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Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese in the White House
The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in no mood to be combative, and US President Donald Trump was accommodating. There was, however, an odd nervous glance shot at the host at various points. The latest turn […]
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No Kings, Fascism, and Democracy

The disease gets worse and worse every year, and the only remedy that will have permanent effect is to abolish private ownership of industry and production for profit, and substitute public ownership with production for use. — Upton Sinclair, “Production For Use” in New Deal Thought, 1933, edited by Howard Zinn Donald Trump, after talking […]
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Trump: Starting, Thwarting, and Claiming He Is Good at Stopping Wars
Donald Trump: “If I were president, and I say this, I will end that war in one day. It’ll take 24 hours. I know Zelenskyy well; I know Putin well. I would get that ended in a period… Interviewer interrupts: “You can broker that deal?” Donald Trump: “100 per cent. It would be easy; that […]
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Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth

To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created with Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK takes a steady hand, a hopeful heart, and a steadfast dedication to seeking truth and telling it through factually based and interwoven stories. Because of its brilliant complexity and […]
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The World Confronts the Genocide Washington Is Trying to Bury

On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s international standing. “Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world,” Trump said. “Now I am gonna get all that support back.” Under Trump’s plan, a […]
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Israeli Propaganda: Their Hasbara Instruction Manual
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” (attributed to Mark Twain). [A misattribution. — DV ed] Israel’s image is now so badly damaged that it is desperately stepping up its ‘hasbara’ (meaning propaganda and disinformation) programme on all channels, especially social media. In the past they’ve […]
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The Times Are Descending into Madness: You’d Be Crazy Not to Notice

You have to see that the buildings are anorexic, you have to see that the language is schizogenic, that “normalcy” is manic, and medicine and business are paranoid. — James Hillman, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling The pain incurred by bracing awareness is crucial here: The wound can act as a […]
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No Kings?

No Kings! YES! Of course! That’s what inspired American independence in the first place. But autocracy takes many shapes. How about No Oligarchs? Or No Deep State? No Police State? No Mass Surveillance? No Compromised Politicians? No Corrupt Judiciary? There was much enthusiasm and excitement. And talk of channeling that energy into constructive action. There […]
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No to a US war on Venezuela!

For the past few weeks the Trump administration has intensified its long-standing aggression against Venezuela by deploying warships (including a nuclear submarine) in the Caribbean Sea in a purported anti-narcotics operation. US forces have carried out at least five incidents of strikes on boats in Venezuelan waters to date, killing 37 people. Trump’s latest move […]

