5LL #391: Health, Kharg Island, Prairieland, Welfare, Habermas
Health Sovereignty in Palestine: A Conversation Between Mary Turfah and Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah
Mary Turfah and Ghassan Abu Sittah, Protean
Abu Sittah and I discussed how MSF’s turn reflects something bigger; the organization is simply doing what our new world order—where liberal frameworks are passé and might makes right—requires of it.
Thousands of Iranians Who Live on Kharg Island Face Possibility of US Invasion
Séamus Malekafzali, Truthout
US media talk about the island’s civilians as if they are a military problem, if they talk about them at all.
The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club
Sara Van Horn, n+1
It is a bitter irony that in a case in which prosecutors— pointing to Signal chats, text messages, and crowdfunding sites—were desperate to evidence nefarious connections, more nefarious connections might have changed the verdict.
Fraud with Benefits
Maia Silber, The Drift
From its earliest days, America’s welfare system has forced its beneficiaries to lie not only for their survival, but also for its own survival.
Habermas After Gaza
Amelia Horgan, Parapraxis
Habermas’s statement of 2023, made over the corpses of thousands of Palestinians, when warning bells of violations of international law were already sounded, and children already pleading to the world via livestream to let them live, can be understood plainly enough—as an expression of solidarity with the perpetrators of a genocide above its victims.