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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on No One is to Advocate Anything Until I Blow This Whistle by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I don’t think Burroughs’s view is that hard to make out. Many people on the American Left are sympathetic to the plight of African Americans or Native Americans, even to the point of sympathizing with, say, rio…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on No One is to Advocate Anything Until I Blow This Whistle by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Well, I initially read your Dylan comment too quickly and so thought the controversy was over whether his song was pro- or anti-Israel. Not so much. So my Burroughs comment was less apposite than I’d thought. LikeL…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Titanic Malice” Revisited by Roderick T. Long
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on No One is to Advocate Anything Until I Blow This Whistle by Roderick T. Long
It’s like trying to pin William S. Burroughs down on his views on Arab resistance to French rule in North Africa. “I am definitely anti the Arab Nationalists and pro-French ….. You can’t imagine what a pain in the ass these Nationalists a…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Naila and the Uprising” by Mishra and Rhodes on the Anti-War Movement | Policy of Truth
[…] Committee could do it, if ACT UP could do it, if the ANC could do it, if the shebab (and the women) of the Palestinian intifadas could do it, if Bobby Sands and Khader Adnan and Ahed Tamimi could do […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Mishra and Rhodes on the Anti-War Movement
I attended a webinar the other night with the journalists Pankaj Mishra and Ben Rhodes on “Gaza, Israel, and the American Left,” organized by The New York Review of Books. Since the anti-war movement came up during the talk, I asked Mishra and Rhodes if they had any advice to offer the movement. To my…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on No One is to Advocate Anything Until I Blow This Whistle by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. What do we make of the fact that Dylan appears to be wearing a keffiyeh? Probably not much (since it’s not really a keffiyeh). Apparently, there’s a cottage industry on Dylan’s view on Israel-Palestine, …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Titanic Malice by “Titanic Malice” Revisited | Policy of Truth
[…] a post I wrote here back on July 18, 2023, I argued that the Titan submersible accident was “diagnostic […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) “Titanic Malice” Revisited
In a post I wrote here back on July 18, 2023, I argued that the Titan submersible accident was “diagnostic of the delusions of our society.” Here’s the first paragraph of the post, emphasis added: The response to the Titan submersible event has, in my view, been both remarkable and bizarre. Some people have found…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) It is, quite literally, the freakin’ weekend
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mary Worth, 10/12/24 God, I hope Jimmy is with Estelle in spirit. I hope he’s been following her…
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