5LL #374: Surveillance, Zionism, Beauty, Neocons, Debt
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted
Mohammed R. Mhawish, New York
Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
The Continuing Obligation to be Anti-Zionist
David Lloyd, Communis
Just as Nazism as a name for ‘barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all barbarisms’ outlived the collapse of the ‘thousand-year’ Reich from its own extremities, the ugly brand of Zionism will outlive the bankrupt, brutal, apartheid ‘eternal state’ of Israel, whose collapse seems doomed to follow from its self-inflicted delegitimation.
Late Empire Life Extension
Ayesha A. Siddiqi, Substack
Western decline, like its bloody ascent, produces anti aging panics. And while people might “yearn for woke” the growing beauty market portends concessions to the right wing.
Be Grateful
Séamus Malekafzali, The Drift
The Trump administration hasn’t abandoned the Bush-era foreign policy worldview; its approach represents an extension of the same line of thinking about what America does and doesn’t owe the subjects of its interventions.
The Family Loan
Kristen Martin, The Baffler
Student debt demands a reckoning.