5LL #400: Global Sumud Flotilla, Football, Realignment, Antifa, Decline
To Break the Siege
Piper French, New York Review of Books
By sailing to Gaza, activists in the flotilla movement have long tried to pressure their own governments to honor international law.
As Long as There Is Football
Mohammed R. Mhawish, Equator
Palestine’s pitches are in ruins, but the game lives on.
Object Lessons
Aslı Ü. Bâli, Boston Review
The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.
The Invention of Antifa
Lauren Fadiman, The Baffler
The courts decree a new domestic terrorist.
Histories of Decline
Tim Barker, Phenomenal World
The present kaleidoscope of declinist discourse reflects the cumulative wreckage of US domestic class war, imperial destruction, and competition with China into a staggering array of diagnosis and prescription.