Ideology is the most devilish variation of the lie: Hannah Arendt, Approaches to the “German Problem”; in Essays in Understanding, 1994
NB: The American establishment, its allies and a vast section of its media use the word evil with Nelsonian vision. As someone who has observed evil with both eyes and no national, religious, or doctrinal prejudice for over half a century, I post below some material for readers alert to the danger of ideologically induced blindness. I readily admit I was doctrinally prejudiced at one stage of my life, and learned my philosophical lessons the hard way.
I offer these reflections especially for my students and the younger generation who will have to face the deadly ramifications of contemporary nihilism. You can and must make a difference, if the world we share is to remain livable. DS
The links below are placed haphazardly, and I will keep adding to them:
Israel imposing apartheid on Palestinians, says former Mossad chief
Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History
More Evidence Regarding Henry Kissinger’s Lies About Chile
The invasion of Iraq was a turning point on to a path that led towards Ukraine
Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map
Dogs of war / New acronym in Gaza: WCNSF – Wounded Child No Surviving Family
Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity
A Conspiracy of Silence / The Killing Floor of Gaza
Michael Brenner: Europe-Jews-Muslims
Victor Jara murder: ex-military officers sentenced in Chile for 1973 death
Police in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh accused of unlawful killings
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
Fr Stan Swamy, accused in Elgaar Parishad case, dies at 84
Bilkis Bano speaks: ‘Trusted highest courts, faith shaken, give back right to live without fear’
Formula Pinochet: Chilean Lessons for Russian Liberal Reformers during the Soviet Collapse
‘Only love can save those who are infected with anger.’ Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich
Revealing New Evidence in Abu Akleh’s Killing, Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces at ICC
Scores of executions feared in Iran as 23-year-old hanged in public killing
Files reveal Nixon’s role in plot to block Allende from Chilean presidency
The joint CIA – MI-6 instigated coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up
Europe Ignoring Israeli War Crimes under Guise of Combating anti-Semitism: new report
UN recognition of Palestinian Nakba counters the myth that Israel was created on empty land
Netanyahu’s deliberate extremism has failed
Haaretz Editorial: Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War
West Bank crisis: How Israel occupied itself
Israeli lawmakers pass a key law to weaken the judiciary despite public outrage
UN condemns Israel’s use of excessive force in attack on Palestine
Israeli Officials Now Promoting Impunity for Settler-Colonial Violence
Eve Ottenberg: Abolish the CIA
The CIA’s Intervention in Afghanistan: Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paris, 15-21 January 1998
How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of “alternative facts”
Seymour Hersh on Witnessing American War Crimes in Vietnam
The Gulag Archipelago: An Epic of True Evil
Book review: Alfred McCoy on the Politics of Heroin & CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
Mohammed Hanif: The rest of the world has had it with US presidents, Trump or otherwise
Mukul Kesavan: Photobombing death and the banality of evil / Evil, framed. By SLAVENKA DRAKULIĆ
Halliburton equipment worth $7.1m imported into Russia in past year
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Letter to the Soviet Leaders (1974)
Russia wants this young anarchist to stay in prison forever
Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
Defiant Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza likens his case to Stalin’s show trials
Mikhail Shishkin: ‘The main enemy of Russian culture is the Russian regime’
How organized crime plays a key role in the Ukrainian conflict
Russian Nobel Peace laureate slams Putin’s ‘insane and criminal war’ on Ukraine
Slavoj Žizek: Manipur is not only in India
An Open Letter to the world on the Bangladesh crisis of 1971
Annihilation – 50 years of Naxalbari
Yesterday once more – 50 years after Naxalbari
Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US
India’s subdivision of criminality (how one massacre deserves another)
After the truth-shower 