Kevin A. Carson's Blog, page 7

On Capital, Maps, and Terrain

My latest at C4SS https://c4ss.org/content/59160

Tantura: Birth of a Nation

Watch this to put high-sounding Israeli rhetoric about "standing against barbarism" and "the most moral army in history" in perspective.
It's a clip of excerpts from interviews with Israeli veterans of the Nakba, in which they confess to crimes against humanity.
From the independent film Tantura, about the Palestinian village of that name that was erased in 1948.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/...

Donald Trump...

...trying to remember everyone he discussed American nuclear submarines with at Mar-a-Lago:
"Well, let's see... I seem to recall a conversation with Mrs. Winston in 1F...."
https://youtu.be/szAjGEoPtY4?si=cGx2Z...

On Gaza: "Now Is Not the Time," "Moral Equivalency," and "Liberalism"

My latest at C4SS https://c4ss.org/content/59152

The Climate Denial Machine’s Fake Statistics Just Keep On Coming

My latest at C4SS (on Bjorn Lomborg)
https://c4ss.org/content/59083

We Are Not the Same

Dude.
I question mainstream media narratives based on critical analyses like that of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, who understand how institutional factors and automatic filtering mechanisms work.
You question mainstream media narratives because a bunch of right-wing social media grifters and batshit podcasters have convinced you that a cabal of "globalists" who all know the secret handshake get together and decide what the news is going to be.
We are not the same.

"I, Pencil" Revisited

This godawful pamphlet has been a right-libertarian sacred text for generations, so I really did my best to rustle some jimmies in this critique :https://c4ss.org/content/58750

"Who’s 'We'?”

My latest at C4SS https://ino.to/M1KQTeL

Time to Fight Dirty

My latest at C4SS https://c4ss.org/content/58377

GDP: The Last Refuge of Scoundrels?

At Center for a Stateless Society: my response to a piece on climate change that's pretty awful even for Ron Bailey. https://c4ss.org/content/58379