Notes and Links. posted by Richard Seymour

A reading list, in lieu of a proper post. A Pessimist Leftist has a nice run-down of Ehud Barak's generous offer to the Palestinians - turns out, he really did offer them a choice, which was "fuck off or die". Or both, one assumes.

Then there's this Bionic Octopus . If it sounds like an alarmingly SF-style moniker to adopt, the content is entirely temporal and earthbound. BionOc is, near as I can gather, an American ex-pat whose informed and witty political, economic and cultural ruminations are interpolated by the occasional fashion statement : boho is coming back, 's true. I was thinking of chucking on one of those gypsy skirts all the shops are selling - but like a proper boho, I'll probably nick it.

The radical, internationalist youth journal Left Hook is edited by the invaluable M Junaid Alam, and has the advantage of shredding the hypocrisy of liberal sentimentalists while also executing technically proficient take-downs on the Bush junta.

K-Punk plants a sharp boot in the throat of relativism and 'Menshevitis', recalling Malcolm X's dictum that it was easier to deal with openly racist rednecks than liberal wolves in sheep's clothing ("woolly liberals"?).

Finally, I'll be hosting Carnival of the UnCapitalists in a few weeks' time. The (evil?) genius behind these festivities is Charles Norman Todd of Freiheit und Wissen , yet another blog that I should have linked to some time ago. This week's host will be Red Harvest , and you should send submissions to uncapitalist@gmail.com, probably by tomorrow evening GMT at the latest. Then it'll be the inviting Meat Eating Leftist - the name alone promises a great deal.

Previous hosts have included Majikthise , whose post "Michelle Malkin is certainly not a cunt" should become a classic. Gretchen Ross of The Green Lantern was kind enough to carry my demented rant against hippies despite the fact that she is herself a genuine old school hippy.

I'll be asking for submissions when it's my turn, so do me a favour and check out the submission guidelines . I don't want to have to get rough with anyone.