Archive for August 2024

The Palestinian reconciliation agreement signed in Beijing on 22 July[1] did not attract much attention. It is easy to understand why. Many agreements like it have been signed between Fatah and Hamas since the 1980s and have not been implemented. What is different about this agreement? The difference does not lie in the prospects for…

Every age needs heroes. Even more so an age dominated by new wars and new dangers. Heroes are usually handsome, courageous and committed to the defense of the weak, especially innocents whose lives are being threatened for no good reason. Paul Watson, who has been apprehended in Greenland in relation to a Red Notice issued…

1. That was the best political speech I’ve heard since…anyone. Barack, maybe. But there was really no one else. I was for her to begin with, after her take-down of Biden; then dropped her when she dropped out. Since then I’ve paid no attention to all those news clips about how she didn’t know what…

In 2023 we were celebrating the centenary of the so-called Frankfurt School. However, there is a semiotic slippage in this terminology. First, there was the Institute for Social Research, then the moniker of the Frankfurt School was coined, and then this was associated with the vague and wide: “Critical Theory.” There would not have been…