Dear Elephant, Sir:
– Romain Gary (1914-1980)
An old admirer addresses an ardent letter to the largest animal that walks the Earth
You will probably wonder, reading this letter, what could have prompted a zoological specimen so deeply preoccupied with the future of his own species, to write it. …
How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination
– Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night (6 January 2021: watch video here) on the Julian Assange case that I recommend everyone watch. The video is at the bottom of the page.
But from all the outstanding contributions, I …
Malainin Lakhal: Sahrawi poetry, exile, and anti-colonialist struggle
– Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
The poems of the journalist, human rights activist for the independence of the last African colony, the Western Sahara, were published this year by ProMosaik in English, German and Italian. We are convinced of the importance of poetry in the service …
Oldest evidence for olive eating found below the sea
– Daniel Sonnenfeld דניאל זוננפלד دانيال سونينفيلد
The discovery off the coast of Haifa made by a group of researchers from most major Israeli universities shows production of olives for eating started at least 6,600 years ago.
6,600-year-old olive pits discovered at the Hishuley Carmel archeological …
Islam against Female Genital Mutilation
– Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
In this book, I would like to stress the importance of Muslim feminism and official Islam in the struggle against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Female Genital Mutilation or Female Genital Cutting is a practice still perpetuated in many countries …
The making of US Empire at the dawning of its end
Book review of Stephen Wertheim’s ‘Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy ‘
– Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Academic Stephen Wertheim’s new book shines revealing light on the birth of US global supremacy, just as it reaches its denouement
1901
As the Exceptional Empire gets ready to brave a destructive – and self-destructive – new cycle, …
Biosecurity and Politics
– Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν Джорджио Агамбен
What is striking about the reactions to the apparatuses of exception that have been put in place in our country (and not only in this one) is the inability to observe them beyond the immediate context in which they seem to operate. Rare are those …
Philosophy of contact
– Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν
Two bodies are in contact when they touch each other. But what does it mean to touch? What is contact? Giorgio Colli has given an acute definition of it, stating that two points are in contact when they are separated only by a void of representation. …
Gaia and Chthonia, the two inseparable faces of our Earth
– Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν
The Italian philosopher Agamben takes us on a poetic and etymological journey back to antiquity to finally bring us back to our coronaviral present. The future has an ancient heart
The ‘Venus of Willendorf’, a statuette from the Upper Palaeolithic …
Kim No-VAX does DARPA
– Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
I have been going through my Asia Times archives selecting reports and columns for a new e-book on the Forever Wars – Afghanistan and Iraq. But then, out of the blue, I found this palimpsest, originally published by Asia Times in February …
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