Analysis

By Soheil Asefi

"I deny that there is such a thing as a gay person. I deny there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. These are not categories. The word heterosexual is an adjective; the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there is a homosexual activity; of course there is a heterosexual activity. But there is no homosexual person. There is no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything. Now that is - only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other. “- Gore Vidal

Read more: LGBTQ exclusion of anti-capitalism

By Ludwig Watzal

Clarity Press, Atlanta 2013, 212 pp., $ 18.95. 

This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened and what went wrong between the United States and Libya from a perspective of a professor of international law. Among the U.S. Empire’s serving international law professors, Francis A. Boyle is an exception among American international law professors, because he offers his legal advice for government of states that are the victims of Western aggression. He has been opposing unlawful policies of states with his only available “weapon”: international law. He could be described as a defender of the downtrodden of the current international system such as the Palestinian people, Libya under Muammar al Gaddafi and others. Beyond that, he has contributed a great deal to the advancement of international law by, inter alia, drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. 

Read more: Francis A. Boyle, Destroying Libya and World Order

By Robert Jensen

From royal, to prophetic, to apocalyptic

For those who believe that a robust public-affairs journalism is essential for a society striving to be democratic, the 21st century has been characterized by bad news that keeps getting worse.

Read more: The collapse of journalism and the journalism of collapse

By Nima Shirazi

Just two days before Palestinians commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza last November were dropped from a dedication ceremony held to honor "reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news" over the past year. The move followed an Israel lobby pressure campaign led by anti-Palestinian organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the American Jewish Committee, efforts that were openly supported by the Israeli government.

Read more: Buckling to Bigotry

By MWC News

by Joseph Massad

Jewish opponents of Zionism understood the movement since its early age as one that shared the precepts of anti-Semitism in its diagnosis of what gentile Europeans called the "Jewish Question". What galled anti-Zionist Jews the most, however, was that Zionism also shared the "solution" to the Jewish Question that anti-Semites had always advocated, namely the expulsion of Jews from Europe.

Read more: The last of the Semites