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Joseph Draper talks to some of the hundred thousand refugees fleeing the blockade and then invasion by Azerbaijan
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“We are heading for a wider war” We who watched Iraq invade Kuwait in 1990 and the Trade Towers fall in 2001 have seen war fever take hold. The fever is not just a product of justified outrage nor of the “fog” of sketchy information, but also of active propaganda. Google: Nayirah and Office of Special Plans. Approach with caution. Here is CNN’s tumbnail sketch of where things stand this morning: At least 1,200 people were killed in Israel in Hamas’ October 7 onslaught when armed militants poured over the border into Israel, raiding homes, rampaging through communities and taking as many as 150 hostages back to Gaza. In retaliation for the atrocities, Israeli jets have been pounding Gaza — the densely inhabited coastal strip that Hamas controls — with hundreds of airstrikes, reducing neighborhoods to rubble. Officials say a “complete siege” has trapped residents, cutting them off from food, electricity and resources. Many survivors are in critical condition and struggling with an overwhelming emotional toll as a humanitarian crisis swiftly unfolds in the region.
The first thing one notices when one reads a Jesse Nathan poem is: one’s body humming along to the music of his words.
How does such a thing work?
It’s the sound patterns—rhyme, inner rhyme, alliteration, assonance—yes, but it’s also how the poet uses the sound patterns on the line-by-line level, and as connective tissue between different poems, and finally, between different sections of the book. So the meaning lives in the music here, on both the micro and macro level, as the sound plays a live role in Nathan’s explorations of memory, his various investigations into ecology, into poetics of place, into history.
Which is to say, Eggtooth is not an ordinary debut but something quite different.
Oh man, good for me. Look at me! I am listening to jazz.
Here I am, just taking in the moment. Fully present. Just me and the music.
Yup yup yup yup yup. Completely immersed. Thinking about nothing else.
The rhythm. The musicality. The syncopation.
Is that the right word? “Syncopation”? That’s a jazz thing?
Sync-o-pate sync-o-pate sync-o-pate.
One thing’s for sure: I am not on my phone right now.
I don’t even know how many minutes it’s been since I looked at my phone.
Because I am too busy listening to this song.
Is it a song?
Does it have to have words to be a song?
Maybe it’s a piece?
That’d be kinda pretentious. This isn’t a museum.
I mean it’s “ART.” No one is saying this isn’t art.
But it’s not Van Gogh. You can’t listen to a Van Gogh.
Is that insensitive? He cut off one ear. But he still had another one.
Oh, you know what? I bet they call it a “tune.”
Man, jazz guys are so cool.
That bass player is rockin’ that flat cap.
I don’t think I could pull that off.
Maybe if I carried a bass with me people would buy it.
ORG has responded to Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s letter to Chief Constables in England and Wales on the police response to the harassment of Jewish people in the UK following the Hamas attack on Israel at the weekend. ORG’s Executive Director, Jim Killock said: “ORG condemns the harassment of Jewish people. Jewish people must be […]
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‘Everywhere you go in Gaza, you see death’, said Khamis Elessi, a consultant in the Gaza Strip. A fourteen-year-old child in Gaza has experienced five successive bombing campaigns and lived their entire life under siege. Former Prime Minister David Cameron once described the densely populated area as a prison camp. He’s right. It is blockaded […]
Major publishers removed articles about a Met Police investigation into the presenter after receiving legal threats, following Byline Times' special investigation. The CEO of press regulator Impress sets out what could be done to prevent such a situation
The Labour leader has repeatedly defied his critics, but can his ultra cautious approach really take the party back into Government unscathed?
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Marwan Bishara breaks down Hamas’s deadly raids into Israel, the decades of Palestinian suffering, and how Benjamin Netanyahu may exploit the horrors.
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When the FOMC tightens monetary policy, it can raise the question of whether a ‘soft landing’ is possible for the economy. What data can help answer that question?
Cincinnati voters will soon decide on whether to sell their publicly owned railroad to Norfolk Southern, the corporation behind the East Palestine derailment disaster.
Kathleen Blake Artificial intelligence (AI) is an increasingly important feature of the financial system with firms expecting the use of AI and machine learning to increase by 3.5 times over the next three years. The impact of bias, fairness, and other ethical considerations are principally associated with conduct and consumer protection. But as set out … Continue reading Bias, fairness, and other ethical dimensions in artificial intelligence
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October 11th, 2023: I am in Oklahoma and I got to see so many sights in Tulsa! —because it’s vastly over-used. Most things are not genocide, even some events were believe are (the Holodomar) are not. Genocide is the deliberate killing of mass numbers of specific ethnicity because they are that ethnicity. Now, I’ve always been very concerned for Palestinians and Israelis because there is no way for Israel to remain a “Jewish” state in the long run without getting rid of the Palestinians. One option is ethnic cleansing. The other is genocide. The sane solution is to make everyone a citizen and give up on blood citizenship, but that wouldn’t be a “Jewish state”. Israel has bombed Gaza plenty in the past. It’s sickening and evil and collective punishment and all those bad things. They’ve also engaged in ethnic cleansing repeatedly, that’s part of why so many Palestinians are packed into Gaza. But they’ve stopped short of genocide. A new translation: Raewyn Connell, 'Kanony i kolonii: global'nyy put' razvitiya sotsiologii', The Russian Sociological Review, 2023, vol. 22 no. 3, 219-236. Thanks to translators Elena Tezina and Ivan Kislenko! It’s Wednesday and I spent some time this morning reading the latest IMF – Global Financial Stability Report – in which the IMF pretends to know what is going on in the world economy based on a set of erroneous assumptions about how that economy functions. But the data it provides is interesting in itself.…
*This is a slightly revised version of an older post that (sadly) is relevant again. Have you heard the reasons why?(Yeah, we’ve heard it all before)But have you seen the nation cry?(Yeah, we’ve seen it all before) -From “War Weary World” by The Call Oy. It’s been a trying couple of days… Bertrand Russell said, “war does not determine who is right-only who is left.” That may be pithy, but he’s yet to be proven wrong. I realize that the 24-hour news channels have little choice but to “recycle” a certain amount of horrific footage as a huge international story of this nature is developing, but I’m old enough to recall when such imagery was processed as deterrence to conflict and a call for diplomacy, rather than a base and puerile incitement for vengeance (not by those reporting the news but as some politicians and pundits have been wont to do). What I find particularly heartbreaking is the plight of the non-combatants (on both sides) caught in the middle of the mayhem…especially the children. But perhaps I’m just naive, what with my pacifist wishes and hippy-dippy poster dreams.
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