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The politics of reading
Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…
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Originally published: Scroll.in on September 14, 2023 by Arundhati Roy (more by Scroll.in) | (Posted Sep 18, 2023) Democracy, Empire, Imperialism, StrategyAsia, IndiaNewswire I thank the Charles Veillon Foundation for honoring me with the 2023 European Essay Award. It may not be immediately apparent how delighted I am to receive it. It’s even possible that I am gloating. What makes me happiest is…
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By Homeless Romantic, John Bellamy Foster (Posted Sep 28, 2023) Originally published: Medium on September 27, 2023 (more by Medium) | Capitalism, Ecology, Imperialism, MarxismGlobalCommentary, InterviewFeatured My friend John Bellamy Foster, a professor emeritus of Sociology, discusses his journey towards Marxism and his interest in environmental issues. He explains how his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement led him to philosophical readings, and how subsequent events…
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Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them By Chris Hedges (Posted Oct 13, 2023) Originally published: ScheerPost on October 8, 2023 (more by ScheerPost) Culture, Strategy, WarIsrael, Middle East, PalestineNewswireBiden administration, Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks…
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THE HINDU Israel-Hamas Crisis: Thousands DeadOn October 7, the Hamas terrorist group launched an attack of unprecedented scale on Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing over 700 people in one day. The coordinated, low-tech yet lethal incursion even took Israel’s famed Iron Dome by surprise. The Jewish state immediately declared war, and the decades-old conflict…
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What we’re witnessing is a classic case of blowback Thomas Fazi Oct 8 Many people don’t know this but Hamas is largely a creation of the Jewish state. For years, Israel encouraged Gaza’s Islamists as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah, helping to…

