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A writer is someone who pays attention to the world, Susan Sontag said. I'll try to do that here.
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What is the point of the UN? (opens the original)
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That’s a trick question: the UN is pointless. Why do we need an institution that hosts genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu while he is wanted by the ICC? I am old enough to remember when Colin Powell lied to the UN about “weapons of mass destruction” - why does the world need an institution that can launch wars of utter carnage but has no power to stop them?Thanks for reading Fatima Bhutto's substack. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form clas
Colonialism and its perverse habits (opens the original)
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I rewatched Palestine 36 recently - I highly recommend it - and it got me thinking about colonialism’s filthy nature. Part of that is the particularly grotesque violence it uses, intended to degrade and humiliate. They don’t understand that our heroes cannot be humiliated, but they try. Remember Omar al Mukhtar and Patrice Lumumba, anti-colonial fighters and African heroes. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cEzD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_prog
Not My Icon (opens the original)
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If you heard my last video podcast, you know what happened. A newspaper asked me to contribute my thoughts on what the passing of Gloria Steinem meant to me and how I viewed her legacy. I sent them a piece that was very critical of Ms. Steinem and they didn’t run it. It wasn’t because other contributors pointed out Steinem’s support for Israel, zionism and collaboration with the CIA. All the other contributors, in fact, eulogized her as if she were in fact, Eve, first woman, Mother, Patron saint
Gloria Steinem (opens the original)
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In this week’s mini video podcast, I’m talking about how a piece I wrote on Gloria Steinem’s defense of Zionism, a murderous ideology, and her collaboration with the CIA was cut from a newspaper. Weird!
The Fortune Teller of 9/11 (opens the original)
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In 1995, Benjamin Netanyahu published a book on a particular fascination – and expertise – of his: terrorism, or more specifically what he identified as its most dangerous iteration: Islamic terrorism. Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism warned breathlessly that Iran was moments away from developing nuclear capabilities. “Militant Islam”, a term in 1995 that didn’t have much cache except in Netanyahu’s feverish imagination, was fast replacing what
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