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We Need Clean Air, Not Another Billionaire
The first time I heard the chant it was while helping to block the street in front of leading fossil fuel financer Black Rock in lower Manhattan last Wednesday the 13th: “We need clean air, not another billionaire!” The dozens of people I was taking action with also liked it, and we kept chanting loud […]
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Melbourne’s 75th Nakba Exhibition in St Paul’s Cathedral
16 September to 27 October 2023: St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne holds 75th Nakba Exhibition This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) in which about 800,000 Indigenous Palestinians (57% of the Indigenous Palestinian population) were expelled from their homes and villages by Zionist colonizers. From 16 September to 27 October 2023 […]
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It’s Either Cuba or Daniel Blake
The world is in turmoil. As the Western powers and their economic policies continue to tear apart the global whole, the countries of the South have united to demand justice. This is a long story, one that continues and remains on a planet where human beings have gone straight into an invisible plane. Since the […]
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The Angertainer Steps Down: Rupert Murdoch’s Non-Retirement
One particularly bad habit the news is afflicted by is a tendency to fall into discussions about itself. Its members, some of them at least, used to call it the “Fourth Estate,” an unelected chamber of scribblers supposedly meant to keep an eye on the other three, yet finding itself at times distracted, gossip-driven, and […]
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Climate Emergency Update, September 2023
Earth’s climate system is in a state of emergency. Emergencies are defined by four specific elements; i.e., (1) seriousness (2) unexpected (3) dangerous, and (4) requiring immediate action. Based upon a new YouTube broadcast by the inveterate commentator Dr. Peter Carter, all those elements are in-play in a very big way. Dr. Carter, expert reviewer […]
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Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio or How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement
So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement. It’s my own fault. I was sowing dissension. I engaged in harmful speech in the group chat. I was making people feel uncomfortable. I was not playing ball. I was not with the program. The program, as you may recall, was launched in Westminster, London, […]
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Syria and China: a New Pole in the Middle East
Peter Koenig – PressTV Interview – transcript 21 September 2023 Background Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in China on his first visit since the war and foreign-backed insurgency gripped his country some 12 years ago. President al-Assad arrived in the eastern city of Hangzhou where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games […]
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NATO Destroyed Libya in 2011; Storm Daniel Came to Sweep Up the Remains
Shefa Salem al-Baraesi (Libya), Drown on Dry Land, 2019. Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna House of Culture about the neglect of basic infrastructure in his city. At the […]
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