Tag: Politics

  • Six Years On, Hassan Diab Recounts His Release from a French Prison in January 2018

    Dr. Hassan Diab was wrongfully extradited from Canada to France in 2014, for alleged involvement in a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980. He spent more than three years in a French prison before investigative judges determined that there was no evidence linking him to the crime, and ordered his immediate and unconditional release. […]

  • A Special Strike: The 2019 Special Metals Strike in New Hartford, New York

    The struggle of organized labor in Upstate New York and more specifically Central New York is one that has typically gone unnoticed on both a national and historical scale. This of course can be said about numerous regions throughout the United States among other sections of the global socialist movement for the enfranchisement of the […]

  • Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List

    In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. — Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, […]

  • May His Like Never Be Seen Again

    His type should never be seen again.  Born from the dark well of swill and advertising, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies: shallow form, public service for private interest, and, ultimately, the scrap for survival at the expense of the grand vision.  Get the vote, keep the […]

  • The Willful Destruction of a People

    The US corporate media has maintained a near unanimous support for the Israeli destruction of Gaza – the home of 2.2 million Palestinians. While pundits engage in parlor games over what degree of violence is “justified” by the Hamas attack upon Israel, while public intellectuals fall in line with the gutless unconditional support of Israeli […]

  • War: The Malignant Creation of an Emotional Animal

    There have always been some people who believe that they are entitled to rule over the rest of humanity.  This is because human behavior is driven by emotions. Decades of research has demonstrated this truth. Human nature is, for the vast majority, powered by empathy and concern for the common good. There are some whose nature can be described as aggressively […]

  • The Green Mafia

    The Green Mafia

    Rivers turn green to denounce the failure of COP28. Banners: The government speaks, the earth sinks. | XR Italia – 9 Dec 2023 Rome, Venice, Milan, Turin, Bologna, & Bari, Italy In a dimly lit room at the back of a little independent bookstore, two dangerous radicals, members of the notorious Green Mafia, plot against […]

  • Does the U.S. Really Need Mideast Oil—or the Mideast—Anymore?

    When my husband and I were flying to Beirut, Lebanon to co-edit the English-language Daily Star, we noticed our tickets were paid by ARAMCO (since 1988, “Saudi Aramco,” then one of the world’s largest American oil companies. That was a factor the publisher somehow neglected to explain, along with the pro-West bias of this influential […]

  • When the Cookie Crumbled: The Ron DeSantis Campaign Ends

    So much for that.  Much had been promised by Florida Governor Ron De Santis to derail Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House.  But the attempt to wrest the Republican Party from the orange ogre’s meaty, waving hands was never convincing.  In the end, DeSantis was more stumbler than balancer, a woeful mismatch […]

  • Is Geopolitics Deterministic?

    Is Geopolitics Deterministic?

    In an online video interview, libertarian judge Andrew Napolitano asked University of Chicago political scientist and international relations professor John Mearsheimer to “translate” president Xi’s remarks in his New Year speech. The professor answered, “There is no question that the Chinese want Taiwan back. They want to make Taiwan part of China…. There is also […]

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