Horrifying WHO report of a visit to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza: “…inside the hospital, which they described as a “death zone” and the situation as “desperate.” Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and was told more than 80 people were buried there.…

BY SAUL LANDAU COUNTRPUNCH Saul Landau received this report from a janitor at The Heritage Foundation: “I’m absolutely positive history will be kind to this president, who made the right decisions in a difficult time for this nation.” -Karl Rove, 5/7/08 George W. Bush received warnings before 9/11 from foreign intelligence sources and his hyperactive national…

“The cricket played by the Indian team in CWC2023 has been the best among the cricket World Cups that India has hosted, thanks to the soaring performance of its players and the memories they have created. It has also been the most small-hearted and petty of the World Cups that India has hosted.” SHARDA UGRA…

Originally published: Ancillary Review of Books  on December 28, 2022 by Anna McFarlane (more by Ancillary Review of Books) (Posted Nov 09, 2023) Ideology, Literature, Marxism, RevolutionsEuropeNewswire, Review China Miéville is the most important UK author of the early twenty-first century; his Bas Lag fantasy trilogy brought a new kind of socially-conscious weird fiction into the mainstream of British literature. Even…

BY MARIA POPOVA To be alive is to marvel — at least occasionally, at least with glimmers of some deep intuitive wonderment — at the Rube Goldberg machine of chance and choice that makes us who we are as we half-stride, half-stumble down the improbable paths that lead us back to ourselves. My own life was…