Western States are Designed to React to and Punish the Individual
They cannot proactively save us from the climate crisis they helped make. Doing so would undermine the material conditions and symbolic universe upon which their “legitimacy” depends.
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Attending to our present moment through examinations of the past.
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MO Congressman Wesley Bell is (Still) Arguing Israel isn’t Committing Genocide in Gaza Because "They Could Have Used a Nuke."
This argument ultimately reveals that how we have been taught history in the West has helped reproduce, escalate and license atrocities... but we can change that.
I Met My Assigned CIA Asset in an Oslo Café:
Authoritarianism is a paranoia machine—for us and them. The line between discernment and delusion is thin as the rope they would hang us with. We must walk it now.
July 22nd - Constellations of Western Violence
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Stop Using "Unalive" to Describe ICE Killings
We are Helping Them
The People's Game is Beginning to Wake Up White America
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Peaceful Protests Don't Exist
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The US, Israeli and Russian Tutelages of Terror
On the Myth of International Law, the Rules Based Orders, and the Long Arc of Annihilation
From Minneapolis to Everywhere
Theater, Terror and ICE’s Titration Violence
What the Logics of Racial Capitalism Allow
Epstein, the 2008 Crash and the Kimberly-Clark Warehouse Fire