“Which Genocide Are You On?” Illustration by Mr. Fish. It comes back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like Israeli armoured personnel carriers, the vans filled with broods of children, driven by chalky faced colonists, certainly not from here, probably from Brooklyn or
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Canadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: You saved Julian Assange
“Free as a Bird.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him. They cut him off from his funding, canceling his bank accounts and credit cards. They invented bogus allegations of sexual
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: Israel’s willing executioners
“When You’re Smiling.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Run, the Israelis demand, run for your lives. Run from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City, the way you ran from Jabalia, the way you ran from Deir al-Balah, the way you ran from Beit Hanoun, the way you ran from
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: Revolt in the universities
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate student in Public Affairs at Princeton University did not know when she woke up this morning that shortly after 7 am she would join hundreds of students across the country who have been arrested, evicted and
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: Joe Biden’s parting gift to America will be Christian fascism
“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
Continue readingCanadian 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.
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