''Occupied under the Star of David'' (International Herald Tribune, 2001)

Start a book club?

What Are You Reading This Week?

Link to Pewds talking about each book from the 2025 Book Review

On this day in 2005 Rosemary Kennedy passed away receiving the same 24 hour care that she had been receiving for 60 years after her father forced her to undergo a lobotomy. Starved of oxygen at birth, Joe Kennedy deemed her behaviour as a young woman to be potentially damaging to the family.

The ‘Crush Nazism’ monument outside Oslo Central Station

My thoughts on Tao Te Ching

What does everyone think about this man?

Anyone got recommendations for diving In Malta?

Over 700,000 people attended the 1933 Reichserntedankfest, a huge Nazi rally.

Big news again from Syria: the rebels are at the gates of Homs and the SDF is taking areas from the Assad regime south of Raqqa and rumours that the same is happening in Deil Ez Zor area.

My home was ruined and hometown destroyed in the war in Lebanon, AMA

Four U.S. soldiers commit war crimes, including rape and murder, against an Iraqi family during the Iraq war in 2006.

What are some of the different interpretations for the reason the Cold War ended?

Pro-Palestinian groups to protest Nick Cave gig and call for boycott over Israel show

Episode 386 was refreshing

Yuval Noah Harari: Free Speech, Institutional Distrust, & Social Order | Making Sense #386

Michael Walzer: Israel’s Pager Bombs Have No Place in a Just War

Any fans of Niki Istrefi?

Four images from the Stanford Prison Experiment, the experiment aimed to investigate how situational factors and assigned roles influence human behaviour, particularly the dynamics of power and authority in a prison-like setting. It went very wrong. (info in comments)

Anyone got any videos from last night? Lost my phone for half of it :)

Reformed Hamas Militant Speaks Out

Birth of USSR

Should I top?

#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism