May 19, 2022
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Malak Mattar: Last Scene Before Flying with the Dove to Paradise
Thursday, 19 May 2022 — The Tricontinental This image, from the latest Tricontinental Newsletter is so beautiful as well as so sad that it deserves a page all to itself, lest we forget. Malak Mattar (Palestine), Last Scene Before Flying with the Dove to Paradise, 2019. This is an extract from an essay by Nada Continue reading
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Art Is a Dream in Which We Imagine Our Future: The Twentieth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 19 May 2022 — The Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 11 May 2022, an Israeli sniper fired at the head of the veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh as she reported on an Israeli military raid on a refugee settlement in Jenin (part of the Occupied Palestine Territories). Continue reading
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On Bush’s Freudian Confession
Oh my God. It happened. I can’t believe it really happened. During a speech in Dallas at Southern Methodist University’s George W Bush Presidential Center on Wednesday, the man himself, George W Bush, did the best thing ever. I am pretty sure it is the single best thing that has ever happened. I do not believe… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 18-19 May 2022
Thursday, 19 May 2022 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links Continue reading
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