5LL #379: ICE, Maduro, Impunity, Iran, Masculinity
Enforcement Regime
Michael Macher, Phenomenal World
What institutional dynamics are driving the escalating war on migrants?
The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack
Séamus Malekafzali, The Nation
How Trump’s illegal 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani—and the West’s indifferent response—laid the groundwork for the brazen abduction of Nicolás Maduro.
Politics of Impunity
Raymond Geuss, New Left Review
A very large portion of the citizens of the world condemn these actions in the most vigorous terms, and yet unstinting support for Israel has such a chokehold on Western political and economic life that no serious sanctions have been forthcoming, despite years of protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Iran
Arya Zahedi, Heatwave
The moment Israel began bombing Iran, US left-wing organizations “wheeled out one regime apologist after another.” In “The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club,” Arya Zahedi argues that this “form of anti-imperialism is an incredible obstacle to building a renewed internationalism.”
The “Crisis of Masculinity” Crisis
Maxi Wallenhorst, e-flux
On the left, the idea that there is a particular fascist psychodrama of masculinity that needs to be analyzed is often connected to Klaus Theweleit’s 1977 two-volume study Male Fantasies.