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Standing up against rape, murder and repression remains at the heart of our acts of resistance
Remembering Wat Tyler: Stakes are head high
Comment, Jun 15th
Wat Tyler’s head was spiked and displayed as a warning upon London Bridge on June 15, 1381. In this literary essay, an anonymous author affiliated with the Kurdistan freedom movement, traces a path in time and between ideas to reflect on that rebellion and its significance today.
rich man in his rolling acres
poor man still outside the gate
-- A Place Called England, Young’uns
We are in a heavy grind. We have not entirely halted yet our stories have been silenced. We are in grave need of a revival of spirit. We used to celebrate the changing of seasons, and cherish our martyrs. We used to know to direct our anger not inwards or upon our loved ones, but straight at the enemy. How do we learn how to survive and fight this system at the same time? We must fight until there is no life without becoming, not just surviving but belonging.
We must know our roots well, our histories of resistance will let hope grow and swell against violent systems and mentality of conquest. These stories of revolt, go way beyond a demand for recognition, and in our bones these stories are alive. What a disgusting farce it is to claim we never had a revolution: there is always a true democratic history, but we must know how to defend it and give meaning to it once again. How are we to build an alternative to this murderous system if we cannot defend ourselves?
Wat Tyler was assassinated by William Walworth, the mayor of London at the time. Walworth thought it was a simple solution in his attempt to ‘keep the peace’ and protect the property of the few, yet it was proved to be a classic case of how it’s impossible to kill an idea. On June 16, the rebels marched on the Tower of London, sought out the Archbishop of Canterbury, and chopped off his head.
Perhaps when looking back it may seem simpler then, an ‘us and them’ situation with crime and punishment for all to see, blood, guts and screams. Yet when a change of punishment was established as a new strategy focusing on our minds more than our bodies, a special warfare began. An ideological, psychological manipulation backed by the rich few, guarded by those just doing their jobs. Society was forced to divide, become uprooted or stripped of roots.
Rootless folks defend their right to exist in peace, and the uprooted are kept hidden to those who do not know their neighbours and ignore unmarked vans. Though this only accounts for the few. Challenging the special warfare upon us from this patriarchal dominant state, and fighting against the ideas of Nation and State, has always been our defiance: society’s story.
Queen Elizabeth has bitten the dust, though we shouldn’t need to wait for the dust to settle to know what action to take. And it starts with a society without such draconic dependencies.
Caesar was not dead, there were a thousand Caesars.
And the church kept peace among them.
The priests made us hate our bodies, and fear the forests,
the mountains, the black night.
They monopolised magic and wed it to ceremony.
--The Witch’s Child
But its no good blasting the sex pistols at our grandparents or watching The Spider Chronicles: defence of the monarchy, the state, cannot be undone through stories without knowing all the characters. Revealings of truth only make an impact if we know and can defend our democratic history. We must question: why such blind trust exists in the first place? Some say it was the blind faith in Richard II that eventually pacified the rebels of 1381.
Persecution of women for simply being, continues everywhere. It has reached its worse stage with the current State, the ultimate centralization of power and enslavement. Without the exploitation of women, the power of the state could not exist. This was as true as early as the dawn of slavery and was still so during what would come to be known as the Hundred Years War. The commissioners, sent into the villages to discern who was illegible to pay tax, would be especially heavy handed with women, putting hands up their skirts to see if they were virgins or married.
Wat Tyler’s daughter was assaulted by a commissioner called John Bampton, and the working-class resistance was set to light. Unrest was already stirring and pressure building in the English feudal system, especially in the decades following the Black Death. The nobility and the church were attempting to reassert their power, after a period of rising wages and sudden access to many acres. These horrific assaults on women were what sparked the 14th century “Peasant Rebellion”, in fact an anti-repression revolution.
There is no free homeland, without free women
--Tal’at feminist movement, Palestine
Wat Tyler and the Kentish rebels marched on London to show the foundation of living society came from their hard work: they had realised there worth, and were prepared to die for it. They had autonomously organised demands to ensure their worth was not forgotten, and those after them. The demands were to end the free labour of workers tied to land through serfdom, and the destruction of centralization of power. Demands were radical and socialist, the rebels understood and identified the order of power, and insisted on the establishment of grassroots participation and decision making in society.
What is society’s demands today? The centralisation of power in the capitalist system ensures manipulation of oppressed voices, our stories are twisted to suit the exponential growth of a dirty system. Perhaps our answer for contemporary times lies beyond nation-state governance formed at the start of the Industrial Revolution.
It sometimes seems impossible to dream of a stateless world. We have somewhat forgotten our natural responsibility to Life. Huge fundamental questions of governing society seem daunting to us, because we are faced with contradictions. In a system ruled by those that believe only in a reality unchanging – tradition used to harm; positivist science claims solutions are indeed black and white, wrong and right, fact or fiction. According to whom?
We cannot shy away from going deeper to understand why and how contradictions exist, without trying to ‘solve’ them or reduce their meaning. If we are to truly accept and understand really what diversity is, it is to run towards the difficulties, the tense conversations, the conflicts both in our own bodies and in our society.
By 1380 society had seen three episodes of taxation by King Richard II and his government, who sought a violent hegemonic solution to fund war with France. By today, the global capitalist system is interdependent with war. War hangs like the sword of Damocles above the so-called United Nations. What exactly is united? Modern tribes.
The nation state needed the bourgeoisie and the power of the capital in
order to replace the old feudal order and its ideology which rested on tribal
structures and inherited rights by a new national ideology which united
all tribes and clans under the roof of the nation.
--Towards Stateless Democracy, Abdullah Ocalan
Yet war, death and destruction seem abstract and the context unclear if we do not know of its true history. The conquest of power started far earlier than the 14th century. For thousands of years violent dominant forces have been used to establish new borders – eradicating fluid boundaries in tribal communities – to forcibly steal the lives, histories and landscape of others.
The same structures the whole world over keep people in poverty
--The Wee Yellow Butterfly, Cathy McCormack
The violent conquest of the British Empire in its attempt to negotiate and take control of the areas of Mesopotamia, by ensuring the demise of the Ottoman Empire was replaced with newly founded United Nations (League of Nations) interests as a priority in the 19th century. Today in the 21st century the horrific situation of a genocide of Palestinian people bares the rotten fruit. Palestine was used as a buffer zone for fear of Russian regional expansion, which led to the so called ‘national home’ for Zionist Jews.
What a difficult predicament Churchill must have had when faced with an already thinly spread British Army in India, Egypt and Ireland, had to rustle up ex Black and Tans and Auxiliaries to form another murderous gang of servants. No rest for the wicked.
Organised resistance must be international, if we are to admit the same structures keep us tied down all across the globe, and across history; an internationalist lens in which we can understand the roots of history and its river of resistance also, is paramount to build an alternative way of life.
battles and wars leave deep wounds and scars
and deep wounds are long in the mending
--Lovers and Friends, Sean Mone
On the road to blot these deep wounds, we often rely on solutions which focus only on the material, yet what we really need as well as this, is more abstract. In all this blood shed and being told we do not matter, our personalities have been shattered and we are in denial of Love for protecting Life. We have all felt the emptiness. A gap in our souls where there was once so much excitement. We must learn to control our blind rage at our sufferings, and remember the real oppression is upon our very spirit.
The spirit and bravery of those involved in the Revolution of 1381 is what created a domino effect for many stories of community resistance thereafter, one such being the famous poll tax riots of 1990 during Thatcher’s tragic Tory reign. Though what we can truly learn from our brilliant history of resistance is to ensure there is as much bravery and strength put to autonomous organising as they did to chopping off heads and cooking up cocktails.
‘Anti’-organisations are necessary, but without a clear working towards what we are ‘for’ as well, they are sucked into being co-opted by insurgency strategies which use our ‘Anti’ resistance groups like antibiotics.
Drowning in commodities where price tags are slapped on our campaigns for a healthy planet, denying us our dignity, and belittling our natural defence of life and our worth as part of it: we must admit that the biggest war waged has been upon our value for life.
Of course revenge can be sweet. We can bet that beheading 6 of the king’s men at the start of the Peasant Revolt felt pretty damn good. However, revolution is not only huge revolts. The change that we want can only be actualized if we change ourselves too, we must admit how it has affected us within our bodies and fears. We must not be afraid to stand up for ourselves, just because some of us are comfortable doesn’t mean the stakes aren’t just as high, and the need to organise isn’t a priority now. We can no longer let resistance be pacified by “coloniser guilt” as an individual burden: the Nation State is not the working people’s united front. Shame goes nowhere in our culture but spreads like the mandrake’s rot of our souls from within.
We must foster meaningful education for our children, and support our mothers to be autonomous. We must recognise, just as Tyler and his rebels did, the value of standing up against rape, murder and repression, all of us must be confident to challenge this patriarchal capitalist system. Fear is the work of our enemy, and if we can widen our communities and connect our struggles effectively, we can realise our worth, and build a concrete utopia where we all find a belonging.
I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains
where the grey rocks lie ragged and steep
I’ve seen the white hare in the gullies
and the curlew fly high overhead
and sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would be rather be dead
--Manchester Rambler
This essay is dedicated to the memory of the fallen comrade Sara Hogir Riha of the Kurdistan freedom movement. She was born in Riha, North Kurdistan, where a tradition of resistance goes back to opposing both the British and French during WW1. She fell on 28 July 2023 in the Medya Defense Areas.
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—“every male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered”-
from thefreeonline 15th June 2024 BY DENNIS KUCINICH at Aletho News (NEW- The Free on Telegram:- /t.me/thefreeonline)
BY DENNIS KUCINICH | JUNE 13, 2024 Our government is planning a big draft, conscripting millions of young Americans for an even bigger war! I call to your attention a Democratic amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was slipped into the almost trillion-dollar Pentagon war spending bill, by voice vote, in the House Armed Services committee.
The Democratic Amendment to H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization (NDAA) reads:
Section 531. Selective Service System: Automatic Registration. SEC. 3. (a)(1) “Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System.”
This amendment is in the NDAA legislation and there is no pending amendment to strip it from the bill. So, when the NDAA passes, as early as this week, Congress will have taken steps to make automatic conscription the law of the land.
Why an automatic draft? Members of Congress and the President have an obligation to explain to the American people to which foreign land will their sons, and perhaps their daughters, be sent to die?
The U.S. has been in a continuous “State of Emergency” since September 11, 2001, which provides a president with over 100 powers he would not ordinarily have. Notwithstanding that the automatic draft provision will go into effect in a year, a presidential order invoking emergency powers and/or an Act of Congress, could readily move millions from their civilian lives to the front lines of a war.
WHAT WE KNOW:
We know that America is fomenting wars around the world
We know that the military industrial complex controls our government
We know that we are on the precipice of a global war, provoking aggression rather than resolution with Russia, China and in the Middle East.
The only winners in these wars are the war profiteers.
They’re now going to take our children to fight in unnecessary, destabilizing, dangerous, debt-creating wars.
Just today President Biden committed the U.S. to an additional decade of support for Ukraine’s war with Russia.
There is no other conceivable reason to require more than 16 million American males to be automatically registered for the draft, other than to prepare for a large-scale war.
The Selective Service System is the vehicle by which individuals are inducted into the armed forces. This NDAA Automatic Registration amendment facilitates an efficient, large-scale draft.
The new law will automatically register all males between the ages of 18 and 26. Selective Service will notify in writing every young American male that they have been registered and will prescribe regulations which can require the registrant to provide “date of birth, address, social security account number, phone number and email address….”
There are members of Congress who advocate that young women also be included in any draft, which could bring to 32 million the number of Americans of draft-eligible age.
The U.S. currently has over 1,300,000 men and women, career soldiers, as well as volunteers, serving in the all-volunteer armed forces.
According to the new automatic draft law, undocumented immigrants, between the ages of 18 and 26, numbering at least 1.5 million, could also be conscripted, if it were to apply to women as well as men.
A government conscription edict covering the undocumented could ironically do damage to the so-called “replacement theory,” where draft-eligible undocumented immigrants could decide to retreat to the other side of the border. Military service may appeal to others as a path toward citizenship, since immigrants serving during “period of hostility,” can seek immediate naturalization.
The last time a draft was instituted in the United States was during the Vietnam War, when 1.9 million Americans were conscripted.
A total of 8.7 million Americans served during the course of that war, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, including married men, who were subject to the draft by Presidential order.
Of 58,220 U.S. service fatalities in the Vietnam War, 17,671 were draftees.
President Biden’s recent D-Day speech, quoted in Politico, contained this noteworthy warning for young Americans: “The price of unchecked tyranny is the blood of the young and the brave.”
Years ago I had a conversation with then-Vice President Biden, who mused, painfully, about his own sons’ lives potentially being at risk in combat. His deep love for his sons is reflective of all Americans’ love for their children. Those parents and grandparents with a first-person understanding of the human cost of wars in Vietnam and Iraq may have a powerful aversion to exposing their children and grandchildren to deadly conflict, unless there is a direct threat to the territory of the United States.
Ukraine understands the price paid for war, having lost hundreds of thousands of its courageous sons and daughters in the ongoing war with Russia.
As Ukraine turns to conscription, there is push back coming from those who are subject to service but who understand they could well be facing a death sentence.
In Israel, the growing ultra-orthodox worshippers have been exempt from military service since the founding of Israel, but the government is being pressed to expand its military ranks creating a political squeeze on the Netanyahu ruling coalition.
Conscription is under discussion in Germany and Italy, while at least nine other European Union countries already use the practice to replenish their armed forces.
Resistance does occur during a draft. I well remember anti-Vietnam war rallies with the cry “Hell, no, we won’t go!” But for a heart murmur and a high draft number, I would have joined my brother Frank Kucinich, Jr. on the battlefield in Southeast Asia.
During the Vietnam war, an estimated 60% of all draft-eligible young men found a means to avoid getting conscripted, (including future a President by the name of Bill Clinton). Some, fearful for their lives, fled to Canada or Sweden.
The Vietnam War ripped apart the country. The protests over the war, fueled by compulsory service and rising casualty numbers of US troops, led President Lyndon Johnson to decide, on March 31, 1968, not to run for reelection. The draft was ended in 1973 and was reinstated by President Carter on January 23, 1980.
We must have a national debate over America’s forever wars which have led to the automatic draft. Just what, exactly, are America’s interests? Our nation’s leaders’ diplomatic skills seem limited to putting a gun on the table and saying “Let’s talk.”
Why does our government choose war over diplomacy?
As directly-elected representatives of the people, Congress, a co-equal branch of government, has a responsibility under Article One, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution to decide to formally take this nation to a state of war.
Yet this congress, and others, have been content to appropriate money for war and then let the President take the responsibility, something the Founding Fathers sought to avoid in devising a system of checks and balances.
Congress must take up the question of war, long before the country institutes an automatic draft. An automatic draft is a preparation for war, dramatically altering the lives of young Americans. They deserve an answer. We all deserve an answer. America’s future is literally on the line.
Kiev must withdraw its troops from ethnic-Russian breakaway territories who voted to join Russia, and pledge not to join NATO..-
from thefreeonline on 14 Jun, 2024 by HomeRussia (banned in EU) –NEW- The Free is now on Telegram: https://t.me/thefreeonline
Ukraine must remove its troops from Russia’s new regions before any meaningful peace talks can begin, President Vladimir Putin has said.
Moscow rejects Kiev’s claims of sovereignty over five formerly Ukrainian regions, four of which have joined Russia amid the ongoing hostilities. People in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions voted for the transition in late 2022, though hostilities continue in all of them.
Ukrainian troops must be removed from these territories, Putin said on Friday at a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other senior Russian diplomats.
“I stress: the entire territory of those regions as defined by their administrative borders at the time they joined Ukraine [in August 1991],” Putin stated.
“Our side will order a ceasefire and start negotiations the minute Kiev declares that it is prepared to take this decision and starts actual withdrawal of troops from those regions, and also formally informs us that it no longer plans to join NATO,” the Russian leader pledged.
Putin outlined the conditions after condemning Kiev’s Western backers for allegedly preventing it from holding peace talks with Moscow while accusing Russia of rejecting negotiations.
READ MORE: Putin addresses top Foreign Ministry officials: As it happened(banned in EU)
“We are counting on Kiev to take such a decision on withdrawal, neutral status, and dialogue with Russia, on which the future existence of Ukraine depends, independently based on the current realities and guided by the true interests of the Ukrainian people and not at Western orders,” Putin stated.
At this point, Moscow will not accept a frozen conflict, which would allow the US and its allies to rearm and rebuild the Ukrainian military, Putin claimed. The full resolution of the issue will involve Kiev recognizing the four new regions as well as Crimea as part of Russia, he insisted.
READ MORE: Russian troops never intended to capture Kiev – Putin(banned in EU)
“In the future, all those basic principled positions have to be enshrined in fundamental international agreements. Naturally, that includes the lifting of all Western sanctions against Russia,” Putin stated.
Accepting these terms will allow everyone involved to turn the page and gradually rebuild damaged relations, the president said. Eventually, a pan-European security system that works for all nations on the continent could be created, Putin added, noting that Moscow has sought this outcome for years.
PUTIN LISTS RUSSIA’S CONDITIONS FOR PEACE TALKS WITH UKRAINE…OR IT IS AN INCINERATED EUROPE.. President says as soon as Ukraine withdraws its troops from Russian-claimed regions, declares neutral status, Moscow will halt all combat operation.. – Elena Teslova |14.06.2024l–
The Russian president’s keynote remarks came ahead of a Swiss-hosted summit supposedly meant to further peace in Ukraine. Kiev has insisted that Moscow could not be invited to the event because it would try to “hijack” it by promoting alternatives to the “peace formula” pushed by the Ukrainian government.
Continue reading “Putin names conditions for Ukraine peace talks – Zelensky rejects Russia’s terms the same day”Today is the birthday anniversary of Che Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967)..
– from thefreeonline on 14th June 2024 — by Nasir Khan at Sudhan. NEW- The Free is now on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline
Che Guevara was and is an inspiration to all those who fight against and oppose imperialists and their lackeys throughout the world..
The centre of that power was and still is the United States, the ‘leader’ of the warmongers, war criminals, weapon industries and its allies who further the cause of American hegemony and perpetuate the power of colonial powers like Israel.
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro stood against the gangster policies of the United States and its wars of aggression.
For instance, the ethnic cleansing in Palestine that is still going on is because of the power Zionists wield in America and direct the course of US foreign policies.
In Iran, America and Britain toppled the democratic government of Dr Mossadegh in 1953 and reinstated the pliant regime of the Shah.
The Washington rulers did the same with the socialist-democratic government of Allende in Chile. America has been the patron of all the right-wing dictatorships in Latin America.
The people who stood up against the American domination in the western hemisphere were Fidel Castro and his comrades like Che.
They were the people who liberated Cuba from the Batista dictatorship and heroically upheld the cause of freedom and independence of the island nation despite all the efforts of the US to destroy the Cuban revolution and the CIA’s hundreds of secret plans and attempts to kill Fidel Castro.
“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”—Che Guevara
Lindsey Graham spoke the quiet part out loud when he said the country is a “gold mine” America can’t afford to lose
from thefreeonline on 14 Jun, 2024 by Tarik Cyril Amar at BannedWorldNews (NEW- on Telegram: https://t.me/thefreeonline
“When Western predator capitalists grabbed hyper-corrupt Ukraine in 2014 it soon became a cash laundering and looting spree on an epic scale. Even the sons of US presidents cashed in with sinecure jobs and gigantic bribes. No wonder then that the US financed a War and a million Sanctions when Russia stepped in to defend ethnic Russian Donbass”.
US Senator Lindsey Graham, a reliably hawkish Republican who loves provocative statements, has caused a fresh stir by saying the quiet part out loud. In a recent interview on the CBS program “Face the Nation,”
Graham argued that Washington must not permit Russia to win the war in Ukraine because of the rich deposits of critical minerals on Ukraine’s territory, which are worth 10 to 12 trillion dollars, according to the senator.
In particular, Graham made three claims:
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There were other striking statements in that interview, but it is this passage that has attracted most attention and condemnation: Graham, critics point out, has revealed what the Hindustan Times, for instance, calls the “real reason why the US is aiding Ukraine :
Ukraine, for the US, is an asset to be used – and used up – in a much greater, global geopolitical game, or to be precise a collection of assets:
Apart from a strategic location, critical minerals, black-earth soil, and some gas as well, there are, of course, people.
Ukraine’s other land grab | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera.. Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe, and its land is changing hands. … They are just a few of the investors who have been buying up Ukrainian land – and its rich, fertile soil… see.. BlackRock Plots to Buy Ukraine..
Graham also has a record of calling for more military mobilization in Ukraine. He is infamous as well for his May 2023 comment, in a conversation with Vladimir Zelensky, that “Russians are dying” in the war, while US aid was the “best money we’ve ever spent.”
Lindsey Graham
Apart from the general nastiness of Graham’s proudly brutal way of thinking, to make those Russians “die,” hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, of course, have to die as well. Zelensky did not seem to mind.
Read more Ukraine is a ‘gold mine’ – US senator
Graham’s critics are, of course, correct. But most of them, I suspect, would also acknowledge that there is nothing surprising or unique here.
Continue reading “With 500.000 dead Top US Senator admits War goes on to Loot Ukraine’s Resources”Noam is in Hospital in Sao Paolo with his wife Valeria after his massive stroke. He’s partly paralysed but following angrily the Gaza Genocide.
– from thefreeonline on Jun 14, 2024 Brett Wilkins at CommonDreams (NEW- on Telegram: – /t.me/thefreeonline)
News that renowned American linguist, anarchist, and author Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in Brazil following a massive stroke he suffered last year was met with an avalanche of accolades and well wishes from members of the international left on Wednesday.
Noam Chomsky is pictured during a press conference after visiting former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Curitiba in 2018.
Valeria Chomsky told The Associated Press that her 95-year-old husband—a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—is currently in a São Paulo hospital.
She took him there on an ambulance jet with two nurses after he was able to travel from the United States following his stroke.
However, people close to Chomsky say he is unlikely to return to public life.
“Noam is the most influential U.S. intellectual ever. Period,” Rutgers School of Communications Professor Andrew Kennis—whose book Digital Age Resistance contains a foreword co-authored by Chomsky—told Common Dreams.
“He has been the largest influence on my life in any way, personal or professional” Kennis added. “As for movements, no other thinker helped positively shape and mold anti-imperialsm analysis and criticism of the U.S. bullying the world on behalf of Wall Street and Silicon Valley better and more effectively than him.”
“His work has defined the terms of countless debates and he’s been a tireless advocate for—and guide on the path to—a better future.”
U.S. journalist and political analyst Anand Giridharadas hailed Chomsky—whom he interviewed in 2020—as a “lion of the left.”
“It would be difficult to overestimate the impact Chomsky’s work has had,” Giridharadas wrote for The.Ink Wednsday. “Beyond the total transformation of his academic field (he’s widely acknowledged as the father of modern linguistics and the main force behind the cognitive turn in the sciences), his political impact has been immeasurable.”
“As a writer, activist, analyst, and critic of power, and likely the most visible left public intellectual of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, his work has defined the terms of countless debates and he’s been a tireless advocate for—and guide on the path to—a better future,” he added.
Of the more than 100 books published by Chomsky—who was once voted the world’s top public intellectual in an international poll—four are specifically about Israel and Palestine.
He has been sadly absent from the outcry over Israel’s current genocide on Gaza, which is the subject of an International Court of Justice genocide case.
Valeria Chomsky also told ‘Folha de S Paulo’ that she is thinking about moving to an apartment near the beach in Rio de Janeiro after reading that living by the sea is excellent for stroke patients…
Current Affairs founder and editor Nathan Robinson—who is the co-author of Chomsky’s forthcoming book, The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World—said earlier this week on social media that “Chomsky has been unbelievably kind over the years I’ve known him.”
“He treats everyone as an equal. Doesn’t care who you are,” he continued. “He would give as much of his time to a high school student as some celebrity or New York Times reporter. And devoted himself to attacking cruelty and injustice.”
“When I started a tiny lefty magazine with only a few subscribers, he bought a subscription, blurbed us, and would email if his copy didn’t show up,” Robinson recalled. “He provided countless generous blurbs to authors publishing with tiny presses, giving them a boost that could really help them.”
“So many thousands of people have stories about how he has changed their lives,” he added. “He certainly changed mine.”
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