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Via Middle East Eye After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his government would allow a 'basic amount of food into Gaza', right-wing Israelis headed down to the Kerem Shalom aid crossing between Israel and Gaza to protest against the decision and attempt to block the trucks from going into the strip which, according to human rights organisations, is near complete starvation levels. Activist Sofia Emuna spoke to ITV News near the Kerem Shalom crossing, telling the UK broadcaster that "it doesn't matter who your enemy is, you need to destroy their offspring to prevent them from creating more offspring." Related “General Leclerc had written to his brother-in-law Napoleon in 1802, soon after taking prisoner the slave armies’ leader Toussaint L’Ouverture, 'Here is my opinion about this country [Haiti]: all the blacks in the mountains, men and women, must be suppressed, keeping only the children under twelve; half the blacks in the plains mus...

علىٰ أيُّ جُرحٍ تَشدُّ الوِثاقا وأيُّ القُبورِ تريدُ عِناقا وكلُ الّذي حَولكَ الآنَ مَقبرةٌ هٰكذا أمةٌ تَتَلاقىٰ تَنادتْ فلمّا إنتَضىٰ فارِسٌ سَيفهُ ذَبَحتهُ إِتفاقا وأوجَعُ من قاتِلٍ يَمسحُ المُديةَ أنَّ القَتيلَ يَموتُ نِفاقا لكِ اللهُ من أمةٍ نَحرَتْ حينَ جَدَّ القِتالُ إِزدِواقا* —مظفر النواب *لا أظن أن كلمة إزدواق موجودة في العربية

It is good to stay up to date with 'geopolitics', but political science without political economy does not reveal a more accurate picture of the world.

An excellent piece

Western values.

“ [A] capitalist social system is not only property relations ; it is also a set of unspoken values common to the society. These values are stronger than any army and they are the main force maintaining capitalism today.”

Reality and perspectives after Trump has announced lifting the sactions

I watched Papillon. A fantastic movie. “The penal colony was the setting of French writer Henri Charrière's book Papillon, which was later made into a Hollywood film starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.” A high security prison in Amazon jungle

At last, the time has come in which all that human beings had considered as inalienable has become the object of exchange, of traffic, and may be alienated. It is a time when the very things which before were conveyed, but never bartered; given, but never sold; conquered, but never purchased — virtue, love, opinion, science, conscience etc. — when, in short, everything has finally become tradable. It is a time of generalized corruption, universal venality or, to speak in terms of political economy, the time when anything, moral or physical, receives a venal value, and may be taken to market to be appraised for its appropriate value. —Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy , 1847