The Masada Option Zionism’s Death Drive

“Israel must be both victim and victimizer; otherwise, Zionism’s delicate logic will collapse.” Yoni Gelernter considers the Masada story.

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Whoops, the rabid dog is biting children for the 400th time this week, time for everyone to make another statement about how it's a sweet, precious, vulnerable angel and how everyone else is the problem

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The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

With conjunctural approaches to urban research fast proliferating, along with the compounding crises they seek to study, now's the time to ask: what's the point of conjunctural analysis? Its purpose, I argue, is to offer a method for identifying points of condensation of crisis and contradiction within the social totality of planetary colonial capitalism, with a view to providing practical pointers on how to begin to exploit those moments for strategic intervention. This makes conjunctural analysis a distinctive, praxis-oriented mode of historical materialism – understood as an open, relational and holistic critical theory encompassing feminist, postcolonial and ecological perspectives, and alert to multiple social relations of domination, of exploitation and appropriation, notably gender, race and ecology as well as class. What conjunctural analysis adds to the two main methods of historical materialism – one apprehending capital's necessary form; the other capitalism's historical formation – is a more strategic and speculative orientation to social change as this emerges through contestation at pressure points in contradictory social formations, to assist in praxis, in the rearticulation of these formations for emancipatory ends. To that end, I attempt to provide conjunctural analysis with an epistemological grounding in dialectical relations between subjectivity and objectivity, totality and particularity, thought and history, past and future – a means to understand where, how and why to look for the conjuncture. The article concludes with suggestions on what such a vision for conjunctural analysis might mean for urban research through considering urban applications of conjunctural thinking.

If this is a conjuncture marked by escalating crises, provoking growing interest in conjunctural thinking across the critical social sciences and humanities, now's the time to ask...

What's the point of conjunctural analysis?

New article out in Dialogues in Urban Research:
doi.org/10.1177/2754...

Posting a different print format for the Halachic Left Pesach reader.

In this version, my article is on page 20:

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Exclusive: ICE's Bounty Hunters Leaked database shows how ICE pays off local cops to do their bidding

With ICE's public approval in the toilet, the agency is quietly paying off local police to act as bounty hunters carrying out its immigration mission
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

Last night I watched a video of a group of US soldiers in Bahrain watching a strike hit their base, gawping and yucking like Goofy at just a fraction of the horror and carnage they inflict upon the world unfolding before them like a fireworks show; a spectacle. And doesn’t that sum it up.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Labour must have been extra optimistic when they sent 100 English Labour MPs up to Scotland in August 2014

Coupang, South Korea’s Amazon, Is Copying Its Worst Habits The story of Coupang reveals how a publicly traded platform built its empire on a foundation of data breaches, deadly overwork, and the systematic precarity of labor.

The story of Coupang reveals how a publicly traded platform built its empire on a foundation of data breaches, deadly overwork, and the systematic precarity of labor. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and DE.

It's also because centrist and neoliberal media like the Atlantic spent a lot of energy over the past 10 years attacking antifascist movements that took great risk to confront and beat back the fascist advance while also down-playing the real threat of the far-Right. fair.org/home/in-mont...

We have heard many reports of violent policing in Manchester on Saturday.

Police kettled demonstrators to ensure the far-right march could go ahead.

There will be a callout for witnesses for various incidents later this week. please share this!

Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.

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'노동자 연행' AI 이미지 사용한 MBN... 실제 사진은 달랐다 MBN이 세종호텔 해고노동자 체포 소식을 전하며 AI 생성 이미지를 사용해 비판받고 있다. 전문가와 세종호텔 공대위는 이 이미지가 노조에 대한 잘못된 고정관념을 심는다고 지적했다. 최경진 교수는 "현장과 다른 느낌으로 이미지를 생성해 노조를 비판하는 의도를 전하는 것"이라고 비판했으며, 공대위 측은 "당사자 목소...

'노동자 연행' AI 이미지 사용한 MBN... 실제 사진은 달랐다
'세종호텔 해고 노동자 연행' 소식 전하며 충돌 이미지 사용, 실제는 일방적인 연행... "저널리즘의 나쁜 AI 활용 예시"

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“Kamala warned us”

Fuck you

Palestinians warned you
Black people warned you
The Left warned you
Half the international community warned you

The US slide into fascism has been long and slow. Many have been falsely imprisoned or killed by it over decades.

It just finally came for you.

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

ICE have murdered again in Minneapolis.

Arm yourselves. Defend yourselves and your community.

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CRUEL TO BE KIND: SANCTIONS

We situate the favourite tool in the U.S. arsenal in its historical context, and try to make sense of that silent, peaceful, deadly weapon.

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I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

Police officers in Scotland are appealing to MSPs to have access to guns while on duty...

This is a terrible idea, not just because of what's happening in America, but because of what is happening here. 🧵

"They want an excuse to fire on protesters."

"They're looking for a reason to declare martial law. Don't..."

Ah. See, they're already doing and saying whatever they want. They're putting people in camps and murdering people at will.

Our behavior doesn't drive theirs.

ICE Is Okay With Renee Good’s Killing Read the use of “deadly force” documents laying out the logic

ICE's use of force policy released under FOIA was almost completely redacted until it was accidentally released in court filing un-redacted. Read it here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

James Calder – A Highland Friend of the People Feargus Murray fills a gap in Scottish republican history by recalling the life of Cromarty radical James Calder, among the Highlanders inspired by the French Revolution to fight for democracy in late...

In our final article this year, Feargus Murray fills a gap in Scottish republican history by recalling the life of Cromarty radical James Calder, among the Highlanders inspired by the French Revolution to fight for democracy in late 18th-century Scotland.

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5