5LL #368: Starvation, Prison, Venezuela, Women, Lithium
Bleak and Desolate Shelves
Abubaker Abed, The Drift
Starvation is not just an abstract idea; it is a kind of hell, and in Gaza it was enacted by design.
Israel Is the Prison
Dania Rajendra and Dan Berger, Spectre
Inside the territory it controls, Israel organizes abandonment, and thus governs through, and as, a prison.
The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela
Séamus Malekafzali, The Intercept
The days of justifying American military intervention anywhere in the world are on their way out.
The Wife Trap
Sarah Jones, New York
Women are entering a new era of struggle.
Schrodinger’s Element
Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Thea Riofrancos, The Baffler
Even in a perfect version of ecosocialist utopia, we are going to need material stuff from nature.