Apropos ….

Boris Kagarlitsky. Julian Assange. Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah.

All around the world, the freedoms of anti-war campaigners are under attack. We have to stand up equally for human rights, everywhere.

Meeting between Baerbock and Netanyahu became difficult, as did Cameron's with Katz. Baerbock reportedly recommended that Israel stop circulating the photos of life supposedly returning to normal in the Palestinian enclave “as they don’t portray the real situation in Gaza. There…

⁦Jodi Dean⁩, together with ⁦Suzala⁩ and Lars Lih, addresses a large, young audience at the Lenin Congress in Bilbao organised by ⁦Ikerketa Sozialisten Institutua⁩ ⁦Euskal Herriko Kontseilu Sozialista⁩

Los Olvidados (1950, Buñuel)

'Luis Buñuel was a great, fantastic, marvelous director. His fantasy & surrealist work was so great, but also the period that was very interesting was the period when he was in Mexico. He did marvelous films in Mexico, too.'

--- Dario Argento

The degree of Netanyahu’s contempt for Biden is hard to overstate.

A great summing up of how the economy has changed since the 2010s - it shows why we’ll miss ⁦Ethan Wu 🇺🇸🇹🇼⁩ on.ft.com/49LrIY2

Iran scrambles air defences and shoots at incoming targets via Financial Times
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The Conformist (1970)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

'Cinema has nothing to do with reality. When they say we are doing Cinema Verité, it is not true. Cinema is an interpretation of reality.'

--- Vittorio Storaro

UPDATE: NYPD have entered the Columbia Palestine solidarity encampment and are threatening to arrest the protesters.

Losing the brilliant Ethan is to (a) the Economist and (b) Asia is really the worst. I plan to take terrible revenge on both.

Iran warns of shift in nuclear stance if Israel threatens atomic sites via Financial Times
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Almanya’nın İsrail ile bağları tehdit altında mı?

'Olaf Scholz hükümeti şimdiye kadar açık bir şekilde Netanyahu’nun arkasında durdu ve İsrail’e silah satışlarını artırdı.'

Alex Callinicos yazdı:

marksist.org/icerik/Yazar/2…

Sign the Protest – German Suppression of Palestinian Voices bricup.org.uk/article/6376/

Ramsis Kilani on how Palestine activists in Germany are resisting repression socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023…

'Like all great works of art, John Ford's 'The Searchers' (1956) is uncomfortable. The core of the movie is deeply painful. Every time I watch it -- and I've seen it many, many times since its first run in 1956 -- it haunts and troubles me.'

--- Martin Scorsese

‘A commonly held view in the region is that Republican presidents have been better for Baltic security than Democrats … Lithuania is hoping its close ties with Taiwan & antagonistic relationship with Beijing will earn it credit in a 2nd Trump presidency’ on.ft.com/4aYA8ML

‘Virtually all Iranian oil sold this year has gone to China, according to Kpler, which tracks tankers around the world, and aggressively enforcing sanctions could destabilise not only the oil market but also the US-China relationship.’ on.ft.com/3W2OGXq

⁦⁦⁩ ‘from a global perspective, China’s actions look less egregious. America is also subsidising its EV and clean power sectors … China’s flooding of global markets with cheap renewables … is great for emissions but bad for US manufacturing jobs.’ on.ft.com/4478iM7

This is an insane story. One input to Israel's dystopian 'Lavender AI', which selects targets to be killed by the IDF, is 'whether you're in a WhatsApp group with a suspected member of Hamas'. Which means that Meta is sharing this data with the IDF, making it directly complicit.…