

ENIMAF
Regardless of what happens, what actions are taken or not taken, the same blood libel will be offered up. Israel will be accused of using...
Mar 22, 202412 min read


WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING?
I was thinking about harm reduction and trying to hunt down some more information related to themes from my last output on the topic. In...
Mar 18, 202427 min read


CONTEXT?
The New York Times just published a flashy article on its website accusing Israel of deliberately starving Palestinian children . They...
Mar 14, 20245 min read


FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Early in the new year is when we get the official tally from the BC Coroners Service for the number of overdose deaths the province saw...
Mar 5, 202418 min read


A MORE INFORMED PUBLIC
This morning NPR landed in my news feed with this astonishing bit of journalism: Why Egypt won't allow vulnerable Palestinians across its...
Feb 29, 202419 min read


SPOILS
Sho-sho : What do you know about Anfal? Ne-nah : What language is that? Sho-sho : Arabic, I presume. Ne-nah : Al-Anfal is the title...
Feb 23, 20249 min read


INFLATION
In the summer of 1998, as a teen, I got my first paying job working at a community centre. I had no education or any work or life...
Feb 21, 20243 min read


NO-CYCLE
In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling . I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent...
Feb 19, 20247 min read


IS THAT WHAT WE NEEDED?
I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC. Exploring these themes further, I just...
Feb 14, 20243 min read


FOOD AND HOT TEA
The long trek was made longer by deep snow and an icy breeze. After eight hours they’d made it to the agreed location. Before making the...
Jan 31, 20245 min read


GOMORRAH
I’ve been shocked by the response to Israel’s declaration of war and actions in Gaza. Of course, I’m not talking about the masses making...
Jan 24, 202414 min read


IMPOTENT AND AFRAID
I almost fell over reading this story in the news this morning: Indonesia enlists help of experts for ICJ Israel case. The Foreign...
Jan 20, 20242 min read


TYPICAL
These tweets are from the accounts of directors of Middle Eastern studies, investigative journalists, media companies, Palestinian...
Jan 19, 20242 min read


HUMANS ABOUND or GIVEN THE ACTIONS ON THE OTHER SIDE
FADE IN: 1 EXT. BUSY DOWNTOWN STREET - LATE AFTERNOON Walking down a crowded sidewalk on a busy street full of shops and cafes. A man...
Jan 4, 20245 min read


MANIFEST
Between 1892 and 1954 around 12 million people immigrated to the US via the immigration station at Ellis Island, New York. And any scan...
Dec 27, 20233 min read


ISRAEL-PALESTINE QUIZ
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...
Dec 15, 202340 min read


ZIVILISATIONBRUSCH
Though Malayuka Arnutskyah scored high on all her examinations, that could not help her overcome the quotas. Even though she was raised...
Dec 8, 20236 min read


ONE THING IS CLEAR
The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...
Dec 5, 20236 min read


“ISRAEL STRIKES GAZA AFTER TRUCE EXPIRES”
NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...
Dec 1, 20232 min read


HYPERBOLE
[ The internet, 2023: Some random idiot is confronted by a human rights lawyer on social media ] “It’s not a game. I’m calling you out.”...
Nov 26, 202312 min read


UNNECESSARY OCCUPATION
The strongest arguments I hear about the Palestine-Israel conflict relate to “occupation.” Folks like Dr Munayyer, Dr Knight, and Dr...
Nov 19, 202310 min read


BEING HUMAN
“Why does everyone talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict as being difficult?” “Probably because it’s, I dunno, difficult?” “Is it,...
Nov 17, 20234 min read


THE GOOD SENSE
“Well, I mean, the Kurds have never been offered statehood, despite treaties promising such.” “Okay, but that’s the whole world.” “What...
Nov 14, 20239 min read


ALL OF IT
"Can I ask what you're doing here today?" "We're just out supporting the cause." "But I believe that's the flag of Hamas. And the chant...
Nov 11, 20236 min read