Here is my essay for this week’s Tomdispatch.com . Check out the great Tom Engelhardt’s introduction at that site, where he reminds us of the […]
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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?
On October 7, 2023 – two years ago – the Hamas-led offensive was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11” that came out of the blue. This assumption […]
“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18
Stanza 18 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the last in the series that emphasizes the impermanence of […]
Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order
By Niusha Shafiabady, Australian Catholic University and Xiaoying Qi, Australian Catholic University (The Conversation) – For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around […]
How Trump is Demolishing U. S. Global Power and its World Order
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described […]
The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – How much are women and girls–half of humanity–valued? When men violate us for sex in prostitution. When […]
The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle
While religion has far too often been a tool of authoritarianism, faith institutions and communities have also been the life force of so many freedom […]
Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it
By Martin Kear, University of Sydney (The Conversation) – Hamas announced that it has accepted several parts of the peace plan put forth by US […]
It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain
BY Richard Penaskovic | – Review of Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:Your Smart Guide to a Pain-free Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, […]
“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17
Quatrain 17 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues the theme that kingly glory quickly fades. XVII. They say […]
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