These are some of the tabs I've had open on my Machine for the last month or two: interesting, mostly longish reads, some of them highly recommended, especially the first bunch.
The alt-left and the war on truth
The alt-left and the war on truth
- How a chemical weapons attack in Syria spawned a shameful series of conspiracy theories, by George Monbiot
- How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine, by Oliva Solon
- Chomsky and the Syria revisionists: Regime whitewashing, by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
- The West's Leftist Male 'Intellectuals' Who Traffic in Genocide Denial, From Srebrenica to Syria, by Oz Katerji
- Did a Kremlin Pilgrimage cause Alternet blogger’s Damascene conversion?, by Sam Charles Hamad and Oz Katerji, on Max Blumenthal
- Three pillars of the alt right: White nationalism, antisemitism and misogyny, by Spencer Sunshine - very important
- Matthew Lyons interviews Shane Burley on fascism today
- The global fascist love affair with the Assad regime, by Alex Rowell, and Why White Nationalists love Bashar al-Assad, by Mariam Elba
Anti-fascism
- Rumors of civil war: How anti-communist conspiracies imagined an antifa civil war on November 4, by Spencer Sunshine
- Six reasons Chomsky is wrong about antifa, by Libcom
- What to wear to smash the state, in the NYT - not sure what I make of this article
- Emran Feroz meets Yassin al-Haj Saleh
- Syria: The act of forgiving (and forgetting), by Leila Al Shami
- The Common Enemy: Robin Yassin-Kassab on Iran, Syria and sectarianism
- Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel on sectarianisation - an interview and extract
- Gaddafi's Harem: No rapist abused women like the late Libyan leader, by Clay Claibourne
- Racism, anti-semitism and the left, by Carmen Basant at Workers' Liberty
- A response by Martin Thomas: Distinctions on left antisemitism
- Roy Hattersley, Momentum, and ‘Labour’s worst crisis”, by Andrew Coates
Race, culture, identity
- Loads of brilliant articles by Kenan Malik (I tried to pick just one but couldn't)
- The Rohingya and other outsiders, by Robin Yassin-Kassab
My five most popular posts of 2017
- On Ken Livingstone's misreading of history (April)
- On the Stalinists in the heart of Corbyn's Labour (February)
- On anti-fascism today (August)
- On the ethics of punching Nazis (February)
- On George Galloway's awfulness (December)
