theguardian.com/world/2024/apr… -Shahmeer

'Europe must step up to a war footing says leading ammunition group'

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German…

When the German media and political class has a psychotic break, how do you know?

'Welcome to the world of strategic analysis, where we program weapons that don’t work to meet threats that don’t exist.'

'The Soviet Union had started out as a dictatorship of the proletariat run by intellectuals; what it had become, in the eyes of the children of those intellectuals, was the dictatorship of the former proletarians who remained culturally proletarian'

The New Yorker's @WrightR claims that in Hezbollah, Iraqi militias, etc, Iran has “created its own mini NATO in the Middle East”. Very revealing of how the US establishment sees actual NATO.

This meticulously documented and profoundly shocking London Review of Books longread by Tom Stevenson is essential reading, especially for those last apologists for Israel who still believe the IDF is fighting Hamas in a responsible manner rather than taking a bloody and barbaric revenge on the…

Elders in the worst-hit areas draw comparisons with the catastrophe of 1983-85.

The true picture is hard to establish because the gov't has not allowed a gold-standard IPC Classification, having disagreed with the conclusions of the previous one in 2021.

economist.com/middle-east-an…

In 2019, when Donald Trump wanted to withdraw American forces from Syria, Benjamin Netanyahu requested that the US retain its presence at al-Tanf. lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/febr…

Outstanding reporting on UAE assassinations in Yemen, by Nawal Al-maghafi نوال المقحفي youtube.com/watch?v=Z51MTI…

Our new issue 46.03 is now online, featuring:

Rebecca Solnit on losing San Francisco
Tom Stevenson on Operation Iron Swords
@AnnaDella on Enheduana, the first author
Tom Crewe on the gay novel
Jonathan Rée on Alasdair MacIntyre

Read online now at lrb.co.uk

Guy reading Hito Steyerl in the NLR (Haha fuck yeah) vs reading Hito Steyerl in the FAZ (Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck)

“The idea that there are ‘forgotten’ wars raises the question of who is doing the forgetting”: Tom Stevenson on the war in Ethiopia: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

An upcoming UN report puts death toll last June in el Geneina alone at 10k-15k, immediately doubling the total estimated deaths from the #Sudan conflict. It also confirms UAE weapons shipment coming to RSF 'several times per week' via Amdjarass, Chad. news.yahoo.com/ethnic-killing…

‘The attitude to Yemen has been affected ignorance, but the conflicts in Myanmar, Sudan and especially Ethiopia have been greeted with something closer to indifference.’

Tom Stevenson on the Tigray war:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…