This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. 

Frederick Douglass

Doha — Qatar has announced its decision to withdraw American military forces from the Gulf region, becoming the first country in the area to do so. The Qatari foreign minister stated that his country has paid a heavy price for hosting foreign military bases. The minister also described Qatar’s relationship with Iran as “brotherly” and affirmed that Qatari soil will never again be used to harm that relationship.

 if capitalism is based on war how will there ever be peace. 

good morning. global intifada.

An amazing piece of truth in Haaretz this morning: the European pine trees Ashkenazi settlers planted over the ruins of Palestine's villages are dying en masse throughout occupied Palestine, 'and no one knows exactly why'.

But it is obvious why: they are not native, and they were used as weapons of war and ethnic cleansing.

The very soil rejects repugnant Zionism. The land itself, no less.

This could be the most ominous signal Zionists have ever received. And they have received plenty. It feels like a divine warning.

Alon Mizrahi

-the trees know where they don't belong.

 I look down there and my eyes water. I'm not even thinking, really. I feel a bottomless feeling about this bewildering production in the park. I feel the wired network buried and the styrofoam substrate offgassing underneath the soil excavated from another place. I feel an excavation taking place. Meanwhile another  president in succession threatens to destroy another civilization begun long long ago, before the invention of the free world.

 i wonder what the trees feel, born elsewhere, put on a truck, roots bound, where do they feel they are, hopeful, is this to be home then? what a strange home then. the workers dug a hole by this one tree and i saw a worker down in the hole, now the hole is filled, and the little tree still sits beside the hole.