Kamran Rastegar
@krastegar.bsky.social
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Vogue calls for the film to receive the Golden Lion. www.vogue.com/article/the-...
The Urgent, Gaza-Set ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Deserves Venice’s Golden Lion
www.vogue.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Vogue calls for the film to receive the Golden Lion. www.vogue.com/article/the-...
What was telling about the exchange (with Coates, who very clearly called him on it) was that it showed how much Klein/many liberals have internalized the notion that critics of genocide are in some essential way "pro-Hamas."
January 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What was telling about the exchange (with Coates, who very clearly called him on it) was that it showed how much Klein/many liberals have internalized the notion that critics of genocide are in some essential way "pro-Hamas."
More or less it was a performative statement. He probably doesn't really think of any of the guests as individually being pro-Hamas, but it was a stock formulation that meant "I talk to everyone" that just fell out of his mouth.
January 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
More or less it was a performative statement. He probably doesn't really think of any of the guests as individually being pro-Hamas, but it was a stock formulation that meant "I talk to everyone" that just fell out of his mouth.
Part 3, denouement: Trump takes credit for forcing a ceasefire, but takes advantage of the degradation in international standards brought about by Israel's impunity to promote hitherto unimagined challenges to the post-WW2 order:
Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules | Mohamad Bazzi
The Biden administration has repeatedly undermined international institutions and law to shield Israel. This will come back to haunt them
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Part 3, denouement: Trump takes credit for forcing a ceasefire, but takes advantage of the degradation in international standards brought about by Israel's impunity to promote hitherto unimagined challenges to the post-WW2 order:
Part 2, tension: The gambit, if there was one, fails miserably. Harris loses due to disgust among dem voters for her fealty to the pro-genocide policy.
Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Part 2, tension: The gambit, if there was one, fails miserably. Harris loses due to disgust among dem voters for her fealty to the pro-genocide policy.
You’d be welcome!
January 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
You’d be welcome!
Btw, I'm teaching Standard Operating Procedure this semester as I have for several years. It's an amazing document and intervention. But it stops just a few steps short of confronting the darkness that it has exposed. That fact itself is quite valuable for teaching US memory of the Iraq War.
January 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Btw, I'm teaching Standard Operating Procedure this semester as I have for several years. It's an amazing document and intervention. But it stops just a few steps short of confronting the darkness that it has exposed. That fact itself is quite valuable for teaching US memory of the Iraq War.
Fair question. To me, his framing seems always to retain a certain focus on the artifice of representation in way that is arguably ironic/not "sincere" (as opposed to insincere). More acute in his treatment of Rumsfeld in "Known Unknown."
January 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Fair question. To me, his framing seems always to retain a certain focus on the artifice of representation in way that is arguably ironic/not "sincere" (as opposed to insincere). More acute in his treatment of Rumsfeld in "Known Unknown."