlterNet I’m feeling much better (thank you for your well wishes). But my COVID would have been far worse if I’d had no vaccinations and hence no immunity.
Editorial – The Guardian Victory and a third term for the radical right Law and Justice party would give it the chance to complete an illiberal takeover of the state As the most consequential Polish election campaign since the fall of communism got into its stride this summer…
By Chris Hedges* / Original to ScheerPost The failure of the liberal class to halt the corporate assault on working people has spawned an ascendant Christian fascism that is poised to seize power and radically reshape America. The parting gift, I expect, of the bankrupt…
