5LL #389: Burdens, Maps, Plans, Justifications, Drones
The Burden Assumed
Abdaljawad Omar, Communis
The bombs falling on Tehran do not fall only on infrastructure. They fall on the same imaginative and ethical terrain that has been contested, inch by inch, since long before October 7th — the terrain on which the question of Palestine has always, ultimately, been fought.
Tearing Up the Map
Andrew Arsan, Equator
Washington and Tel Aviv’s ‘war of choice’ against Iran is now an uncontainable regional conflict.
Clinging to a Scheme
Josef Burton, The Baffler
This war is not a means to one end.
Cognitive Dissonance
Richard Seymour, New Left Review
A striking datum of this war is how few attempts have been made at selling it, rhetorically dignifying it, morally arming it or situating it in some context of shared Western interests.
The Legacy of Obama’s Drone Wars
Séamus Malekafzali, The Drift
Who paved the road to Trump’s war?