I don’t know which is worse: “human shields” or “humanitarian pause.” Neither serve the interests of the innocent lives caught in the middle of the belligerents, and both serve Netanyahu’s political interests to preserve his hold on power through war,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure how I feel about this one. I’m horrified by the violence of Hamas that triggered the violence of Netanyahu’s government. But as the days have played out, watching people die and social media swap insults in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, an American ex-president is being charged with crimes and a world leader has been indicted for war crimes. These things are not related. George W Bush, like his father before him, will never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the past year the literary world has been debating the appropriateness of teaching or reading Russian literature. In Ukraine, streets named after Lermontov and Dostoevsky, big hawks of Russian expansionism, are being renamed after writers who supported Ukrainian independence.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I am taking a break from the regular storyline I have been working on the past few years to address the war in Ukraine. As you can see, I am mostly interested in the question of neo-Nazis in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing ruins a good war like empathy. ↓ TranscriptPANEL ONE: Knob in foreground points to the approaching undead army down the road, amidst the trees and suburban homes. KNOB: Stations, everyone! The goons are here! PANEL 2: Looking over the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the praise he received for bombing Syria (a decision made over a “delicious” chocolate cake ), the American president sorta-kinda oversaw the dropping of a MOAB on Afghanistan and enjoined North Korea in a game of One Upping the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t seen Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper”, so I cannot rate it as a work of art. I’m more interested in the conversation … no, that’s not the word. Social media doesn’t seem to support conversation or debate. More like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A digital drawing I made on my iPad with Paper by 53. I think it’s a shame he will never see the inside of a jail, unless it’s to pick out his next prey on the controlled hunting range.
So The Guardian reports that Libyan villagers attempting to help downed U.S. airmen were rewarded for their efforts by U.S. forces firing on them: Libyans who went to investigate the US warplane’s crash site said that a US helicopter had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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