Logos Journal

The U.S. armed forces’ capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is the latest chapter in a very long history of United States military interventions in Latin America and throughout the world. And, as in almost all of the previous cases, this one has opened the way to a prolonged and costly commitment, with potentially very high impact on US treasure, on political stability in Venezuela, and on the lives and security of people throughout the region.

Comic books depicting men at war were quite popular during World War Two, particularly among soldiers,  as Paul Buhle and Raymond Tyler note in the afterword to the new graphic history of anti-fascist resistance that they edited. Their anthology of illustrated stories about partisans in Greece, Yugoslavia, Russia, Holland, Italy, Hungary, France, and Spain offers a new look at “the good fight” against Hitler’s and Mussolini’s fascist armies.

The Perspective of An Elder As a member of the sun-setting generation, our role is to advise and consent. Our principal source of ideas is experience. For me personally, this has included the honour of serving my country, now two countries of Sudan and South Sudan, in senior positions at home and diplomatically abroad.

Introduction: This article is a rebuttal to Menachem Klein’s article, How Israeli Society Became Genocidal.1  The title of his article presupposes that Israeli society is genocidal but are they? How can we assess if most Israelis are genocidal? One way is to interview them. The best way to understand if the Israeli government is genocidal is to listen to what the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has to say and to evaluate his policies.

I am very thankful to Logos Journal editor Gregory Zucker and Gamaliel Isaac for the opportunity to add more information and references to my article. Neither my article nor this response aims to justify the horrific war crimes of Hamas. Following this, I find it unnecessary to argue with Gamaliel Isaac on Israel’s justification for reacting violently to Hamas’ crimes.

An Unprecedented Scale of Violence The war that began on October 7, 2023, and tragically remains ongoing in Gaza, is a pivotal event whose full implications have yet to be understood. Still, it would not be unwarranted to suggest that its domestic and regional consequences will rival those of the 1948 and 1967 wars. The scale of physical and rhetorical violence and the war crimes committed by all sides have been unprecedented.

Decades ago, I read an article in The New York Review of Books that created a lasting impression. It was penned by the late, famed, Harvard biologist, Richard Lewontin. The piece began with Lewontin describing how he and the astronomer, Carl Sagan, had engaged in a debate with defenders of creationism in a large public hall in Little Rock, Arkansas.

As Michael Kazin, the Co-Editor of Dissent has recently pointed out in a Times Op Ed there has always been cultural a civil war in the United States In that Op-Edh he points to the Scopes Trial of 1925 as emblematic of that war, pitting a largely rural population of Biblical believers against “urban liberalism.” Kazin’s argument is that “we” must understand “them” and their contemporary rage against “our” domination of mass media, public education, and higher education in general.

The Budget Reform and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 had two goals: to prevent Richard Nixon from blocking the disbursement of appropriated funds, and to establish a budgeting process whereby Congress could assert long-term control over the relationship between government spending and taxation. The Act established Budget Committees, mandated annual budget resolutions, and created a Congressional Budget Office to provide cost estimates for legislative proposals.

István Deák Retribution Against Heads of State Lawrence Davidson The Academic Boycott of Israel Howard Dodson Re-Defining African-American Ian Williams An Ex-Maoist Looks at an Ex-Trotskyite Emad El-din Aysha An Arab View of the Neocons and the Oil Lobby Tarik Kochi The Pope and the Ethics of Exclusion Dick Howard From Pericles to Petraeus? Rainer Funk The Life and Work of Erich Fromm Kevin B.