A decades-old Israeli blueprint to break Syria into ethno-states is taking shape, with Tel Aviv deepening ties to Syria's Druze as a tool to secure new territorial gains.
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“Gallery-goers might have been outraged not only because of the work’s simplicity—it is a 79.5-centimeter-square canvas bordered thickly in gray and white, filled in with black paint—but because it was not even a square.”
In 1915, long before the release of Spinal Tap, and longer still before sculptor Anish Kapoor purchased the rights to Vantablack, the Polish Russian artist Kazimir Malevich first exhibited Black Square in Saint Petersburg, at The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 (called simply “zero-ten”). The number indicated a “point zero” for a new arts movement, suprematism—from whence all possibility might begin—and for the ten featured artists. “Up until now… painting was the aesthetic side of a thing, but never was original and an end in itself,” Malevich wrote in a handout accompanying the exhibition.
Friday’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.
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It was, with the somewhat unexpected return of Jadis, White Witch and Queen of Narnia and Empress of the Lone Islands, the hopes of this Editorial Board that Queen Jadis’s second reign would be marked by more understanding and compassion than her first reign was. In some ways, we feel that in the instability of these times, there have been moments of alarm combined with moments of a return to normalcy.
For many Narnians, the reign of High King Peter, Queen Susan, King Edmund, and Queen Lucy was an era of fraught political tensions. Having begun their reign with a war against the forces of the White Witch, many felt that these four rulers failed to unite all of Narnia behind their cause. While a significant number of Narnians pointed to the Pevensie monarchs’ association with Aslan as a net positive, a vocal plurality stated that, as he is the son of the Emperor-over-the-Sea, he should have focused his efforts on improving Aslan’s Land, instead of inserting undue foreign influence over Narnian monarch selection.
In an endnote to The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class (2021), Cynthia Cruz explains that she uses the phrase ‘working class and poor’ because often, ‘to be working class is to be poor.’ That such a statement appears obvious – and grounded in the overwork and underpayment that exists in most […]
So, Nick Kristoff is crying about USAid, and I agree, mostly:
I’m hearing from experts around the world about what the destruction of USAID is meaning: “a global health massacre,” in the words of a doctor who has devoted her life to humanitarian work on the front lines. Millions of malnourished children left to starve. Pregnant women not getting micronutrients to prevent neural tube defects. Programs against schistosomiasis abandoned. HIV positive patients left without ARV’s. Water no longer purified. Surveillance against Ebola and bird flu set back. TB patients unable to get medicine. I’ve long argued that USAID should be reformed, but this Trump/Musk demolition is cruel and incompetent and benefits China, while killing children just as wonderful as our own.
- by Psyche Film
Anat Shenker-Osorio and Sunjeev Bery discuss sustained civil resistance on The Intercept Briefing.
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- by Josh Cohen
It’s far better to show up at a picket line with cake than a newspaper to sell. Donations of food and drink are usually welcome gestures of solidarity during an industrial dispute; in drawn-out struggles, they become essential. Feeding a strike is often unspectacular, hidden work, which deserves greater recognition. It’s not all tales of […]
I accepted nomination as a candidate for an “Affiliate seat” in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors elections. I was nominated by the following four OSI Affiliates:
To my knowledge, I am the only Affiliate candidate, in the history of these OSI Board of Directors “advisory” elections, to be nominated by four Affiliates.
I am also endorsed by another Affiliate, the Debian Project.
You can see my official candidate page on OSI's website. This blog post will be updated throughout the campaign to link to other posts, materials, and announcement related to my candidacy throughout the campaign.
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