These days I’ve been insanely busy, and though I’ve been meaning to get back into my writing, it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do too much in terms of a proper post for a while. So instead I’ll share some interesting political art I came across the other day, dealing with the Iraq [...]
I woke up to the devastating news this morning that Bashir Makhtal, the Canadian citizen who has been held for over a year in an Ethiopian prison, has been formally charged with terrorism-related offenses for his alleged connection to the Ogaden National Liberation Front, a rebel group in the ethnically Somali region. The ONLF is [...]
Rabble has an interesting advice column where you can direct your ‘most perplexingly personal political question’ to the columnist, Ms.Communicate. I’d consider my question to be a pseudo-problem at best, because I’m not unbearably broke, and I’d rather lose a limb than work for Chapters, Starbucks or any of those big name corporations for a [...]
So it looks like they’ve found large reserves of oil and gas near Kosovo last month, in Albania. It’s a huge find, and I’d imagine it’s something that would have a major effect on Kosovo’s independence and Serbia and Russia’s unwillingness to recognize it. Interesting when you consider American interests in the region. Here’s some [...]
He’s a high school history teacher in Baltimore. Man, why didn’t I have teachers like that? And slightly off topic… George Habash died! And the New York Times starts off his obituary with this headline. Lies galore.
No one can stop the Palestinians…
“… the Palestinians represent far more than just themselves. Their refusal to submit to the dictates of governments, or to governments’ lack of interest in the well-being of people in general, reflects the desire of billions of oppressed people for identity, freedom, a decent life and actualization of their collective [...]
After two days of being on Canada’s torture watch list, Israel and the United States have already been removed. Apparently it was just so outrageous that our allies be on a torture watch list that the government felt the need to apologize and remove such a terrible mistake. Torture is something China and Syria do. [...]
So far there have been 38 deaths from Israeli bombing since Monday, 100 injured, with 45 of those being children. Israel has already cut fuel and electricity to Gaza, where they are currently in the midst of the coldest winter in several years. As of Friday, Israel has sealed all borders, which will prevent [...]
An interesting interview I came across with Professor Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian.
Professor Pappe, you write of ethnic cleansing, in 1948, as the foundational moment of Israel. In this way you shatter the “topos” of the voluntary exile of the Palestinians.
“The Palestinians were driven out in 1947-48, even though the official historical record speaks about [...]
I haven’t gotten around to reading the Naomi Klein book just yet, but the short film (all 7 minutes of it) is really something. I can’t say there’s anything *shocking* about it, since it’s pretty common sense. Government and big business exploiting opportunities (or shock) for greater power, liberal economic policies and privatization? No! But [...]
An article I wrote for the school paper. Looking back, I probably should have used the term ‘equity’ as opposed to ‘equality’, because while Islam recognizes that men and women have different roles which in technicality would make equality impossible, neither is elevated above the other. That’s equity.
The senseless murder of Aqsa Parvez has once [...]
I was reading an essay the other day by Howard Zinn, which was an introduction to an art book and collection of drawings depicting the history of modern day warfare. It was a great read, but the way he concluded the article struck me the most. He comes up with seven of his own conclusions [...]
