Should Iran Bend Knee to Donald Trump?
Former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter usually provides excellent analysis of geopolitical events and places them in a morally centered framework. However, in a recent X post, Ritter defends a…
Kim Petersen
US Bullying in Kalaallit Nunaat
United States vice president JD Vance traveled to Kalaallit Nunaat (colonial designation: Greenland) to join his wife. He issued a statement that speaks much to the imperialist mindset of the…
What to Do When Faced with Tariffs? Diversify
The New York Times yesterday (11 March 2025) headlined: “Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada.” What particularly stood out was the sub headline: “The U.S. president on Tuesday…
How about the US Becoming the 11th Province?
While living in the Middle East, a Palestinian friend taught me about Arabic culture, which he said was still preserved in Yemen. Arabic etiquette, he told me, was that a…
Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide?
South Africa took leadership among the world’s nations by filing a request for the application of the Genocide Conventionn against Israel with the International Court of Justice. On 20 April…
A Choice: Submit to Trump’s Ridicule and Tariffs or Seek Win-Win Trade Relations
A widely known caution advises people not to put all their eggs in one basket. An exemplar is Canada. Has Canada put too many of its eggs in its basket…
American Voters: Ignorant, Insouciant, or Both?
In the US presidential election on 5 November 2024, American voters provided people in the United States and elsewhere a stupendous gift: the ouster of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration.…
Is Trump “the only hope we have”?
RT ran a headline: “Putin must be ‘adult in the room’ on Ukraine conflict.” This is according to left-leaning comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore. “Joe Biden and the neo-cons…
A Moral Imperative for the 2024 US Elections
Will Americans Vote for Genocide? Is it acceptable for Israel to wipe Palestine and Palestinians off the map? On 5 November 2024, Americans have an opportunity to signal whether genocide…
What Does It Mean to Be a Patriot?
Journalist and political analyst Caleb Maupin put out a video “Scott Ritter’s home raided by the FBI.” Maupin affirmed his solidarity with Ritter, a staunch opponent of US militaristic support…
Solidarity as a Monolith of Love against Zionist Evil
Jews are not a monolith. There are plenty of Jews who abhor the racism and violence of the Zionist faction of Jewry. Yet, many uninformed people consider Zionism to express…
Why Care about Palestinians?
A man who goes by the online moniker of @Travelingisraelinfo headlines his short video very curiously: Why do you care about Palestinians? Even before listening to the video, the answer…
What is the “Horrible and Evil Thing”in Historical Palestine?
Last month, the Jimmy Dore Show invited investigative reporter Ben Swann to speak to the myriad facts and evidence uncovered that point to the Israeli government and Israeli intelligence having…
Realism and Ipse Dixit
In a 3 July interview, judge Andrew Napolitano asked the University of Chicago political scientist, John Mearsheimer: “Why would the United States be putting missiles in the Philippines but to…
Sinophobia: Communist as a Pejorative
From the Red Scare of the 1920s to the McCarthyism of the 1950s to the Reagan Crusade against the Evil Empire of the 1980s, the American people have been subjected…
Much of the World Awakens to a Decades Long Genocide
Several times over the past two decades, I have written about the malevolence of Israel (and by that I mean Zionist Israel, which is predominantly Jewish, although there are likeliest…
Is US Officialdom Insane?
A foreboding article was published on April 24. It was pointed out that China had provided a berth to a Russian ship Angara that is purportedly “tied to North Korea-Russia…
Is Geopolitics Deterministic? The US, China, and Taiwan context
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…
There are Human Beings in Palestine – Review of Against Erasure
Against Erasure (Haymarket Books) is a book, edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro, that presents a pictorial history of Palestinians. The photos refute the often-heard canard that Palestine was…
A Moral Principle: Denounce the Bigotry of In-Group Members before Criticizing the Bigotry of Out-Group Members
This is the holiday season for various groups of people. Some people will celebrate Xmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc during the winter season. Others will celebrate just because celebrating is fun.…
Denying the Security of the Oppressed Imperils the Security of the Oppressor
Presumably, if Israeli Jews were not occupying the majority of historical Palestine, laying siege to Gaza, oppressing, humiliating, dehumanizing, liquidating, and refusing statehood to the Palestinian people that Hamas, a…
Thanksgiving was about Taking
No one will dispute that the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island from Umingmak Nuna (Ellesmere Island) to Tierra del Fuego were here long, long before the White Man arrived. So,…
Stupidity and Depravity Can Be Mutually Exclusive
A question: Is it the case that an individual member of an organization who rejects participation in the wider group’s malefaction is to be held equally culpable in the wider…
Gussying up Colonialism?
Interview with author Tom Swanky Colonialism has as its aim gaining ownership/control of the land and its resources regardless of whether or not the land was already populated by an…
Could the US Realistically Use Taiwan to Fight a Proxy War with China?
Interview with antiwar writer John Walsh John V. Walsh (@JohnWal97469920) is an antiwar writer who is well versed on China. Recently, he wrote an article titled “Arming Taiwan is an…
Review of Tom Swanky’s The Smallpox War against the Haida
[S]ettlers in thrall to colonial ideology saw every unfenced meadow as waste land free for the taking, especially the most fertile land supporting native self-sufficiency. — Tom Swanky, The Smallpox…
China’s Spy Base in Cuba?
On the heels of China’s weather/spy balloon downed by a US F-22 comes a report of the construction of a Chinese listening post in Cuba. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., supports…
Philippines: Knowing Who Your Friends Are
On 3 April 2023, deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh announced the United States expanding into four new military sites in the Philippines. “In addition to the five existing sites,…
Readouts Point to a Disjuncture between US and China
During the economic crisis in 2008, the United States sought China’s aid. US treasury secretary Hank Paulson conferred with Chinese officials, and China agreed to increase the value of the…
How Empire Fabricates Atrocities
Review of AB Abrams' Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order Another atrocity. Yesterday, the dam holding back the waters for the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station…
“Free Trade” as Revealed in the China-United States Paradigm
Interview with author Wei Ling Chua Free trade is much ballyhooed by the US and the capitalist world, but critics have been skeptical as to whether such trade freely takes…
Does China Have a Huge Problem Despite Impressive Economic Development?
Interview with author Wei Ling Chua The G7 has recently wound up its meeting in Hiroshima, and the participants joined to affirm their fear of the Threat of China. British…
Exceptionism in US Empire
[S]uffice it to state that the US Guardian Elite are very much of and for the overworld of private wealth. Since the end of World War II, the US Guardian…
The Tampax King and his Vessel
In December 1936, love won out for the British king Edward VIII, and he gave up the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite. What is socialite? According to…
Time Mustn’t Be Allowed to Run out on Julian Assange
Review of Guilty of Journalism by Kevin Gosztola Despite whatever charges Julian Assange may be accused of, it is well known that the WikiLeaks publisher was targeted for exposing the…
Enabling the Warmaking of Empire- Part 1
It is understood by all that at least two sides are required in a war scenario. One side must be waging war on another side. It is not required that…
How Does America Perform on Biden’s Test?
A slice of president Joe Biden’s State of the Union address that calls for closer analysis: Putin’s invasion has been a test for the ages. A test for America. A…
Considering the Invasions of Panama and Ukraine
The 26 January JTA Daily Briefing arrived in my mailbox with the subject: “Major Israeli Raid in Jenin Kills 9 Palestinians.” I was sadly dumbfounded by the imparted insensitivity and…
China eliminated absolute poverty; now works toward common prosperity for all
Can you imagine walking downtown in Seattle, Vancouver, New York, Toronto, or any other burg in Canada or the United States and not seeing any panhandlers? This homelessness, begging, and…
What is the Rules-Based Order?
In fits of, what might well be termed, masochism, some of us now-and-then tune in to the legacy media. When doing so, one is likely to hear western-aligned politicians rhetorize…
China is Not Capitalist and it is Not Yet Communist
There are many western commentators who, apparently in profound dismay that a country which holds up the banner of socialism could be so economically successful, tiresomely deny that China practises…
Whither Musk’s Twitter
It must be excruciatingly difficult having to decide whether to put some of one’s hundreds-of-billions of dollars, along with potential future profit, at risk to affirm one’s previous public declaration…
Justice in the Land of the FreeTM: The cases of Griner and Assange
I feel for American basketball player Brittney Griner. Did she break the law? Yes, she did, and she pled guilty at trial. But a sentence of nine years — to…
The US Boxes Itself in over Taiwan and Ukraine
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is reportedly scheduled to visit Taipei in August 2022. The stated purpose is supporting Asian democracy. The trip has more…
It is Not Love that Abandons Its Treaties
The Tsilhqot’in Struggle On 26 March 2018, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau spoke of the six Tsilhqot’in chiefs who were arrested during a sacred peace-pipe ceremony and subsequently hanged for…
NATO: Whose Security?
Insanity has often been defined as trying the same thing over and over and getting the same result. Case in point, Ukraine was seeking NATO membership to bolster its security.…
A Comparison of Who the New York Times Deems Worthy and Unworthy of Propping up
The New York Times continues to selectively promote news that fits the Establishment narrative. The NYT portrays the nine-year sentence of the Russian “opposition leader” Aleksei Navalny to a high-security…
The Imperialists’ and Proxies’ War against Syria
Review of World War in Syria by A.B. Abrams On 30 August 2021, the United States’ 20-year military occupation of Afghanistan came to an end when the removal of American…
Skeptic’s Alert: Washington and NYT Expose Russian False Flag
On 14 January, a breaking news story from the New York Times informed its readers: “U.S. Says Russia Sent Saboteurs Into Ukraine to Create Pretext for Invasion.” Unsurprisingly, Washington “did…
The Battle at Lake Changjin: An Anti-war War Film
For decades, Hollywood has produced a plethora of films extolling American military prowess in warfare. Aside from Oliver Stone films and a few others, e.g., Casualties of War, usually these…
What Does the Statement of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War Tell Us?
The Doomsday Clock has been sitting the past year at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse. The United States has done little to…
Canada’s Head-of-State Honors a War Criminal
The only place I want to hear him speak is in the dock at the Hague at the International Criminal Court facing trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.…
What Does It Mean for the Dispossessor to “Compensate” the Dispossessed?
Settlers enjoyed a seeming free permission: to dispossess natives at will of all the best land, turn them out of traditional fishing locations, disrespect elders, women, children and religion, leave…
Have British Politicians No Shame?
The UK government is considering boycotting China’s winter Olympic Games to be held in Beijing. The British foreign office cites “international efforts to hold China to account for its…
What Do an Apology, Reconciliation, and a Sacred Obligation to Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights of First Nations Look Like in Canada?
They send a hundred RCMP to go protect a pipeline and not protect people’s lives so we need to push back. They put industry, they put fracking, they put gas…
The Baghuz Massacre Underlines the Necessity for Freeing Julian Assange
The implications of the Baghuz Massacre should deeply underscore the integrity, morality, and vital importance of WikiLeaks and its heroic publisher and political prisoner Julian Assange. The Baghuz Massacre was…
Planning for a New, Better Future – A Review of No Bosses
As the world prepares to depart 2021 and head into 2022, it is clear that the United States is a declining economic power and that China continues its rapid upward…
Does Repeatedly Calling China a Threat Reify It?
Hegemony requires a coordinated mechanism to be in place for a belligerent entity to designate enemies, attack the leader(s) of the designated enemy, control the narrative (i.e., lie), launch unprovoked…
Should One Stand up for Western Values?
What are western values? One often hears a representative of a western country praising its western values. In a 2017 statement Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau adumbrated Canadian values as…
Human Rights are for Everyone! Including Julian Assange
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall…
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