Peace and Socialism

Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial (2022). What a gloomy title! I am overwhelmed by the horrors of Gaza, all the boringly excruciating details of genocide, our helplessness. For some reason, I ordered this book from the library and finally forced myself to open it. When I got to the detailed comparisons of apartheid South Africa and Israel, I was hooked. I get goosebumps realizing how close we are now to a rivetting, deja vu replay of that glorious struggle leading to victory. Makdisi shows beyond a doubt that Israel's shipwreck-of-state is sinking under its phony, slipshod 'Jewish-democratic-state'. How can it be both Jewish and a 'state-of-all'? Of course, it can't. Q.E.D.

But Tolerance gets better and better.

Draw the Line drew the lines

So many red lines. Putin, Macron, Hamas, Israel. Our Palestine-Environment demo Saturday September 20 drew hunanity and Nature's red lines, drenched as they are in the blood of martyrs and poisons sucked out of Earth – inflicted on us all.

I'm worn down by a half-century of calling for things that no one should deny. But joining the thousands (not nearly enough),

Just when I figured I had plumbed the depths of capitalism's toxicity, I came across yet more proof; in fact, the apotheosis of toxicity. The toxicity to end all toxicity. Chris Hayes' The sirens' call: How attention became the world's most endangered resource (2025) describes how, with the latest social media revolution, capitalism has managed to penetrate our skulls and steal our very consciousness, what makes you you.

My friend Mahmud sent me this 'letter from an Iranian scientist' from the legendary Isfahan, recently bombed by US-Israel.

The Zionist regime calls it a “preemptive” airstrike, pretending that Iran is going to make nuclear weapons in a matter of days or months. This has been Netanyahu’s baseless claim for years and years, where there are no single evidence according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) statements. Iran, a peaceful country with zero trail of invasion or colonization over its millennial history, responded strongly to the shamelessly brutal attack over its citizens by targeting military sites and facilities in occupied territories. A fact that was inverted by the Israeli regime’s official narratives, as if the world has forgotten who is expert in finding excuses to kill innocent civilians.

To: His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Her Excellency Ms. Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO

Subject: Urgent Appeal for Action Regarding Israeli Regime’s Unlawful Military Aggression Against Iran
Your Excellencies,

The undersigned submits this formal protest regarding the Israeli regime’s sustained unlawful aggressions against Iran since 13 June 2025, constituting severe breaches of international law under the UN Charter. These systematic attacks endanger regional stability, civilian lives, ecological integrity, and global cultural heritage, escalating beyond mere geopolitical conflict into an international existential threat. The deliberate targeting of civilians, residential areas,

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Canadian Eric Walberg is known worldwide as a journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. A graduate of University of Toronto and Cambridge in economics, he has been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s.

He has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. Presently a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram, he is also a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeerah and Turkish Weekly, and is a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio.

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