The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by scapegoating and by an absolutist moral belief that law is engraved in stone. This undeveloped form of morality reduces justice to rules in which the state’s role is limited to examining compliance with the law. In Dr. Diab’s case, appeals
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the ur group of thinkers, the globalists, who formulated the assumptions and prescriptions of global neoliberalism. This intellectual history tells of their
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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai’a Williams Between the Lines and PM Press, 2016 This is an extraordinary book. Its dedication to all the revolutionary mothers expands Malcolm X’s call for freedom, justice, equality “by any means necessary”: “mothering is
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Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in California, June 1942 • Photo by Alfred T. Palmer The women who mobilized the January global protest against Trump are upping the ante with plans for a one-day women’s general strike. They focus on many appalling injustices
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Syrian refugee children at a half-built apartment block near Reyfoun in Lebanon, close to the border with Syria, give the peace sign. • Photo by Trocaire The enormity, complexity and fall-out of the Syrian war calls for urgent attention. Current events in Aleppo bring to the fore the unreliability of
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In 2004 Dov Weisglass, the Israeli bureau chief under Ariel Sharon, famously said that the various brokered Israeli-Palestinian disengagement talks were “actually formaldehyd…
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Book Review: Judith Butler (2012). Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. Review by Judy Deutsch Judith Butler comes to her critique of Jewishness and Zionism with impressive credentials. She is widely known as a philosopher in the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, of politics and ethics,
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