5LL #402: UFC, 1776, Beirut, Northern Ireland, Minerals
History Is a Hype Reel
Mitch Therieau, The Drift
UFC Freedom 250 was above all a spectacle of self-annihilation.
Banquo’s Ghost
Gerald Horne, The Nation
If we are not surprised by the rightward profile of settlers in the West Bank or their comrades in today’s South Africa, then why should we be surprised by the performance of their historical counterparts, and their descendants, in this republic?
War and the Production of Space: Notes from Beirut
Jad Jari, The Brooklyn Rail
War forces people to adapt quickly, and in doing so, it reorganizes how space operates: where people gather, how they circulate and what becomes essential for daily functioning.
Country-Fried Ulster
Oliver Eagleton, The Baffler
Northern Ireland wants to emulate the worst parts of Texas and the American South more broadly.
Trumpian State Capitalism
Ilias Alami and Thea Riofrancos, Phenomenal World
As the US aggressively promotes a global race to secure core resources, reconfigure domestic and cross-border supply chains, and construct alliances to challenge Chinese dominance in these sectors, defining in practice the features of Trumpian state capitalism, it will also confront its fundamental limits, contradictions, and faultlines.