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Quick Notes/Thread on Syria angles: What explains the stark polar reactions we are observing everywhere in the wake of the Syrian regime’s collapse? It is as though people are watching different realities, or approaching reality from singular angles. I’ll try to unpack here though I treated this phenomenon extensively elsewhere 12 years prior, and since. [warning: this is not fun reading] 1/7
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BREAKING: A French court has approved the release of Lebanese communist Georges Abdallah, Europe’s longest-serving political prisoner.
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Mark Fisherism makes no sense because at its core it’s a Gen X lamentation of the collapse of high-trust post-war society into further and further degrees of cynical individualism & corporate grift, with the cause of the illness diagnosed as a failure of “imagination”
True love is when you enjoy hearing the story again; when you sit there silently not interrupting in full knowledge of where the story is going, revelling in the minor changes/shifts in inflections. Love is not interrupting
When I gifted the wretched of the earth to my ex in 2022 who had never read it. I would never have guessed it would become the bell hooks -all about love of 2024. Palestine shining a light on Fannon for the insta politico girlies. Let’s go let’s get violent
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Since Mughnieh’s assassination, Hizbullah has implemented a sophisticated system of knowledge distribution at the operational level. This distributed expertise ensures that the loss of any single leader, even one in a high-ranking position, does not create a critical gap in the group’s operational capabilities, allowing for rapid reorganization and continuity of operations. Hizbullah has made contingencies for multiple lines of commanders, so if the first is killed and replaced, the second can immediately step in, and if he too is killed, a third will take over, and so on. Several men are delegated with overlapping roles and tasks, ensuring that any void left by a fallen leader is quickly filled, allowing for rapid reorganization and seamless continuity of operations. 7/
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THREAD: Some preliminary thoughts on this new phase in the war focusing on key developments: 1) Israel’s act of state terrorism which killed Seyyid Hasan Nasrallah and its impact on Hizbullah, 2) The impact of Israel’s elimination of Hizbullah’s military command, 3) The current transition phase and Hizbullah’s strategic recalibration 1/
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crazy to think that after almost 3 years of working on this essay, it is released today, as Israel is carpet bombing Beirut. My essay on Mahdi Amel, his translated writings and the biography written by his partner Evelyn Hamdan, is out:
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“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, some of us have not died. Some of us did not die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?”
-June Jordan, 2001
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never not thinking of eric adams 2011 pea on how to check your kid’s room for contraband
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Today's march in support of President Nicolás Maduro was large, but it wasn't the only one. There were Chavista marches all around the country.
