PEREGRINE PULP

These tweets are from the accounts of directors of Middle Eastern studies, investigative journalists, media companies, Palestinian...

Between 1892 and 1954 around 12 million people immigrated to the US via the immigration station at Ellis Island, New York. And any scan...

A FEW BASIC FACTS AND THINGS I NEVER HEAR Choose the answer that best fits your understanding of the situation If you don't know the...

The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...

NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...

The strongest arguments I hear about the Palestine-Israel conflict relate to “occupation.” Folks like Dr Munayyer, Dr Knight, and Dr...

Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...

Those conformists (sometimes known as “academics”) who provide all the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic justifications for murder —...

“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf  necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was still time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.”

How do you make sense of what’s happening? What I’m seeing are officials, news reporters, and protesters alike quick to demand folks draw a strong distinction between Hamas and Palestine, the people of Palestine and the terrorist wing of Hamas. What we have here are “a few bad apples”, or so they say. But notice this proclamation isn’t anything like a principle the folks offering such believe in or run with in other contexts. In fact, they’re perfectly happy painting whole na

You will be delighted to learn I received much push-back on my last submission. Aside from some interesting comments, I was sent several...

I've heard and seen some wild shit this week. (Though I probably shouldn't, I'll leave out the most insane anti-Semitic noise and...

No part of the narrative forming around this story even makes sense. That CBC is pushing this silly idea is, well, no surprise. With the...

Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish reading it. ( You should go buy five copies .) Obviously, as the title suggests, it's a book about transforming our society with a reorientation toward a concern for climate and addressing the problems we face. In spelling out just how all this will work, the author starts by quoting Gramsci. * And, well, it goes downhill fast from there. Am

During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...

I imagine that it is as true for you as it is me that almost everything I thought I understood from prior education turned out to be far from the whole story or even entirely wrong. Occasionally this occurrence is innocent and happens because we’ve learned more over time or because the author or teacher felt they needed to simplify for their learners. At other times the person who wrote the book or taught the lesson simply didn’t know what they were talking about or never loo

We moved into a new place. The first strata council meeting eventually arrived. My partner had been anticipating the event for two months, was eager to go, and I was thrilled for her to represent. I was also happy to opt out. She reported back that I was the only one not in attendance, that she explained my absence to the group as “He doesn’t like meetings,” and that the secretary noted this in the Council’s minutes. I thought all of that was funny. I recounted it to friends

Today I was reminded that I had this weird conflict with my friends. We decided we wanted a stamp made to brand some paper bags for our...