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Review of Sorensen, Understanding the War Industry (2020): Declaring war on war
Christian Sorensen's ambitious Understanding the War Industry documents the US war economy with zest. It's a dull, monotonous topic but vitally important, and he manages to make it interesting. You ...
Reports in other languages
kayhan interview: Trump, coronavirus, neoliberalism (Persian)
http://kayhan.ir/files/fa/publication/pages/1399/2/17/1848_22068.pdf
Impact of Iranian revolution in world
https://www.irna.ir/news/83341502 Interview for IRNA on 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's death Summary Iran's 1979 revolution created a seismic shift in world politics. At the same time as the socialist world teetered and would soon collapse, renewing predato...
IRNA interview (Persian): Trump's antisemitism envoy vs BDS
نویسنده کانادایی: لابی صهیونیست ها در پی ارعاب مخالفان است نیویورک – ایرنا – یک نویسنده کانادایی به تلاش لابی رژیم صهیونیستی در کانادا و آمریکا برای جلوگیری از گسترش جنبش بایکوت و تحریم این رژیم اشاره کرد و گفت: آنها به ارعاب مخالفان خود روی آورده اند 'اریک والبرگ' روز جمعه در گفت وگوی اختصاصی ب...
Russia and Soviet Union
Israel-Palestine: It’s time for Russia to step up to the plate
Is Israel US property? In many ways, yes. Despite its willful ways, Israel is always pushing the envelope with the US. It has been getting away with murder since it was founded, abetted and funded by the US. But the US has failed, and Jared Kushner is the perfect envoy for this latest ultimatum, c...
Notes on Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets, an oral history (2016)
Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets, an oral history, Random House 2016. -better to forget the bad past. -Perestroika wasn’t created by the people, it was created by a single person and handful of intellectuals -before i hated money. I didn’t know what it was, considere...
Europe, Canada & U.S.A.
Love in time of covid-19
I’m struck by the fact that all our pandemics, in fact all pandemics are courtesy of ‘civilization’, by which I mean agriculture, overcrowded cities, full of shit both animal and human, home of rats and fleas, carriers of plague. Our obsession with cheap meat means overcrowding, force feeding and ...
Timeline 2010-2019: United States&Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa&Asia
Note: Links are to my articles for Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo, Presstv, DissidentVoice and other sitesMy Timelines 2000-2010: United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa&Asia are hereMy Timeline 2010-2019: Middle East here Timeline 2010-2019: United States&Canada 2010 *Republicans retake Ho...
Middle East
Kayhan interview: Trump, coronavirus, neoliberalism
1/ The US is known as a modern country with a huge medical system, but now it seems to be the worst hit by the coronavirus crisis (1.4m cases and 80,500 deaths). Are the problems rooted in neoliberalism or do all problems just come from Trump? The problems are rooted in neoliberalism. Since 19...
Eric Walberg Interviews
Review: Weingarten, …
Gene Weingarten, One Day: The extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America, Blue Rider, 2019. Denied entry to the US (who knows why, and welcome to the club),* I…
Notes on James Clear…
James Clear, Atomic Habits: An easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones, Penguin Random House, 2018. Rules: make obvious, fun, easy, satisfying. ie, hide 'bad' habit…
Biking Hamilton’s tr…
Hamilton is a biker’s paradise. Even the inevitable ribbons of death (Hwys 403 and 407) slicing through it haven’t killed it. It is disparaged as Hammertown/ Steeltown for its attack…
Lake Ontario by bike…
Okay, a bit of Lake Ontario -- the fabulous Waterfront Trail from Oshawa to Toronto, 60km, almost all in sight of the lake. Hardly any private mansions, and the towns…
Review: Diana Johnst…
First, Diana Johnstone’s memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal…
Review Rob Kall, The…
Our civilization is a top-down hierarchical one, as are most large-scale ones in the past, i.e., one-to-the-many, 'top-down', explains Kall in an interview with Tom Hartmann. Kall's book is the…
Welland Canal by bik…
I finally took my plan of a bike trip along the Welland Canal seriously, preparing my map, checking google map for the route from the train station to the canal…
Review of Max Blumen…
The 9/11 dust is finally settling. Blumenthal takes us on a nightmare tour of the landscape, starting with two key moments in 2018 that dramatically expose the plot behind the…
Review: Tim Anderson…
Anderson's Axis of Resistance takes on the leftist position of 'a plague on all your houses'. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, ‘the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution’ (for westerners), presents a…
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Culture & Religion
Notes on George Steiner, Grammars of Creation (2001)
George Steiner, Grammars of Creation, Yale University Press, 2001. (George St...
Peace & Socialism
Review of Sorensen, Understanding the War Industry (2020): Declaring war on war
Christian Sorensen's ambitious Understanding the War Industry documents the US...
Coronavirus: squabbling in our WWI trenches
Although covid-19 exact origins are still in dispute, it appears to be another...
Leaving EU was right move for wrong reasons
Let's be clear: the EU was not set up to promote a friendly big socialist commun...
Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)
First, Diana Johnstone’s memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as...
