Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
“Western journalists are cowards:” The Western abandonment of Palestine (Maryam Jameela / Now Then magazine)
What is solidarity worth if journalism as a whole cannot, or more accurately, will not, come together to condemn and dismantle Western powers and their culpability in killing our colleagues in Palestine? Instead, it is our Palestinian colleagues who are dying in the dark because Western research, capital, and power is raining bombs onto their heads.
Dark Matter: For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure. (Meg Bernhard / Hazlitt)
Over the years, Frank has developed a process for selecting secrets. He sorts the most promising ones into a few boxes. A good secret involves a particular alchemy of art and content. He likes secrets he’s never heard before—there are fewer and fewer these days, but every once in a while something new will pop up—and secrets he has seen but which are presented in a surprising way. At this point, twenty years after the project began, he mostly relies on intuition to select those he posts to the website. He’s kept every postcard over the years, even during a cross-country move. (The secrets he’s posted in the past decade are stored in his upstairs closet and garage; the rest are mostly on loan to the Museum of Us, in San Diego.) Every postcard, that is, except one. He blames a relative for losing it.
“Prime minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions.” (The Irish Times)
“Prime minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions.”
Simon Harris delivered a strong message during his ardfheis speech in Galway today. Video courtesy Fine Gael. pic.twitter.com/s7UwIi2gz1
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) April 6, 2024
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