Words For the Wise | Michael Balter | Substack

Why can't Gaza be "The Riviera of the Middle East" with Palestinians still there?

Sometimes racism is so extreme it blinds us to its genocidal nature.

Feb 5 •

Music corner: Five minutes of transformative bliss with Van Morrison

A new occasional feature of “Words for the Wise” — music that sends us way out there, exactly where we don’t know, and probably never will.

Jan 26 •

Evidence continues to mount that the pesticide glyphosate is harmful to humans, animals, insects, microbes, etc.

Despite well financed campaigns by the manufacturer of Roundup, of which glyphosate is the key ingredient, to obfuscate the science, an avalanche of…

Jan 25 •

Fuck nuance? Gaslighting in a time of genocide, let us count the ways.

Two UK-based scholars explore four ways that academies and academicians avoid looking war crimes and mass slaughter fully in the face.

Jan 11 •

Chronicles of Holocausts foretold.

The death of a French survivor of Auschwitz is a reminder of other genocides, and how "Never again!" has become an empty phrase.

Dec 15, 2024 •

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