Jason Christian
@JasonAChristian
writer | English lecturer | cinephile co-host: @Cold_War_Cinema words: @LAReviewofBooks, etc (views my own, not my employer's)
New episode of @Cold_War_Cinema is live! We discuss Mikhaill Romm’s THE RUSSIAN QUESTION, a 1948 Soviet drama set in the United States. This fascinating film presents a brilliant critique of mass media and offers a nuanced critique of US culture broadly. coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-3-the-ru…
It’s all the parents and siblings and cousins and best friends and neighbors and teachers giving a few bucks here and there that is keeping people alive and fed. Let’s please keep it up.
Hello my friends and brothers, I want to tell you that my previous campaign was closed and I lost all the money donated to me. I have created a new campaign link. I hope you will help me spread the word and donate even $10. gofundme.com/f/help-abdulla…
History will never forgive the United States for helping Israel commit another holocaust before the eyes of the entire world. We should all be ashamed and enraged.
The New York Times pays Bret Stephens somewhere in the region of 250k a year to churn out this poisonous dreck to millions of people every week.
This is your invitation to see Charulata (1964) if you haven't already.
Satyajit Ray was crazy for this
NEW: @ceprdc’s @TheLancet study finds unilateral sanctions kill about 564K people annually - that rivals the death toll from armed conflicts. Sanctions are as deadly as war itself. bit.ly/Sanctions_Study
Film rec of the day: Phoenix (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2014)
28 million deaths caused by the imperial core since 1971, due to unilateral sanctions alone. Pure barbarism. This system is incompatible with humanity. thelancet.com/journals/langl…
Genocide is the highest Western value. Practicing it in various forms for centuries in Mediterranean, to Atlantic World, & globally since the late 19th century. Sanctions are a form of war. guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/sanctions-as-g… Check out the series we did based on the book Sanctions as War.
New research published by the Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war. thelancet.com/journals/langl…
🇵🇸Donate to buy baby formula for Gaza 👼 The team members will focus on collecting donations to buy baby formula during the coming period, given the famine in the Gaza Strip and the inability of children's families to provide milk for their children. chuffed.org/project/138529
Many think of lynchings only referred to hangings but there are many instances of White people burning Black people at the stake.