The End of Israel
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
The lesson to be drawn from the current Israeli political stalemate is that Israel is imploding, breaking into the elements it has never managed to integrate into one. The schism is no longer the more quotidian dichotomy of Ashkenazi vs. Arab Jews (aka ...
This is the end; this is the beginning
Immanuel Wallerstein’s last commentary
- Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019)
Professor Immanuel Walerstein passed away on August 31, 2019, at age 88. Here is his latest commentary, published on July 1, 2019
My first commentary appeared on October 1, 1998. It was published by the Fernand Braudel Center (FBC) at Binghamton University. ...
USAmerican Jewry’s misplaced loyalty
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Donald Trump is right: The Jews really are disloyal. Donald Trump is wrong: Most of them are loyal to the wrong values.
U.S. Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar during a news conference at the Minnesota State Capitol Building in St Paul, ...
Today more than ever, Argentina
- Noam Chomsky Νόαμ Τσόμσκι نوآم چامسکی
Here is Noam Chomsky's message to the Argentines on the eve of the primary elections, which saw the victory of the Peronist candidate. Apparently, they seem to have heard it.
The advanced neoliberal process that Mauricio Macri has developed during ...
Here is exactly why Congress won’t act on gun violence, climate change, impeaching Trump or anything else
- Ted Rall
I’m from Dayton so I’m thinking about this today: Why hasn’t Congress done anything to address our national epidemic of mass shootings, namely reviving the assault weapons ban? People—Democrats and not ...
Israel is a one-party State
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Dozens of electoral slates will be registered on Thursday in a false display of pluralism. Are the people polarized? Not politically. Are the elections fateful? Also an illusion. Do the elections offer two different paths? Even this is deceptive.
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Notes on excessive wealth disorder
- Paul Krugman Πωλ Κρούγκμαν
How not to repeat the mistakes of 2011.
In a couple of days I’m going to be participating in an Economic Policy Institute conference on “excessive wealth disorder” — the problems and dangers created by extreme concentration of ...
Our Nakba and their Independence
- Dareen Tatour دارين طاطور
The anniversary of the Nakba comes every May. But we, the Palestinians of 1948, live in memory of the Nakba in different circumstances than all other Palestinians. Here from within Israel, we can hear the sirens declare the beginning of the celebration ...
We are not fooled
Over 20,000 artist and creators sign a call in support of Yellow Vests in France
- Collectif Yellow Submarine
On May 10, over 20,000 artists and creators had already signed this call, launched on May 4
For several months now, the Yellow Vest movement, unprecedented in the history of the Fifth Republic, has been beating the pavement of our streets. ...
The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
The cruelty and temerity of the people in Gaza once more reached new heights Saturday: dozens of rockets on Israel before the week of its Independence Day, just after its Holocaust Remembrance Day, and worst of all, two weeks before its Eurovision. How ...
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