Voices from Gaza’s Rubble Call Out To Global Humanity for Rescue
[Photo: Third mass grave found at al-Shifa hospital site May 8. 2024. Isrsel-Palestine News.]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
[Photo: Third mass grave found at al-Shifa hospital site May 8. 2024. Isrsel-Palestine News.]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
[Photo: Texas oil field courtesy Roughly Daily.]
By Jon Queally
Source: CommonDreams
[Photo:” Students being arrested in the United States for protesting against Israel’s genocide on Palestinians. Photo: X/@ShayoniMitra.
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By: Henry A. Giroux
Source: Counterpunch
We live in an age of increased disasters and encroaching fascism. This is a historical moment marked by a systemic attempt by an emerging authoritarianism to disable language and dissent of any substantive meaning, remove actions from the grammar of moral witnessing, and disassociate power from institutional justice. As all levels of society are hollowed out, notions of democratic community, the social contract, and compassion give way to a politics in which all matters of responsibility are individualized, privatized, and removed from broader systemic considerations. The habits of oligarchy are animated by fear and reproduced through relentless attacks on human possibilities, while “the disorder of real history is replaced by the orderliness of pseudo-history.”[1] In a time of widespread suffering and unrest, higher education is feared for its critical functions, and students are expected to be silent, unresponsive to wider social issues, and ignore the relationship between the dynamics of power, marginality, and knowledge. Amid the expansion of the military-industrial complex and the carceral state, faculty, and students are expected to look away or inward, unresponsive to the language of imagined futures.
[Photo: Gazans in the rubble, Sinistra In Europa, Nov. 21, 2023.]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
Global Mankind vs. Political Wickedness
Rationality requires objective reasoning and it is not coming for an impending cataclysm of the Israeli onslaught on Rafah and the United States – the complicit friend in making genocide betrayed its history of civility, morality, responsible political governance, equality of human rights, freedom, and justice and a lot more that only future will unfold. Ferocious concepts of good and evil are being implied by the Israeli war agenda challenging the human consciousness of principles of truth, freedom, and honesty.
[Photo: “Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi (3rd L), Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz (2nd L), Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah IV Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (L), Jordanian King Abdullah II (4th R), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (3rd R), Iraqi President Barham Salih (2nd R) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) ahead of the opening session within the 30th Arab League Summit in Tunis, Tunisia on March 31, 2019 [Yassine Gaidi / Anadolu Agency]” via Middle East Monitor.]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD