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Time is a fucking circle.

Empire is going to empire.

And so bombs from a 70-year old colony of thieves, and a 250-year old loutish experiment are raining down on a 2,500 year-old civilisation. On historic towns and cities. On some of the most beautiful architecture, modern and ancient, in the world.

—“Thieves, Liars And Genociders Declare War On Iran” by Nate Bear of Do Not Panic

This is not a pattern of mistakes. Mistakes happen once. This is policy wearing the costume of emergency. The emergency is always new. The policy is always the same. What the government learned across seventy years is that the words matter more than the outcome. Say freedom long enough and the rubble looks like liberation. Say no new wars for eight years, then start one, and the promise becomes the alibi.

—“No New Wars,” Jermaine Fowler of The Humanity Archive

I hope these two articles help you get through the weekend without succumbing to despair. And since the Anarchist Book Club hasn’t gotten its proper start, we’re going to officially work through Let This Radicalize You through the month of March. Because if war isn’t radicalizing us to radical action, then nothing is going to point us toward living out our purpose on this planet.

Much love,

Nat

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