The fate of the Palestinians and the fortunes of Israel, after fifty years of occupation, and American and European collusion with it. Realities behind the official tropes decorating a ‘two-state solution’, and hesitations of nascent debate over a single state in the territory once ruled as a mandate by Britain.
Source: Perry Anderson: The House of Zion. New Left Review 96, November-December 2015.
He’s no ordinary con man. He’s way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever
Why the country’s new élite is anxious to get out.
Source: China’s Rich Kids Head West
http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/forest/balsam.htm
Great lists of trees, flowers, etc
http://www.maskmagazine.com/not-again/struggle/sick-woman-theory
The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care.