5LL #359: Press Freedom, Scholasticide, Friendship, Junk, Fort Bragg
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Azmat Khan, Meghnad Bose and Lauren Watson, Columbia Journalism Review
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
Palestinians’ Fight Against Scholasticide Fuels the Struggle for Freedom
Sundos Hammad, Donna Murch, Ahmad Shokr and Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Hammer & Hope
“For 76 years, Israeli settler colonialism has tried to weaken our collective identity through fragmentation and dispossession, but we strengthen it through education.”
Joshua Clover, 1962–2025
Madeline Lane-McKinley, Oki Sogumi, Andrew Brooks, Sarah Brouillette, Astrid Lorange and Charmaine Chua, Rosa Press
Joshua’s comrades are everywhere, and to read and write with them is to remember him.
Junk Empire
Joshua Craze and Aziz Hazara, Triple Canopy
How America waged a war of waste, and Afghanistan upcycled an empire.
The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus
Seth Harp, Wired
Seth Harp’s new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, goes deep into the forming of the Joint Special Operations Command and its origins in the aftermath of 9/11.