In his On the Ontological Mystery, Gabriel Marcel describes the experience of “an irresistible appeal which overturns the habitual perspectives just as a gust of wind might tumble down the panels of a stage set”. He is talking of a… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘War’
Marketing Intervention
by Tanzil Chowdhury Even at its height, European colonialism had to be rationalised and reified in all manner of different ways to ‘make sense’. Indeed, its contemporary reproductions, which here will collectively and generously be called ‘interventions’, are similarly ‘marketed’ in… Read More ›
Letter to Stella Creasy MP re: Syria
by Heena Khaled Dear Stella Creasy Around 2009 I met you for the first time at an event, and then you came and spoke at a women’s event I organised. I followed you ever since and you have been an… Read More ›
How to Kill Foreigners Democratically
by Daniel Fairbrother The debate on airstrikes and token special forces action seems to have a certain gravity about it. Of course it is serious, but what I mean instead is that once a single, apparently proactive proposal has been considered,… Read More ›
The USA’s main Arab ally Saudi Arabia has created a monster in Isis
For anyone confused by the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and keen to learn more about the origins of the group, this short essay on Organised Rage is a good place to start: The jihadists of IS… Read More ›
Manufacturing Consent in an Age of Austerity: Bashar al-Assad the “naughty child”
As anyone who follows me on Twitter will probably have noticed, in the last week I’ve been gripped by the march to war in Syria and what has seemed to be the new playbook, tentatively trialled with Libya, which the… Read More ›
“I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I could feel was shame”
A powerful speech by Mike Prysner, a US army veteren turned anti-war activist, given at the Winter Soldier symposium. This event involved anti-war veterans from around the US coming together to give testimony about their experiences on the grounds in… Read More ›
Review of Beyond Duty by Shannon Mehan
Shannon Meehan is a high school wrestling star and local hero in a home town struggling to retain its blue collar pride in the face of unceasing deindustrialisation. Meehan felt pushed towards leadership and heroism from an early age and… Read More ›