Tag: Politics

  • A Word Like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War

    A Word Like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War

    Erik Bulatov (USSR), Horizon, 1971–72. On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May. Over 90,000 troops from NATO countries (and one partner country, Sweden), including fifty naval groups and more than eighty air platforms, […]

  • Anti-Imperialism in the US Today

    Fidel Castro, who the world recognizes as a historic anti-imperialist figure, repeatedly warned that the main danger to humanity is US imperialism: “There is an enemy that can be called universal, an enemy whose attitude and whose actions…threaten the whole world, bully the whole world, that universal enemy is Yankee imperialism.” He fought to build […]

  • They’re Lying about Alexei Navalny “Putin’s Enemy”

    Was Alexei Navalny really Putin’s main opponent? Was he poisoned by the Russian government who then killed him in prison? Was he even popular in Russia? Well, no to all of those things and we show you what the West will not tell you while they mourn their favorite media darling. The post They’re Lying […]

  • Why does Israel destroy hospitals?

    Hospitals are prime strategic targets of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The Nasser hospital in Rafah is the only major one still standing, along with a handful of smaller ones. All the rest have been destroyed, along with many of the patients and medical staff. Many have been slaughtered, while the helpless have been left […]

  • US Military Projection in Latin America and the Caribbean Intensifies

    Upon assuming the US presidency, Joe Biden asserted in his first major foreign policy address, “America is back!” For Latin America and the Caribbean, this has meant an “aggressive expansion” of the US military in the region. In just the last year, US Marines and special forces landed in Peru in May 2023, brought in […]

  • When Scott Morrison Met Nemesis

    There are few surprises regarding the final episode of Nemesis, the three-part account on how the Australian Liberal Party, in partnership with the dozy Nationals, psychotically and convulsively disembowelled themselves from the time Tony Abbott won office in 2013.  Over the muddy gore and violence concluding the tenures of Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull, one plotter […]

  • Why the US Is Reimposing Sanctions on Venezuela

    Even the US business magazine Forbes expressed surprise at the reimposition of US sanctions on Venezuela’s gold sales and its threat to do the same with oil. The oil sanctions especially, if reinstated, would precipitate higher gas prices and further debilitate the Venezuelan economy, forcing more people to leave the country out of economic necessity. […]

  • KKKakistocracy: The Texas Education System Has Daddy Issues

    KKKakistocracy: The Texas Education System Has Daddy Issues

    An undated photo of members of the Childress County Daughters of the Confederacy. Courtesy of the Childress County Heritage Museum in partnership with The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries. In 2022, a 15-year-old Virginia Beach girl named Simone Nied began a modest campaign to get […]

  • When Courts Intervene: Halting the Transfer of F-35 Parts to Israel

    Legal challenges regarding the Israel-Gaza War are starting to bulk lawyers’ briefs and courtroom proceedings.  South Africa got matters underway with its December application before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in its campaign against the Palestinians.  While determining whether genocide has taken place, the ICJ issued an interim order warning Israel […]

  • The Global Deep State

    The madmen are in power. — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the […]

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