Paul Haeder, Author

A rich literature can be enlisted to fill out the idea of Palestinian political subjectivity. Key points might include: the centrality of resistance to the imagining of a national identity in the wake of the Nakba; the specificity of Palestinian religious diversity (Muslim, Christian, Jewish); and the dispersion of Palestinians across Israel, the occupied territories, and the diaspora. More compelling is the provocative claim that we are all Palestinians. This claim should not be understood as that kind of sentimental identification that says all forms of suffering are variations of the same suffering so we should all get along. Rather, it’s the political slogan of radical universal emancipation that responds to the subject as an effect of the Palestinian cause. Not everyone speaks for Palestine, but Palestine speaks for everyone. — Jodi Dean 9 April 2024

• “Should we reconsider having children due to fears about climate change?”

Truly, it is 2024, and this is a CNN fucking fear porn idiotic headline. While Palestine and Sudan and Yemen and the rest of the struggling world attempts to raise a child, raise a community, raise a culture, raise a country without the FUCKING WHITE DISTURBED RACE interfering.

The language of the CNN so-called “climate writer” and the fucker he interviews is just fake thinking and wording and all the wrong concepts are broached, for instance:

“I chatted with Bill Weir, CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent and host of the CNN Original Series “The Wonder List with Bill Weir,” about these topics, and about his new book, “Life As We Know It (Can Be): Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World,” written as an open letter to his own kids.”

Weir: I would say we need all the good help we can get. And if you believe that your child is going to be a net positive for humanity, go for it. I think our basic purpose in life is to procreate. Nature wants replication and hopefully improvement for the next generation.

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It’s a very first-world problem to think about whether or not you have children. It’s tough for people, and I totally understand the psychology around this sort of thing, because we haven’t really come to grips with the mental stress of climate change. We haven’t processed through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) as they pertain to the climate to realize what we’ve lost. And we have to reach acceptance to what we need to build in order to survive and thrive.

There are family counselors who deal with parents who are in the grips of this grief. They still want to expand their family (but) are so worried about what the future might bring. I think that’s a valid concern, and there was a time when I completely understood where those folks were coming from. But I’m so glad my little boy is here. He gives me inspiration that I otherwise might not have. He gives me perspective. I think that I’m a believer that humans can be a net positive for the planet. And most people want to be, and it really comes down to the stories we tell ourselves.

[Whack Job: Weir was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on December 19, 1967.At an early age, his parents divorced and he attended 17 schools in six states as his devout Christian mother followed what she believed were dreams from God. After graduating from Victory Christian High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma he briefly attended Oral Roberts University before transferring to Pepperdine University in Malibu, California where he earned a degree in journalism and creative writing.]

[Photo: An aerial view shows a deserted and flooded traditional homestead following heavy rains in Garsen, Tana Delta within Tana River county, Kenya November 23, 2023]

• Huge debt costs mean climate spending could make emerging nations inolvent. (Reuters)

[Photo: Flood waters are seen within the Redeemed Gospel Church compound following heavy rains at Mororo village in Garissa county, Kenya November 12, 2023.]

If you ever thought the IMF and World Bank were not COntinuing Criminal Enterprises and Mafia, then you are climate stupid: Emerging countries will pay a record $400 billion to service external debt this year, and 47 of them cannot spend the money they need for climate adaptation and sustainable development without risking default in the next five years, according to a report released on the eve of IMF/World Bank spring meetings.

Juxtapose these stories in one big fucking breath-holding scan and you will go crazy if you are sane:

• Lockheeed wins US missible defense contract worth $17 billion (NYSE: LMT)

• Japan Loads the World’s Biggest Nuclear Reactor with Fuel — Fucking THAT Fukushima, JAPAN.

Ahh, the reverberation of that Dirty Jewish Controlled and Raped and Stolen Land of Palestine, Isra-HELL: Azerbaijan calls for ICJ to throw out Armenian ethnic cleansing case!

Genocide and mass murder and collective retribution and child and baby and mother starvation, and that is where these other fucking sociopaths enter the collective anal cavity of hell:

Oh, the Money Train:

• Cost of Sustaining Lockheed’s F-35 Jet Forecast to Exceed $1.5 Trillion.

Niger and China Seal $400 million crude oil deal. Now that’s progress, actually. Don’t listen to the fear porn green washing-pornography industry of the West, of the Goyim Gullible Trained by Zionists pleading for self-extinction.

• PFAS forever chemicals topped new EPA limits in hundreds of systems!

Poison at Coachella:

• Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Dance to Bad Bunny at Coachella  —The billionaire and his partner were joined by Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble at the music festival 

The fucking sick Western Masturbating the Mega-Rich De-Civilization.

• Ten bodies have been recovered so far from a mass grave at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, says a Gaza health official at the site.
• Israeli settlers are continuing their deadly rampage in the occupied West Bank as more Israeli troops have been called in.
• At least 33,797 Palestinians have been killed and 76,465 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive.

• Israel’s military chief Herzi Halevi has told soldiers that Iran’s attack on the country “will be met with a response”.
• “We do not seek to expand the war, but we will cut off every hand that attacks our country,” says an Iranian army spokesperson.

The Jewish Fucking Lobby of Lies: More professors shackled by the Gestapo Kapo of Jewish Occupied Murdered, Raped, Stolen Palestine . . . !

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• Refaat Alareer’s last poem, “If I Must Die,” draws on the association of kites and hope. A video of Brian Cox reading the poem circulated online after the IDF killed Alareer in an airstrike that demolished his building. 

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze —
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself —
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above,
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love.
If I must die
let it bring hope,
let it be a story.

The kite is a message of love. It is made to fly, and in flying it creates hope. Alareer’s words attend to the making of the kite, its crafting out of cloth and strings, as well as its flight. Making the kite is more than mourning; it’s an engagement in practical optimism, an element of the subjective process that establishes the subject of a politics, the “you” instructed to make the kite and tell his story.

• In her essay, published by Verso Books, titled: Palestine Speak for Everyone on 9 April, Dean described the images of the paragliders soaring over the fence separating southern Israel from the Gaza Strip as “exhilarating”.

“Who could not feel energized seeing oppressed people bulldozing the fences enclosing them, taking to the skies in escape, and flying freely through the air?” Dean wrote.

“The shattering of the collective sense of the possible made it seem as if anyone could be free, as if imperialism, occupation, and oppression can and will be overthrown. Such actions puncture expectations and create a new sense of possibility, liberating people from hopelessness and despair,” Dean added.

Though Dean’s opening salvo has been the topic of ridicule and complaint among pro-Israel supporters, her essay also examined how students, faculty and writers were being told how to think, feel, and process the events of 7 October.

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Dean told MEE that her essay tried “to capture the responses that many have felt, and that are present out there in the world”.

“Particularly when you read writings from people who are not in the United States [like] people who are in the Global South. You even saw many statements like this, at the beginning in the US, and then they were quickly shut down.”

The noted professor described “the politics of feeling” as important to this moment. She added that it was quite telling that she was now being punished for daring to talk about feelings people had around the 7 October attacks.

Dean says she can’t help but notice the irony of being disciplined for the same thing she describes in the piece.

“I’m being disciplined for describing a feeling.”

“And I’m trying in that piece to capture a sense of the struggle for freedom and the importance of the freedom struggle for recognising Palestinians as fully human beings.

Iran, the hero:

• Unlike that ‘moral’ army specialized in killing women, children, and the elderly and bombing hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, and humanitarian convoys, the Iranian attack targeted key Israeli military sites such as the Nevatim and Ramon airbases in the Negev and an intel center in the occupied Golan Heights – the three centers used by Tel Aviv in its strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate.

This was a highly choreographed show. Multiple early warning signs gifted Tel Aviv with plenty of time to profit from US intel and evacuate fighter jets and personnel, which was duly followed by a plethora of US military radars coordinating the defense strategy.

It was American firepower that smashed the bulk of what may have been a swarm of 185 Shahed-136 drones – using everything from ship-mounted air defense to fighter jets. The rest was shot down over Jordan by The Little King’s military – the Arab street will never forget his treachery – and then by dozens of Israeli jets. — Pepe Escobar!

“Anyone waiting for a ‘pure’ social revolution will never live long enough to see it. He is only a revolutionary in words, who understands nothing of what a real revolution is.”

Lenin in “Review of a discussion on the law of nations,”
1916, Works, Volume 22.

• On the night of Aug. 21, 1791, the enslaved men and women of the French colony of Saint Domingue, then the richest in the Western Hemisphere, rose up in fury.

They had been kidnapped from Africa, survived the deadly “middle passage,” seen their families separated, enslaved under inhuman conditions, worked around the clock, tortured, raped, abused, and humiliated.

When the day of reckoning came, three centuries of anger erupted in a geyser of violence. — Kim Ives

Hero:

• Nicaraguan lawyer and diplomat Carlos Argüello Gómez speaks to The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed about his case against the German government for its facilitation of Israel’s genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, its potentially historic implications, and its similarities to the successful case he argued for the ICJ in 1986 which brought massive penalties against the United States for its illegal dirty war on Nicaragua at the time.