The Mafia State
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. Kiss the ring. Grovel before…
World
Is the world run by 8 industrial complexes?
When the outgoing US President Joe Biden warned against the domination of the USA by a tech-industrial complex, many people wondered if he in the course of his own Presidency…
Trump Gives Peace a Chance in Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead…
Trump Administration Inherits SOUTHCOM’s Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean
During her tenure as Commander of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) from October 2021 to her retirement in November 2024, General Laura J. Richardson oversaw a significant expansion of U.S.…
How to Bump, Lump, Crumple, and Eventually Dump Donald Trump
In bad times — and these are bad times — I call up the spirit of Willie. Willie has seen me through cancer, divorce, and deaths in the family. His…
How can anyone love Trump?
How can anyone love Trump? He would illegally remove Palistinians from their properties that they own and displace them in other lands that already have problems with poverty for a…
Far From Benign: The US Aid Industrial Complex
The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from the Soviet bloc in the postcolonial…
Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned
Many Americans have watched in horror as Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has been permitted to tear through various offices of the United States government in recent weeks. Backed…
What the Oligarchs Really Want
We we are living in an extremely dangerous time. Future generations will look back at this moment – what we do right now – and remember whether we had the…
North Africa’s Regional Power Struggle
The conflict over Western Sahara is just one layer of the deep-rooted geopolitical battle for regional leadership between Morocco and Algeria. Too often, the Western Sahara conflict is viewed as…
Tulsi Gabbard (and Hindutva) Have Won For The Present Moment
Gabbard's service to India's Hindu nationalist movement didn't block her as Director of National Intelligence Last month, I sat with two FBI agents in Washington, DC for at least two…
Two Detroit children freeze to death as homeless family shelters in vehicle
by Sheila Brehm and Stephen Fuller In a horrific tragedy, two young children—a girl aged two and a boy aged nine—froze to death early Monday morning as they slept with members…
Don’t Scapegoat Arab Americans for Trump’s Win
There’s an insidious blame game occurring on social media. Whenever U.S. President Donald Trump takes one of his outrageous actions, Arab Americans are subjected to a flood of abusive messages. The “nicer”…
Israel Quietly Establishes Military Zone Inside Syria
Damascus (Quds News Network)- Israel has quietly established a military zone inside Syrian territory, Israeli Army Radio reported. No final date has been set for its withdrawal. The report said…
Cutting the Ghost Budget: Elon Musk versus the Pentagon
The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim, if not abolish altogether, understandably concerns those in the business…
Why Musk’s access to U. S. Treasury payment systems risks a global financial meltdown
Whether or not you share the zeal for cuts in government spending embraced by President Donald Trump and his billionaire sidekick Elon Musk, you should know that giving Musk and…
What Is MAGAnomics?
CAMBRIDGE – While the end of World War II 80 years ago ushered in an age of reason, Donald Trump’s return to the White House has ushered it out. His…
Common European Security Inclusive of Russia will help in Achieving Durable Peace
The relations of most European countries with Russia have seen so much hostility in recent times that the idea of seeking common European security inclusive of Russia appears to be…
A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises-The Secret War Within the Pentagon
Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers — Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General Atomics of…
Trumpism will swiftly crush the idyllic idea of a common humanity
Trumpism (also referred to as the Make America Great Again movement or MAGA for short) is a political movement in the United States that comprises the political ideologies associated with U.S. President Donald Trump and his political base. It incorporates ideologies such as right-wing populism, right-wing anti-globalism, exceptionalism,…
Two Different American Approaches to the World
The recent whirlwind of Trump administration foreign policy measures―many reversing those of the Biden administration―illustrates the fact that Americans have sharply different opinions about their relationship to other nations. The…
Anti-Deportation Activists Call for Ending Trump’s ICE Roundup
As part of the Global Day of Action to Stop Mass Deportations, on February 8 activists demonstrated outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) offices in downtown San Francisco…
White House claims 65,000 federal workers have accepted buyout offers, as judge imposes temporary hold
The Trump administration has reported that, after a week of threats and intimidation from the White House, 65,000 federal workers have agreed to leave their jobs ahead of a February…
America’s ‘Year Zero’ Moment
They are not clad in black pyjama-like fatigues or have a ‘krama’ – the Cambodian traditional scarf- around their necks. Nor are they particularly young and idealistic. And yet, in…
Life of Millions of People Endangered as Several Factors Combine to Worsen the Humanitarian Crisis Further
The United Nations warned on February 6 that two states in Sudan (South Kordofan and Blue Nile) were on the brink of catastrophe after a recent eruption of violence. UN…
Iran-Russia Security Pact: Countering Israel’s attempt at expanding Middle-East conflict?
by Hemshikha Mishra and Ankit Kumar Introduction Is the conflict in Middle East likely to expand? Iran’s quest for a security assurance seems to suggest so. Since his surprising election as…
King Donald Or Facing the Rise of Fascism Like Fools for Freedom
This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We’ve been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened…
Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of…
The Albanians: Land, People, and Language
The ethnic Albanians entered Balkan history in 1043 when they came from East Sicily and settled in present-day Central Albania by the Byzantine authorities.[1] Their ethnic origin remains still very…
Why We Must Now Avoid Speaking of Wars in Conventional Terms of Victory and Defeat
It was only a short while ago, when a regime generally considered to be hostile to Israel collapsed in Syria and Israel used the opportunity to immediately seize more territory…
Appropriate Response
The administrative spectacle now unfolding exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general inclination of New Left times and other situations…
Trump, Tariffs, and Trade Wars: The Decline of Free Trade
American imperialism has historically employed both free trade and protectionism, depending on its own needs after the Second World War. American foreign policy is also strictly embedded with American trade…
What is the alternative strategy of seeking dominance while avoiding wars?
There has been a lot of discussion on why a highly aggressive Israeli regime agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza. Partial explanations that have been offered include the need to…
Washington’s Fantasy of a War Against China
The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine learning program. The U.S. stock market Nasdaq shuddered, with technology stocks collapsing. This collapse is…
The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
GENEVA – This will be a year of anniversaries linked to the end of World War II in 1945, with the most significant being the invention and first use of…
Renaming The Gulf of Mexico Isn’t A Laughing Matter But Part of a U.S. Imperialist Power Grab
by Michelle Ellner and Melissa Garriga Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" isn't just another absurd stunt or another example of his outlandish…
The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump, And the Booming Border-Industrial Complex
It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO…
Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech
COPENHAGEN – As AI slop spreads across the internet, concerns about the future of high-quality information are growing. Without accurate and relevant human-generated data, model collapse – whereby generative artificial…
Will President Trump Again Put Turkey — Not America — First?
In his 2017 and 2025 inaugural addresses, President Donald Trump pledged to “Put America first.” His 2017-2021 term, however, put Turkey and Turkish President Erdogan first. And his second term…
Factional Fighting Heightened in Iran Over Negotiations With the US
Until May last year, the fundamentalists in Iran had total control over the presidency, and the country had a strong standing against Israel through its allies in the region. However,…
Nuclear Power Makes a Comeback in Central Asia and Beyond
With the world awash in countless power-hungry cloud-computing and AI data centers, crypto mining farms, growing fleets of electrical vehicles, new all-electric homes and commercial buildings, existing power generation capacity…
No One Mentioned Modi, So Why Did Tulsi Gabbard Deny Being His Puppet At Hearing?
Gabbard was rightly worried that questions about her long ties to Modi’s BJP would arise The most incongruous moment of Tulsi Gabbard’s Jan. 30 Senate hearing to become Director of…
Arriving in US, Netanyahu pledges to “redraw” map of Middle East
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived Sunday in Washington D.C. ahead of an extensive series of meetings with US President Donald Trump this week aimed at planning the ethnic cleansing…
Trump launches global trade war, with Canada and Mexico as his first targets
United States President Donald Trump escalated a global trade war Saturday with executive orders imposing punitive tariffs on the country’s three largest trading partners. Starting Tuesday, the US will impose…
Peace Movement in USA—Integrating Peace at Home and Abroad with Peace Within
While strengthening peace movements is important in all countries, it is of the highest importance in the USA as this would have a highly beneficial impact on the entire world.…
A New Future for Syrian Refugees?
The End of Syria's Brutal Regime Brings Joy and Uncertainty to Refugees Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of…
Hegemony and Propaganda: Love Your Servitude!
Today, we are witnessing a profound transformation. We are increasingly impacted by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, data proliferation, data harvesting and sophisticated monitoring of how we think and act. This…
DeepSeek shakes US Monopoly Capitalism
Today Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Google and Amazon with a combined market cap of nearly $15 trillions are top five major companies (January, 2025) in hi-tech capitalism of USA. All…
What sincere, genuine reform in USA means in real life
Moving away from the controversies and contradictions of daily discourse, can we consider what the most sincere and genuine reform in USA, capable of giving real relief to the people…
DeepSeek is showing us that another tech world is possible
How one Chinese company’s AI tool has slashed trillions from the US stock market, and revealed a future for technology without American tech hegemony. Last week, a Chinese startup, DeepSeek,…
Improving Bio-Safety Concerns Must Go Beyond COVID Origin Debate
The debate on COVID origin refuses to die. According to a recent report titled ‘CIA now favours lab leak theory to explain origins of COVID-19’ (and somewhat similar reports in…
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…
Funeral Atmospherics at the British Library
On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library…
Srebrenica Echoes: A Tribute to Agony and Resilience
In the silence, the cries of the past echo loudly, urging us to never forget and ensure that the horrors of genocide are consigned to history, never to be repeated.…
Aboriginal Genocide & Gaza Genocide Expose Racist Australian Mainstream Lying & Censorship
For Indigenous Australians and anti-racist non-Indigenous Australians 26 January is Invasion Day marking the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788 and the commencement of the horrific Australian Aboriginal…
As climate change supercharges disease, Trump pulls US from World Health Organization
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency tasked…
As the Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight, Will Trump Make the Ultimate Deal?
by Robert Dodge and Talia Wilcox All nuclear nations are following the U.S. lead in rebuilding their arsenals, giving President Trump, who has expressed concern over nuclear war, a chance…
Closer than ever: Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight
In 2024, humanity edged ever closer to catastrophe. Trends that have deeply concerned the Science and Security Board continued, and despite unmistakable signs of danger, national leaders and their societies…
The True Cost of Guantánamo
On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility on the island of…
Contemporary history that ignores alternative voices is neither complete nor truthful
In recent decades alternative explanations that are very different from official ones have emerged in the context of several events of great historical importance. Those who have come up with…
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