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  • Bibi to Don: You Can’t Use Your Nukes without Starting Armageddon. But We Can Use Ours.

    Twice in the last year, Israel and its Big Brother have started a war to crush Iran. Without success. But if at first you don’t succeed… So Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still trying to sell the leader of the dwindling superpower on the idea of destroying Iran. Netanyahu is obsessed, because — in […]

  • A New Era of Political Mobilization Is Dawning

    Born in South Africa just a few years after the end of World War II and reared by activists in the anti-apartheid movement, I witnessed my parents’ struggle against fascism and its accompanying racism in both my country of birth and Europe. This created in me a sense of the fragility of democracy and fear […]

  • Soothsaying and the Sampling Referendum: The Heralded Rise of One Nation

    Nominal realities bedevil politics. They usually find form in polling statistics, airings in the land of pundits and those self-appointed wise people who think they have a measure of the electorate and its various wishes. Folly often follows, garlanded with errors of judgment and failed predictions: Brexit and Donald Trump’s election in 2016; Trump’s re-election in […]

  • Xi Jinping: A Destroyer of Corruption, Privilege, and Inequality

    The title of the article at Foreign Affairs (FA) — “Xi the Destroyer” — speaks loudly of another Sinophobic piece by the US foreign policy magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations. FA opens the article by noting the “purge” of People’s Liberation Army general Zhang Youxia in what it termed a “Shakespearean moment […]

  • Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Dystopia in Motion

    While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss it as mere spectacle or farce, its criminal, inhumane, and hegemonic nature makes it far too dangerous to ignore. Last week, Trump and his new, thuggish boys’ club of heads of state publicly […]

  • NYS: Why Are Authoritarian Entities Needed to Create Charter Schools if They Are So Popular?

    NYS: Why Are Authoritarian Entities Needed to Create Charter Schools if They Are So Popular?

    The charter school industry has been operating in overdrive for several decades, trying desperately to convince everyone that charter schools are amazing, unassailable, and always in high demand. But if charter schools are marvelous and popular why have charter school promoters spent years using top-down heavy-handed entities comprised of unelected pro-privatization individuals to impose charter […]

  • Important Texts before the Trump Regime Starts Yet Another War on Iran and Its People

    Here is just a very short guide for the concerned: While you find little, or nothing, comprehensive, well-researched and meaningful in Western mainstream media, there are lots to be gained from every day visiting the online homes of, say, Al Jazeera, Al Mayadeen, the Middle East Eye — and others too, of course. Visit also […]

  • Dooming the Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma

    When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter that is hard to exaggerate.  The plight of its indigenous population has been horrendous, treated with brutish contempt by the British […]

  • Latin America Pushes Back Against U.S. Intervention

    Photo: Nuestra America gathering in Bogotá, Colombia. Credit: Progressive International When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá […]

  • The US Is Pushing So Many Regime Change Agendas It’s Hard To Keep Up

    It’s just incredible how quickly and aggressively the US is advancing longstanding agendas of global conquest under the Trump administration. Now they’re racing to take out Cuba. The US president has signed an executive order to impose new tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba, even indirectly, which is expected to dramatically increase the pressure […]

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