The Genocide Apostles’ Creed
Continued from “An Unfolding Pattern of Genocide…” and “Show me the human shields!…“ What truth does power speak about itself, to us? The truth here is not the one commanded by a god to a prophet,...
View ArticleBeyond Molehills, the High Ground: Dershowitz, Finkelstein, Plagiarism, and...
At Home in a Dysfunctional Family It was like listening to a family argument, my family, the style of argumentation, the hot flashes of temper, the rhetorical devices, the particular turns of phrase,...
View ArticleRobert Fisk at Concordia: “Obama, Us, and the Middle East Wars”
Earlier tonight (Thursday, 19 Feb. 2009) I attended a special engagement with British journalist, Robert Fisk, who writes for The Independent, followed by his talk to an auditorium packed to the...
View ArticleExtreme Canada: Ruling Party Interferes with Social Science Funding
There is nothing that is intentionally “alarmist” about this headline, as much as some Canadians would want to reassure themselves that only with reference to a corrupt and dictatorial African state...
View ArticleGhassan Hage: A Massacre is Not a Massacre
Ghassan Hage’s response to some of the outrageously unbelievable Israeli propaganda that spewed forth from the mouths of Israeli political leaders and their spokespersons in the days following Israel’s...
View ArticleDefending the Indefensible: The Talking Points of State Terrorism
This is a continuation from the poem/not poem by anthropologist Ghassan Hage, with a fascination for the perversion of language and meaning in the service of state terrorism, to cover up, deny, and to...
View ArticleEncircling Empire: Report #5, 01-08 October 2010
EE: Report #5, 01—08 October 2010 Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period. They are intended to be useful for those interested in:...
View ArticleThe State of Palestine: A Media Patch
The pre-requisite for this essay is Occupation 101. My purposes include providing that information on Palestine and Israel that is marginalized in the US media. This article is a media patch over the...
View ArticleBDS, the AAA, and Academic Imperialism
We Disagree to Agree Support for a particular cause can come from numerous sources and points of view, each representing different interests. Similarly, people can arrive at the site of a...
View ArticleAmerica’s New Counterinsurgency Doll: On Store Shelves this January 20
In a whirlwind of war, economic crisis, deepening pain that nurtures deepening suspicions and hatreds, some managers of crisis looked for a new means of pacification. George W. Bush was far too...
View ArticleOn which planet does the Associated Press live?
Among the many American “news” sources that offer barely veiled propaganda, the Associated Press is one of the most outstanding for its unfaltering repetition of the official line from Washington, and...
View ArticleMessage to Obama: From an Undefeated Hamas
Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau, 22 January 2009: …to President Obama we say: the wave of hope that met your election was heavily dampened by your silence on the Gaza...
View ArticleReflecting Genocide: Side by Side, Yesterday and Today
High quality version available here. Thanks to the following sites: Karmalised Aporrea.org Axis of Logic _______
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