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“ Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said this week that she had boycotted P&O Ferries in recent years and would encourage others to do so, after the firm sacked hundreds of workers in 2022 and replaced them with lower-paid agency staff.” "[It] shows that Labour cabinet ministers have never been in business, don’t understand business and don’t know how to talk to business. They just haven’t got a clue,"  Conservative shadow business secretary Kevin Hollinrake said . It means capital accumulation through cheap labour and exploitation. It means ‘our values’ and ‘free market democracy’. 

Nowhere “ explores his turbulent history against a backdrop of seismic world events” Related The West's Favourite Afghan

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‘ Israel lost its humanity ’. This is a very arguable statement. With the complicity of the majority of Israelis, what humanity has the Israeli state has shown since its establishment? “ Since when is the death of any person, even a bitter and cruel enemy,” asked Gideon Levy, “a reason to party?” It has been a few cases throughout history. ‘Humanity’ is not an abstract concept shrouded in innocence and purity. Humanity exists in contexts and governed by different power relations. 

“The partnership, which focuses on cloud computing, provides services to various branches of the Israeli government, including the defence ministry and the army .” There is nothing wrong with doing business – even when it is with the Devil. Previous genociders did it.

A realistic stance ‘An effective way to protect prosperity’  where the birthrate is among the lowest in Europe.

Was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine motivated almost entirely by Vladimir Putin’s ideological fears and concerns for his regime’s preservation?

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The constitution of a system of private property requires, as a necessary correlate, the constitution of a system of ‘defence’ or coercive power. . . . The analysis of the very ‘base’ of capitalist society, of its kernel of social  productive relations, requires not simply an ‘economic’ theory but equally a theory of jurisprudence, a theory of politics, and a theory of war. —Colin Barker, 1998

A good piece by Adam Shatz. “Hizbullah will slowly rebuild, and Nasrallah and his cadres will be replaced by a new and no less embittered generation of leaders who will remember the furies unleashed by Israel in Lebanon: the killings, maimings and displacement caused by one of the most intensive bombing campaigns in the 21 st  century. Nasrallah’s death is as humiliating a setback for his movement as Nasser’s defeat in 1967 was for the Arab cause. But nothing feeds resistance like humiliation .”

Cultural dispossession “Virgin  Atlantic caused an outcry in late 2017 with a new inflight menu that included ‘Palestinian couscous salad’. This was in fact maftoul, a popular traditional dish in the Middle East. An indignant passenger posted a photo on Twitter, accusing the airline of being ‘terrorist sympathisers’. Retweeted by pro-Israeli organisations, the image went viral, some furious social media users even claiming it was a ‘Jewish’ or ‘Israeli’ salad. Virgin apologised for causing offence and removed references to Palestine from the menu. Emirati economy airline Flydubai, which launched direct flights to Israel after relations between the countries were normalised in 2020, took care not to make the same mistake. Its online ‘Israel travel guide’   describes hummus, falafel, shakshuka and msabbha as Israeli dishes, though they are traditional in Palestine and across the Levant. Unlike Virgin, Flydubai disregarded the criticism this drew from Palestinians and other Arabs. These a