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Florida Bans Books While Argentina Celebrates the Night of the Libraries
Corrientes Avenue, Buenos Aires Photo: Bill Hackwell As the sun was setting in Buenos Aires this past Saturday, the vibrant Corrientes Avenue that goes through the center of the city was shut down. Corrientes is closely connected to Argentine culture; lined with theaters and bookstores and on this occasion it was dedicated to The Night […]
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Human Life Dissected
No, I am not a surgeon. I am an organizational not a clinical psychologist. What, you might wonder, then, gives me any authority on this subject. Having written probably thousands of words about it over the decades probably gives me sufficient cache. Readers, you be the judge of whether I have overstepped my limits at […]
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Sexual Repression and Neurosis
The post Sexual Repression and Neurosis first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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February 19 Rage Against War Rally: A Historic Success
Thousands of people assembled at the Lincoln Memorial on February 19 to protest the US proxy war using Ukrainians as cannon fodder to bring down Russia. It took as its name “Rage Against The War Machine.” And it sought to bring together people of all political persuasions in opposing the war. “Everyone in; no one […]
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Palestinian Children’s Art Exposes Israel’s Cultural Genocide
The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” That was the summary of a news report published on the […]
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Sanctions on Syria: Australia’s Complicity in Policide
In 1998, the United Nation’s humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Denis Halliday, resigned in protest against UN Security Council sanctions on Iraq, using the term ‘genocide’ when he explained reasons for his resignation. Before Halliday’s resignation, the US ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright had been asked if she thought the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children […]
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The Right to Be Let Alone: When the Government Wants to Know All Your Business
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. —Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis There was a time when the census was just a head count. That is no longer the case. The American Community Survey (ACS), sent to about 3.5 million homes every year, […]
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Making Choices
The purpose of this article is to explore the making of choices, a subject that is not nearly as simple or commonplace as it may seem. Choice and Power, You, My Liberty Quotient and the Corpocracy’s Power Elite Choice and Power. To state the obvious, more powerful people can make and have implemented monumental choices […]
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Curious Case of “Mandela’s Lawyer” Illustrates Media Bias
The story is not about Irwin Cotler lying. It’s about the media embracing a biographical detail because they support the US empire and Zionism. Seven years ago, the South African ambassador to Venezuela Pandit Thaninga Shope-Linney stated plainly that “Irwin Cotler was not Nelson Mandela’s lawyer.” Three years later Max Blumenthal pointed out that “in […]
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Wanting War over Taiwan: Australia’s Gang of Five
Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a country that has never been a natural, historical enemy, nor sought to be. But as Australia remains the satellite of a Sino-suspicious US imperium, its officials and their dutiful advocates in the […]
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