“Onward Christian Fascism.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns to power, it will not be due to Russian interference, voter suppression or because the working class is filled with
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Canadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s day in court
“And Our Flags Are Still There.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. LONDON — By the afternoon the video link, which would have allowed Julian Assange to follow his final UK appeal to prevent his extradition, had been turned off. Julian, his attorneys said, was too ill to attend, too ill even
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: It may be genocide, but it won’t be stopped
“Red Ink.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But at the same time, it delivered a devastating blow to the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The four horsemen of Gaza’s apocalypse
“Blood Brothers.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East—Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk—have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: The case for genocide
“I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide is hard to refute. Israel’s campaign of indiscriminate killing, wholesale destruction of infrastructure, including housing, hospitals and water treatment plants,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Israel’s genocide betrays the Holocaust
“Never Again and Again and Again.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The death of Israel
“Birth of a New Nation.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States, it will achieve its demented goal. Its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Its dream
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Israel reopens the Gaza slaughterhouse
“Slaughterhouse.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The skies over Gaza are filled—after a seven-day truce—with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles. Gaza is a cacophony of explosions and forlorn screams and cries for help beneath collapsed buildings. Fear, once again, is coiling itself
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Israel is shutting down its human laboratory in Gaza
“No Pain No Gain.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. CAIRO, Egypt — The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel’s drones, surveillance technology—including spyware, facial recognition software and biometric gathering infrastructure—along with smart fences, experimental bombs and AI-controlled machine guns, are
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: Letter to the children of Gaza
“Children of Gaza.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Let them eat cement
“Made in Israel.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel, with the backing of its US and European allies, is preparing to launch not only a scorched earth campaign in Gaza but the worst ethnic cleansing since the wars in the former Yugoslavia. The goal is to drive tens, most probably hundreds
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: This way for the genocide, ladies and gentlemen
“This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. I have been in urban warfare in El Salvador, Iraq, Gaza, Bosnia and Kosovo. Once you fight street by street, apartment block by apartment block, there is only one rule—kill anything that moves. The talk of safe zones,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Humanitarian imperialism created the Libyan nightmare
“Business is Booming.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of US and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob who sodomized him with a bayonet. But Gaddafi would not be the only
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Our collective trauma is the road to tyranny
“Welcome In.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and the ruthless exploitation of the natural world and all forms of life for profit, thrives on the fostering of chronic psychological and physical disorders. The diseases and pathologies of despair—alienation, high blood pressure, diabetes,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the Israel lobby’s useful idiot
“The Kennedy Promise.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of US dollars, on the Indigenous population of Palestine.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: There are very few good films about war. 20 Days in Mariupol is an exception
“Witness.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Films about war, shorn of the bone crushing fear, the putrid stench of the corpses, the deafening noise of explosions, the constant exhaustion and the nervous anxiety that comes with trying to understand what is happening in the terrifying chaos, are pale and inadequate reflections
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Journalists abandoned Julian Assange and slit their own throats
“When Goliaths Infiltrate the Fourth Estate.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The persecution of Julian Assange, along with the climate of fear, wholesale government surveillance and use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers, has emasculated investigative journalism. The press has not only failed to mount a sustained campaign to support
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. And they are lying about Ukraine
“Preying for Peace.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change. Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must be protected. The
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Dr. Cornel West announces he is running for president
“Go West.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dr. Cornel West, the moral philosopher and civil rights activist, has formally announced he is running for president on the People’s Party ticket. Cornel will be a singular voice for serious social and political change in an electoral system saturated with corporate money and
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