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Aid as a Means to Commit Genocide
It’s been apparent for some time that the Israeli government intends to expel or kill the population of Gaza and claim the territory. This has become so obvious that even the establishment press is belatedly beginning to notice. In an editorial, the world’s leading business journal, the Financial Times, observed that “each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is to ensure Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land” (emphasis mine). I’m not quite sure what would need to happen …
The Middle East is on Fire because Israeli and U.S. Imperialism Lit the Match
Overnight, the Zionist entity of Israel escalated its war of aggression against Iran by launching unprovoked attacks on the Islamic Republic. The notion that a rogue ethnostate that is currently carrying out a genocide believes that it possesses the right to determine which countries can and cannot develop a nuclear weapon is both bizarre and egregious as well as brazenly hypocritical, and further demonstrates that the State of Israel operates firmly within the structures of white “supremacy” ideology, colonialism, and imperialism. Iran, like all sovereign nations, has the right to defend itself from aggression and uphold its security in the …
Asim and Shehbaz in the Same Row but …
Pakistan’s COAS Field Marshal General Asim Munir (second from right) and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (far right) offering prayers at Kaaba in Saudi Arabia during their reent visit IMAGE/Dawn
In 1909, the renowned poet Muhammad Iqbal wrote Shikwa or Complaint to Allah.1
The poem is a lament that Allah has neglected his followers, Muslims, the very people who spread Islam and gave Him global exposure.
A couplet refers to Mahmud Ghazni,2 an eleventh century ruler, and his “slave” …
Fathers and Sons
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (1878)
High on the mountain ridge two huge rattlesnakes eye my son the eagle as he passes a few feet from them.
Early June. Dawn brings mist covered mountains and an empty road. The car’s capsule draws us together. I am taking my adult son to a trail that begins at the bottom of a ski slope where he will start a …
Speaking Against Tyranny
How to avoid arrest.
There are Only Jewish-Inspired Warsaw Ghetto Pogroms for Palestinians
Not easy seeing Hedges going into the realism of Jewishness across the Globe!
Note: In polite company or in public arenas or in schools and conferences, what have you, what is it to be anti-semitic according to the Israel Occupation Forces legions of facilitators like the ADL, AIPAC, and a list of tens of thousands of Jewish controlled non-profits and foundations?
Pro-Israeli circles often try to invent an anti-Semitic element behind every legitimate criticism of Israel.
But this is a cheap and increasingly exposed exploitation and manipulation of true anti-Semitism a morbid form of racism that ought to be denounced.
However the behaviors of the shipyard dogs of Zionism would have us believe that true anti-Semites …
Q and A with Kondō Makoto about the Revision of the Science Council of Japan
On 11 June 2025 the National Diet (or parliament) of Japan enacted a bill that will turn the Science Council of Japan, a body of scientists and scholars that advises the government, into a corporate entity. Many academics in Japan have opposed this change, as it will restrict academic freedom, especially the freedom to criticize the government’s promotion of arms technology and research on weapons in universities. Many intellectuals and citizens protested on the street outside the National Diet Building in Tokyo, in several street protests during the last month, including the 4th of June. (Video of …
Plummeting Insects
Insects are vanishing from pristine rainforests. “Around the world many insect populations are crashing.” (Natural History Museum, April 2025)
Insects are crucial for the health of nature, whereas humans are not. And since insects are ‘dropping like flies’, does loss of insects mean nature is collapsing? That question of whether nature is collapsing because of insect Armageddon is found in many articles and upscale publications with some claiming that nature is collapsing, some are not so sure, but some question all analyses because of the vast …
Scott Ritter: “We are at war with Iran.”
On Russia’s Sputnik News, Scott Ritter, who has honestly reported on this matter for over 25 years, said on June 13, that the Trump Administration worked with the Netanyahu Administration to plan this strike against Iran and is therefore already at war against Iran, and that almost certainly America will also become militarily engaged in it. He also says that the strike was devastatingly effective and was directed at and achieved three objectives: 1. decapitation; 2. eliminating air-defense; 3. greatly weakening Iran’s retaliatory capability.
The decapitation was like what Israel had earlier achieved also against Hezbollah. Elimination of air-defense knocked out …
Israel Strikes Iran
Rogue States and Thought Crimes
Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence preparations that show the threat to be what Michael Walzer calls a “supreme emergency”, and arise in a situation where risk of defeat would be dramatically increased if force is not used.
Reaching an assessment on that matter is almost impossible. Evidence of such a threat by the aggressor state is bound to be speculative, concealing other strategic objectives that make that action amount to illegal, preventive war. Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure …
Jean Piaget vs Lev Vygotsky: Communist Criticisms of Genetic Epistemology
Why Communists Should Respect the Work of Jean Piaget
Synthesizing biology and philosophy
Without a doubt Jean Piaget is one of the greatest Western psychologists of the 20th century. By training as a biologist, he synthesized biology with his love of philosophy through the practical work of understanding human development over the life span. Piaget must have been in heaven as he got a chance to apply Kant’s categorizes of thought to how children navigated the world. He found that children’s sense of time, space, causality, chance, and numbers changed qualitatively as they got …
Project 2025: Five Months in, Trump’s Shock Doctrine Is Delivering
Project 2025 is hollowing out government--and it’s just getting started
Project 2025 is hollowing out government — and it’s just getting started
As we approach the fifth month of Donald Trump’s second term, you might be asking: “What’s up with Project 2025?” According to GPAHE (Global Project Against Hate and Extremism), “Data compiled by the Project 2025 Tracker reveals a presidency operating with methodical precision, adhering to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook. Of the 313 …
Snake Oil
Safe and effective?
Ethiopia: As Things Fall Apart
In today’s Ethiopia, ruled by a US backed gangster named Abiy Ahmed, things are falling apart. To start with 75% of the country is out of the government’s control as insurgencies rage. “Prime Minister” Abiy is, in reality, only the Mayor of the capital Addis Ababa with rebel armies ringing the city only 30 miles from its outskirts.
On one side of Addis Ababa is the ethnic Amhara FANO (patriot) fighters. On the other side of Addis Ababa is the Oromo rebels. Being that these two ethnic groups, nations really, are the …
A Quick and Easy Way to Starve to Death
It only took 20 days.
I didn’t have to sleep on the cold, wet ground, live in a tent; relieve my bowels and bladder in the open like everyone around me; watch my children burn to death or die in my arms because all the hospitals were purposely destroyed; drink polluted water, dodge snipers or hear deadly drones buzzing day and night.
I’m here in New York, a city millions come to visit and where residents pay outrageous amounts just to live. I drink all the clean water I want, have a warm bed at night, walk about safely, see the greatest …
Daniel Ortega is No Nayib Bukele
Left Photo: Inmate in Nicaragua receives diploma (19 Digital). Right Photo: Inmates dehumanized in El Salvador (El Salvador Presidency handout/Anadolu/Getty Images)
Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances.
Opposition media from both Nicaragua and El Salvador, along with the Washington Post, Amnesty International, …
The Morality of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers
They really ought to be doing more. But in the scheme of things, the sanctioning of Israeli’s frothily fanatical ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich by New Zealand, Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom and Australia is a reminder to the Israeli government that ethnic cleansing, mass killing and the destruction of a people will receive some comment. But a closer look at the trumpeted move does little to suggest anything in the way of change or deterrence, certainly not in Gaza, where the cataclysm continues without restraint.
According to the joint statement, both politicians “have incited extremist violence …
Christopher Black: Balancing the Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice
General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, left, was acquitted of all charges in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s Appeals Court after a 14-year battle waged by the late Christopher C. Black, right.
Christopher C. Black fought for justice in politically agendized international courts.
International criminal defense attorney and writer Christopher C. Black died suddenly on June 5, 2025. He will be sorely missed. His analysis of the imbalanced scales of international justice and his representation of those wrongly …
Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, located in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission), a joint initiative run by the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. The larger mission has treated over seven million patients in 33 countries since 2004. Local Nicaraguan doctors, trained by the Cubans, are now in charge in Ciudad Sandino.
Misión Milagro is despised by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Washington has imposed …
Marketing Mars
If Mars Is the Answer, What Was the Question?
Mars is 140 million miles away, but it has never been closer. Whether it’s Elon Musk’s relentless cheerleading, the competing plans of various nation states, or the unending cycle of popular culture, Mars is having a serious moment.
Composite image of Earth and Mars
Earthlings have been projecting hopes and fears onto Mars for a very …
Social Media Posts
Just what is the reach of social media?
When Media Tell Us Who “Won” a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions
AP (4/13/25) attributes Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s re-election to “voters weary of crime”—even though murders rose sharply under his administration.
Elections in Latin America are often controversial. While many countries in the Global North regularly shuffle between parties offering alternating versions of neoliberalism, voting in Central and South America often offers starker contrasts: An anti-imperialist candidate in the mold of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez might be up against a neoliberal such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. It could hardly be otherwise, …
Duel of the Century?
IMAGE/Getty Image/CNN
A South Asian proverb:
When-buffaloes fight, it’s the trees that gets wrecked.
An African saying:
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that gets hurt.
Just at this moment, I received a divine revelation:
“When the world’s most powerful person and the planet’s richest person fight, it’s the world that gets ravaged.”
HOPE NOT!
HOPE …
they’ll “have dinner together,” instead.
To me, war God YHWH further revealed:
“Whatever happens elsewhere is none of my business. However, what happens in my ‘chosen land’ is …
The Spectacle of a Police State: This Is Martial Law Without a Formal Declaration of War
In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal.
What is unfolding right now in California—with hundreds of Marines deployed domestically; thousands of National Guard troops federalized; and military weapons, tactics and equipment on full display—is intended to intimidate, distract and discourage us from pulling back the curtain on the reality of the self-serving corruption, grift, graft, overreach and abuse that have become synonymous with his Administration.
Don’t be distracted. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t be sidelined by the spectacle of a police state.
This is yet another manufactured crisis fomented by the Deep State.
When Trump issues a call to “…
Cellphone Correlates
First considerations about cellphones.
Catching Israel Out: Gaza and the Madleen “Selfie” Protest
The latest incident with the Madleen vessel, pictured as a relief measure by celebrity activists and sundry accompaniments to supply civilians with a modest assortment of humanitarian aid, is merely one of multiple previous efforts to break the Gaza blockade. It is easy to forget that, prior to Israel’s current program to kill, starve, and empty the enclave of its Palestinian citizens after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Gaza had already become, arguably, the world’s largest open-air prison. It was a prison which converted all citizens into inmates trapped in a state of continual privation, placed under constant …
Israeli Commandos and Crew Swoop in on Gaza Freedom Flotilla Sailboat Madleen
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s (FFC) sailboat, Madleen was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CEST at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E.
Photo from camera onboard the Madleen.
The ship was unlawfully boarded, its 12 unarmed civilian crew and participants abducted, and its life-saving cargo – including baby formula, food and medical supplies – confiscated, as well as personal possessions taken.
To our knowledge, no one from the Madleen was …
The Pragmatic-Demolition of Techno-Feudalism
A short and direct critique
One of the greatest tricks capitalism ever played on the global intelligentsia was convincing some of them that it no longer exists, that it is dead and gone, having vanished in plain sight from the face of the earth. And in the last few years, a branch of political economy has risen arguing exactly this, whereby capitalism has unraveled and devolved into techno-feudalism. That is, that capitalism has exited the stage of world history, or has started to do so, only to be replaced by techno-feudalism, i.e., a socio-economic formation, where markets have been usurped and/or abolished in favor of highly-organized and …