2014: Gaza’s Year of Mayhem
- January 01, 2015
- by
- Matt
There are some years when Gramsci’s adage about pessimism of the mind and optimism of the will seems more appropriate than others, and 2014 was a year filled with some pretty awful events, whether it was kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria or a summer in which more migrants drowned in the Mediterranean than ever. In...
Gaza’s Drowned Refugees
- September 18, 2014
- by
- Matt
How many people must die in the Mediterranean migrant graveyard before Europe decides that the human cost of its ‘migration management’ policies requires a change in these policies? Or to put in another way, at what point does the ‘collateral damage’ of the EU’s migration wars become so high that European governments can...
Beating Galloway
- September 06, 2014
- by
- Matt
On Friday 29 August the British parliamentarian Adam West, Conservative MP for South Benfield, was viciously attacked by a Muslim fanatic while posing for a photograph on a London street. Horrified onlookers watched helplessly as the MP was punched in the head and knocked to the ground during a three-minute assault in which...
An Afternoon in Belchite
- September 04, 2014
- by
- Matt
Lower Aragon is a very different place to the towering peaks of the Aragonese Pyrenees, where I spent most of last week. Drive south of Zaragoza and you leave the fertile plain of the Ebro River and pass through a strikingly weird lunar landscape of chalk-white hills that would make a perfect location for...
Sheridan in Gaza: the Palestinians as ‘Indians’
- August 10, 2014
- by
- Matt
Despite the growing media criticism of Israel during the Gaza ‘conflict,’ there is still a general refusal or reluctance amongst mainstream journalists to acknowledge or analyse the broader strategic logic of Israeli violence. Too often, journalists accept the dominant Israeli narrative that its actions in Gaza are entirely directed towards stopping the rockets...
Israel and Gaza: Sexy Cool Genocide
- August 03, 2014
- by
- Matt
In 1955 the dovish Israeli prime minister Moshe Sharett wrote in his diary that his countrymen had transformed revenge into a ‘sacred principle’ and worried that such tendencies ‘ must make the State appear in the eyes of the world as a savage state that does not recognize the principles of justice as they have...
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