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If you are an American, I want you to think very hard about what these images in south Beirut remind you of.

When Israel killed Ahmad Yassin, the leader of Hamas, the Bush administration condemned Israel for killing 7 others. When Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, the Biden administration congratulates Israel for its "measure of justice" in strikes Israel itself says killed 300 people.

One of my conclusions in WHAT'S LEFT is that it's up to the left to prepare well in advance to successfully handle this exact situation, everywhere

For people like Palestinians, there's endless commentary about how they need to risk their lives, commit violence, and wage a revolution, but for Americans, y'all do a 180 and start writing commentary about Propaganda Is Just Too Powerful, We Can't Do Anything

This is like the dril candles tweet if everything was candles

If you can, please donate to this Guatemalan migrant family with 8 kids trying to survive in Philly.

The Institute for Anarchist Studies is releasing the latest edition of Lexicon, a series of pamphlets converting words into politically useful tools. Lexicon: Democracy is available to download for free here: anarchiststudies.org/lexicon-democr…

Wrote a pamphlet on the limitations and potentials of the concept of democracy, within and beyond the frameworks of the state

"Even learning these facts as an adult felt dirty, subversive, like a kind of intellectual ingratitude. And there is nothing worse for an adoptee to be than ungrateful." I wrote about adoption, family, empire, and belonging for Psyche Magazine psyche.co/turning-points…

To be poor in the United States is in some ways like being poor anywhere else, but it is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can also accumulate an immense volume of stuf thenewinquiry.com/the-life-chang…

“Were we angels, they cry, the kingdom of heaven might be wrought for us out of neocolonial extraction and war. Not sweatshop fires or lithium mines but our personal failures of discernment and prudence delay …; to hasten paradise would surely justify any price.”

On the anniversary of the first viral social media campaign for military intervention, Andrew Lee reflects on Kony 2012 thenewinquiry.com/kony-2012-fore…