Why Project 2025 Is Bad News for Veterans – A Disabled Veteran Defends the VA from Privateers
In 1968, when I was twenty years old, I volunteered to serve with the Marines in Vietnam. I was trained to be a Navy Corpsman (medic) and attached to the…
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The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
Protecting the Earth’s oceans is problematic when profit is the leading concern. In response to the increasing global demand for resources and the economic pursuits that come with it, attention…
Two Leaders Entangled in Very Messy and Destructive Wars Are Suggesting Strongly—I Want a Bigger War
If a country is entangled in a destructive and messy war what is its leader most likely to say? In most cases the answer would be that the leader would…
The Geopolitics of South-East Europe and the Importance of the Regional Geostrategic Position at the Turn of the 20th Century
Preface A geopolitical issue of South-East Europe became of very importance for scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the…
Somalia Is Becoming Africa’s Lebanon
The Horn of Africa, a region once described by Jeffrey Lefebvre as one of the world’s most “highly penetrated regional subsystems”, is on the brink of a dangerous turn as…
History’s Lessons for Peace are More Relevant Today than ever before
Human history has often been presented as a long succession of kings and their battles for thrones, so you can’t really blame those who end up imbibing an overwhelming sense…
Russia aligns with Iran, war clouds scatter
Israel has apparently shelved its planned attack on Iran. A combination of circumstances can be attributed to this retreat, which rubbishes Israel’s own high-pitched rhetoric that it was raring to go. Despite…
License to Muzzle: Taking Offence at Flag Wavers for Hezbollah
It was done for the Viet Cong in numerous countries during the US involvement in Vietnam. It was done for the African National Congress (ANC). It was done for the…
Does Reducing Internal Distress Get Adequate and Proper Place in USA Elections
For any society to be able to reduce its internal distress significantly the first step is to come face to face honestly and sincerely with the level and causes of…
The Crisis of America’s Public Defenders
by John J. Donohue and Eric A. Baldwin STANFORD – The public-defender system in the United States is plagued by underfunding, overwhelming caseloads, and entrenched inequalities. Public defenders, who manage…
Mythology is a Fact of Life
Man’s most valuable asset is ‘imagination’. Albert Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination…
Judicious Use of Natural Resources is Essential
The world is constantly developing in various ways, but this development is also inviting numerous challenges and crises. While these problems persist, few are taking on the important role of…
Recently the World Has Been like Responding to Fire by Pouring Gasoline in it
Imagine a high-rise building inhabited by many persons that is on fire. Surely this is the time to forget all differences and get together to extinguish the fire. Unfortunately instead…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Respond to Israel’s Chain of Terrors
It appears that the recent chain of terrors intensified after the helicopter crash of President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions on May 19, 2024. The assassinations of Palestinian leaders and…
Bold New Proposals for Peace on Earth
The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the U.S. intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack…
Operation Cast Joy
Now that Joe Biden is on his way into the history books as a president who refused to stop a genocide, we have his vice president coming into focus as…
Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting of the Chagossians
It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over…
Sub-Imperialist India in Washington’s Anti-China “Pivot”
Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) foremost leader, is, as of June 9, 2024, in his third consecutive five-year term in office as India’s Prime Minister. But unlike his…
The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism
CAMBRIDGE – The script of Latin American politics too often reads like a “dictator novel,” and on September 11, another chapter drew to a close with the death of Alberto…
Israel Wants Its War With Iran—But If Netanyahu Not Stopped, They Might Spark World War III
Israel has assassinated the leader of Hezbollah and killed many of its members by way of booby-trapped pagers and walky-talkies. After a blitzkrieg bombing campaign, Israel once again invaded Lebanon this…
Seventy-Five Years of the Chinese Revolution
by Tings Chak & Vijay Prashad On October 1, 1949, the leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Mao Zedong (1893–1976) announced the creation of the People’s Republic of China…
US Elections:Is Aggression Based on Quest for Dominance Likely to Continue Regardless of Who Wins?
The biggest concern of the world regarding US elections is whether these can lead to the creation of a government with a significantly higher commitment to world peace. At the…
Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),…
Onward White Christian MAGA Soldiers!!!
The 1960 Stanley Kramer classic film ' Inherit the Wind' is a must see for everyone, especially our young middle and high school students. This film focused on the 1925…
Kievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and…
How Some Human Beings Are Dehumanized to Kill a Large Number of Fellow Human Beings, and How This Impacts Them
It is an essential part of being human beings that people have at least some compassion towards fellow human beings and they hesitate when they have to harm others in…
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange delivered a powerful speech Tuesday in Strasbourg, France during a 90-minute session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He described 14 years…
Unrealisable Justice: Julian Assange in Strasbourg
It was good to hear that voice again. A voice of provoking interest that pitter patters, feline across a parquet, followed by the usual devastating conclusion. Julian Assange’s last public…
Targetting Hezbullah
Now that the top leadership of the Hezbullah headed by Hasan Nasrallah have been liquidated in one fell swoop and Netanyuhu is chortling that such will be the end of…
Remembering the Non Aligned Movement in the backdrop of on-going wars
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is without any outcome, commitment or even hope of ending war in the Middle East. In his quote on…
The War on Terror 23 Years Later
September marked the 23rd anniversary of al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. For the two decades since then, I’ve been writing, often for TomDispatch, about…
Escaping the New Gilded Age
BOSTON – Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk are not just among the richest people in human history. They also are exceptionally powerful – socially,…
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…
Diplomacy at Crossroads: Gaza Genocide & Ukraine-War?
Diplomacy of several countries is placed at strange crossroads by continuity of wars in two regions- one is the Israel-Gaza-Lebanon war and the other is Ukraine conflict with Russia. Chances…
The Pentagon Goes to School:The Battle for the Soul of American Science
The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight. Of course, financial ties…
October’s Surprise Party
As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins here in New England. Call it October’s Surprise Party. The turning leaves with all their colors come to announce the…
Unacceptably High Risks and Distress—End the Ukraine, Middle-East and Sudan Wars Now
There is only so much of stress, distress and high risk that our world can bear at any given time, and today this has crossed the limits. While there are…
China at 75: A Journey of Revolution, Resilience, and Redistributive Development
On October 1, 1949, the revolutionary people of China established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) by defeating Western imperialism,…
How Australia Helps the U.S. Destabilize Asia
September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines…
Zelenskyy Joins the US Election
Here he goes again, cap in hand, begging for the alms of war. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been touring the United States, continuing his lengthy salesmanship for Ukraine’s ongoing military…
The Truth About Ukraine’s NATO Membership
The fact that some of the top Western diplomats and leaders and the overwhelming majority of people of Ukraine had opposed NATO membership should be better known As the Ukraine…
AIPAC’s War on Democracy: Joint Statement from Veterans For Peace and Move to Amend
by Veterans For Peace & Move to Amend Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has produced increasing calls for an immediate ceasefire, while a pro-Israel, U.S.-based group has waged an increasing…
In a Lost Universe (With You Know Who): Creating a Genuine Hell on Earth
Imagine yourself in space, looking down on our world and yet unable to return any time soon. Consider it our bad luck, in fact, that Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita…
As US prepares to allow NATO weapons to strike Russia, Putin threatens nuclear retaliation
Amid ongoing high-level meetings between NATO leaders and Ukrainian officials at the United Nations over plans to allow Kiev to strike Russian cities with NATO weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Europe Should Play An Important Role in Preventing Third World War
Europe was at the center of the two world wars and suffered enormously. Since then the weapons of war have become much more destructive. There are over 13,000 nuclear weapons…
US Elections 2024: Immigrant Muslims in America are in a limbo
American essayist and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Marilynne Robinson wrote in an essay titled ‘Survival of cultural and religious tolerance’ –“Since religion is central to most identities within the larger…
It’s All Right Ma… I’m Only Bleeding!
Many thanks to Bob Dylan's great song of the same name. What rankles me is how so many of my friends, neighbors and acquaintances seem to accept how far down…
Sustainably Financing Sustainable Development
PARIS – The just-concluded United Nations Summit of the Future in New York, and next year’s Second World Summit for Social Development, aim to “chart a path toward achieving the…
Anti-Immigrant Agitation in a Nation of Immigrants
In recent days, Donald Trump and his Republican running mate, JD Vance, have doubled down on their false and defamatory claims about legally-admitted Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, thus churning up…
Fascism and War Cannot Be Voted Out
Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” - intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping…
War Forever, Everywhere: Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind
Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual battlefields. This has been true of America’s post-9/11 forever…
International Conferences on Preventing Third World War Can Make An Important Contribution
At a time when several experts and well-informed scholars have expressed serious concerns regarding the fast-paced build-up towards the increased possibility of the third world war, one or more international…
The Lesser of Two Evils: How the Pope’s Election Guidance Ignores Third-Party Candidates
Pope Francis is known to believers and to non-believers alike as a man who is willing to speak his mind on issues regarding morals and ethics regardless of the backlash.…
Civil Society Confronts Global Leaders at UN ‘Summit of the Future’ Demanding Radical Changes to the International Financial Architecture
New York, 21 September 2024: As world leaders meet at the UN Summit of the Future on 22-23 September to forge a new international consensus, civil society groups and people’s leaders…
A Nuclear War in Ukraine Is a Distinct Possibility
The war in Ukraine has been going on for 2.5 years with no end on sight. Not only that, but we are now close to a nuclear war, according to…
Come together for United Action to Prevent Third World War
In recent days the Ukraine-Russia war has been changing in such ways that it starts looking more and more like a direct confrontation between Russia and the USA/NATO. This is…
Fake news was invented 500 years ago – we must learn from its history
Within hours of the fatal stabbing of three young people in Stockport on 29 July, rumours were swirling around social media that the assailant was an undocumented Muslim immigrant. By…
Reigning cats and dogs
Psst... it's mostly white people making jokes about eating pets. I know you're not some irredeemable bigot but ask yourself if you'd be laughing about this debate deceit the same…
Massive explosion at Russian arms depot leaves unanswered questions
A sprawling, highly fortified Russian arms depot located north of Moscow exploded in a giant fireball Wednesday night, against the backdrop of an escalating media and political campaign demanding that…
Failed Machismo: Israel’s Pager Killings
With each ludicrously diabolical move, Israel’s security and military services are proving that they will broaden the conflict ignited when Hamas breached the country’s vaunted security defences on October 7. …
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