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Totalitarian catalysis

The West is burying its head in the sand as Israel decimates Palestinians in Gaza with impunity. Frédéric Lordon writes that in the face of Israel's genocidal campaign, the pro-Palestinian Left is right to resist the demand that they denounce 'terrorism'.
Cryptocracy: Rachel O’Dwyer & Edward Ongweso

Rachel O’Dwyer and Edward Ongweso join Eleanor Penny to talk venture capitalists, Silicon Valley libertarianism, and the reinvention of money in the digital age.
US:UN

“Resistance to American power lies in the alleyways of Fallujah and Baghdad, not the lobbies of the Upper East Side.”
Social media is a warzone: the IDF’s strategy for war as online spectacle

If Gaza is the ‘perfect laboratory’ for Israeli ingenuity, then the internet is its stage.
Tariq Ali on the pattern of Anglo-American attacks on Iraq

"The lesson is not that aggressive territorial expansion is a crime that cannot be allowed to pay. It is that to carry it off a state must act in the interests of the West as well: then it can be astonishingly successful."
Introducing Contraventions: Editorials from New Left Review

NLR’s editorials provide radical antidotes to the self-serving accounts of the Anglophone press.
"Am I dead?": A witness's testimony from Gaza

One day under the Israeli aggression on Gaza
Scholars, students and activists in the UK stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an end to British complicity in genocide

Over 3500 individuals have signed a statement proclaiming their solidarity with Palestinians and denouncing Israel's siege in Gaza.
Q&A with Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

Antony Loewenstein details his process and reasons for writing The Palestine Laboratory, with an insight on the events that have unfolded since the book's release.
With Tempered Reason: On New College of Florida & the Georgia Guidestones

New College Alum V Conaty reflects on Ron DeSantis’s cultural takeover of the bastion of progressive education, and the importance of sites of free thinking in red states.
Beyond Mechanical Reproduction

Dominique Routhier on the Situationists' critique of automation
Red Africa and Revolutionary Black Politics | Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Ashok Kumar

Kevin Ochieng Okoth discusses the key ideas in his new book Red Africa: Reclaiming Black Politics.