Times of Israel: "IDF chief finally acknowledges that Israel supplied weapons to Syrian rebels" "Israel’s supply of weapons has been reported for years, including by Syrian opposition groups interested in expanding their cooperation with Israel in the fight against Assad"

#OPINION: If this week’s ceasefire agreement is setting up the Lebanese army to fail, with a temporary ceasefire as a test, then the next war could involve more than just #Hezbollah, writes @Confusezeus arab.news/7jdyt #Lebanon #Israel

Timing of this is mostly product of US pressure. 60 days will be January 25, 5 days into Trump administration and Israel could re-evaluate. For Lebanon, a country with dysfunctional gov., no president, the decision was never Beirut’s when war would start or end. For Hezbollah, it survived its second major war with Israel but does not have same clout, is more vulnerable internally than 2006. For > million Lebanese displaced, hard work starts now. Some towns completely wiped out.

Dear Learner, Here's the first video on Twitter Revolutions. Credit: Alexis Foundation youtube.com/watch?v=bTnVflVs…

We have seen the Alt-Right, but what about the Alt-Left? blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2…

According to Michel Foucault: 'Truth’ is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. newframe.com/new-books-babel…

The most striking manifestation of Culture War Denialism is the claim that there is no such thing as cancel culture, and that those who argue otherwise are simply promoting a right-wing myth spiked-online.com/2020/07/16…

How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture. #CancelCulture Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. theatlantic.com/internationa…

The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics The “class war” isn't happening where you think it is. thebellows.org/the-double-ho…

“The individual is the product of power.” ― Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.” ― Michel Foucault

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.” ― Michel Foucault

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.” ― Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault understood that truly free people must be willing to choose death, like the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. What would he make of the restrictions on liberty in our efforts to safeguard life from #Covid_19? tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Revisiting Fukuyama’s ‘End of History Thesis”. moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/07/0…

Dear Learner, The Google Group has been created. Hope you have received the e-mails. Thanks!

The singular hackneyed biographical detail about Louis Althusser (1918–1990) is his notoriety as the French Marxist philosopher who, in 1980, killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, and got off with being committed to a psychiatric hospital. nybooks.com/daily/2020/02/21…

“George Washington burned so many Native American villages in the Northeast that it earned him the Seneca name ‘Town Destroyer.’ And Thomas Jefferson proposed luring Native Americans into debt and obligating them to sell their lands in lieu of payment.” trib.al/CeScwUf

Althusser: "I became communist because I was Catholic. I did not change religion, but I remained Catholic. I remained a Catholic, a internationalist universalist... inside the Communist Party there were more adequate means to realize universal fraternity." versobooks.com/blogs/3312-th…

“It was a normal workday. I woke up and started my daily routine. Brush, shave, shower, dress… Except that morning’s r…” opendemocracy.net/en/transfo…