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Warmonger Confessions: More Frankness on AUKUS
The problem with satellite states and subject powers is that their representatives are rarely to be trusted, especially on matters regarding security. Their idea of safety and assurance is tied up in the interests of some other power, one who supposedly guarantees it through a promised force of arms come the place and come the […]
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The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
DNC delegates unfurl banner during Biden’s speech at the DNC. Photo credit: Esam Boraey An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates seem to realize that their country is on the brink of direct […]
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Iran: Key to World Peace
From what is read and what is said, Iran is the major sponsor of international terrorism — creating turmoil, preventing peace, and wanting to dominate the Middle East. One problem with the accepted scenario is that the facts do not coincide with the assumptions. Except for revenging terrorist attacks by Iranian dissidents and Israeli intelligence […]
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Why the Genocide Continues
According to the New York Times, U.S. officials say there’s no excuse, on the warmakers’ own terms, for the genocide they are arming: “Israel has achieved all that it can militarily in Gaza, according to senior American officials, who say continued bombings are only increasing risks to civilians while the possibility of further weakening Hamas […]
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The End of the World
I remember the day World War II ended. I was five. Our tiny apartment was filled with adults in various stages of euphoria, and inebriation. My one-month-old brother slept through it all in a basket on the kitchen sink. My Uncle Jack was there on leave from the Coast Guard, which, during the war, escorted […]
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Something’s Coming, We Don’t Know What It Is But It Is Going To Be Bad
With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but it’s soon . . . — “Something’s Coming,” West Side Story, lyrics by S. Sondheim, music by L. Bernstein. Shock should not be the word, but when World War III breaks fully loose many who are […]
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We Must Oppose Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late
Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in history up to our necks,” he observed, yet we must wager that “words are more powerful than munitions.” “Leave or die” are the horrid words threatening largely unprotected Palestinian civilians in Gaza as […]
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Let’s Think About How to Build a More Peaceful World
Although the current U.S. presidential campaign has focused almost entirely on domestic issues, Americans live on a planet engulfed in horrific wars, an escalating arms race, and repeated threats of nuclear annihilation. Amid this dangerous reality, shouldn’t we give some thought to how to build a more peaceful future? Back in 1945, toward the end […]
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NATO Imperialist Insistence Will Continue to be Met with Global South Resistance
This July, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held its annual summit in Washington, DC, where they celebrated themselves for continuing to exist for 75 years, despite the growing opposition around the world to Western hegemony that the US, EU, and their military gang of thugs NATO carry out. Even after months of massive and […]
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Donald Trump’s Reckless Infatuation with Nuclear Weapons
Over the past decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. Most nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements of the past have been discarded by the nuclear powers or will expire soon. Moreover, there are no nuclear arms control negotiations underway. Instead, all nine nuclear nations (Russia, the United States, China, Britain, France, India, […]
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