James Robins
@jamesrobins.bsky.social
THE DREADNOUGHT www.thedreadnought.news Amateur hack. Words also in New Republic, TLS, Verso, Vulture, etc
I was interviewed by the good comrades at @jacobinmag.bsky.social about Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful: Israel's Extermination of Gaza
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 12mo agoAs the Israeli assault in Gaza approaches the two-year mark, the extent of Israel’s crimes becomes clearer by the day. So too does the complicity of other countries who have refused to uphold international law.
"My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children."
'Maybe we'll eat sand'
What starvation is like
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If anyone ever tells you 'Hamas could end this war today if they released the hostages' - send them this
James Robins@jamesrobins.bsky.social · last yr.A skeleton need not speak. It only needs to present its bones to make you a liar. On the myth of Israel’s ‘war aims’ and how the nightmare is sustained by lying:
A skeleton need not speak. It only needs to present its bones to make you a liar. On the myth of Israel’s ‘war aims’ and how the nightmare is sustained by lying:
‘They won’t return for a hundred years’
The war depends on lying
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The experience of the past twenty months has taught Israel’s politicians and its officers impunity: there is no action they could order that goes too far, no strategy they can dream up that might be too extreme.
Here is the plan for Gaza's annihilation
What 'voluntary emigration' really means
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Here's my interview with @avasantina.bsky.social & @politicsjoe.bsky.social talking about Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful
Journalist deconstructs US/UK complicity in Gaza conflict | James Robins interview
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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This “humanitarian” regime is not benevolent, nor the heartbroken sympathy of the world for a people on the brink of annihilation. It is a new phase of that annihilation, an instrument of Israeli policy to dominate Gaza. On the new aid plan, for @newrepublic.com
There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan
Yes, Israel is letting some food into Gaza. But only so it can more efficiently brutalize its people.
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The bare rancour in Israeli rhetoric since it unilaterally broke the January ceasefire will only seem freshly terrifying to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention. This is not a “mask off” moment. The mask was never on.
This is not a ‘mask off’ moment
The mask was never on
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Review of new book "Six Minutes to Winter" by @marklynas.bsky.social: "My generation of millennials was the first to spend their childhoods in relative innocence, largely free from warnings of nuclear apocalypse...The threat never went away."
Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention
In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.
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Wonderful and expansive review of my book Six Minutes to Winter by @jamesrobins.bsky.social in the @washingtonpost.com. "Two options remain: deterrence or annihilation. How long do we have before the former gives way to the latter?" washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention
In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.
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"Annihilation is unthinkable. It is not nearly as unthinkable as allowing our present suspension to continue...These weapons are the worst thing humans have made, the worst we could ever make." My debut in the @washingtonpost.com on @marklynas.bsky.social's urgent new book
Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention
In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.
washingtonpost.com
Seeing as we're all giving Douglas Murray a good kicking at the moment, I've unlocked my piece from last year on this twinky quisling, this bargain-bin Moseley, and his stupid, evil project
Douglas Murray vs the tall trees
“Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”
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"A searing indictment of the brutality and atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza and the collaboration of powerful nations in their murder." Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful is out in the US today! Hurry to your nearest (independent, preferably) bookstore.
James Robins@jamesrobins.bsky.social · last yr.
Even before Trump made his insane and annihilatory demand to kick Palestinians out of Gaza, the ceasefire was already headed for collapse. This is how it happened -
Who killed the ceasefire?
What really happened
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Even before Trump made his insane and annihilatory demand to kick Palestinians out of Gaza, the ceasefire was already headed for collapse. This is how it happened -
Who killed the ceasefire?
What really happened
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Why are the Democrats suddenly so mad? Because Trump interfered with the imperatives of empire, and one of the core principles of the one-party consensus was broken: the duty to inflict massive violence at will, and to do so with your mouth shut.
This is what they're mad about?
Groupchat bombing and the imperatives of empire
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"History doesn’t need survivors. But the living strands are being cut. With them to the wind goes a tangible memory of the combat necessary to bring about the destruction of fascism." On the passing of the last Battle of Britain veteran
A coda for the few
John Hemingway, 1919-2025
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The nightmare begins again. How did we get to this point? BLOWING UP EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL: ISRAEL'S EXTERMINATION OF GAZA is now available for pre-order: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publi...
The nightmare begins again. How did we get to this point? BLOWING UP EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL: ISRAEL'S EXTERMINATION OF GAZA is now available for pre-order: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publi...
"The question needs to be turned around. Not 'Why did you stick to your guns?' but '"Why did you give up your guns so easily?'" My latest on Tariq Ali's late career and tending the radical flame, for @thetls.bsky.social
Tariq Ali laments the ‘decline of the street-fighting left’
Pally with Bertrand Russell and Mick Jagger, begging to get on the roof of a house in Hanoi to shoot at the final futile waves of Operation Rolling
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They told you what they were doing while they did it. Thrilled (and humbled) to announce my book on the Gaza nightmare will be out in April
reupping this for no particular reason and definitely not because it says something about the band of rubes who rule us
James Robins@jamesrobins.bsky.social · 2y ago"You’re either in the circle, guarded behind the closed door, or you’re out there, a victim, somewhere in the wastes of America, or wherever, doing your dying uncompensated." I wrote about Michael Clayton, a masterpiece with the gift of prophecy - www.thedreadnought.news/p/a-fifty-bu...
#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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All the wind has gone out of the Democrats again. The principal divide between them and Republicans seems to be whether or not they prefer their facelifts to appear human or not. On the horrorshow of the inauguration:
You're gonna have a lot of fun watching television
And so it begins. Again.
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The Palestinians - like subaltern peoples everywhere - shall be made to remember that they have been disciplined. That extermination, even if its perpetrators have stepped back from the brink this time, was possible. On the ceasefire, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1903...
The Ceasefire Won’t End the Bloodshed in Gaza
The ceasefire was urgently needed and wildly overdue. But as long as Israel clings to land that is not its own and covets more, it’s not the end of the fighting.
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There will be time now to find the dead; perhaps even the months necessary to mourn them. But a pause is not peace. Stasis is not an end.
The Ceasefire Won’t End the Bloodshed in Gaza
The ceasefire was urgently needed and wildly overdue. But as long as Israel clings to land that is not its own and covets more, it’s not the end of the fighting.
newrepublic.com
The Palestinians - like subaltern peoples everywhere - shall be made to remember that they have been disciplined. That extermination, even if its perpetrators have stepped back from the brink this time, was possible. On the ceasefire, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1903...
The Ceasefire Won’t End the Bloodshed in Gaza
The ceasefire was urgently needed and wildly overdue. But as long as Israel clings to land that is not its own and covets more, it’s not the end of the fighting.
newrepublic.com
