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What’s An Oscar Worth?

by BNimri Aziz March 22/2025 It was costly for British actor Vanessa Redgrave beginning in the 1970s, pilloried for her crime of speaking out on an unspeakable subject….

A Welcome Winter Morning Rumble

by B Nimri Aziz Feb 19, 2025. also carried in Catskill’s River Reporter Just a regular old fashioned plow So thrilled was Big Jim with his new car…

A Fly on The Wall of The Oval Office

Feb 10, 2025 , by BNimri Aziz. posted by Counterpunch Appropriately benevolent-looking, Netanyahu didn’t need to utter a word. He watched passively but attentively while the dauntless U.S….

Bulldozers and Bombs

by B Nimri Aziz Jan 13, 2025. also carried in Counterpunch Bulldozers, those agile, yellow caterpillar-track hoes, we watch transforming towns, farms, deserts and suburbs worldwide. But how…

Does Uhuru, ‘freedom’ in Swahili, Apply in The United States?

Omali Yeshitela and co-defendants– ‘free’ with a caveat. carried on Counterpunch Dec 24/24 by B Nimri Aziz Does Uhuru, ‘freedom’ in Swahili, apply in the United States? It…

Tinsel, An Enduring Tradition

by BNimri Aziz 20 December, 2024 Can you believe it’s the same slim thread of finger-size glittering tentacles as it was decades past? We had been garlanding our…

Pain, Perseverance and Prizes

also carried by Counterpunch Dec 10, 2014 by B Nimri Aziz Arab writers have a tough job these days. Here, I’m talking about the US. (Although this affects…

“Before It’s Too Late”.

by Barbara Nimri Aziz August 21, 2024. also on Counterpunch.com Israel is forcing our civilization to lose its humanity. It has already forced ICJ to lose its authority….

“Sometimes the Impossible Happens”

by B Nimri Aziz, July 3, 2024. also on Counterpunch.com This is what many are voicing after the June 24 release of Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange….

Gaza and Gazans Can’t Disappear

by BNimri Aziz. June 23, 2024 Do you sense that there is less and less news reaching us from the occupied Palestinian territories, expressly from Gaza? Do you…