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# Dissident Voice

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- [Major Collision or Fender Bender? Is MAGA Splitting over Israel, Anti-Semitism, and Neo-Nazis?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/major-collision-or-fender-bender-is-maga-splitting-over-israel-anti-semitism-and-neo-nazis/) - Will Tucker Carlson's interview with far-right activist, Nick Fuentes, tear MAGA apart? Did Tucker Carlson’s softball interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes ignite a full-blown MAGA civil war? Is the latest dust-up -- over Israel and anti-Semitism -- between powerful and popular conservative voices, another family feud or a marker of End Times MAGAism? Is
- [Gaza Crisis: Will Britain Ensure Peace Is Set in a Legal Framework?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/gaza-crisis-will-britain-ensure-peace-is-set-in-a-legal-framework/) - Baroness Chapman (Minister of State for International Development) has been telling Parliament: "We all wish this peace process well and will do everything we possibly can to see it sustained." At the same time John Healey (Secretary of State for Defence), answering a question, said it was not the case that British troops were in
- [The Hidden Cost of Comfort: How Everyday Consumption Fuels Global Violence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/the-hidden-cost-of-comfort-how-everyday-consumption-fuels-global-violence/) - In a world increasingly defined by convenience, luxury, and technological advancement, few pause to consider the true cost of their comfort. From the cars we drive to the cell phones we cradle, from the diamonds we gift to the beauty products we apply—modern life is saturated with commodities whose origins are steeped in exploitation, war,
- [Elections Reflections](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/elections-reflections/) - Yesterday’s election results are tremendously positive and hopeful for democratic socialists, progressives, liberals and just plain democracy lovers. The Trump regime was soundly defeated in important elections all across the country. The people made history! But I woke up this morning wanting to reflect on the issue of elections, not so much from the standpoint
- [Profits, Prophets and Overvalued AI Stock I](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/profits-prophets-and-overvalued-ai-stock-i/) - In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes to economics, investments and finance, this is particularly so. Certitude, however, tends to be in abundance for those predicting the next financial crash, the sort that will singe earnings and strafe savings. Take, for
- [Venezuela’s Oil, US-led "Regime Change," and America’s Gangster Politics](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/venezuelas-oil-us-led-regime-change-and-americas-gangster-politics/) - The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring
- [Taps](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/taps/) - Who will place coins on the sightless eyes of American democracy when the river Styx carries it to the door of Hades where Charon awaits his due to ensure a serene eternal rest? It has been a shameful/ignominious ordeal and a cowardly demise. This would be the last chance for an act of grace. Will
- [Florida “Schools of Hope” Law Intensifies School Privatization](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/florida-schools-of-hope-law-intensifies-school-privatization/) - Over the past 33 years privately-operated charter schools have seized billions of dollars in public funds and public property that rightly belong to public schools. This neoliberal parasitism has been achieved mainly through state laws and schemes that legalize and normalize such wealth transfers in the name of “school choice,” “parent empowerment,” “accountability,” “competition,” and
- [Portugal’s Fight over the Muslim Veil](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/portugals-fight-over-the-muslim-veil/) - Portugal, long admired for its tolerance and moderate social fabric, has taken a shocking and regressive turn. The country’s parliament has recently approved a bill proposed by the far-right Chega party to ban face veils such as the burqa and niqab in most public spaces. The bill, still awaiting constitutional review, introduces draconian fines ranging
- [Listening to Tupac in the Andes](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/listening-to-tupac-in-the-andes/) - A young man sports a Tupac (2Pac) Shakur t-shirt in Parque Carolina (Quito, Ecuador) Photo: Julian Cola Cruising the streets of Quito, it’s my distinct impression that the top five music artists or groups, their name or image printed on fans’ t-shirts, are Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, and Tupac (2Pac) Shakur.
- [China's Ten Noes: Sun Tzu Has Swallowed the Frog and Is Keeping His Smile to Himself](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/chinas-ten-noes-sun-tzu-has-swallowed-the-frog-and-is-keeping-his-smile-to-himself/) - In a conversation lasting one hour and forty minutes according to the Chinese stopwatch– “a long meeting” on President Donald Trump’s clock — President Xi Jinping first knocked the stuffing out of Trump’s warmaking threats, then forced him to beat a retreat behind a 12-month ceasefire with the man the Pentagon has designated its principal enemy but whom
- [How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/how-a-fed-overhaul-could-eliminate-the-federal-debt-crisis-part-ii-curbing-fed-independence/) - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its independence, to integrating its functions into the U.S. Treasury Department, to dismantling it and returning monetary policy to direct congressional or Treasury oversight. The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (H.R. 1846 and S. 869, 119th
- [Trump: Sincerity and Verisimilitude](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/trump-sincerity-and-verisimilitude/) - US president Donald Trump is apparently trying to burnish his Christian bona fides on Truth Social: If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic
- [From Strip Mall USA, to Gaza, to Venezuela: An Architecture of Lies](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/from-strip-mall-usa-to-gaza-to-venezuela-an-architecture-of-lies/) - So begins the revolution in behalf of soul: The world is primarily and always an aesthetic phenomenon with which our animal senses and innate reactions are attuned. — James Hillman, Healing Fiction We tell white lies to avoid conflict or embarrassment. We tell ourselves wholly subjective tales in order to cope with crushing realities. Nations
- [Nobel Prize or Not, Trump is the Winner!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/nobel-prize-or-not-trump-is-the-winner/) - Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, and the United States President Donald Trump IMAGE/semana.com/Duck Duck Go Trump Some crave fame, recognition, medals, and honors persistently, more so in competitive cutthroat societies, one may say it is widely prevalent in the US — the most capitalist country in the world. President Donald
- [Faith, Fire, and the Table We Build](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/faith-fire-and-the-table-we-build/) - Our assembly here transcends mere consensus; it is an urgent summons to awakening. We speak of a table, not hewn from material wealth or embellished by status, but forged in the crucible of collective memory. Its surface is etched with the silent pleas of the forgotten, the poignant elegies of the disenfranchised, and the unyielding
- [In the Time of the Open Secret: Palestine and the Fundamental Choice of Our Era](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/in-the-time-of-the-open-secret-palestine-and-the-fundamental-choice-of-our-era/) - “Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the division of all territories of the globe among the
- [Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/draining-practices-amazon-water-consumption-and-data-centres/) - Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards artificial intelligence, more are set for construction. When one considers that, in 2021
- [Accomplishing Change](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/accomplishing-change/) - Accomplishing change in the institutions that control and manipulate society for their personal benefit has been difficult. Inability to succeed in the endeavor is due to the inability to create the organizations that can effectively oppose the powers that exercise control. This control is maintained by investment. Protecting the investment by preventing alternative teaching and
- [In the Age of Trump, Americans Don't Need a Halloween Hell House to Experience Horror](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/in-the-age-of-trump-americans-dont-need-a-halloween-hell-house-to-experience-horror/) - Halloween Hell Houses, or Judgement Houses, are basically a relic from the fire-and-brimstone days of the Moral Majority and other Christian evangelical enterprises. These days, however, Americans do not need a church-sponsored haunted house to experience horror and damnation. The gates of hell—orchestrated by the Trump administration—are swinging open, and operating in big city neighborhoods across the country. In the
- [Motorist who struck woman at No Kings rally in Stark says he doesn't remember the crash](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/motorist-who-struck-woman-at-no-kings-rally-in-stark-says-he-doesnt-remember-the-crash/) - For once, Stark County was not stark on a protest day: 80 degrees and sunny for these people who had stood in driving rain for the First No Kings while cars shot by, spray in their wakes, and protestors stood their ground from a hill. They were lower, behind a curb now, and the cars
- [Stagflation: Stagnation, Inflation, and Beyond](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/stagflation-stagnation-inflation-and-beyond/) - Since my prediction in April of 2007 of an impending economic crash, I've vowed not to risk my unblemished record with any further predictions. But a simple thing that I learned from the run-up to that catastrophe was when the “little people” -- the “every man and every-woman” -- found their way into stock market
- [Sanctuary Won and Lost](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/sanctuary-won-and-lost/) - Human beings tend to long for a refuge, and occasionally find one. And there exist places, outside of geography, that serve as playgrounds of thought, shared intimately between people. Even though these spaces are never physical, they can still generate strong connection through unspoken understanding. The existence of such chimeric islands fosters a sense of
- [Power Abused Corrupts Absolutely](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/power-abused-corrupts-absolutely/) - It was all wasted on you—the nice clothes, The hair, the professional education. And you made something of yourself as well. You rose to a height where future favor Required compromise, pretense and lies. You met Mr. Orange Noggin and from there Descent was swift into his vat of slime. Just a few things were
- [An American Sentence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/an-american-sentence/) - I want to learn to write the word democracy backwards on the blackened windows of federal ICE vehicles.
- [Be Attitude](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/be-attitude/) - While the donors build a palatial party room, the benevolent are donating nothing but their time. While the elected vacate their jobs to celebrate blame, the food pantry lines are long, the children are hungry. While the sanctimonious don their gold crosses and name-call, the charitable attend to the shelters for the least of these.
- [Trump, Nuclear Weapons, and the NNSA](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/trump-nuclear-weapons-and-the-nnsa/) - Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, not for preserving life so much as ending it at a fiery, radiated terminus. If it’s not possible to totally
- [Blood in the Water: Profit over the People of Timor-Leste](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/blood-in-the-water-profit-over-the-people-of-timor-leste/) - Contrary to popular belief, it turns out that sharks have an undeserved reputation for indiscriminate lethal attacks on people whose blood they detect in the water. In fact, sharks much prefer their customary aquatic prey, can tell the difference between that blood type category and others, and will therefore usually spurn edible humans that might
- [They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/they-want-you-relying-on-artificial-intelligence-so-that-you-will-lose-your-natural-intelligence/) - Your rulers want you to depend on machines to do your thinking for you. They want you relying on AI to do your reasoning, researching, analysis, and writing. They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others. They can control the machines,
- [Teasing the Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Announcement on Nuclear Testing](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/teasing-the-armageddon-fanciers-trumps-announcement-on-nuclear-testing/) - Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced separation of the states that are permitted to have nuclear weapons and those that do not – sits that rumpled, crumpled creature called the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
- [Canadian Hypocrisy Taints Anand’s Condemnation of Violence in Sudan](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/canadian-hypocrisy-taints-anands-condemnation-of-violence-in-sudan/) - On Tuesday, foreign affairs minister Anita Anand condemned atrocities reportedly committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in western Sudan. She failed to mention a Canadian company’s involvement or Canada’s historical support for violence in the northeast African country. The Canadian-owned Streit Group has provided armored vehicles to the RSF. Long based in southern Ontario,
- [“The Middle East Has Oil; China Has Rare Earths.” — Deng Xiaoping](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-middle-east-has-oil-china-has-rare-earths-deng-xiaoping/) - “Control over rare earth elements … is a central determinant of geopolitical power and industrial sovereignty in the 21st century.” — Dr. Kalim Siddiqui[1] As part of US-China trade talks, we are hearing a great deal about China’s near-total domination over rare earth elements, or REES. Beijing controls extraction, refining, and the global supply chains
- [Every Day is Halloween in Trumpland!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/every-day-is-halloween-in-trumpland/) - With his storm troopers... oops, his ICEMEN, rambling into a town like a pack of ghosts, replete with no faces. With his navy , My **** navy, blowing up speedboats outside a sovereign nation (Venezuela) with no evidence of drug dealing or terrorism. With his Congress shutting down so the Big Man can keep the
- [Nuclear-powered Missile, Underwater Drone, and Proposed Pause in Ukraine Conflict](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/nuclear-powered-missile-underwater-drone-and-proposed-pause-in-ukraine-conflict/) - Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a military hospital in Moscow on Wednesday, meeting servicemen wounded in the Ukraine conflict. The president spoke about the frontline situation, namely the encirclement of Kiev’s troops in two critical locations, as well as the testing of new cutting-edge nuclear-powered weaponry, including the unlimited-range Burevestnik cruise missile and the massive
- [The Mirage of Development: Gwadar’s Water Wars](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-mirage-of-development-gwadars-water-wars/) - A view of the Gwadar port of Pakistan Photo: VCG While the rest of Pakistan's major cities were drenched in monsoon rains, a group of children stood hand in hand and chorused this in unison in Gwadar's New Tobagh Ward near Koh-a-Bun Ward: “Pani Dho, bijli dho, warna Kursi Chor Dho.” ( Give us water,
- [Hunger](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/hunger/) - These vampires drool an endless hunger for conquest, riches, profits─ blood of the people, blood of the planet. They rape the earth, despoil, plunder the mountains, oceans, deserts, plains, savannahs, tundra, the land and what’s beneath it. Their lust leads to untold suffering for humans and all species: famine, starvation, unnecessary death amidst earth’s stolen
- [Desecration](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/desecration/) - This land Is desecrated. Like dogs, even- Children search For food in dustbins.
- [Fascism Is Imperialism Turned Homeward](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/fascism-is-imperialism-turned-homeward/) - Admiral Alvin Halsey resigned his post as the Pentagon’s Southern Commander after a fraught meeting with Pete Hegseth involving the US military’s unconstitutional attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats. Since then, the Trump administration has shown ever increasing signs of wanting to wage war on Venezuela. Picture and think this through: Seagoing US vessels, leaving US
- [The Battery Belt: When the Sun Touches the Silk](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-battery-belt-when-the-sun-touches-the-silk/) - Nako Dost Muhammad (image on left) had never heard the hum of a fan. Living in a village named Kolahu in Tump, a tehsil in district Kech tucked between dusty hills and near the edge of the Iranian border, Nako's life has been cloaked in darkness. Since 2016, the electricity connections in their village had
- [No Kings, Fascism, and Democracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/no-kings-fascism-and-democracy/) - The disease gets worse and worse every year, and the only remedy that will have permanent effect is to abolish private ownership of industry and production for profit, and substitute public ownership with production for use. -- Upton Sinclair, "Production For Use" in New Deal Thought, 1933, edited by Howard Zinn Donald Trump, after talking
- [The Pure Evil of America’s QME Doctrine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-pure-evil-of-americas-qme-doctrine/) - Shameful US legislation commits to ensuring Israel always has superiority in weapons, technology, training, command and control, and intelligence over its neighbours. It's time everyone knew why the US is joined at the hip with a loathsome genocidal ethnocracy like Israel whose stated aim is domination of the Holy Land and beyond. In 2008, Congress
- [Beneath](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/beneath/) - Beneath the town’s ancient stones, there is a tunnel holding secrets - ideas probably deemed outdated and, quite possibly, against the law. But superstitions and legends survive, morph into daydreams, false hopes. The universe weighs heavy on man’s heart. deep under the feet of upright folks the old tunnel coils dark and bold We descend
- [Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/chatbot-dystopia-the-quick-march-of-ai-sycophancy/) - We really have reached the crossroads, where such matters as having coitus with an artificial intelligence platform has become not merely a thing, but the thing. In time, mutually consenting adults may well become outlaws against the machine order of things, something rather befitting the script of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. (Huxley came to
- [The Devil’s Daughters](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/the-devils-daughters/) - Five moons, unwept in light and shadow, five Suns, five daughters marked the drowning. An insatiable chasm that gorged on flaxen ground, Five dreams unmourned upon the gloaming. There was the anti-white jihadi, riding backwards on An ancient nag: in one hand he held a flask with The ashes of Milton, and with the other
- [Apartheid Israel Is a U.S.-Sustained Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/apartheid-israel-is-a-u-s-sustained-genocide/) - Intro: The following is a statement from a U.S. war criminal, Harry S. Truman, who authorized the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, revealing the foundational logic of American complicity in the Nakba: I had been to Potsdam and I’d seen some of the places where the Jews had been slaughtered by the Nazis. Six
- [Birthright](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/birthright/) - To be born a sentient being Is to inherit certain rights Like breathing the open air And taking in the sunlight To be born a human being Is to have the right to think To question and believe To cast it down in ink To be born in a community Is to walk a certain
- [Toxic Stew: Chemicals, Poisons, Sprays, Nanoparticles, VOCs, PFAS's and the Evil Monsters Cooking up this Brew](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/toxic-stew-chemicals-poisons-sprays-nanoparticles-vocs-pfass-and-the-evil-monsters-cooking-up-this-brew/) - Listen to my interview here: Carol Van Strum on Haeder's Finding Fringe. If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed whether by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no
- [Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese in the White House](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/mr-president-take-our-critical-minerals-albanese-in-the-white-house/) - The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in no mood to be combative, and US President Donald Trump was accommodating. There was, however, an odd nervous glance shot at the host at various points. The latest turn
- [The World Confronts the Genocide Washington Is Trying to Bury](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-world-confronts-the-genocide-washington-is-trying-to-bury/) - On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s international standing. "Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world,” Trump said. “Now I am gonna get all that support back.” Under Trump’s plan, a
- [<em>Martyrs to the Unspeakable</em>: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/martyrs-to-the-unspeakable-a-luminous-tapestry-of-truth/) - To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created with Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK takes a steady hand, a hopeful heart, and a steadfast dedication to seeking truth and telling it through factually based and interwoven stories. Because of its brilliant complexity and
- [Trump: Starting, Thwarting, and Claiming He Is Good at Stopping Wars](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/trump-starting-thwarting-and-claiming-he-is-good-at-stopping-wars/) - Donald Trump: "If I were president, and I say this, I will end that war in one day. It'll take 24 hours. I know Zelenskyy well; I know Putin well. I would get that ended in a period... Interviewer interrupts: "You can broker that deal?" Donald Trump: "100 per cent. It would be easy; that
- [No to a US war on Venezuela!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/no-to-a-us-war-on-venezuela/) - For the past few weeks the Trump administration has intensified its long-standing aggression against Venezuela by deploying warships (including a nuclear submarine) in the Caribbean Sea in a purported anti-narcotics operation. US forces have carried out at least five incidents of strikes on boats in Venezuelan waters to date, killing 37 people. Trump’s latest move
- [The Supreme Court Is Not Above the Law Either](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law-either/) - “I think we can do a lot, if a critical mass of organizations steps forward and develops a plan to go public and visible calling out the undemocratic and dangerous reality of what the Supreme Court majority is doing, particularly these shadowy, opaque, undemocratic ‘emergency’ decisions. Just like we have had and will be having,
- [No Kings?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/no-kings/) - No Kings! YES! Of course! That’s what inspired American independence in the first place. But autocracy takes many shapes. How about No Oligarchs? Or No Deep State? No Police State? No Mass Surveillance? No Compromised Politicians? No Corrupt Judiciary? There was much enthusiasm and excitement. And talk of channeling that energy into constructive action. There
- [Israeli Propaganda: Their <em>Hasbara</em> Instruction Manual](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/israeli-propaganda-their-hasbara-instruction-manual/) - “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” (attributed to Mark Twain). [A misattribution. -- DV ed] Israel's image is now so badly damaged that it is desperately stepping up its 'hasbara' (meaning propaganda and disinformation) programme on all channels, especially social media. In the past they've
- [Wound](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/wound/) - I have seen mists of colours but hues always bring memories, even when these pine clad hills are sleeping and many waiting to be born. Stop, pause there is a song everywhere even rag pickers listen and these aerodyne slopes of mountains. I pick up the pen and scribble on wounds. Who says memories are
- [The House that Slaves Built](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-house-that-slaves-built/) - This is the house that slaves built. This is the blood that anoints the house that slaves built. These are the hands that shed the blood that anoints the house that slaves built. These are the scars that map the hands that shed the blood that anoints the house that slaves built. These are the
- [Racist and Mendacious Australia: Cowardly and Unethical ABC Under-counts Gaza Deaths](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/racist-and-mendacious-australia-cowardly-and-unethical-abc-under-counts-gaza-deaths/) - The core ethos of decent Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is grossly violated by the racism and mendacity of US-, UK-, Apartheid Israel- and Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australia. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism. Australia has been involved in all 1950 onwards US Asian Wars, atrocities
- [From Illusion to Real Peace: Trump’s Test in Gaza and Ukraine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/from-illusion-to-real-peace-trumps-test-in-gaza-and-ukraine/) - United States President Donald Trump styles himself as a peacemaker. In his rhetoric, he claims credit for his efforts to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Yet beneath the grandstanding lies an absence of substance, at least to date. The problem is not Trump’s lack of effort, but his lack of proper concepts. Trump
- [The Times Are Descending into Madness: You'd Be Crazy Not to Notice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-times-are-descending-into-madness-youd-be-crazy-not-to-notice/) - You have to see that the buildings are anorexic, you have to see that the language is schizogenic, that “normalcy” is manic, and medicine and business are paranoid. — James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling The pain incurred by bracing awareness is crucial here: The wound can act as a
- [Zion's Halloween](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/zions-halloween/) - Beelzebub summoned his undead servant "Awaken! Come!" "A great repaste awaits." Fetid, suffused evil Evoked slumbering winged residents From the bowels of a decrepit castle Transported beyond the Carpathians. Master of the living dead Sought kin defiler of women King David's worshipping spawn Vlad's Zionist acolytes. Whose feasting has imbued An honored sanguinary air Against
- [Trump's 20-Point Peace Plan: View from Tehran](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/trumps-20-point-peace-plan-view-from-tehran/) - Israel destroyed Iran's press center in June. Don’t be fooled by Trump’s words on “Gaza peace”, his peace gesture, and promises of international aid It has been two years since the unequal war of the Zionist regime against the defenseless and resilient people of Gaza. We are now at the most sensitive and turning point
- [How Can the British Establishment Maintain Credibility in Proscribing a Non-violent Direct Action Group as a Terrorist Organization?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/how-can-the-british-establishment-maintain-credibility-in-proscribing-a-non-violent-direct-action-group-as-a-terrorist-organization/) - In proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, along with criminalizing many of those who have challenged this government policy decision, the British Government has opened itself up to criticism and ridicule. In the past few months alone, there have been over 2,000 politically motivated arrests, mostly of elderly people who have held up placards
- [Without](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/without/) - Without hands the children of Gaza Punch the numbers into an ancient calculator Counting the dead. Without feet the people of Gaza Walk every square inch of the ravage and ruin Of their immemorial homeland. Without homes the mothers and fathers of Gaza Build shelters of stories and dust For their families to sleep in. Without
- [M O O N A: 730 PM](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/m-o-o-n-a-730-pm/) - I wanna say I’m sorry, Ma. For pistachio baklava and blush martinis, They call me ‘revolutionary’ and ‘artist,’ now, Ma I should have been writing, Protesting in the streets, But I wanted to celebrate, Poetry and a books release, I wanted to forget for a night, or two, or three, or a few hundred, ICE
- [Fake Boats and Bogus Admirals: Peter Cowell’s Fictional Mercy Fleet](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/fake-boats-and-bogus-admirals-peter-cowells-fictional-mercy-fleet/) - The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme. The one playing the fraud can always rely on some connivance and collaboration from the tricked and the gulled. Many an art curator is bound to turn scarlet at the prospect that their expertise was utterly subverted by a counterfeiter of Picasso and Matisse.
- [Seven Theses on the Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/seven-theses-on-the-gen-z-uprisings-in-the-global-south/) - Guillermo Grebe (Chile), Muro sagrado de la dignidad (Sacred Wall of Dignity), 2021. The walls of Santiago, Chile – the city where I live – are marked with faded graffiti from the estallido social (social uprising) of 2019. Years later, these slogans continue to spill onto the sidewalks, from Nos quitaron tanto que nos quitaron hasta el miedo (they took
- [Dismantle the House of Dynamite](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/dismantle-the-house-of-dynamite/) - Kathryn Bigelow once worked with the CIA to make a movie widely criticized for dishonestly promoting torture and glorifying killing (Zero Dark Thirty). (She has also explicitly advocated for war-making.) Now she has made a movie highlighting the danger of nuclear apocalypse (A House of Dynamite). I know which film I would prefer for you to see. It’s on Netflix.
- [Extending the Cultural Boycott of Apartheid South Africa to Israel](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/extending-the-cultural-boycott-of-apartheid-south-africa-to-israel/) - I have been informed by the leadership of what might best be described as the "black consciousness movement" of Azania (South Africa) that a formal call to include Israel in the "cultural boycott" of South Africa will be issued from inside South Africa within the next few weeks. The Black Consciousness Movement was started under
- [Visiting Home](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/visiting-home/) - I step off the train and begin walking through the old neighborhood the streets are empty I count sixteen blocks with no light and the noise also fades from the business side of the tracks the city was always twin governed by hunger and insidious peril but now it is a burial vault luckily the
- [The Hungarian Revolution](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-hungarian-revolution/) - This Day in Anarchist History, October 23rd 1956 we remember the Hungarian Revolution when student protesters and the broader Hungarian working classes took on the Secret Police and the Red Army. After days of striking and rioting that boiled into a firefight, protesters were able to defeat the country’s Secret Police and even negotiated the
- [How Gratuitous Talk About Values and Identity Become Canada's <em>Raison d'État</em>](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/how-gratuitous-talk-about-values-and-identity-become-canadas-raison-detat/) - Draw the Line action, Ottawa, September 20, 2025, part of a country-wide day of action against the Carney government's anti-social pro-war agenda. The measures taken by the Carney government since it took over power after the last election confirm this government's adherence to the methods Carney and several of his ministers and point men of
- [Justice Upside Down](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/justice-upside-down/) - It turns out “a nation of laws” Means laws the powerful endorse. The rest is trash. Prosecute the prosecutors. Guilt or innocence is determined By whatever power favors. Dissent against us is terrorism. We make up truth and law as needed. Our sympathies are with ourselves. If you give us a lot of money The
- [The Zionists Have Speared Mr Fish](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-zionists-have-speared-mr-fish/) - Cartoonery is a powerful weapon against the powerful – richly deserving of satire. How privileged we are to benefit from so many cartoonists who perennially spring from nowhere to harness a craft that transcends language barriers and cuts through literary density. The rogue state of Israel has naturally provided bounteous raw material for the graphic
- [The ICJ, Israel, and Humanitarian Aid in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-icj-israel-and-humanitarian-aid-in-gaza/) - Few times in its history has the International Court of Justice been this busy, if ever. For anyone ignorant of the world court’s existence till now, it has blanketed news coverage with provisional orders and advisory opinions on the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Each order is accompanied by another layering of exasperation and, it must
- [Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/israel-tortured-and-sexually-humiliated-greta-thunberg/) - In an interview with Swedish paper Aftonbladet, Greta Thunberg has corroborated earlier eyewitness reports that she and her fellow Global Sumud Flotilla activists were subjected to monstrous abuses by Israeli officials after being abducted from their boats carrying aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
- [The Architecture of Avoidance](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-architecture-of-avoidance/) - "Since my life as a prisoner has begun, I have heard of some white men who said they owned my land and my home. I don’t believe they do. I have never given any consent to such ownership. The land belongs to my people and to our children."1 “We were taught that God’s laws are
- [In the Shadows of History: Death and Destruction in South Sudan](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/in-the-shadows-of-history-death-and-destruction-in-south-sudan/) - Much of the world is rightly transfixed by the genocide in Gaza, the unimaginable horrors experienced by its Palestinian inhabitants, the callous antics of those who would ‘develop’ its ruins (Trump, Blair, Kushner, etc.), and the strong likelihood of more of the same to come for the West Bank. But what is it that explains
- [Faith, Fear, and Fire: The Muridke Massacre and the Struggle with Non-State Actors](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/faith-fear-and-fire-the-muridke-massacre-and-the-struggle-with-non-state-actors/) - The October 13 Muridke incident has left Pakistan shaken once again. The violent clashes between security forces and supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) turned a planned religious procession into one of the deadliest confrontations since the Faizabad sit-in. What unfolded in the small Punjab town was more than a law-and-order breakdown; it revealed Pakistan’s deepening
- [Bad Bunny Thinks It’s Funny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/bad-bunny-thinks-its-funny/) - The United States has no official Idioma. (Only Congress can do that.) Tenemos el derecho and we shall Speak Spanish even if it starts a spat. ¡Oye! Bad Bunny, créalo o no, Nació un estadounidense, And the United States, statistics show, Has more Spanish-speakers than Spain today. Bad Bunny thinks it’s funny. He won’t mince
- [Shutdown](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/shutdown/) - The budding Buddha in me searches for the Bodhi tree, but it’s shut down. My hungry mind casts about for cafes of thoughtfulness, but they’ve shut down. My heart seeks that bridge with our lock on it, but (sad, sad) it too shut down. Maybe a small emotional loan collateralized by some idealism? Sorry, the
- [Inchoate Blobs: The National Press Club Cancels Chris Hedges](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/inchoate-blobs-the-national-press-club-cancels-chris-hedges/) - It seemed an odd thing to begin with. Australia’s National Press Club is a rather ordinary, stuffy institution, where enlightened, let alone contentious thought, rarely intrudes. For those guests of unorthodox disposition, questions of establishment swinishness await to douse any fiery rebelliousness. That they had invited war correspondent Chris Hedges, former Middle East Bureau Chief
- [Homeless Man and the Park](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/homeless-man-and-the-park/) - The park, all this greensward, promised you heaven but it's a hell of a heaven indeed. Pigeon droppings. Smarmy kids. Off-course Frisbees. And a bitter wind down from the north, to scar and batter the homeless. Night draws in, you crawl up on the bench, under a heap of newspapers. Wars and rising unemployment, murders
- [Minded](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/minded/) - I’m minded to use my mind to think to stand for something. Minded not to put my mind to the back of my mind. unminded to stand up.
- [Holy Spiritual Warfare! Theocratic NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION Targets Brazil with Million-Women Rally](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/holy-spiritual-warfare-theocratic-new-apostolic-reformation-targets-brazil-with-million-women-rally/) - Brazil Braces for the Million Women Event: A Huge New Apostolic Reformation Power Play Calls for million-person marches rarely reach their lofty goals. But when Lou Engle — one of the most outspoken and influential leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) — brings his movement to Brazil on October 25 for the Million Women
- [Behind the Smile](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/behind-the-smile/) - What has always been Perplexing to me is why Humans smile and show Their teeth to greet one Another, even complete Strangers. On the contrary, In the animal kingdom the Showing of one's teeth is a Warning not to proceed, to Be on guard of imminent Danger to be unleashed. I figured out why humans
- [Reversing the Truth: The Gaza "Ceasefire" and British Complicity in Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/reversing-the-truth-the-gaza-ceasefire-and-british-complicity-in-genocide/) - We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Black is declared white, and white is declared purple with pink polka dots. Immunity appears to be assumed on the basis that a sufficient proportion of the screen-addled population are too gullible or distracted to notice. Thus, continuing the Nobel Committee’s ignoble tradition
- [Zionism vs. Mama Africa: The Persecution and Blacklisting of Mariam Makeba](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/zionism-vs-mama-africa-the-persecution-and-blacklisting-of-mariam-makeba/) - Back in the 1960s, Mariam Makeba aka Mama Africa played an important role in bringing apartheid in South Africa to the attention of the world. A singer with a voice seasoned by living under a brutal system of settler colonial racism known as “apartheid”, correctly pronounced exactly as it means, “apart-hate”, Mama Africa was exiled
- [Altruism vs Selfishness](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/altruism-vs-selfishness/) - Alexis de Tocqueville, nearly 200 years ago, cited extreme individualism as the potential Achilles heel of America democracy. He was struck by a pervasive self-regard that was a cardinal feature of the national personality – a fixed reference mark for how people saw the world and acted in it. The most evident risk, to his
- [Who’s to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos-to-blame-political-action-personal-accountability-and-human-nature/) - [A version of this essay was presented at the Taos Community of Love service on October 19, 2025.] I know this isn’t a conventional church service, but I would like to start with scripture: “The moral high ground is a dangerous place to stand, even when it’s warranted.” That’s not really scripture but rather a sentence
- [The Rise Christian Nationalism and the Ending of a Friendship](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-rise-christian-nationalism-and-the-ending-of-a-friendship/) - Recently, a friend since high school, an individual, a self-identified, as of late, Christian-nationalist, curtailed — in the stark, cold manner that I have witnessed true believer Christians are prone — our friendship due to a recent article of mine in which I called out the fascistic elements of Christian-nationalism and genocide-apologist aspects of Christian
- [Trump Readies for Regime Change in Venezuela](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/trump-readies-for-regime-change-in-venezuela/) - Since the start of September, the Trump administration has busied itself with striking boats in international waters stemming from Venezuelan and possibly Colombian waters. Their mortal offence: allegedly carrying narcotics cargo destined for consumers in the United States. A few days following the first strike on September 2, President Donald Trump stated in a War
- [The Trumpet Sounds Again](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-trumpetsounds-again/) - Before listening to Trump’s speech to the Knesset, I had no intention to write a summary of another soliloquy that praised Donald Trump. Two Knesset members made the only sensible statement during the oration, by showing their distaste for the utterances and being escorted out of the chamber of horrors. Haim V. Levy, The Times
- [How Not To Say "No Kings" to Venezuela](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/how-not-to-say-no-kings-to-venezuela/) - Ukraine banner at a January 20 Trump Inauguration protest (Photo credit Sean Reynolds) In light of 18 October's "No Kings" protests, which will undoubtedly fail to sanction President Trump's moves toward war in Iran and Venezuela, I wrote up these notes for a peace group I work with on a recent interview I conducted for
- [Gaza Peace Plan is a Cruel Deception](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/gaza-peace-plan-is-a-cruel-deception/) - Decent, concerned people have been waiting impatiently for the UN General Assembly to use a 'Uniting For Peace' resolution to circumvent the US veto and intervene in Gaza with a protection force. Under this mechanism, when the Security Council is deadlocked, the authority to act passes to the General Assembly where the US has no
- [Men or Mannequins?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/men-or-mannequins/) - Prisoners of war have been released Does it mean peace? What is peace if children are slaughtered And demonic spirits raise ugly heads. Release prisoners of war And call off this celebration of human carnage? There are times when the body wants peace And so does the mind. Amidst volatile flames of everlasting gunning Shelling
- [Will Bad Bunny Go Missing?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/will-bad-bunny-go-missing/) - U.S. Free Speech Wars Trump-manufactured city street brawls Blacklists; as American as school shootings Watchlists naming college professors Jackboots marching in Jesus' name Strong-arming the First Amendment Intersecting systems of control Shut-the-Fuckup-edness, on a Fox News scroll Super Bowl LX halftime show has psychophants hissing Will Bad Bunny go missing? MAGA bleats Benito Antonio Martinez
- [The CIA Wins Another Nobel Peace Prize](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-cia-wins-another-nobel-peace-prize/) - While millions waited in hopes that the Global Sumud Flotilla would win this year's Nobel peace prize for its epic solidarity with Palestine, the Norwegian committee charged with granting the award gave it to Maria Corina Machado instead, veteran CIA coup plotter in Venezuela. As the late Gore Vidal aptly advised, "Never underestimate the Scandinavian
- [Trump’s Diplomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/trumps-dipomatic-initiative-a-new-dawn-or-just-another-dusk/) - Prefatory Note: The post below is based on modified responses to questions addressed to me by Rodrigo Craveiro, a Brazilian journalist. The focus is on what to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from the Trump diplomatic offensive to bring an Israeli-crafted peace to fruition in Gaza, and broader stability to the entire Middle East.
- [Trump, Tomahawks and Telephone Calls](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/trump-tomahawks-and-telephone-calls/) - Zelensky arrived in Washington on Friday, attired in his newly tailored suit, but he found no red carpet or even a high-level Trump official to greet him. Anticipating a cache of Tomahawks, he was apparently unaware of the telephone call between Trump and Putin and the meeting in Budapest in two weeks, to which he’s
- [Annie Dillard a la Rachel Carson a la David Quammen -- Meet Journalist Caroline Tracey](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/annie-dillard-a-la-rachel-carson-a-la-david-quammen-meet-journalist-caroline-tracey/) - Caroline Tracey’s debut book, a blend of environmental reportage and memoir titled Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, is forthcoming in March 2026 from W.W. Norton. Originally from Colorado, Caroline holds a doctorate in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a recipient of the Waterston Prize for Desert Writing, the Ira A. Lipman
- [“No Kings” — Another Chapter in the Quest for an Empire without an Emperor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/no-kings-another-chapter-in-the-quest-for-an-empire-without-an-emperor/)
- [The West’s Dehumanization Of Arabs Is Completely Unforgivable](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-wests-dehumanization-of-arabs-is-completely-unforgivable/) - In October 2024, a Lebanese writer named Lina Mounzer wrote, “ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way.” I’ve thought
- [It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/it-was-never-a-gaza-war-the-ceasefire-is-a-lie-cut-from-the-same-cloth/)
- [Democracy (No Kings)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/democracy-no-kings/) - They will accuse us of betrayal They will scorn at our elitism They will threaten with reprisal They will brand us with communism But we are not the nation’s traitors Our people aren’t the elites We are not the treasure raiders We will not march to your beat For we are loyal to the cause
- [Terrorists: NOT a Love Story!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/terrorists-not-a-love-story/) - Being a baby boomer who protested against the Vietnam debacle, what the Trump regime is now doing is disgusting. All this week we see Republican Congressional minions and members of the Trump gang standing in front of cameras calling those who peacefully protest as Terrorists. Webster's dictionary defines a terrorist as " A person who
- [HOPE not hate](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/hope-not-hate/) - London Calling Far-right politics appalling Bad will hunting Weaponised flags and bunting Mainstream media scapegoat Minorities just trying to stay afloat We are freedom chanting We are small tree planting We are yoga retreating We are potluck eating We are story sharing We are community caring HOPE not hate Welfare over warfare state Love our
- [Fall // Rise](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/fall-rise/) - Fall // Rise* Will America Survive History And Truth Aside Trump Cast Powers Arms Raise Fists Tighten Dissidents Shadowed Nation Lost Now Rise— *Fall // Rise is a bidirectional concrete poem. Meant to be read top to bottom and bottom to top.
- [Basta! This Land is YOUR Land, Hermanos y Hermanas](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/basta-this-land-is-your-land-hermanos-y-hermanas/) - I had Alexis Lisandro Guizar-Diaz, M.S. on my studio recorder today, but it airs Nov. 20 on KYAQ. He’s the Electoral Field Director PCUN. LISTEN HERE! April 1985 PCUN is founded as Oregon’s union for farmworkers and treeplanters. WVIP continues its service and immigration work through PCUN’s Service Center for Farmworkers. 1986 The Immigration Reform and
- [The Masks Have Come Off](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-masks-have-come-off/) - If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story. Unlike his
- [Reclaiming the Sacred in a World of Disparity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/reclaiming-the-sacred-in-a-world-of-disparity-2/) - In a world where chandeliers glitter above champagne flutes and wealth is paraded as virtue, I ask for a pause. Not to pray—but to reckon. There are over eight billion people on this planet. Each one born into a body, a breath, a need. Not all are born into shelter. Not all are born into
- [Mum, i’m an autistic](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/mum-im-an-autistic/) - Mum, i’m an autistic, not a municipal transport company autistic i know in your mother’s heart you always dreamed of settling down as a state employee, without the worry of a time card to punch and unemployment doing eighteen hours a week, three months off, with the anxiety of defiscalising repetition. Ma, i am an
- [Autumn: Toward Political Healing](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/autumn-toward-political-healing/) - Sit cross-legged or in a straight-backed chair. Breathe slowly in and out, in as if pulling A bow string, out again slowly, this time Imagine you’re expelling the negatives Of living in a polity that hates Everything it can’t control such as The respect we give to one another In the course of living together
- [The Bogus Value of the Pentagon Press Pass](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-bogus-value-of-the-pentagon-press-pass/) - Reporting on national security matters, irrespective of which country you are in, can be a hazardous affair. In police states, the consequences are self-evident to the brave who report on their misdeeds. The paid off toadies do not count. In liberal democracies, there are also consequences for giving the game away on the national security
- [Is Capitalism Reaching the End of the Road?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/is-capitalism-reaching-the-end-of-the-road/) - Capitalism is fast becoming so unpopular that the money-grubbing old autocrat in the White House wants to protect it by promising to investigate and prosecute anyone who speaks against it. Free speech be damned. But Milton Friedman said Capitalism and Freedom go together. So, we will use some of that fast-disappearing freedom to comment on the
- [<i>GQ</i> Tips for the Modern Gentleman](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/gq-tips-for-the-modern-gentleman/) - It reads like a lament of wounded nostalgia, cresting on a resigned sigh. “Knowing how to be a gentleman used to be straightforward: There were codes that were passed down, instilled, and strictly enforced. With both social mores and the nature of masculinity itself wildly in flux, that’s not exactly the case anymore.” That’s the
- [The Chips are Down](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-chips-are-down/) - “Now is not the accepted time to make new enemies,” said the philosopher on his death bed, responding to the priest’s exhortation to renounce Satan. “Why the intransigence?” marveled the young clergyman. “Frankly, sir, I cannot imagine there could be a downside to rejecting the devil.” “Just you ponder that question, padre,” said the wise
- [The Ancient History of Socialism in North America](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-ancient-history-of-socialism-in-north-america/) - Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary and missionary who couldn’t tell one continent from another, wisdom from ignorance, or value from waste. I was born and raised and have mostly lived in the eastern United States, and yet when I hear
- [Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/imperial-double-standards-warfare-for-venezuela-and-welfare-for-argentina/) - Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” Western Hemispheric geopolitics reflect the weakening of US hegemony and an emerging multipolarity, especially with China’s entry as a major regional trading
- [October 18, November 4: World Changing?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/october-18-november-4-world-changing/) - Many millions on the streets this Saturday all over the country loudly proclaiming: No Kings! Yes to Democracy!--followed on November 4th by victories for Mamdani in NYC, Sherrill in NJ, Spanberger in Virginia, redistricting in California, and more--could this be truly “world changing?” On one level, no. This is not a Presidential election year or
- [Academic Integrity in the Age of AI](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/academic-integrity-in-the-age-of-ai/) - AI has been the buzzword for quite some time in the 21st century. With the advent of AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot, day-to-day tasks have become significantly easier. Gone are the tough times of hustle and bustle, brainstorming over one thing again and again. With a single click of a strong prompt command,
- [Scott Ritter: A Palestinian Victory!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/scott-ritter-a-palestinian-victory/) - Scott Ritter: "... what everybody's forgetting is that the basic terms of this deal are the same terms that Hamas has been laying out since October 7th. And now these terms are being met. And uh, this is a Hamas victory." https://www.youtube.com/live/z3qxkSQ81y8?si=ggJMxjn7a8ekY8ze
- [Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting and the Gaza Ceasefire](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/worlds-extinguished-hostage-returns-central-casting-and-the-gaza-ceasefire/) - Depending on which source you consult, the twenty-point peace plan of President Donald Trump for securing peace in Gaza shows much exultance and extravagant omission. The exultance was initially focused on the return of the hostages. It then shifted to the broader strategic goals of the various parties. Commentary on this point, even as the
- [Nuts or Not, We Have the Music](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/nuts-or-not-we-have-the-music/) - Art is magic liberated from the lie of being truth. – Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia It is hard to keep your head when all about you, nuts are knocking on it to remind you of things that are not true in a world where reality is hard to find because of endless propaganda, artificial intelligence,
- [Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition Statement on US Aggression against Venezuela](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/nicaragua-solidarity-coalition-statement-on-us-aggression-against-venezuela/) - The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition demands an end to US aggression against Venezuela, which is on the brink of outright war. Any escalation in the violence against Venezuela will cause more suffering and deaths in the South American country, destabilize the region, and endanger all countries seeking a path independent from US domination, especially Cuba and
- [About Time](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/about-time/) - Some say time is meaningless, some say it doesn’t exist. I say it is real but mysterious, we don’t know all its labyrinths. Through telescopes we see stars being born billions of years ago. We can walk on mountains once under oceans crunch fossils of sea creatures under our toes. We can read epochs of
- [Recruiting New Spies via Internet](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/recruiting-new-spies-via-internet/) - It’s no secret that almost every state conducts intelligence both at home and abroad. However, if several decades ago this activity was in the sidelines, the emergence and development of the Internet and information technologies lifted the veil on espionage and empowered intelligence with new, although sometimes controversial, capabilities. Thus, on September 19, 2025, the
- [Denial of Denial](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/denial-of-denial/) - Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022). What a gloomy title! I am overwhelmed by the horrors of Gaza, all the boringly excruciating details of genocide, our helplessness. For some reason, I ordered this book from the library and finally forced myself to open it. When I got to the detailed
- [Epstein Files: Don't Hold Your Breath](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/epstein-files-dont-hold-your-breath/) - I have noticed supposed left organizations considering the Epstein files their secret weapon and naively pouring energy into advocating release. It is a doomed strategy. Is it insightful that Trump has not already released the Epstein Files? Of course it is, partially because it indicates the state is probably hiding something, but more so because
- [Techno-Capitalist-Feudalism Is Malthusian to the Core!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/techno-capitalist-feudalism-is-malthusian-to-the-core/) - Introduction All rigged markets, all rigged financial-mechanisms, and, as well as, all the rigged authoritarian-structures of techno-capitalist-feudalism, indeed, did achieve their maturity in the early 21st century, through rampant surveillance, social conditioning, and data-collection. Which did prompt some political-economists to announce the effective end of capitalism in favor of a new economic system that is closer
- [Am I Just Stupid, or Is There More to the Epstein Story?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/am-i-just-stupid-or-is-there-more-to-the-epstein-story/) - Ask yourself this: Knowing what horrific genocidal revenge that Israel has dished out since October 2023, why have both the Biden and now Trump 2 regimes enabled it? I mean it is one thing to simply look-the-other-way to remain somewhat neutral, but to continually allow billions of dollars and millions of weaponry into Israel is
- [Nobel Committee: A Prize for US Military Regime Change](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/nobel-committee-a-prize-for-us-military-regime-change/) - The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Rewards Militarism, Defies Alfred Nobel’s Will The board of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) strongly condemns the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has once again violated Alfred Nobel’s original mandate by honouring a figure who
- [Our Philistine President](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/our-philistine-president/) - Progression in a diabolic mind is obvious when spotted from without, but from within it’s all one of a kind, no evil impulse ever cast in doubt. Its thought is like a worm on damp pavement, all slimy in its stretching pilgrimage; its presence tempts the world to step on it before it has a
- [The Convenient Lie](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-convenient-lie/) - Newspaper: Democracy. The case of death is not at all the cause of the dead, it’s the cause of the living. — Ghassan Kanafani, from the novel Men Under the Sun My people are fearless and the gallows to each person among us is the instance that precedes the dawn of a new day for
- [Defending Venezuela from U.S. Imperialism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/defending-venezuela-from-u-s-imperialism/) - Steve Ellner, one of my go-to sources on Venezuela, cautions that although the Maduro government has unquestionable shortcomings and is not above criticism, the left’s priority today shouldn’t be purity tests. It should be about the struggle against US imperialism, as it invokes the Monroe Doctrine and evidence-free, “narco-terrorist” narratives on behalf of regime change
- [Jane Goodall: “Fight to the Very End”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/jane-goodall-fight-to-the-very-end/) - I have no doubt that we have the tools to make the change, but do we have the will to make the change? It seems with some of the top politicians and corrupt corporations there’s no such will. We need to reach people’s hearts. If millions, billions of people do little things it makes big
- [Mainstream Smears Mean the System Fears Your Ideas](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/mainstream-smears-mean-the-system-fears-your-ideas/) - A rightist columnist just labeled me “repellent,” while a left establishment commentator publicly proclaimed, “fuck Yves Engler”. Canada’s ideological apparatus is whipped into a frenzy over my multilayered challenge of Canadian foreign policy and my NDP leadership campaign’s activist anti-capitalism. On Friday, the ever-reliable Israel-no-matter-what supporter Rosie Dimanno labeled me “the repellent Yves Engler”. The
- [Outsized and Eccentric: The Farce Behind the Nobel Peace Prize](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/outsized-and-eccentric-the-farce-behind-the-nobel-peace-prize/) - The fuss about the Nobel Peace Prize has always been excessively outsized to its relevance. Like most prizes, the panel is bound to have its treasure trove of prejudices and eccentricities in reaching any decision. Thin resumes have swayed the Norwegian committee to acts of dottiness. Surprising moments of dark humor have made an appearance
- [Crossing the Borderline -- from Paseo del Norte to Protecting Jaguars and Ecological Integrity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/crossing-the-borderline-from-paseo-del-norte-to-protecting-jaguars-and-ecological-integrity/) - No More Deaths is about stopping the Sacrifice Zones of La Frontera On my radio show, Nov. 20, 6 pm. An early gift for Paulo Kirk Subscribers. Pesos and gold teeth welcomed for this Substack! Erick Meza, borderlands coordinator for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, discovered that one of the sections slated for the upcoming border
- [The Great Whitewashing of American History Orchestrated by Generalisimo Donald Trump](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-great-whitewashing-of-american-history-orchestrated-by-generalisimo-donald-trump/) - Image created by Perlinator. The historian and author Gore Vidal once called the United States the "United States of Amnesia." Nowhere is that amnesia more weaponized than in the Trump-era battle over American history. Among the many fronts in Trump’s culture wars, perhaps none is more consequential than his administration’s effort to whitewash the nation’s
- [Will the US Attack Venezuela?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/will-the-us-attack-venezuela/) - Spoiler alert – it already has. This is not a glib answer but a comment on the nature of the conflict. The US mission to wrench Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution out from its roots has a quarter-century pedigree. Stick around to the end of the article for an assessment of the likelihood of an overt military
- [Thoughts on the Ceasefire News](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/thoughts-on-the-ceasefire-news/) - Israel continued to hammer Gaza with military explosives on Thursday despite the announcement of the first stages of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Israel always does this. When normal people get a ceasefire agreement, they think, “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing.” Whenever Israelis get a ceasefire agreement, they go, “This means we have to
- [Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/nobel-committee-tried-its-best-to-give-trump-a-peace-prize/) - The Nobel Committee has frequently given the peace prize to major war makers, and frequently to do-gooders whose work in a variety of fields has been unrelated to abolishing war. It has also often given the prize to opponents and victims of the Western empire. But it has never given the prize to open advocates
- [Blinkered Bowen](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/blinkered-bowen/) - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?’ An honest, insightful analyst would have addressed the issue differently. First and foremost, the narrative framing of a ‘war’ would have
- [Metal Memories (prosimetrum)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/metal-memories-prosimetrum/) - Standing on the beach, the man’s eyes are fixed on the horizon. The ocean wind roars mists of grief. oftentimes the high tide and the ebb bring up secrets from the sea bottom The man wants to be alone, zigzag memories weighing heavy on his heart. the two shrapnels are still out there one was
- [The Ghost of Fukushima](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-ghost-of-fukushima/) - The ghost of Fukushima Rises from the dust So soon they have forgotten The forces they can trust The disaster reached around the world Disturbing the ocean’s balance A poisonous disease Turning energy to rust The ghost of Fukushima Should haunt them in their sleep A disaster of such magnitude Should make their mothers weep
- [The Watch Shop](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-watch-shop/) - And it was on one festive Monday morn That the watch shop opened on Madison; Champagne sparkled as the new brash doors Opened to smiles and delusive laughter. First in The window stood Patek, haughty and highborn, A medallion for the privileged few, an elusive pearl That scattered phantoms on the main. To their right
- [Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/urgent-next-steps-for-palestine-at-the-un/) - UPDATED: 9 October 2025. As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the illegal occupation of Palestine. Trump’s White House meeting with
- [If You Were a Korean Patriot](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/if-you-were-a-korean-patriot/) - Given the massive changes in geopolitics brought about by the isolationist and bizarre behavior of the Trump administration, activists and scholars have a major role to play in drawing attention to the dangers and possibilities for peace of this embryonic new world order. It is very unfortunate then, that one of the most crucial components
- [Keir Starmer’s Woes and Media Magnification](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/keir-starmers-woes-and-media-magnification/) - Few in history can have achieved so much in a negative sense in so short a time. Instead of gloatingly cresting the wave of success after securing British Labour a resounding, decisive victory in July 2024, Sir Keir Starmer is schooling us in precipitous decline. John Gray, that most erratic, protean of prophets, was already
- [Drug Boats](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/drug-boats/) - Let’s get this straight: we’re right, you’re not. If we say they’re terrorists, that’s it. Case closed. Where’s our evidence? Just look at that flag: red, white, and blue. We honor it with other peoples’ blood. Why would be lie to you, lib fool, When truth is always on our side. Drug smugglers invade our
- [American Defiance Will Ultimately Save Our Democracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/american-defiance-will-ultimately-save-our-democracy/) - As president Trump tears up the U.S. Constitution he twice swore to uphold, fierce backlash from an aroused John and Jane Public is not far off. Contempt for that document and Americans’ baked-in characteristic of feistiness when pushed too far is one of the four key factors preventing him and his regime from turning democracy
- [Allegiances to the Genocidaires, Military Offensive Weapons, and Finance Capital](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/allegiances-to-the-genocidaires-military-offensive-weapons-and-finance-capital/) - Note: So, the Newport News Times, AKA, Lincoln County Leader, has my op-ed below in the on-line version. So disappointed to see the print hardcopy version is missing this important Two Years going into the current genocide. I did reference the local politician, the representative, David Gomberg, Jewish, who got an all-expenses paid trip to
- [Canada’s Recognition of Palestine and the Enduring Logic of Colonial Erasure](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/canadas-recognition-of-palestine-and-the-enduring-logic-of-colonial-erasure/) - Newspaper: The Rights of the Palestinian People “The only way to stop this evil [loss of land], is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land as it was at first, and should be now — for it never was divided, but belongs to all for
- [Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/israel-and-the-global-sumud-flotilla/) - Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse and violent affair. Having been intercepted in international waters on route to Gaza to break the Israeli-imposed blockade, the 470 or so activists, hailing from some fifty countries travelling on
- [From There to Eternity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/from-there-to-eternity/) - I often wondered at the bewildering manner in which fellow Jews embrace a foreign nation and act against their own and their native country’s interests. Growing up in the Bronx, New York, in one of the largest and most homogeneous Jewish neighborhoods in the world, I encountered minor attachment to Zionism, even after Israel became
- [Real Deal: A Manifesto for All Working Americans](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/real-deal-a-manifesto-for-all-working-americans/) - The story of humanity is a story of struggle, not just between classes, but against all forms of oppression. We face a rigged system where the powerful exploit us as workers and consumers, as well as based on our differences of identity. Further, the cultural parts of our political economic system socialize us to internalize
- [Poem](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/poem-3/) - Holding this mobile Containing my publications, What do I do with a Cart load of ideas, shoot them Or bury them in staggering bonfire? My poems see the light of day; Only when the world emerges out Of a red ball of fire Why this vicious hatred Why alienate this land Which debunks history? But
- [Love Thy Neighbor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/love-thy-neighbor/) - Felicia Sanders said, “I forgive you.” Three simple words, but so hard to pronounce When the first thing a mother wants to do Is look at her son’s killer and denounce Him to the world, and call out for vengeance. Fellow parishioners came to forgive. They showed us a moment of transcendence, And that true
- [Two Years of Resistance to Imperialist Barbarism!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/two-years-of-resistance-to-imperialist-barbarism/) - Two years after Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinians Continue Their Fight for National Liberation and the Right to Exist! Today, October 7th, 2025, marks two years since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood changed the present and future of resistance not only in Palestine, but throughout the world. As we have stated previously, “the Black Alliance for Peace views the
- [State of Play in US-Israel's Land-Grab Bid](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/state-of-play-in-us-israels-land-grab-bid/) - Trump, impatient to claim a Nobel Peace prize, bullies everyone into accepting a madcap peace plan that gives little or no consideration to the Palestinians' future. Who gave him authority to decide such matters, and where are the United Nations in all this? And what about international law and the raft of UN resolutions on these
- [Custard](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/custard/) - My aunt Maria from Valparaiso is here for the holidays. Likes to be busy, the day after her arrival she made Leche Asada, which is Spanish for custard. Yesterday afternoon when the doorbell rang, Maria went to open. She exclaimed, “El Belcebú mismo [Belzebub himself]!” and slammed it in the face of the visitor. I
- [How Did Vzglyad Know That Trump's Meeting with the Generals Was a Loyalty Test? Because Russians Remember Hitler’s Führerreid of 1935?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/how-did-vzglyad-know-that-trumps-meeting-with-the-generals-was-a-loyalty-test-because-russians-remember-hitlers-fuhrerreid-of-1935/) - For the first time, the White House has issued a piece of paper (lead image, top), signed by the President, attempting to install a form of fuhrer fascism to deter, arrest, and if need be shoot to kill any form of expression which amounts to disloyalty to the President and to his MAGA doctrine. The
- [Seeds of Catholic Totalitarian Rule Against Pagans](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/seeds-of-catholic-totalitarian-rule-against-pagans/) - Catholic Hysteria Against Pagans What is wrong with a sacred tradition that attempts to predict the future? What dangers lurk for those who host feasts are not under Church approved? What is wrong with making images of gods and goddesses? What will happen to you? Why not use chemical hallucinogens to heal and create altered
- [Bibi Has Been Giving Money to Hamas](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/bibi-has-been-giving-money-to-hamas/) - Confirmed by Israeli media, not fake news. Bibi has been giving money to Hamas. “Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian Authority to prevent Abbas from moving towards creating a Palestinian State. Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an organization with which Israel conducted negotiations through Egypt, and
- [Sky Islands: Jaguars, Apaches, Spirits, and the "Last" Emblem of a Dying Interloper Colonializing Genocidal Race](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/sky-islands-jaguars-apaches-spirits-and-the-last-emblem-of-a-dying-interloper-colonializing-genocidal-race/) - Sky Islands are isolated mountain ranges separated from other mountains by a vast distance and surrounded by lowlands of a dramatically different environment. This results in habitat “islands” such as a high-elevation forest surrounded by desert or grassland. In southern Arizona, part of New Mexico, and northern Sonora, six ecosystems blend to comprise the Sky
- [Europe’s Staged Panic over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/europes-staged-panic-over-false-flag-non-russian-drones/) - Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark… Drones over Denmark. No damage. No trace. No answers. Yet the headlines scream “Russian threat,” and Prime Minister
- [To the European Union: A Lamentation and a Warning from the Edge of Conscience](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/to-the-european-union-a-lamentation-and-a-warning-from-the-edge-of-conscience/) - There comes a time in history when silence becomes complicity, and diplomacy becomes theater. That time is now. As European leaders escalate their crusade to demonize President Vladimir Putin and provoke Russia into confrontation, they betray not only the principles of peace but the sacred memory of war’s devastation. This is not statesmanship—it is spiritual
- [How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/how-a-fed-overhaul-could-eliminate-the-federal-debt-crisis/) - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independent of Congress and the Treasury. Its independence was formalized only in 1951, with a Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord that was not a law but a policy agreement redefining the relationship of the parties. In the
- [Israel Droned Flotilla Activists and then Abused Greta Thunberg](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/israel-droned-flotilla-activists-and-then-abused-greta-thunberg/) - Who would have imagined five years ago when we were seeing Greta Thunberg amplified by every mainstream western liberal institution that we would one day hear reports that she has been captured and tormented by the Israeli military for trying to bring formula to starving babies? The Guardian reports the following: “In an email sent
- [Poems in Opposition to Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/poems-in-opposition-to-genocide/) - Poetry is a written form that through eloquence and wordmanship engages the senses to produce a vivid experience and stir emotions that differ from reading straight-on prose. As such, poetry can be a powerful method to speak truth to power and evoke consciousness that fillips protest and resistance in opposition to horrific crimes and in
- [The Met Police Chief Proves He's as Dishonest and Racist as the Force He Leads](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-met-police-chief-proves-hes-as-dishonest-and-racist-as-the-force-he-leads/) - 1. Rowley demands supporters of Palestine Action cancel or delay their protest today, after the Manchester synagogue attack, because the timing appears “antisemitic”. How to untangle this nonsense? a) The only possible way to interpret Rowley’s argument is that he believes every British Jew identifies and supports Israel’s mass slaughter of children in Gaza and
- [Under Siege](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/under-siege/) - My country is under siege It arrived on the wings of war Armed agents on the streets The fierce lions of fascism roar They say they are the nation’s heart What nation would that be? A nation torn and split apart Where those with money lead They’re taking us by brutal force One state and
- [Surreal Reality: Global School Principal and His Favorite Monitor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/surreal-reality-global-school-principal-and-his-favorite-monitor/) - IMAGE/Khaama Press VIDEO/Mirror Now/Youtube The Principal of Global School had asked his favorite Monitor to keep an eye on other students in the Middle East class. The Monitor’s family had given hefty donation to the Principal for running the school. In return, the Principal would overlook small or big mistakes, blunders, wrongs, of his favorite
- [Gaza: "Eternal Peace" Plan or Licence to Plunder?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/gaza-eternal-peace-plan-or-licence-to-plunder/) - There can be no peace without justice, yet this simple truth still hasn't penetrated at UKgov and USgov levels. Or is it ignored because it squelches the West's lawless policies in the Middle East? Statehood means self-determination with no outside interference. In Palestine's case international law and relevant UN resolutions must finally be implemented and
- [The Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza City as Seen Through the Eyes of a Pediatric Nurse](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza-city-as-seen-through-the-eyes-of-a-pediatric-nurse/) - On the evening of October 6, 2023 Ali Lubbad, 33, was daydreaming about his new life in Germany. He had just completed his nursing exams and passed the language tests. Once his paperwork had been processed he would settle there with his wife Aya, his autistic daughter Alma, and his rambunctious son Hossam. There Alma
- [Israel Is Committing Genocide in the Gaza Strip](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/israel-is-committing-genocide-in-the-gaza-strip/) - Sliman Mansour (Palestine), The Sea Is Mine, 2016. 7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation’s data page on Palestinian casualties, regularly updated using figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry and UN agencies, shows that around 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the last two years –
- [The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-black-alliance-for-peace-condemns-establishment-of-colonial-military-governance-over-haiti-by-un-security-council/) - On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025, the UN Security Council voted to adopt a resolution drafted by the U.S. and Panama that would create a so-called “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) to invade Haiti. The resolution was adopted with 12 votes in favor and 3 abstentions (China, Russia, and Pakistan). The Black Alliance for Peace unequivocally condemns
- [What Abolishing Militaries Includes](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/what-abolishing-militaries-includes/) - “Abolition” isn’t just a fun word to say. “I want to abolish prisons” doesn’t just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they are too horrible. “Abolish the police” isn’t just a hip way to say “I’m angry at abuse by police.” Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means
- [The Shock of the Obvious: Australia’s University Oligarchs](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-shock-of-the-obvious-australias-university-oligarchs/) - It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdom and novel notions long known to those who vote for them. This tendency endears the dim rascals to you, showing an ignorance that remains, for the most part, unblemished. If we get democracy, as H. L. Mencken would put it, we are going to get it most
- [From Nazi Germany to US-Israel – Who Are the Real <em>Untermenschen</em>?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/from-nazi-germany-to-us-israel-who-are-the-real-untermenschen/) - Matt Haig's The Humans (2013) uses sci fi, 'speculative fiction', for what it does best: reveal to us how lethal human beings are and how we need to control technology before it turns us into monsters and reduces planet Earth to … Gaza. This time it's a simple tale of the seductiveness of 'going native' faced with
- [We the People](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/we-the-people-3/) - The ordinary person The average citizen The general public When did We the (Universal) People become: We the ordinary average general people? Who are the beneficiaries of our ‘ordinariness’?
- [Lament for a Traditionalist](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/lament-for-a-traditionalist/) - Today we speak of assassination, A tragedy, such a sad occasion. A well-known traditionalist, we mourn, Who cared for family values well worn Like clothing handed down from our parents And then passed along to adolescents. This traditionalist connected well With young people trying to break the spell Of those who would tear down the
- [He Tells the Truth When He Lies](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/he-tells-the-truth-when-he-lies/) - Lately, I’ve had lyrics to ‘I’ve Got No Idols,’ by 1990s indie-darling Juliana Hatfield running through my head, particularly the line, “But I am a liar, that's the truth, go home and think it through.” Why is this song, especially that particular lyric, taking up so much space in my brain these days? I think
- [Tremors](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/tremors/) - fragile times living in a maze of not knowing and ignoring we slowfoot the day and the year deprived of rest at night most choose no resistance always counting on better coming next they opine every dust storm runs out of gusts why not remain cheek by jowl in peace inaction’s the ticket to statistical
- [Our Way or the Highway](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/our-way-or-the-highway/) - It’s not easy making America great again. All those laws and procedures, they get in the way. Then fate intervenes. We’ve got a martyr, Someone we actually like, a gun-lover And believer in female servitude, An icon of what America will be When we’ve finished shoving it back two centuries. Some folks aren’t worshipful enough,
- [Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/palestinian-subordination-donald-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/) - He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian state – but Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had many reasons to be pleased. On September 29, President Donald Trump advanced a
- [300+ Million Angry Americans](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/300-million-angry-americans/) - This is from Wikipedia: 12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay.[6][7] A critique of the American jury system during the McCarthy era,[8][9] the film tells the story of a jury of twelve men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a teenager charged with murder on the basis of reasonable doubt; disagreement and conflict
- [Will California Zionise K-12 Education?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/will-california-zionise-k-12-education/) - Factual information about Israel and Palestine may soon be outlawed in the California K-12 school system. Assembly Bill 715 is currently on Governor Newsom's desk. The legislation was recently rushed through the California legislature, amended just days before passage, and voted on at 1 a.m. with almost no time for public comment. The hurry is
- ["Israel Says" Is Not Journalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/israel-says-is-not-journalism/) - Note added 1 October 2025: This alert was originally published on 14 August 2025. However, a technical problem prevented it from being shared via our usual email lists. This has now been fixed. Apologies for the delay in sending this out. Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif
- [The Moral Memory of Empire](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-moral-memory-of-empire/) - When Jay Janson declared, "You’re writing history with your breath," I recognized the profound truth in his words. For Jay speaks not in ephemeral metaphors, but in potent mandates, each utterance a call to profound moral engagement. He is more than a historian; he is a living archive, a relentless prosecutor of empire who wields
- [A Transgender Lesson Plan](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/a-transgender-lesson-plan/) - I retired from the University of Texas at Austin journalism school eight years ago, but I can’t stop thinking like a teacher. So when I read the Texas Tech University chancellor’s memo instructing employees to comply with state and federal dictates that “recognize only two human sexes: male and female,” I pondered how I might
- [The Selkie](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-selkie/) - The heroine of my tale is not a girl with glass slipper on her foot and a glass ceiling overhead. She is not a princess a handsome stranger kisses on the lips and awakens from the dead. She is not a young woman with beautiful long hair a vicious troll climbs up each night to
- [Porn Again Christians: Evangelicals’ Porn Problem Meets Project 2025](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/porn-again-christians-evangelicals-porn-problem-meets-project-2025/) - Long before the Internet, evangelical church leaders were warning that pornography was corrupting the faithful. With the rise of social media and online platforms, access has exploded, making the fight against pornography one of the longest-running but least prioritized planks of the Christian conservative agenda, often overshadowed by battles over abortion, same-sex marriage, transgender rights,
- [What You Need to Know about Moldova’s Bans, Blacklists, and Last-minute Rule Changes](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-moldovas-bans-blacklists-and-last-minute-rule-changes/) - Moldova went to the polls on Sunday in what officials in Chisinau and Brussels have called a “milestone on the European path.” Yet with opposition parties banned, observers blocked, and voters in key regions sidelined, the election is being described less as a democratic contest and more like an attempt at forced pro-EU outcome. Moldova went to
- [The Well and the Less](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/the-well-and-the-less/) - The news that hate had been finally eliminated was well received by the Well People: the well-born, well-informed, well-educated, well-heeled, well-known and well-intentioned. The Wells pretty much owned the entire world but only made up a fraction of the total population. “Empathy has triumphed over odium. With hate finally behind us, we no longer have
- [this land/maxim of hate](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/this-land-maxim-of-hate/) - this land gave birth to religions cradled ancient civilisations had divine poets and seers who wrote epic tales and mused on philosophical questions on life and after life; yes this land where marauding invaders came, saw, loved and stayed back mingled and gifted a language and poetry, this land which foresaw its own destiny by
- [Don’t be Fooled: Others Could Have More Interest in Sending Drones to the Nordic Countries than Russia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/dont-be-fooled-others-could-have-more-interest-in-sending-drones-to-the-nordic-countries-than-russia/) - Drones over Nordic airports. No damage. No trace. No answers. Most assume Russia—but what if that’s not so? Why is there so much we are not told? This article explores the strategic ambiguity behind recent drone incursions and asks: Who else might benefit from sending drones into NATO airspace? From Ukraine’s surprising drone supremacy to
- [Ukraine: America Ain’t Going Anywhere (MAGA)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/ukraine-america-aint-going-anywhere-maga/) - So, we are being subjected to the latest bout of verbal gymnastics as analysts bend themselves to the futile task of inferring logic from Donald Trump most recent effusions on matters Ukraine. Futile because the man possesses no approximation of a mind capable of coherent thought processes. His sole fixed reference points are emotional obsessions
- [Elder Abuse in International Relations: Attacking the United Nations at 80](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/elder-abuse-in-international-relations-attacking-the-united-nations-at-80/) - Elder abuse in the frothy swirl of debates regarding the role of the United Nations is currently modish. The body has, after all, reached the age of 80 years. It has been a life ramshackle, rickety and marked with failure. But it has also been one of audacity, experimentation and industry. The occasion of the
- [Xi Announces China's 2035 Nationally Determined Contributions](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/xi-announces-chinas-2035-nationally-determined-contributions/) - I have to share with you good news. In his video speech to the United Nations Climate Summit 2025 held in New York on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contributions. He said that China will, by 2035, reduce economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent to 10 percent from
- [32% of Mass Shooters Are Veterans. 0% of Media Outlets Will Say So.](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/32-of-mass-shooters-are-veterans-0-of-media-outlets-will-say-so/) - Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each this past weekend, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina. So, it is a safe bet that they will both be added (with, almost certainly, no mention of their status as veterans) to the database maintained by
- [What is Humanity’s Next Move?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/what-is-humanitys-next-move/) - United Nations Security Council hall (Image by depositphotos) At the UN General Assembly, now underway, world leaders are gathering to confront some of today’s greatest crises: Palestine, climate change, the war on drugs—even the role and relevance of the UN itself. Too often, however, the institution feels less like the pantheon of a new human
- [Janissary Words](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/janissary-words/) - Kidnapped words are the Janissaries of campaigns to promote an invented reality. Their original identities are obliterated. Worse, unlike the Ottoman Janissaries, figments of the past identity can be retained when its resonance is considered helpful. Words are kidnapped for two reasons. One is to slay them; the other is to exploit them. American politics
- [Imperialism, Multipolarity, and Palestine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/imperialism-multipolarity-and-palestine/) - It is a continuing source of frustration that an important segment of the Left holds the view that weakening the United States’ long-established grip on the top rungs of the hierarchical system of imperialism is -- in itself -- an attack on imperialism. Many of our friends, including those who claim to aim at a
- [Miracle on the Mediterranean—an Appeal to the Vatican State](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/miracle-on-the-mediterranean-an-appeal-to-the-vatican-state/) - Catholic theologian and author James W. Douglass, a co-founder of Mary’s House Catholic Worker house of hospitality, describes the Global Sumud Flotilla as a miracle. Douglass believes we are living “in the heart of darkness.” Yet, the Global Sumud Flotilla’s witness, tenacity, and diversity astonish him. Here is a coordinated nonviolent campaign illuminating “the works
- [Billionaires Could Soon Face More Taxing Times](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/billionaires-could-soon-face-more-taxing-times/) - Billionaires, beware: Thousands of your countrymen are focusing hard on reining in your riches. All of them, including large numbers of millionaires, want you to pay higher taxes. They want a twenty-first century America with less income inequality and more tax fairness. Something like the America of decades ago, before the laws started leaning toward
- [Is This a Horst Wessel Moment?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/is-this-a-horst-wessel-moment/) - For several days, while Wessel lay critically wounded in a Berlin hospital, Goebbels issued daily health bulletins on his new hero. And since Ali Höhler belonged to a Communist street gang, Goebbels portrayed the gun battle as an infamous act of political terrorism. The Gauleiter wrote an emotional account of his visit to the hospital,
- [What Matters Most](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/what-matters-most/) - don’t waste time brawling with hungry lion cubs arguing with derelict soothsayers arrogant loud and wrong you’ll need all your mettle to fight the good fight to save yourself and others with every minute wait you’re another minute late having been planted deep in the quicksand of disbelief
- [How Trump’s Trade War with China Crushed US Farmers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/how-trumps-trade-war-with-china-crushed-us-farmers/) - Trump's Trade War has officially backfired on US Farmers and the entire US agricultural sector. 40% of crops farmed in the US is sent abroad but after Trump attacked China, China began sourcing soybeans, corn and other products from countries like Brazil. In today's video we break down why the Trump Trade War is hurting
- [Attempts to Delegitimize: Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/attempts-to-delegitimize-netanyahu-at-the-un-general-assembly/) - It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly. But this was precisely what Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, managed to achieve in his September 26 speech. His address began by attempting to show his country as a guardian of law and civilisation, fighting a lonely, unsupported
- [Two Men, an Evil Empire, Evil Jews of Genocide Legacy, and the Mowing of the World's Compassion and AGENCY](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/two-men-an-evil-empire-evil-jews-of-genocide-legacy-and-the-mowing-of-the-worlds-compassion-and-agency/) - Kelly's on house arrest, essentially, for another three years of a sentence that did not meet the supposed level of his "crime." And not too many Substackers even can grasp how the "otherside" of the railroad tracks lives, though Kelly, from Wisconsin, is smart, a musician and got that sheepskin in accounting, too. He's got
- [Predatory Culture and the Nasty Naked Ape](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/predatory-culture-and-the-nasty-naked-ape/) - Why did humans, who lived for 40,000 years as egalitarian hunter-gatherers, become farmers and abandon equality for a dominance hierarchy permeated with all kinds of nastiness, including war, slavery, and exploitation? It has remained a mystery why, ten thousand years ago, as farmers, most of humanity moved to social structures dominated by a tiny minority,
- [Last Best Stand](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/last-best-stand/) - We don’t know what the future holds We’ll do the best we can Be strong, my friend, be true, be bold For this may be the last best stand The warning bells have sounded now We’re sound in our positions We’re dreamers yet we’re grounded now We’re poets and magicians We’re called upon to hold
- [Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tylenol](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-tylenol/) - I Between two grifters, The main thing moving Was his puckered mouth. II Oz to Trump to Kennedy— Like mythology’s Dog with three heads of harm. III The blackguard’s lies whirl like autumn winds— A crude part of his political pantomime. IV A pregnant woman May want one, Or may not want to stay pregnant—that
- [From Goebbels to Trump’s Christian Nationalists: Glorifying Motherhood, Promoting Female Submission](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/from-goebbels-to-trumps-christian-nationalists-glorifying-motherhood-promoting-female-submission/) - “Motherhood can be deeply fulfilling, and few would argue that family life is unimportant. Yet authoritarian movements have long politicized it, reframing it as women’s sole purpose and a substitute for autonomy and rights,” Adrienne Matei observes in the Guardian. Welcome to the “womanosphere” -- also called the “femosphere.” According to Matei, “the womanosphere is
- [The World's Richest People are Chinese, not Americans](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-worlds-richest-people-are-chinese-not-americans/) - Four years after defeating the US in battle, in 1955, Mao told colleagues, “If we can’t overtake America in 100 years we don’t deserve to exist. We should be wiped off the face of the earth”. Less than seventy years later, China overtook America. Today, Chinese are much richer than their American and European counterparts,
- [We Are All antifa Now](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/we-are-all-antifa-now/) - Boom - by Mr. Fish Trump’s designation of the amorphous group antifa, which has no formal organization or structure, as a terrorist organization permits the state to charge us all as terrorists. The point is not to go after members of antifa, short for anti-fascist. It is to go after the last vestiges of dissent.
- [These Rainy September Days](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/these-rainy-spetember-days/) - The god man sits atop A mythic mountain, Kailash; Matted hair with trident in hand The Goddess will arrive on earth And who better to oversee it Than him, her husband? These rainy October days ? There will be a festival, when she treads on soil And the dark raiment of the earth will be
- [Pakistan’s Blasphemous Politics](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/pakistans-blasphemous-politics/) - Pakistan: TLP blockade causes disruptions. Image credit: ANI. The assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer by his own bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, in January 2011, marked a turning point in Pakistan’s politics. This act of violence opened up a new chapter in Pakistan's politics, wherein blasphemy laws and religious emotions serve as the foundation of a fully organised political
- [Death Notice – RIP.ie](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/death-notice-rip-ie/) - “The death has occurred of Henry Conyngham, The 8th Marquess Conyngham (Lord Henry Mount Charles) Slane Castle, Slane, Meath” Confused about his Irishness, with one foot in both lands; the Irish Sea flows between. One land offering up titles, the other, offering up its land by fate and twist of hand. He went all the
- [How I’ve Learned to be a Social Socialist](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/how-ive-learned-to-be-a-social-socialist/) - Thriving by Not Minding My Own Business How many of you have met socialists who look like the one at the top of the article? I have and there are plenty like this. It was in the Fall of 2017 that my life-partner, Bruce Lerro and I travelled from Oakland to Berkeley to hear Suzie
- [U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/u-s-domestic-colonial-occupation-must-be-met-with-a-struggle-for-decolonization-not-reform/) - Since August, federal mandates carried out against Washington D.C. and intensified policing have been escalating with both the federal and local governments making it clear that they are waging a domestic war on African (Black) working class and migrant diaspora people. This imposition is not only in the form of increased National Guard troops. Arrests,
- [Getting Cancelled in Riyadh Is No Laughing Matter](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/getting-cancelled-in-riyadh-is-no-laughing-matter/) - Welcome to the Riyadh Comedy Fest New and improved for Twenty-Twenty-Five! With great comic talent they will be blessed, And if they’re careful, they’ll all stay alive Look at what happened to a journalist Who posted—anonymously—online. Whatever humor Saudi censors missed, The joke was on them, but not the punchline. Tim Dillon says he’ll get
- [The Trouble with Tradwives](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-trouble-with-tradwives/) - “Tradwives” are having a moment. Amidst the rejection of “lean-in” culture and “girl boss” backlash, a host of popular social media accounts created by and geared toward young women promote the role of traditional wives, or “tradwives.” Now, a proliferation of so-called “aspirational” lifestyle posts romanticize conventional gender roles, marriage, motherhood, domesticity, and financial dependence
- [Violating the Terms of Service: Microsoft, Azure and the IDF](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/violating-the-terms-of-service-microsoft-azure-and-the-idf/) - On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure for the storage of files of phone calls obtained through broad or mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.” The tale began in 2021, when Microsoft, the company responsible for the Azure
- [Eleven](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/eleven/) - After the smoke cleared, most of the subversives lay dead on the battlefield. Later the afternoon I offered my army ration to one of the survivors who seemed somewhat cultivated. He waved it away. “Thanks, I’m not hungry, only thirsty.” I handed him my canteen bottle. “Let me ask you, was it worth it, this
- [Was that the Best the "Civilised" World Could Do?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/was-that-the-best-the-civilised-world-could-do/) - For the last 77 years the West has watched Israel devour Palestine, plunder its resources and mercilessly kill and maim its citizens. They finally say 'we recognise Palestine' when it's far too late to be of real use. I have no words to express my contempt for the United Nations. Where are the hard-biting sanctions?
- [The Neofascist Economy is Here](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-neofascist-economy-is-here/) - Donald Trump is creating a new form of capitalism. His economic policy is driven by his personal whims rather than the needs of capital, the results of which are likely to bring disaster to our economy and extreme hardship to American workers and the American people. Trump voters have consistently overlooked or dismissed his glaring
- [Peace Demo and Overton Window on the Elephant in the Room](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/peace-demo-and-overton-window-on-the-elephant-in-the-room/) - Draw the Line drew the lines So many red lines. Putin, Macron, Hamas, Israel. Our Palestine-Environment demo Saturday September 20 drew humanity and Nature's red lines, drenched as they are in the blood of martyrs and poisons sucked out of Earth – inflicted on us all. I'm worn down by a half-century of calling for
- [A New and Darker McCarthy Era Descends with the Night](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/a-new-and-darker-mccarthy-era-descends-with-the-night/) - In a dark time, the eye begins to see .... What’s madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? .... A steady storm of correspondences!” – Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time” We are all obscurantists now, deep in crepuscular propaganda, looking for light. “It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there,” as Bob
- [Trump’s Shock Doctrine: Exploiting Kirk’s Killing to Crush the Left and the Media](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/trumps-shock-doctrine-exploiting-kirks-killing-to-crush-the-left-and-the-media/) - In the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, President Trump and his allies are insisting — without a shred of evidence — that a vast left-wing conspiracy are plotting violent attacks in this country. Naomi Klein, in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, popularized the term “shock doctrine” -- based
- [Global Sumud Flotilla Boats Attacked by Israeli Drones](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/global-sumud-flotilla-boats-attacked-by-israeli-drones/) - As the Israeli government continues unabated its horrific genocide of Palestinians and the destruction of housing and infrastructure in Gaza, in the third attack on the 42-ship Global Sumud flotilla, drones attacked multiple boats in international waters southwest of the Greek island of Crete, the morning of September 24, 2025. In May 2025, another flotilla
- [Canada Keeps Bankrolling Ukraine’s War Crimes](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/canada-keeps-bankrolling-ukraines-war-crimes/) - FILE PHOTO: Mark Carney. © Minas Panagiotakis / Getty Images Following in the shameful footsteps of both Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney continues pledging support and money (which Canadians desperately need) to Ukraine, to prolong the proxy war against Russia. Carney chose Ukrainian Independence Day to voice the Canadian government’s
- ["Sixth-Form Politics"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/sixth-form-politics/) - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of the vote share. Polanski defeated Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, winning 20,411 votes against their 3,705 in a ballot of party members. From May to July 2025,
- [Leonardo: The $450 Million Man](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/leonardo-the-450-million-man/) - We live in an age of satire – unintended self-satire. Events of profound consequence have a ridiculous quality to them that competes with our emotions of worry and dread. Trump’s America is not alone in this. Look across the Atlantic: a cosmopolitan all-star Vaudeville troupe struggling, as always, to keep up with its trans-Atlantic model
- [Shiny again](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/shiny-again/) - Every morning Delivered digitally to My deluxe telephone I receive a comprehensive list Of that day’s words I must not say That day’s public figures I must not criticize That day’s ideas I must not entertain That day’s thoughts I must not think. I am grateful for living In an era when such communications Are
- [Please Don't Step In It!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/please-dont-step-in-it/) - I gotta get back to doing stand-up comedy. I mean the **** is so smelly and deep no matter where you look. Don't you just love those countless television and radio commercials showing Americans how those lovely corporations are there to help you? I mean, everything being sold, even healthcare and medicines, is there to
- [Supremely Courting Authoritarian Rule](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/supremely-courting-authoritarian-rule/) - Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway,” Jackson wrote. “But this Court’s complicity in the creation of a culture of disdain for lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it) will surely hasten the downfall of our governing institutions, enabling our collective demise. -- Supreme Court Justice Katanji Jackson,
- [Launching Silent Courier: MI6 Goes WikiLeaks](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/launching-silent-courier-mi6-goes-wikileaks/) - There is night and day between an entity such as WikiLeaks, a daring publisher of classified government documents extraordinaire, and the dour, secretive intelligence service of any country. But it seems that, just as the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk, some of them are learning a few lessons. For one thing, the British
- [Symbolic Declarations: Palestinian Recognition at the UN General Assembly](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/symbolic-declarations-palestinian-recognition-at-the-un-general-assembly/) - “True to the historic commitment of my country to the Middle East, to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, this is why I declare today, France recognises the state of Palestine.” So stated President Emmanuel Macron to more than 140 leaders in attendance at the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. He further declared
- [Patient Rights are Not a "Scientific" Issue](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/patient-rights-are-not-a-scientific-issue/) - I admit it. I am pretty pissed off now. I just had a chat conversation with a “colleague” who describes himself as “A physician and was a Uniformed Public Health Service Officer for thirty years”. He was criticizing the Surgeon General of Florida, Dr. Joe Ladapo MD, MPH, for his decision to rescind vaccine mandates
- [Recognize Hamas](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/recognize-hamas/) - Meaningless gestures Israel’s most genocidal Western supporters are planning to “recognize” a “Palestinian state”. France, Britain, maybe even Canada if the Palestinian state meets the Canadian Prime Minister’s novel criterion (the Canadian PM said he thinks there needs to be a “Zionist Palestinian State”). This “Palestinian State” will be run by the “Palestinian Authority” and
- [The Freedom to Teach about Freedom](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-freedom-to-teach-about-freedom/) - I had my share of political critics when I taught in Texas, back in what today seems like the quaint era of professor watchlists, but I never felt my job was in jeopardy. Things have changed. The firing of two professors at Texas universities, one for what was said in class and one for speech outside the university,
- [Israeli Overreach in Palestine and West Asia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/israeli-overreach-in-palestine-and-west-asia/) - In an extraordinary televised statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Zionist faithful that the state of Israel will curtail its current ambitions as part of a longer term strategy. The statement is short on specifics, but it comes on the heels of several apparent major failures of Israeli policy. The most recent
- [Back to the Future: NDP Must Debate Capitalism again](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/back-to-the-future-ndp-must-debate-capitalism-again/) - No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Cooperative Commonwealth. — 1933 Regina Manifesto During two months of campaigning to lead the NDP we’ve questioned the foundation of our economic system more
- [It’s Revolution or Death](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/its-revolution-or-death-2/) - https://youtu.be/l1O9jZQ2VL8?si=Sf0t166GZOOCteXs The third and final installment of the series seeks to bring the lessons learned in the first two episodes home. This segment features an interview with Peter Gelderloos in which he describes his experience working to build transformative infrastructure in Catalunya. Not all of us are so lucky to live near a large and
- [Might May Rule the Moment, but Right Prevails Forever](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/might-may-rule-the-moment-but-right-prevails-forever/) - Zainul Abedin (Bangladesh), Untitled, 1944. On 28 November 1924, Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech in Kobe, Japan titled China and Japan: Natural Friends, Unnatural Enemies. Here, he outlined his progressive vision for Pan-Asianism – a world where the ‘rule of right’ would triumph over the ‘rule of might’, where the multitudes of oppressed peoples in
- [My Pledge of Allegiance](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/my-pledge-of-allegiance/) - Please rise and place your right hand over your heart To pledge allegiance To the flag of the United States of America And to the republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible With liberty and justice for all I remain seated I won’t pledge allegiance To a symbol for an America With
- [Charlie Kirk Becomes Alive](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/charlie-kirk-becomes-alive/) - On Wednesday, September 10, a shot was fired at a Utah college event, and Charlie Kirk became alive. Relatively unknown to the public outside of the Right Wing fringe that gains shekels and adoration from the misinformed, miscalculating, and mistaken cadre of misplaced Americans, Charlie Kirk became a household name; more than that, Charlie Kirk
- [As Jesus Would Do](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/as-jesus-would-do/) - America loves war. Not peace. Not justice. War. It baptizes bombs in democracy and calls the ashes liberation. It funds genocide with tax dollars and calls it foreign aid. It builds empires on the backs of brown bodies, then asks the world to applaud its “exceptionalism.” Jay Janson, the people’s historian, has been shouting this
- [Beyond Time to Say Who the Real Terrorists Are](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/beyond-time-to-saywho-the-real-terrorists-are/) - In George Orwell’s book, 1984, the dominant force was able to determine what was true and what was false - hence 2+2=5. Today, those remaining in Gaza, who have survived the intensive bombing of almost all of Gaza’s infrastructure, sniper shootings, and starvation, are hanging onto life by a thread. Yet, it is the Palestinians
- [The "Hotel California Effect" of Fealty to the US](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-hotel-california-effect-of-fealty-to-the-us/) - For Noam Chomsky, the Thucydidean dictum ‘the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must’ is one of the most valid and important principles of international relations, which can be expressed in different ways. In general, the principle implies that to keep the prevailing system of control exercised by those in
- [Aporophobia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/aporophobia/) - Aporophobia is a negative attitude toward poverty that often culminates in an irrational fear of very poor people. It is the plight of being terrified by physical destitution when having to walk by a boozed-up bum. The word comes from the ancient Greek áporos (without resources). It sums up the horror the well-meaning citizen experiences
- [How to Tell When Authoritarians Become Fascists](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/how-to-tell-when-authoritarians-become-fascists/) - The times they are a-changin. And quickly. And not in a good way. And it’s scary. The façade of democracy is being ripped away by politicians who never liked it but lately feel emboldened to admit it. Most important of all, they have begun to act like unapologetic authoritarians. And brag about it. Suddenly the
- [“90% of Nicaraguans Feel Spied Upon” – True, or Fake News?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/90-of-nicaraguans-feel-spied-upon-true-or-fake-news/) - The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their neighbors. Further, apparently harmless community meetings are really “a mechanism of social control” where they “feel watched.”
- [The “Fat Boy Posse’s” Impending Attack on Iran](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-fat-boy-posses-impending-attack-on-iran/) - Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. How many children in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have been hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation. On the steel torsos of their missiles, adolescent American soldiers scrawl colourful messages
- [Faux Messianism and the Twilight of the West](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/faux-messianism-and-the-twilight-of-the-west/) - For years, independent geopolitical observers, including myself, have warned that the West is veering toward civil war or, at minimum, a prolonged paralysis of governance. This conviction has underpinned my decade-long advocacy for a “Greater Eurasian” autarky, based on the premise that a destabilized West poses the biggest threat to humanity in the near future.
- [House Speaker Mike Johnson Is a Leading War Criminal](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/house-speaker-mike-johnson-is-a-leading-war-criminal/) - It’s a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we’re aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible for the crime of war: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson
- [Silvertongue’s Demise: Lord Mandelson’s Epstein Problem](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/silvertongues-demise-lord-mandelsons-epstein-problem/) - It was so startlingly obvious that it seemed to snuff out any comment. Lord Peter Mandelson, otherwise known as the sinister Mr Fixit of New Labour from the Blair years, was an intimate of the late convicted paedophile and socially connected financier Jeffrey Epstein. If it was intended as a humorous appointment – Britain’s Epstein-familiar
- [Bernie Sanders Is a Ghoulish Zionist](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/bernie-sanders-is-a-ghoulish-zionist/) - Bernie Sanders finally issued a statement acknowledging the indisputable fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after two years of adamantly refusing to do so. The statement begins as follows: “Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages.
- [Night of the Colonels, 1973](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/night-of-the-colonels-1973/) - The night was passing, futile days were blended, propped upon my bed, imagining how my age proceeds without the comfort of metaphor, a prelude for tomorrow. The customary quiet broke with voices, not whispers of some stroller shuffling past. My half-read books all clattered to the floor. I staggered to the door beside my bed.
- [Trump Wants “Denuclearization,” But Does Washington?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/trump-wants-denuclearization-but-does-washington/) - In the grim competition between environmental destruction and nuclear war over which one will cause the demise of civilization, the nuclear option gets considerably less media coverage than global warming. This is unfortunate, for nuclear weapons are no less of a threat. In fact, given how many close calls there have been since the 1950s,
- [Straining](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/straining/) - An assassination Shatters more than a life It unsettles the fragile balance In a world already indifferent To our hopes Caught between The yearning for kindness And the blind machinery Of violence It turns promise Into lament And speaks less of destiny Than of our own tragic bent And it is in these troubled times
- [Some Presidential Incoherences](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/some-presidential-incoherences/) - I don’t think a beautiful baby girl Needs to have 30 dolls. They can have three. Being president is a very dangerous job. You have to get it right or things will happen. Child care is child care. I look to having No deficit in a very short period of time. Hannibal Lector, he’s a
- [three billion](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/three-billion/) - three billion creatures killed by bushfire devastation leaves me gasping in sadness for wildlife burnt alive and while i also grieve loss of human life and construction amount of animals not escaping incineration screams horror and although i was outside zone not victim to furnace silent suffering as i ponder still plagues me each day
- [Are We Having a God Problem?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/are-we-having-a-god-problem/) - Hubble Spots Fireworks in Westerlund 2 (Image by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team [STScI/AURA]) Is God not the ultimate human creation? The gods we inherited were designed for small populations, scattered across the earth, with narrow horizons. They concerned themselves with intimate details—how we ate, dressed, or made love. Each was tied to a
- [Lost and Found: The Choice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/lost-and-found-the-choice/) - What have I lost in my life as a steadfast activist? I wish I had visited the coasts of Scotland, eaten fish and chips in gabled pubs while the lilt of Celtic fiddle music floated over soaring cliffs. I wish I had seen Lisbon, heard the cry of fado sung from deep in the heart,
- [Trumpler Files](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/trumpler-files/) - First, he came for the Spanish, as They were rapists and thieves Then he came for the Muslims, as They were terrorists Then he came for the blacks Slaves who escaped the plantations Then he came for the homeless Lethal injections awaited Then he came for the LGBQT A special hatred for them Then he
- [dead among the dead](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/dead-among-the-dead/) - dead among the dead we sleep in place watching the stars move over our faces alien ships at war our secret necropolis does not know it's perished only we elect watch the bodies decay as they go to work and slave for their masters we among them drones inside the hive drifting slow into the center where the queen rages
- [Why the SanctionsKill Campaign Supports BDS](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/why-the-sanctionskill-campaign-supports-bds/) - The SanctionsKill campaign was formed in 2019 to raise awareness of the human cost of the “sanctions”—actually economic coercive measures—imposed by the United States and its allies on over 40 countries, in which one-third of humanity lives. Our coalition of grassroots activists has exposed the suffering and death caused to populations targeted with these measures,
- [A Night in Tunisia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/a-night-in-tunisia/) - Clearly, the world will not ignore The Viking’s child whom you believe Above and beyond a Moor. Clearly, when it comes down to quotes, The Viking’s child can deceive, And still know nothing of boats. Clearly, there’s no emphasis On what Coast Guardsmen retrieve With not a shred of prejudice. Clearly, you believe a lady
- [Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission Finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/clear-conclusions-a-un-commission-finds-israel-responsible-for-genocide-in-gaza/) - Yet another blistering addition to the ghoulish accounts of cruelty regarding the ongoing actions of Israel in Gaza made its appearance on September 16. It came in the form of a report by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a lashing publication finding Israel guilty of committing genocide
- [Why Do Men Watch Porn? A Feminist and Queer Analysis](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/why-do-men-watch-porn-a-feminist-and-queer-analysis/) - The dominant neuroscientific discourse on male porn addiction is underpinned by a moral pedagogy that tacitly assumes a normative sexual baseline: that the brain’s reward circuits, genitalia, and arousal systems were designed by evolution for heterosexual intercourse aimed at reproduction, and that any deviation (such as pornography consumption) constitutes a pathological distortion of this natural
- [Great Moments in the History of Chrystia Freeland's Failure to Have Achieved More for Ukrainian Fascism (2013-2025) than Her Grandfather Achieved as Hitler's Propagandist and Spy (1939)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/great-moments-in-the-history-of-chrystia-freelands-failure-to-have-achieved-more-for-ukrainian-fascism-2013-2025-than-her-grandfather-achieved-as-hitlers-propagandist-and-spy-1939/) - Chrystia Freeland’s final leap at political power in her 12-year attempt to rule Canada ended yesterday when she fell flat on her face. Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose push has proved more kinetic than Freeland’s jump, allowed this to be understood when he offered Freeland the less than face-saving post of reconstructing the Ukraine which
- [Spreading My Ashes in the Twisting River](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/spreading-my-ashes-in-the-twisting-river/) - You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for – Billy Joel, "You May Be Right" They say a stitch in time saves nine. They say it is always good to be prepared. They say Preparation-H is good for hemorrhoids. They say that Benjamin Franklin said,
- [Biological Devil-ution Rather than Religious Deities Fighting over the Heavens](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/biological-devil-ution-rather-than-religious-deities-fighting-over-the-heavens/) - “Devil-ution,” a function of evolutionary biology explains human unrest much better than notions of deities fighting over the heavens. Religious wars have never relented. Self-anointed demigods have plagued human history, pretending that faith-based blood lines constitute science. However, modern science takes a different tact. Today, psychologists and psychiatrists bemoan the fact that psychopathic megalomaniacs are
- [Winston and Smith](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/winston-and-smith/) - “Let’s continue where we left off yesterday. What’s your name, when and where were you born? Hellllloo!” “Winston Smith,” the prisoner replies. The vizier turns to the linguistics professor from the University of Alexandria. “Now you’ve heard it. Whenever we ask him a question, he remains silent or only answers with the same two words,
- [Suspending Courses, Washing Delicates, and Baking: A University Justifies Harming Staff and Students](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/suspending-courses-washing-delicates-and-baking-a-university-justifies-harming-staff-and-students/) - These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch. In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology Sydney thought it prudent to throw A$4.8 million at the tax consultants KPMG to design what it calls the Operational Sustainability Initiative (OSI). The linking of these three words alone suggests that
- [The Real Culprit?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-real-culprit/) - "Max Blumenthal Reports: Charlie Kirk and the Israel Lobby!" Max Blumenthal (with Anya Parampil) investigates recent claims that Charlie Kirk, the high-profile conservative commentator and founder of TPUSA, had begun pushing back against pro-Israel influence—and as a result, was being pressured, intimidated, and even offered funding by Israeli leaders or wealthy Zionist backers in
- [Describing Humanity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/describing-humanity/) - Was Louis-Ferdinand Céline a pessimist or a realist on the human condition?
- [Kirkwashing: Right Sanitizing Charlie Kirk’s Legacy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/kirkwashing-right-sanitizing-charlie-kirks-legacy/) - In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, right-wing politicians, Christian evangelical leaders, podcasters, and conservative media outlets are casting him as a martyr for free speech, for truth, and for Christian values. President Donald Trump called Kirk “a martyr for truth and freedom,” praising him as someone who “fought for liberty, democracy, justice and the
- [Inadequate Responses Leading to Calculated Atrocities](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/inadequate-responses-leading-to-calculated-atrocities/) - As the tragedy facing the Palestinians unfolds to an ultimate tragedy, we become aware of the true nature of the catastrophe, exhibiting unique elements that ponder our minds and disrupt our lives. (1) It is more than genocide. Can there be anything more than genocide? This is a slow burn; decades of daily horror and
- [Surviving This Crisis](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/surviving-this-crisis/) - I walked ways of yesterday The stones were torn, wished The blood was normal Today tears weigh heavily on the mind Because a war shredded world Is tormentor; Playing fields are graves, Schools are prisons Flood gates open: 1971, the Indo Pak war So near home, the birth of Bangladesh Accompanied by songs of Beatles
- [Let the River Run](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/let-the-river-run/) - Oh let the river run Cutting canyons through metamorphic monoliths promising a life anew sweeping away a lifetime of dreams Let it flow where hope and human migration are dashed against the rocks Labor’s sweat swirling in the river’s current splits the family towing the children under Let the river flow where you meet the
- [After Five Decades, It Comes to This: The PNG-Australia Pukpuk Treaty](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/after-five-decades-it-comes-to-this-the-png-australia-pukpuk-treaty/) - It’s clearer than ever: the Albanese government is continuing its efforts to shut out China in wooing and seducing island states across vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Bilateral security treaties are being pursued as a matter of urgency. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has, for instance, stated that he is open to closer defence ties
- [Thinking Beyond the Bars: How Higher Education Helped Me Develop Confidence in Myself and Rediscover My Humanity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/thinking-beyond-the-bars-how-higher-education-helped-me-develop-confidence-in-myself-and-rediscover-my-humanity/) - Ambitious young people are told that a college degree is necessary to launch a successful career. For me — a “lifer” taking courses from my cell in a state prison — higher education isn’t about job preparation but rediscovering my humanity, about learning to think beyond the bars. I’m not the first person to discover
- [A DSA Chapter Struggles With Zionism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/a-dsa-chapter-struggles-with-zionism/) - At its August 2025 biennial convention in Chicago, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) adopted a powerful resolution, "For a Fighting Anti-Zionist DSA". The resolution, which the 1200 delegates passed by 56 to 44 percent, has been recognized as a significant step forward for the organization. It makes "organizing in solidarity with the Palestinian cause a priority until Palestine is
- [Psyop Landfill](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/psyop-landfill/) - Where media garbage is disposed.
- [Australia Excludes the Pacific Island Press Corps](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/australia-excludes-the-pacific-island-press-corps/) - Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down. The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe with vulgar presumption. Their vassals kick down to their own appointees, expecting compliance and respect to various degrees. Australia, long known as Washington’s regional deputy sheriff, looks down on its Pacific Island neighbours as basket
- [Five Actions that Definitively Disqualify Trump for his Coveted Nobel Peace Prize](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/five-actions-that-definitively-disqualify-trump-for-his-coveted-nobel-peace-prize/) - I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no new wars. -- Donald Trump, Farewell Address, 20 January 2021 I am the Peace President and only I will prevent WW3! -- Donald J. Trump, Truth Social, 6 September 2024 I think I'm going to get a Nobel Prize for
- [It’s a Bitch](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/its-a-bitch/) - As I walked into a Fort Worth Post office the other day, I passed a young redneck wearing a patently ignorant t-shirt. Not just ordinarily stupid, run-of-the-mill cretinous or incredibly ignorant. But extraordinarily ignorant—if not full-blown delusional. The wearer was the usual type. Hair high and tight underneath a straw cowboy hat, a forearm tattoo
- [Three Precepts Muslims Should Remember](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/three-precepts-muslims-should-remember/) - Priyantha Kumara was a Sri Lankan export manager in a factory in Sialkot, Pakistan who was falsely accused of insulting Islam. He was beaten to death and his body was set on fire on December 3, 2021. IMAGE/Lankan Muslims should remember three precepts: Allah is a concept – it cannot be destroyed. Muhammad is
- [Undeniable Proof: How 1945 Taiwan Surrender Ceremony Smashes "Independence" Myths](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/undeniable-proof-how-1945-taiwan-surrender-ceremony-smashes-independence-myths/) - This year marks the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and #WWII. Eighty years ago, Japan's surrender ceremony took place in Taipei. Behind it, a few telling details completely shatter the narrative of "historical nihilism"… all pointing to one undeniable fact: #Taiwan has always been part of
- [Struggle of a Poem](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/struggle-of-a-poem/) - When you raise The question of peace A white dove hovers, Only, the red is against The background of a fierce Sky , silhouetted with crimson As if to say, That love is not enough; Bereft of the claim That you are a mediator of peace, Let sabre guns rattle And, shred peace to tears
- [Ocracies](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/ocracies/) - What for a good Autocracy? Unrestricted possibilities for the dictator in charge. With the position comes power for light or dark. Total power. Lights out. No opposition on benches; collective in totalism. All bowing. All nodding. Human desperation crammed on dinghies Life jackets. No jackets. Religions put in camps to concentrate the mind. Rights taken.
- [Pressure Mounts on Indian Government over “Genocidal” Great Nicobar Mega-project](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/pressure-mounts-on-indian-government-over-genocidal-great-nicobar-mega-project/) - Shompen band traversing a river on Great Nicobar Island. © Anthropological Survey of India Calls are growing for the Indian government to scrap its controversial Great Nicobar project after it suffered a series of setbacks in recent weeks They include: • The Tribal Affairs Ministry has demanded answers from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ authorities
- [Shadow Walker](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/shadow-walker/) - I walked into a shadow. I found my mother there. Age is no longer a factor. Though memory leaves a feeling of 98.5 years. But what do shadows, dreams, and what fairies in the dust have in common? She's no longer suffering from macular degeneration. I can still see her as a 78-year-old son now.
- [What Rhymes with Trump](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/what-rhymes-with-trump/) - Dump: A site for unrecyclable garbage, waste, and refuse, as well as dead philosophies and unvarnished untruths. Hump: When filled up with water, a bucket atop a camel’s back; when done to a country, a soulless and forceful sexual act. Lump: A growth you hope is benign when found on a lung or inside a
- [Marionettes](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/marionettes/) - What is stringing up the puppets?
- [Trump & Conservative Supporters Weaponizing Kirk’s Murder: Dems "Have Blood on Their Hands"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/trump-conservative-supporters-weaponizing-kirks-murder-dems-have-blood-on-their-hands/) - As of this writing, the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, the founder of the highly influential conservative organization Turning Point USA, on Wednesday during his “America Comeback Tour” at Utah Valley University, is still at large; their motivation a mystery. While numerous studies over the past 10-15 years have shown that the extreme right
- [The Corner Vegetable Store in Wartime Palestine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-corner-vegetable-store-in-wartime-palestine/) - The dam burst – yet again! – and down they went, victims and vegetables and out came gushing blood flooding tiles of cracked linoleum, this morning mopped clean. Their skins cracked open, they groan in despair, yet their blood is still flooding the deli and its stairs, down and down again straight into hell. They
- [Charlie Kirk](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/charlie-kirk/) - I knew almost nothing about Charlie Kirk when he was killed on September 10, other than that he was a leading organizer and thought leader for MAGA. One of the first things I saw in my email inbox about him after that misguided, violent act that took his life referenced the fact that he publicly
- [Democrats’ Digital Dysfunction](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/democrats-digital-dysfunction/) - “HAVE A GREAT LABOR DAY WEEKEND, PATRIOTS!!! GOD BLESS THE WORKING PEOPLE WHO MAKE AMERICA GREAT!,” read an August 2025 tweet, capped with three American flags and a photo of its author in a convertible, sunglasses on, peace sign raised. This wasn’t 2016. This wasn’t President Donald Trump. It was California Governor—and presidential hopeful—Gavin Newsom.
- [Bajaur’s Unfinished War: From Operation Sherdil to Operation Sarbakaf](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/bajaurs-unfinished-war-from-operation-sherdil-to-operation-sarbakaf/) - Bajaur is among Pakistan's tribal districts that witnessed the greatest battle in the war on terror. In the days of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Al-Qaeda strongholds, it has seen military operations time and again over almost two decades. The campaigns like Operation Sherdil during 2008–2009 showed some fierce counterinsurgency fighting; Operation Sarbakaf in
- [Calling All Canadians: Gorilla Radio Asks Prime Minister Carney Three Questions](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/calling-all-canadians-gorilla-radio-asks-prime-minister-carney-three-questions/) - The three questions are: 1. Has any politician in the NATO Coalition of the Willing Warfighters against Russia lied more brazenly to win his domestic election than Mark Carney (not counting Vladimir Zelensky)? 2. Has any politician in the Coalition calculated more mistakenly that spending more on the losing war in Europe would appease and
- [To the Military Personnel Occupying Our Country](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/to-the-military-personnel-occupying-our-country/) - When history does a roll call of names, which list do you want your name on? Will you be memorialized as one who swore an oath to a petty tyrant, bent on revenge and retribution against anyone who dares to oppose him, desperate for a throne and a crown, for his subjects to fall at
- [Buried on Crutches: A Lament from the Margins](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/buried-on-crutches-a-lament-from-the-margins/) - I did not come to this world willingly. If I had known its bitter-sweet terrain, I might have stayed unborn. But here I am—walking, limping, surviving— buried on crutches. This is not metaphor. This is the spiritual condition of the exiled soul. I walk through a world clothed in the shadows of leopards— predators in
- [The Desperation of Israel’s Qatar attack](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-desperation-of-israels-qatar-attack/) - Israel might claim that they were not attacking Qatar per se, but rather Hamas in Qatar, but that is neither a distinction nor a difference. Qatar is considered neutral territory in the region, a place where representatives of Hamas, the Israeli government, the US, Egypt, and other interlocutors could meet and negotiate safely. Qatari territory
- [New Pentagon Plan Prioritizes Western Hemisphere and the Homeland Over China](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/new-pentagon-plan-prioritizes-western-hemisphere-and-the-homeland-over-china/) - A draft of the latest National Defense Strategy (NDS) was leaked to Politico (09/5/2025). If implemented, the plan proposes pivoting away from China and prioritizing the protection of the homeland and the Western Hemisphere. The speed of this radical pivot away from China is astonishing, and its impact enormously consequential. It’s also confounding as its
- [Let it Burn](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/let-it-burn-3/) - Fire raged through the Olympic range The agents of ICE didn’t care The firefighters thought it strange No one thought they’d dare Fighting fires is a dangerous job You must be brave and strong You stay up late and work til dawn The hours are hard and long Migrant workers take it on The jobs
- [Albert Einstein, Palestine and Israel Today](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/albert-einstein-palestine-and-israel-today/) - Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and influential scientists of all time. His theories and equations regarding time, energy, space, and gravity are foundational to modern physics. Less well known, Einstein was a very political figure, with strong beliefs and a willingness to act on them. The book "Einstein on Israel and Zionism"
- [Washington Projects Its Drug Problem onto Latin America: Narco-State Myth Used to Attack Venezuela](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/washington-projects-its-drug-problem-onto-latin-america-narco-state-myth-used-to-attack-venezuela/) - A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up. They casually explained that the mafioso comes weekly to collect their drug money. Later, I found a playground, which served as a veritable
- [Superfluous Appointments: Albania’s Sunny AI Minister](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/superfluous-appointments-albanias-sunny-ai-minister/) - When countries have suffered the odd mishap regarding government paralysis or convulsive change, the frequent quip would often be: “Who noticed?” Much like university vice-chancellors or the parasitic management structures of most organisations, their forced absence merely induces a range of feelings from relief to indifference. They are all superfluous and know it. Reasons to
- [Eclipse of Thought](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/eclipse-of-thought/) - Wing tipped by the sun— I see a different version of the moon. A movie not yet seen in darkness. A story not yet told by prophets. No movie mongrel has siphoned the joy from the wing, the eclipse. Clever this fore night how the transition of sun and moon clouds my thinking. Create this
- [There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part.](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/there-was-a-boat-that-was-the-only-true-part/) - This was what the President of the United States initially lied: “Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug
- [From Doha to the UN: Turning Israel’s Terror Into Global Action](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/from-doha-to-the-un-turning-israels-terror-into-global-action/) - Funeral in Doha for 5 people killed in the September 10 Israeli strike. Photo: AFP Responding to Israel’s September 10 attack aimed at Hamas negotiators in Qatar, all 12 members of the UN Security Council issued a toothless statement of condemnation that didn’t even mention Israel by name. This cowardly response underscores the pathetic international reaction to
- [Charlie Kirk and the Tsunami of U.S. Political Violence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/charlie-kirk-and-the-tsunami-of-u-s-political-violence/) - Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot to death yesterday during a speaking engagement at a university in Utah. A single shot to the neck by a sniper ended the life of the 31-year-old, whose two little children will now have to grow up without him. President Trump considered Kirk to be the most influential public
- [How Immigrant Communities Are Reclaiming Media on Their Own Terms](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/how-immigrant-communities-are-reclaiming-media-on-their-own-terms/) - In an age of relentless misinformation, immigrant communities in the United States are not just resisting—they are rebuilding. While corporate and legacy news outlets often filter immigrant experiences through sensationalism, victimization, or meritocratic tropes, independent and bilingual media are quietly transforming how stories of migration are told. And in doing so, they’re also restoring something
- [Is Killing a Fascist Okay?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/is-killinis-killing-a-fascist-okay/) - I talked to a fellow yesterday Who said killing a fascist is okay. He said We kill people all the time Sometimes without reason or rhyme Many are surprised, but some are not At times we get it wrong, but some say, so what. He said We kill murderers on death row Mostly fast but
- [Language, Mind Control, and 9/11](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/language-mind-control-and-9-11/) - An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the instrument of the mind, become ‘pure sound,’ a symbol directly evoking feelings and reflexes. – Jacques Ellul, Propaganda A leader or an interest that can make itself master of current symbols is the master of the
- [Buying Time: Israel’s Rogue Attack on Qatar](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/buying-time-israels-rogue-attack-on-qatar/) - It’s all part of a stratagem, bleak and brutal. With Palestinian recognition being promised by France, the UK, Canada and Australia at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli aggression is becoming more brazen and panicked. Time must be bought on one vital front: creating a Greater Israel, involving the annexation of
- [The Secretary Testifies](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-secretary-testifies/) - Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I’d like to begin My testimony by recommending That Americans wear tinfoil suits To protect them from the hidden rays Passing around and through us and destroying Our organs and especially our brains. Contrary to public reports, I’m not against All vaccines, just those not properly tested, Which is all of
- [What Happens to Stories About Palestine in U.S. Newsrooms?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/what-happens-to-stories-about-palestine-in-u-s-newsrooms/) - Our latest visual, created in partnership with Prism Reports, visualizes a months-long Prism investigation conducted by journalist Laura Albast, on pro-Israel bias in mainstream U.S. newsrooms, particularly after Oct. 7, 2023. Read the full investigation here. Special thanks to Yara Ramadan for her design collaboration on this visual. The report takes a deep, investigative dive
- [From the Paint to the Pulpit: Ralph Drollinger’s Christian Nationalist Power Play in Washington](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/from-the-paint-to-the-pulpit-ralph-drollingers-christian-nationalist-power-play-in-washington/) - Capitol Ministries' Ralph DrollingerYou probably wouldn’t recognize his face, but at over 7 feet, Ralph Drollinger is hard to miss. A former center for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins, he had a brief professional career before turning to ministry. In recent years, he swapped basketball courts for the halls of power. These days, he’s not posting
- [The Latest About Public Groceries in Low-Income "Food Deserts"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-latest-about-public-groceries-in-low-income-food-deserts/) - As leaders of America’s half-dozen giant supermarkets raise prices once again (Walmart, 40 percent “on some items”), they’re blaming Trump’s recent quixotic, retaliatory tariffs on foreign imports. Consumer boycotts and demands for public food stores are in the wind by the outraged perhaps because they suspect gouging by farmers and wholesalers on essentials such as
- [Absentee Landlords](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/absentee-landlords/) - There are three major motion pictures that every working stiff should watch... and recommend to others. The first such film ( and of course there are so many more) this writer recommends is Martin Ritt's The Molly Maguires (1970). Inside the disgrace of the feudal element of coal mining we have coal miners working for
- [Third Constitution of the United States](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/third-constitution-of-the-united-states/) - September 1, 2025: I (Roger) asked Chat GPT.com, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot created by OpenAI, this question: “Chat GPT, will you analyze all the different proposals for a Third Constitution of the United States and reveal to us your best recommendation for creating a Third Constitution of the United States that creates peace and
- [Guernica](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/guernica-3/) - I was a young man From the heart of the Midwest And was not long out of college When I visited the great metropolis of New York City For the very first time. I was, of course, Thrilled with everything, From the Met to the subways, From the Village to Broadway. One day I visited
- [Young People Must Choose: Economic Democracy or No Democracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/young-people-must-choose-economic-democracy-or-no-democracy/) - What’s the best way to pass on what you learned from more than a half century of left-wing doing, reading, writing, talking and thinking? Write a book. This was especially obvious to a retired union-activist-journalist-novelist grandfather. So, I did. Started writing a book tentatively titled Economic Democracy or No Democracy — An Anti Oligarchy Manifesto. But
- [Why Trump? It Was About Saying “Fuck You” to the Establishment](https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/11/why-trump-it-was-about-saying-fuck-you-to-the-establishment/) - I have no blindingly insightful analysis to offer about Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party and the establishment portion of the Republican Party but here’s my tentative take: The presidential election wasn’t a vote for fascism or even a vote for Trump. My sense is that a sizable number of voters were saying
- [The Department of War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-department-of-war/) - Restoring the original and non-Orwellian name to the U.S. Department of War ought to have a positive impact on people’s speech and understanding. Yes, of course, Trump did it in order to celebrate the sadistic malevolence associated with the word “war.” He did it while pursuing horrific wars in Palestine and Ukraine, threatening (and beginning)
- [Trump Down: There is Hope at the Grassroots](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/trump-down-there-is-hope-at-the-grassroots/) - How is Trump doing in the polls? Over the last week and a half, averaging polls done by CBS, NBC, The Economist, Reuters/Ipsos and Quinnipiac, he is doing terribly: an average approval rating of 41.6% and a disapproval rating of 55.4%. He is down 14 points. As significant, however, are the results from the Quinnipiac
- [The True, the Brave, the Few](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-true-the-brrave-the-few/) - Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. -- John Adams, "A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law," No. 3, National Archives. Victims of
- [The Peoples Conference for Palestine: Another Step Forward](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-peoples-conference-for-palestine-another-step-forward/) - The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought over 4600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors. The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the endless US-Israeli slaughter of civilians
- [Butlers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/butlers/) - “This is the deal: I am only an observer here, not wearing a micro-camera or a hidden microphone. The two guards with me are for my protection per departmental ordinance.” “Got it. Federal government?” “How could you tell? As I said, only a silent observer. Fly on the wall, as they say.” “That’s fine, sir.
- [Destroying Gaza City](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/destroying-gaza-city/) - Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in. While this should be shunned and punished in international law, a general discomfort of purpose seems to trouble the friends of Israel as the state goes about its business of ruining what vestiges of living might
- [Narcissism, Misogyny, Racism, and Fascism: Not Just a Trump thing](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/narcissism-misogyny-racism-and-fascism-not-just-a-trump-thing/) - Note: This article below appears in the Lincoln County Leader, and I am waiting for the same rejoinder that the little county of Lincoln is running each Wednesday before my radio show, Finding Fringe, to appear on the Editorial page of a newspaper over 100 years old: Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this
- [Stolen Democracy: Why Imran Khan Was Jailed](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/stolen-democracy-why-imran-khan-was-jailed/) - The imprisonment of Imran Khan is now a subject occupying the ground and shifting the mood of Pakistan in reaction. With his party symbol taken away and being surrounded by hundreds of other lawsuits, Khan continues to dominate conversations at the market stalls, tea stalls, and social media feeds. For many, he is an icon
- [You Don’t Have to Believe in Their Supremacy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/you-dont-have-to-believe-in-their-supremacy/) - [Note: if you didn’t watch me and Nick Estes talking about the Book of Joshua on Red Nation, that discussion and the books therein - the Joshua Generation, Laying Down the Sword, and Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians - might be good to check out before or after reading this one.] This replaces the Geneva Convention Human
- [Mass Media Under-count Indigenous Deaths in US wars](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/mass-media-under-count-indigenous-deaths-in-us-wars/) - The eminent, truth-telling and humane Australian web medium Pearls & Irritations has published a responding Letter from me about total sanctions demanded against Apartheid Israel because of hundreds of thousands of Gaza Genocide deaths: Gideon Polya, “MSM under-count indigenous deaths in US wars,” 5 September 2025. I have been researching and writing about Indigenous deaths
- [All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/all-elements-in-place-for-a-us-decapitation-strike-on-venezuela/) - President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. He alleged that the skiff came from Venezuela and was loaded with illicit drugs headed to the US. On social media,
- [Poetic Public Pronouncement](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/poetic-public-policy/) - Translated by Marco Katz Montiel Dear brothers and sisters, my name is Kilmar Ábrego García and I want you to always remember that today I am able to say with pride that I am free and have reunited with my family, a miracle thanks to God and thanks to the entire community. And because of
- [The Walking Cane and the Mantle](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-walking-cane-and-the-mantle/) - Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James Baldwin The Film That Stirred the Ashes It came quietly, like a whisper from the margins. A DVD in the mail—When Did I See You Hungry? by Gerard Thomas Straub, narrated by Martin Sheen. A gift from a
- [“Methinks thou doth protest too much!”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much/) - Listen up, Senator Warmonger. Listen up, Congressman Forever War. Hear me out, President China Hater. Yes you, Vice-President Iran Hater. And you, Secretary Cuba Hater. Pay attention, General Russia Hater. I’m talking to you, Ambassador North Korea Hater. I think … no, I know … THOU PROTEST TOO MUCH. You vilify and condemn, you slander
- [From the Wasteland](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/from-the-wasteland/) - From the wasteland we were formed To the wasteland we return From a barren lonely desert morn Where every living thing was burned The world of land is drying out As the glaciers join the sea Let there be no waning doubt There’s no stopping what will be Arizona will be lost The Colorado will
- [If I Only Were A King](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/161292/) - (To the Tune of "If I Only Had a Brain") I could while away the hours Asserting made-up powers, Inflicting savage pain, And my balls I’d be scratching While my evil thoughts are hatching, Nothing left will be the same. I’d be the only law and order, My face on every quarter, Enemies to the
- [Eye of the Storm](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/eye-of-the-storm/) - Whirling, twirling, swirling Wild storms howl across earth’s fragile face. False prophets and misleading leaders screech their violent creeds to justify their cruel deeds. They try to terrify us through a tempest of disorienting chaos. Spinning inside the whirlwinds, my body, mind and soul try to withstand fragmentation amidst the frazzled fury of a frenzied
- [The Admonishment of China by Governments in Glass Houses](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-admonishment-of-china-by-governments-in-glass-houses/) - As I was reading Gareth Evans’s recent piece on what a ‘mature’ relationship with China should comprise, I was reminded of the photograph set out below, which was taken in December 1989. It depicts the then foreign ministers, Gareth Evans of Australia and Ali Alatas of Indonesia, on an aeroplane toasting their signing of the
- [Untold Stories](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/untold-stories/) - Bit by bit There is composure But when the flash floods Created a nervous panic Somewhere else crackling Fires lit the sky I bowed to Mother Earth Reverentially, prayed that She must not destroy lands, Quake the earth and curtail The running spree of landslides It is anathema to the purpose of life Which is,
- [The Old Clock](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-old-clock/) - recently widowed Lisa Marie is lithe and bright working two jobs always scrimping still penniless most of the time she raises her children in a house where the rooms have to be rearranged daily out of necessity not for fun she has an old grandfather clock it shows random hours not proper time to teach
- [She was a Little Girl](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/she-was-a-little-girl/) - for Hind Rajab Hind was a little girl of five and a half years. In photos you can see her in a purple dress and pink necklace with her name in letters, white flowers in her hair, or in her kindergarten graduation gown with a jaunty cap and tassel over cascading brown curls. She was
- [The Real Reason Trump Wants to Reshape the NYC Mayoral Race](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-real-reason-trump-wants-to-reshape-the-nyc-mayoral-race/) - Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is especially true in New York, where Donald Trump seems ready to support almost anyone in an effort to defeat Zohran Mamdani. While Zohran’s opponents include the “Never Trump” Republican Curtis Silwa, the Democratic heir Andrew Cuomo, and the unpopular incumbent Eric Adams, Trump sees all of these candidates as
- [Veterans For Peace Condemns the Deployment of National Guard in Washington, DC, and the Misuse of U.S. Troops and ICE to Create Terror in Our Cities](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/veterans-for-peace-condemns-the-deployment-of-national-guard-in-washington-dc-and-the-misuse-of-u-s-troops-and-ice-to-create-terror-in-our-cities/) - Veterans For Peace unequivocally condemns President Trump’s unlawful deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC. This follows the outrageous deployment of National Guard and U.S. Marines to the streets and parks of Los Angeles in support of ICE terror tactics in a city where as many as one in ten residents are undocumented workers.
- ["We Will Not Be Silent:" Hearing Stilled Voices of the Gaza Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/we-will-not-be-silent-hearing-stilled-voices-of-the-gaza-genocide/) - In his last minutes of freedom before Israeli Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, clad in a medic’s white coat, walked alone toward two Israeli tanks. His captors awaited him amid the rubble of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital. An artist swiftly created a dramatic poster showing Dr. Safiya striding through the ruins of
- [I Was Born Into a World](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/i-was-born-into-a-world/) - I was born into a world that has failed me— failed me, utterly, abjectly. I was born into a world where hypocrisy is crowned, where truth is punished, and conscience robs me of sleep. I was born into a world that bruises God’s palette— the beautiful colors of creation faded by cruelty and scorn. I
- [Cold War 2.0 Is Against China](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/cold-war-2-0-is-against-china/) - “Globally, all available resources are to be focused on a zero-sum increase in U.S. power and on the defeat of China as the newly arising rival.” — John Bellamy Foster, “The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism” On September 3, China staged a grand gathering of over 20 foreign leaders to commemorate the 80th
- [Trump and the International Criminal Court](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/trump-and-the-international-criminal-court/) - The International Criminal Court bash fest is getting ever more frenetic in Washington and among the law shredding members of the Netanyahu cabinet in Israel. Last month, the Trump administration smacked sanctions on judicial members Kimberly Prost of Canada and Nicolas Guillou of France via Executive Order 14203. Prosecutors also received a chastening, sanctioning experience, including Nazhat
- [Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/russias-special-military-operation-in-ukraine/) - Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies have come out with the expanded and revised second edition of their book War in Ukraine (OR Books). Defying logic, the subtitle is Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. A blurb from professor Noam Chomsky calls it: "An invaluable guide." I agree. Media analyst Norman Solomon calls the book a
- [A Yank and a Dutchman Exploring on their BettBeat Channel The World](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/a-yank-and-a-dutchman-exploring-on-their-bettbeat-channel-the-world/) - They've had skin in the game -- the Podcast and Substack game -- for four years. Amazing guests, and unfortunately for us, but fortunately for us, too, they have been covering the genocide in the Jewish State of Raping and Murdering and Starving and Maiming and Poisoning Palestine: Going on TWO goddamned years. One of
- [Field Trip](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/field-trip/) - “This is gonna be exciting, lieutenant, and I bet they don’t teach it in the military academy. The kinda real action you can only learn in the trenches.” “Yes, sir.” “Watch now, Wild West in the East. Sergeant Balik’s climbing up the roof and covering the chimney with his coat. As you can tell already,
- [Trump Redecorates the Oval Office](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/trump-redecorates-the-oval-office/) - Donald John Trump, born June 14, 1946, the 47th president of the United States, has decided to leave his imprint in history by redecorating historical landmarks in the nations capital. After reciting plans for a grand ballroom in the Whitehouse, which will feature Klezmer bands on Wednesday nights and Hora dancing on Sunday evening, also
- [Plausible Parody: A ‘Property Development’ Theory of Geopolitics](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/plausible-parody-a-property-development-theory-of-geopolitics/) - Since resuming residence in the White House a few months ago, it has not been difficult to detect in President Trump’s behaviour traces of his background as a real estate deal maker. Indeed, it could be said that his statements and actions since becoming president demonstrate a clear predisposition to perceive geopolitics predominantly as an
- [Nuclear Snobbery and Atomic Anniversaries](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/nuclear-snobbery-and-atomic-anniversaries/) - How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history. Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted killing of tens of thousands
- [The People's Champion: Howard Zinn](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-peoples-champion-howard-zinn/) - Labor Day is a good time to pay tribute to the late Howard Zinn, a rebel historian who broke with the tedious orthodoxy of "patriotic" history to tell the tale of those consigned to the bottom of the social pyramid: Indians, slaves, factory workers, indentured servants, sharecroppers, farmers, immigrants, political prisoners, soldiers, socialists, pacifists and other anti-war protesters.
- [How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/how-the-un-can-act-decisively-to-end-genocide-in-gaza/) - One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The General Assembly voted, by 124 votes to 14, with 43 abstentions, for a strong resolution that not only “demanded” an end to the occupation within a year, but called on all countries to refrain from trade
- [The Old World Order Was Buried in China](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/the-old-world-order-was-buried-in-china/) - Xi, Putin and Modi have lead calls in Tianjin for a UN-centered multipolar system, as Eurasian blocs tighten and the EU is sidelined. The latest gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin looks at first like another summit – handshakes, family portraits, scripted statements. But the meeting on August 31–September 1 is more
- [Senate Subcommittee Hearing](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/senate-subcommittee-hearing/) - “Sir, are you or have you ever been member of the underground terrorist organization known as PAAP?” “Yes, senator, but PAAP is neither terrorist nor underground. We are a multi-ethnic multi-faith charity group, and most of our activities involve…” “Yes or no, please. Is that true that PAAP stands for the inflammatory statement - let
- [How to Stop Israel from Starving Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/how-to-stop-israel-from-starving-gaza/) - Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes. Israel, with US complicity, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work. The US Government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its
- [From Manufactured Scandals to AI Misinformation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/from-manufactured-scandals-to-ai-misinformation/) - FAKE NEWS This section chronicles some of the most pressing examples of disinformation and fake news from the previous two weeks. I define fake news as information that appears to be real news but is baseless, inaccurate, misleading, or false. Fake news isn’t just a headline problem — it’s a cultural crisis. A tattooed Justin
- [Deja vu-Lebanon](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/deja-vu-lebanon/) - In 1982 the world watched as Israeli troops invaded Lebanon, taking over the capital city of Beirut. The Americans and International Community made a deal with Israel that if the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) withdrew from Lebanon, Israel would retreat from Beirut. Under a guarantee that the women, children and elderly would be protected by
- [Refugee Dunghills: Australia Makes Another Nauru Deal](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/refugee-dunghills-australia-makes-another-nauru-deal/) - Over the last two decades, Australia has made a name for itself by pursuing barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea. Priding these moves as noble and humanitarian, cruelty born of kindness, these have entailed attacking the right to seek asylum guaranteed under the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 and the
- [Clean Solar Outshines Filthy Oil](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/clean-solar-outshines-filthy-oil/) - We can have a world that runs on a resource that’s available to everyone everywhere. -- Bill McKibben There’s a renaissance of nature powering the world, and it’s happening throughout the planet hidden from public view because it’s everywhere all at once and not in one isolated location easily identified. It’s solar panel installations experiencing
- [Digital Siege of Balochistan](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/digital-siege-of-balochistan/) - To the people of Balochistan, connectivity is not meant by scrolling through their social media or by undertaking a light entertainment. Internet access is tenuous at best, which - in one of the most poorly dealt with provinces in Pakistan - serves both as a lifeline to education, economic opportunity, and communication with the rest
- [Personal Finance](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/personal-finance/) - don’t tell me what to think don’t tell me what to say don’t tell me what to do I may not be a smart man but ain’t working for you no matter what you think no matter what you say no matter what you do I may not be very bright but ain’t working for
- [Planting Grazing Mowing](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/planting-grazing-mowing/) - The flat earth theory of the coloniser, thief of the lands. In the background, the assisters, the town planners, the USA and UK, planting division, drawing lines through land and life. Show no weakness or consideration for the colonised, dehumanized, until... the inconvenience of an uprising by the depressed oppressed. Providing boots on the ground and death
- [The Price of Freedom](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-price-of-freedom/) - You never know the price of freedom Until your freedom’s gone Just when you think it could not come There are soldiers on your lawn The Guard is in the square They’ll ask you for your name The police are everywhere They want someone to blame They’re rounding up the workforce To ship them to the border
- [Thoughts and Prayers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/thoughts-and-prayers-2/) - The port lies stripped and bare; My friend famine lingers there. Solitary by the sea, nets hang torn; she leans on me. UN flour sacks split at the seams, white dust rising, choking dreams. Her veil whips, biting bone. Ribs stabbing, hunger shown. Rebar knifing through debris, she stands alone, next to me. She won’t
- [Structural Foundations of Africa’s Biggest Slum](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/structural-foundations-of-africas-biggest-slum/) - Poverty is an artificial creation. Join political activist Ajam Baraka and members of the Communist Party of Kenya on a trip, making the case using Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. It is symptomatic of a larger issue because, despite Nairobi being the wealthiest county in Kenya, contributing 27% of the country’s GDP, 60% of its 5
- [Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/opening-gaza-to-the-foreign-press-corps/) - The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the predations and ghastliness of power. For that precise reason, the state of Israel has been most cautious, to the point of folly, of shutting out foreign journalists
- [“The Fire Doesn’t Ask Before Books Disappear”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-fire-doesnt-ask-before-books-disappear-inspired-by-jeff-sharlots-substack-scenes-from-a-slow-civil-war/) - The frailty of memory. The permanence of loss. When writing becomes bullshit —maybe it’s time to step aside. The first time he saw a dead body, he was ten. He ran from the apartment as fast as he could. Then he sat down to dinner. Then he ran out again to find Mrs. Rubin, to tell
- [Civics 101](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/civics-101/) - I am busy spinning men all night long into poetry and song before running into you in Civics 101. Lincoln and Johnson squabble yet again over number of slaves: what is the acceptable threshold. We roll our eyes like thunder. Outside it's raining handsome dansomes, shimmering like Debussy's fantasy for piano, or Mom's chocolate silken
- [Ribcage at Twilight](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/ribcage-at-twilight/) - I hold my toddler tight In the evening before we start her bed-time routine: My only daughter, Sweet Lila Joy, not quite 3 years old. I hold her in my lap on the rocking chair as she eats cornbread with both hands and curls her feet and watches a Disney cartoon musical we’ve seen a
- [Happening](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/happening/) - If ever I want to be Loved a little more And love just that more I know lies will encircle The ambience of restriction I know I will encounter post truths Among the mass of whetted untruths If ever I want to be loved more, There will always be the canny Knock at the heart-
- [The Nature of Change is Change](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-nature-of-change-is-change/) - Earth was birthed in trauma, drama, crashing meteors, oceans of molten lava, fire, fire, fire followed by tens of millions of years of rain, earth covered in raging seas, life straining to rise from the deep’s utter darkness. Then ice covered over everything, frozen extinction of most of the living. In the melt came explosions
- [An Ode to Those Trapped under the Rubble](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/an-ode-to-those-trapped-under-the-rubble/) - Palestinians under the rubble after Israeli airstrike of homes in the Gaza Strip. © 2023 UNRWA Photo by Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 4.0 How can I describe this thing that happened to me? Was it a lucid dream? A vision? A trance of sorts? Whatever I can think to call it, I would not call
- [Who Is Educated?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/who-is-educated/) - Part I: The Mirage of Western Pedagogy Education, in its dominant form, has become a passport to power—an instrument of conquest cloaked in polished grammar and institutional prestige. The PhD holder, fluent in the Queen’s English, traverses continents not to heal but to dominate, often serving as a cog in imperial machinery that wages war
- [Ice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/ice/) - When I was a child it was the ice man Cometh, several times a week, a flatbed Truck with a huge block of ice covered By a canvas tarp. That was then. He was An anachronism on the verge of becoming Extinct parallel to the demise of ice boxes. Refrigerators in the home would keep
- [Bahri’s Dark Geopolitical Ties](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/bahris-dark-geopolitical-ties/) - Bahri or National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia is a giant maritime company in the Middle East. But, behind this commercial image, there is a provocative and worrying history of its geopolitical process, especially the means of transporting weapons and the manner in which Saudi Arabia participates in the geo conflict such as in Yemen
- [Judge Sebutinde and the ICJ's Insane Israel Scandal](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/judge-sebutinde-and-the-icjs-insane-israel-scandal/) - Criminal lawyer Nick Hanna investigates the Vice President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Julia Sebutinde, and how her extremist Christian Zionist beliefs have compromised her voting record. In doing so, Hanna exposes Sebutinde’s close ties to Watoto Church, and its funding of an Israeli organisation that provides material support to the IDF. https://youtu.be/-4N4OwFc_ok?si=Y2BI7-Yrq41TKzSh
- [Citizens of Switzerland Say NO to the Electronic ID (e-ID): And Now the Swiss Government Calls upon them to Vote Again](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/citizens-of-switzerland-say-no-to-the-electronic-id-e-id-and-now-the-swiss-government-calls-upon-them-to-vote-again/) - On 7 March 2021, Swiss citizens voted already on the introduction of the electronic ID (e-ID) and rejected the government’s proposals by a landslide of 64.4% NO, against 35.6% YES. This was just four years ago. And now the Swiss government puts the proposal again before the people. Not voluntarily. It was presented to both
- [Magazine Rack](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/magazine-rack/) - Does media reveal genuine culture?
- [Antarctica on Alert!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/antarctica-on-alert/) - Over the past year, several studies about highly dangerous signals of Antarctica on the edge of major abrupt change have appeared in scholarly publications. These studies in premier publications expose rapid changes, e.g. (1) discovery of the western Antarctic Peninsula as one of the fastest warming places on Earth (2) ocean currents threaten to collapse
- [The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-silent-singing-bird-of-flamboyant-plumage/) - Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early morning, I exult in the sea’s silent roar. It extinguishes the cacophonous dreck that fills the air of everyday life in a society whose depravity accelerates faster than shore birds can fly. This morning, because there
- [How Overconsumption Pushes Garment Workers to the Brink](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/how-overconsumption-pushes-garment-workers-to-the-brink/) - Last September, a report from the trade publication Business of Fashion found that the Chinese retailer Shein was the world’s largest polluter in the garment industry, but a casual reader of corporate news media would likely be none the wiser, because the report received little to no coverage by the establishment press. As of July
- [A New Foreign Policy for Europe](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-new-foreign-policy-for-europe/) - The European Union needs a new foreign policy based on Europe’s true economic and security interests. Europe is currently in an economic and security trap of its own making, characterized by its dangerous hostility with Russia, mutual distrust with China, and extreme vulnerability to the United States. Europe’s foreign policy is almost entirely driven by
- [Che Ahn Is Running for Governor of California. His Mission?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/che-ahn-is-running-for-governor-of-california-his-mission/) - Christian Nationalists/Dominionists Seven Mountain Mandate Che Ahn, New Apostolic Reformation & Seven Mountain Mandate Champion, Running Spiritual Warfare Campaign for Governor Get ready for a campaign of spiritual warfare like California hasn’t seen in years: Che Ahn is running for governor. If you're asking yourself, who? — you're not alone. Ahn is a leading figure in
- [Shuggy for Mayor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/shuggy-for-mayor/) - “Okay, this guy, Shuggy what’s-his-face, he is fairly ambitious but doesn’t know jackshit about politics. Same goes for everything else.” “That’s not necessarily bad. All he’s got to do is promise he’s going to cut taxes. Also, his sweeping ignorance can be used to market him as the middle-of-the-road type who’d reach across the aisle.”
- [We Might Be Giants: Listen to David Swanson on  DV](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/we-might-be-giants-listen-to-david-swanson-on-dv/) - “The task is… not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” – Erwin Schrodinger His TED Talk on how to think “against” war and for “peace” is an elevator speech worth listening to: https://youtu.be/eGgVE9WGe2o?si=DoqUeE912Q0xc2mP But you get 60 minutes
- [We Have Freedom of Speech](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/we-have-freedom-of-speech/) - So says a government announcement.
- [America’s Bipartisan Shame](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/americas-bipartisan-shame/) - If hallmarks of economic decline are everywhere apparent, it is Washington’s shameless participation in human genocide that has awakened many an American from their dogmatic slumbers. The United States has been a partner in human slaughter in Gaza, arming and funding, providing intelligence to and political cover for Zionist forces in Israel in their fanatical
- [The Military Budget Nobody Controls](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-military-budget-nobody-controls/) - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion annually, second only to Social Security in the federal budget. The military outlay is also close to $1 trillion, consuming nearly half of the discretionary budget. As a sovereign
- [Expelling Iran’s Ambassador to Australia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/expelling-irans-ambassador-to-australia/) - The rank odour of opportunity seems to have presented itself to Australia’s Albanese government. To balance its apparently principled promise to recognise Palestinian statehood come the 80th United Nations General Assembly next month, it seemed only fair that some firm measure be taken against another Islamic outfit to balance the ledger. The Israelis were watching closely,
- [Anti-Palestinian Racism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/anti-palestinian-racism-2/) - As Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza rages on, anti-Palestinian racism silences, excludes, erases, stereotypes, dehumanizes, or defames Palestinians, those who are perceived as Palestinian, or anyone who expresses support for Palestinian freedom. Our latest visual offers a framework for this distinct form of racism, and how it dehumanizes Palestinian people, erases Palestinian narratives, and represses
- [Western Christendom Fails the Test](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/161014/) - Our churches seem quite unconcerned about saving the Christian presence in the Holy Land. They have watched the horror in Gaza day after day for nearly 23 months and the brutal military occupation of the Holy Land for over 7 decades. They surely know about Israel's Zionist-driven ambition to destroy the lives of the Palestinian
- [When the ‘Saints’ Come Marching In](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/when-the-saints-come-marching-in/) - They say that timing is everything. It is especially important when your last shreds of decency are fast disappearing down the drain, and you are desperate to give the appearance of wanting to salvage some claim to moral standing despite the overwhelming evidence that demonstrates unequivocally the futility of such an endeavour. Or, at least,
- [A Palestinian Mother and Son Starve with Dignity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-palestinian-mother-and-son-starve-with-dignity/) - Like the Virgin Mary, Rawan Aljuaidi speaks with dignity, each word chaste and carefully chosen; only facts and intention are allowed when spoken. Can you do a story about my infant son, Aboud? He suffers from malnutrition. I’ve known Rawan for almost eighteen months, and this is the first time she’s asked me to write
- [The World Will Change When the Press Understands Its Power](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-world-will-change-when-the-press-understands-its-power/) - The recent Putin–Trump spectacle drew a thousand journalists to Alaska, culminating in an overhyped meeting with European leaders and President Zelensky at the White House. And for what? Nothing happened. Meanwhile, the Trump administration deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C., followed days later by FBI raids on the home of John Bolton, his former
- [The Case for Palestine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-case-for-palestine/) - The best reference for understanding the Palestine-Israel crisis is a book by Dan Kovalik. The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care is a carefully researched, meticulously documented, scholarly analysis of the longstanding confrontation, presenting a detailed account of the conflict's history. I confront the bottomless depths of despair and uncontrollable
- [Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/those-who-condemn-hamas-lack-empathy-and-humility/) - Whenever I see someone going out of their way to denounce the Palestinian resistance while expressing some vaguely pro-Palestine sentiment, I take it as an admission that they aren’t capable of basic human empathy. They look at October 7 and think, “I can’t imagine myself doing that,” and conclude from this that the perpetrators of
- [“Who Is Uncivilized, Mr. Barrack?”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/who-is-uncivilized-mr-barrack/) - U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack urges Lebanese journalists to be “civilized,” “kind,” and “tolerant,” rather than “animalistic.” The irony is impossible to miss. Anyone familiar with the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East will understand the depth of the hypocrisy. Mr. Barrack implies that the “problem with the region”—the “chaos”— stems from Middle Easterners’
- [Think Tanker Demands for AUKUS: What Australia Should do with US Submarines](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/think-tanker-demands-for-aukus-what-australia-should-do-with-us-submarines/) - The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was. Announced in September 2021, ruinous to Franco-Australian relations, and Anglospheric in inclination, the agreement between Washington, London and Canberra would project US power in the Indo-Pacific with one purpose in mind: deterring China. The fool in
- [Are Conspiracy Theorists Right?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/are-conspiracy-theorists-right/) - How to overcome conspiratorial nightmares?
- [Bolivia: Unprincipled Left Split Causes Electoral Debacle](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/bolivia-unprincipled-left-split-causes-electoral-debacle/) - A man looks at newspapers front pages the day after presidential and legislative elections in La Paz, Bolivia At the general election on August 17 2025, Bolivia’s right wing scored a greater electoral and political victory than expected, bringing 20 years of MAS-IPSP government to an end. Christian Democrat (PDC) candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira surprisingly won
- [The Poor Bear the Brunt of the Pain](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-poor-bear-the-brunt-of-the-pain/) - In the theatre of global conflict, where empires clash and ideologies contend, one truth remains tragically constant: it is not the architects of war who suffer its consequences, but the poor. The dispossessed, the voiceless, the expendable—these are the true casualties of geopolitical ambition. Their pain is not incidental; it is structural. It is the
- [Trump’s Contronymal “Peace” with Russia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trumps-contronymal-peace-with-russia/) - They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain. – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye With all the hullabaloo about President Donald Trump’s “peace” gestures toward Russia over Ukraine and the resetting of U.S.-Russia bi-lateral relations, it is worth remembering the “pivot to Asia” announced by the
- [Israel's Bulldozers of Mass Destruction](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/israels-bulldozers-of-mass-destruction/) - Several people have been writing recently about the use the Israeli military has been making of Bulldozers of Mass Destruction (BMDs) in its erasure campaign in Gaza. On Tuesday, Haaretz published a wide-reaching investigation into the topic by Hagai Amit. It starts like this: In the week that has passed since I began working on this
- [Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/albion-stupidities-palestine-action-and-anti-terrorism-laws/) - Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalising protests against the war in Gaza, branding certain groups “terrorist” in inclination. While the laws dealing with criminal damage to property and such are already more than adequate, the government of Sir Keir Starmer thought
- [Exceeding Hatred](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/exceeding-hatred/) - Intense hatred is not Inherent, no matter What has been said, it Best be taught to the Impressionable at a Tender young age, to The less fortunate, to The most vulnerable. Typically, it begins with A pin-prick at this stage, With no antiseptic it Festers over a lifetime, Causing a great deal of Suffering as
- [Make America White Again](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/make-america-white-again/) - You must have been a lovely little kid. Smile. The camera captures a great event When you and dad in matching Klan robes shine. He says, never rent to people like that. They want the toilets fixed and the bugs killed. They make you, their master, a slave to them. Oh, for simpler times when
- [Untitled](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/untitled/) - Blood drips, A dream with fighter Planes orchestrating A war of another kind. The world is plunged Into darkness, all pervading; A war, blood drips I can’t see cloudy skies Any more, only lights, The computer labs are busy Blood drips, and sabre rattling Skies are noisy. The noise is muted The Holocaust is coming
- [the year I became a Nazi](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-year-i-became-a-nazi/) - was seamless i just stopped caring about anything outside of myself outside of my boots i paid taxes, legit i flew imaginary attack helicopters over real people i dropped 2000 pound cgi bombs on scared, starving, illusory actual, living breathing human beings i relaxed, reclined drank coffee at Starbucks i pretended the children were dolls
- [Cricket](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/cricket/) - Orange sashes marched across the border line, into the home county, antagonism the beat of the drum. “We felt very welcome” they said. Sure who’s going to argue? It’s just the one day, the 12th day. Go behind your green doors, ‘til the last drum sounds and bathe beneath the beating orange sun. But dare a child
- [River of Dreams](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/river-of-dreams/) - Survival was tricky. Will I be cut off food stamps? Will we sell enough copies of Vortex to buy spaghetti? Not-so-nefarious schemes, mitigated by the pre-dawn drive to the pork-and-bean factory at the edge of town, where ideals slid off my dirty ripped army jacket onto the frozen catwalk in Kansas winter, pushing, swearing, sweating,
- [Are We Them?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/are-we-them/) - The country is decaying. We no longer make things. Citizens are dumbing down. The streets are dangerous, gangs stealing from the merchants, the elderly feel unsafe when they dare take a walk. The politicians bluster but don’t make things better. The scariest thing of all our military is weak and we’re not confident they’re prepared
- [What Do We Know About Zelensky and the Seven Dwarfs Visit to the White House?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/what-do-we-know-about-zelensky-and-the-seven-dwarfs-visit-to-the-white-house/) - With the usual qualifier that I could be entirely wrong, my sense is that both the Alaska Summit and Monday’s meeting at the White House were reality checks. They revealed that Putin was finally able to convince the “collective Trump” (Gilbert Doctorow’s term), that the war in Ukraine did not begin with the Russian invasion
- [The Aesthetics of Insistence in The Kills' "Tape Song"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-aesthetics-of-insistence-in-the-kills-tape-song/) - In The Kills’ “Tape Song,” there is enjoyment, but enjoyment of a peculiar kind, enjoyment that doesn’t come from aiming at enjoyment, but enjoyment that is simply picked up, assumed along the way, in the very act of roaming, of extending the roaming without destination. The act stretches itself out, jagged, uneven, careless. And this
- [Making it Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/making-it-official-famine-strikes-gaza-city/) - History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered. Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction. As the economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen so powerfully showed in Poverty and Famines: An Essay
- [Black Power Move](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/black-power-move/) - In late August 1968, one of the largest military protests in American history took place at Fort Hood in Central Texas. You’ve never heard of it. Why? The year before, on April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out for the first time against the Vietnam War. He was assassinated one year to the
- [Unethical Medicine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/unethical-medicine/) - What kind of medical science would overrule ethics?
- [Trump Vulnerable to Progressive Populism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trump-vulnerable-to-progressive-populism/) - Democrats are politically flummoxed by the flurry of regressive proposals and policies daily manufactured by the Trump administration. Party leadership has been reduced to a reactionary political presence, simply reacting to Trump's initiatives. Weakened and disoriented, the party seems incapable of effectively challenging Trump's disingenuous populism. It does not forcefully attack his many vulnerabilities. Democratic
- [The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-case-against-a-military-intervention-to-stop-the-gaza-genocide/) - Have you read “The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide“? I don’t mind promoting it to you, since I agree with most of it (and also consider most of it to do absolutely nothing to advance any case for military intervention to stop the Gaza genocide). The enormous problem we face is
- [French Monitor: Ukraine, NATO Provoked Russia in Donbass War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/french-monitor-ukraine-nato-provoked-russia-in-donbass-war/) - Benoit Paré is a former French defense ministry analyst who worked as an international monitor in eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2022. In his first interview with a US outlet, Paré speaks to The Grayzone's Aaron Maté about the hidden reality of the Ukraine war in the Donbas region, where the US-backed Kyiv government fought
- [Global Floods Beckon Noah](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/global-floods-beckon-noah/) - Devastating widespread flooding and flash floods are becoming normal. Try spinning a globe and stop at any continent, other than Antarctica, blindfolded, point a finger, spot a flood. There’s nothing fake about the global warming leviathan absorbing more moisture in a warming atmosphere, much more than ever before, feeding a frenzy of powerful thunderstorms and
- [Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful to Social and Racial Justice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/semper-fidelis-always-faithful-to-social-and-racial-justice/) - My subheading could have been: Writing for Survival, Sanity and Soldiering On …Sterncastle Publishing in Lincoln County Brings Voices Who Have Been in the Shadows into the Book World From California to Iraq and Falluja to Antigua, to local politics and now the wounded warrior runs a small publishing house on the Oregon Coast, highlighting
- [U.S. Out of Africa: Voices from the Struggle](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/u-s-out-of-africa-voices-from-the-struggle-3/) - Is Russia an agent of destabilization in Africa or a lifeline for nations seeking sovereignty? In this second installment of our extended conversation with Dr. Gerald Horne, we challenge Western historical narratives and explore the hard truths behind Africa’s security challenges, the transition from the Wagner Group to the Africa Corps, and the shared grievances
- [Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions – Mainly by the United States – Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/unilateral-and-illegal-sanctions-mainly-by-the-united-states-kill-half-a-million-civilians-per-year/) - Karen Paulina Biswell (Colombia), Nama Bú (We Exist), 2015. Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if there is nothing strange about what is happening around us. When we read about war, it is disconnected from our lives, and many of us want to
- [From Alternative to Echo Chamber: Why Podcasts Are Starting to Look Like MSM](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/from-alternative-to-echo-chamber-why-podcasts-are-starting-to-look-like-msm/) - Like many others, I abandoned mainstream media long ago. The endless spin, shallow reporting, and predictable and propagandist narratives made it unbearable. Podcasts once seemed like the antidote: raw, unfiltered, and intellectually daring. But after countless hours of listening, I’ve begun to notice something unsettling: the global podcast universe is slowly morphing into the very
- [The US Can End the Gaza Genocide Now](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-us-can-end-the-gaza-genocide-now/) - An immediate UN Security Council vote to grant Palestine permanent membership in the UN next month would put an end to Israel’s zealous delusions of permanent control over Palestine. It cannot happen without US backing. President Donald Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize, and his efforts toward peace in Ukraine, if successful, could possibly help him earn
- [Waking up](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/waking-up/) - Is the media lying about it?
- [Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trumps-assault-upon-the-united-nations-is-at-odds-with-u-s-public-opinion/) - If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations. The United Nation is based on international cooperation, as well as on what the UN Charter calls “the equal rights ... of nations large and
- [Supremacy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/supremacy/) - Ever since childhood they’d called me Champion. In school, at work, in the gym, just about everybody would greet me as Champion. (Even our mood-disordered vicar, who wouldn't call anybody by first name or nickname even if his life depended on it, brought himself to address me Mr. Champion every so often.) Frankly, the only
- [A Step Towards Resolving a Long-standing Territorial Conflict or a Leap into the Abyss?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-step-towards-resolving-a-long-standing-territorial-conflict-or-a-leap-into-the-abyss/) - A few days ago, Armenia and Azerbaijan published the text of the peace agreement, brokered by the United States. On paper, both sides pledged to respect each other's territorial integrity and formally end the decades-long conflict. However, it remains a mystery, whether the countries will actually sign the agreement. Numerous mutual claims and disputes, the
- [Russia Bad America Good](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/russia-bad-america-good/) - The demonization of Russia among Western journalists has gotten so perverse, if Vladimir Putin were to jump in an erupting volcano and rescue a family of four Americans, carrying them on his back hobbling along on the melted stumps of his legs to a hospital 50 miles away, the mainstream media in the U.S. would
- [The Sinking Ship of Liberal Zionist Ideology](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-sinking-ship-of-liberal-zionist-ideology/) - For nearly two years now, we have been waiting for that moment when the dam bursts and the true horrific reality of the Gaza Holocaust comes crashing through into the mainstream. Yet every time an atrocity occurs that should fully open everyone’s eyes to the unfolding Holocaust, it becomes obfuscated. Our news media can be
- [Digging Deeper on Community Radio: Triple R and Indispensable Airwaves](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/digging-deeper-on-community-radio-triple-r-and-indispensable-airwaves/) - To get to the venue involves a calming, if early, ritual. Uneasy sleep beforehand, given the morning slot. Eagerness to prepare for the topic to be discussed in the global affairs segment, accompanied by that childish sense of worry that approval means something. Then, getting on a tram to the venue, which, as luck would
- [Mainstream Media?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/mainstream-media/) - Allen Forrest is writer, painter, graphic artist and activist who produces many cartoons illustrating the regressivism of capitalist societies. One cartoon by Forrest depicted a man and woman swimming in a shark-patrolled sea of MSM (aka mainstream media) lies. But why call it MSM or mainstream media? Of course, any media would love to be
- [Self-Determination for Eastern Ukraine?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/) - Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war in Ukraine is the issue of self-determination as it relates concretely to where the on-the-ground war and the huge percentage of casualties are primarily happening. The principle of nations having the right to make decisions
- [Censoring What and Who](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/censoring-what-and-who/) - The name may not be mentioned and the what may also be unmentioned, but that may not matter.
- [Pulling the Levers of Power: How the Trump Administration Hijacked Public Broadcasting](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/pulling-the-levers-of-power-how-the-trump-administration-hijacked-public-broadcasting/) - On May 1, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to cease nearly all federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order prohibited local public radio and television stations, and any other recipient of CPB funds,
- [The Freedom of Individuals](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-freedom-of-individuals/) - AI verifies our status as free individuals.
- [The U.S.-Israeli Guide to Deprivation By Design](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-u-s-israeli-guide-to-deprivation-by-design/) - How the US-Israel designs deprivation to create a killing field.
- [Cancelling the Ethnic Cleansers: Australia Revokes Simcha Rothman’s Visa](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/cancelling-the-ethnic-cleansers-australia-revokes-simcha-rothmans-visa/) - It is a curious feeling to see a government, let alone any politician, suddenly find their banished backbones and retired principles. The spine, on being discovered, adds a certain structural integrity to arguments otherwise lacking force and credibility. The recent spat between Israel and Australia suggests that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s often insecure and often
- [US Human Rights Report on Venezuela Doesn’t Pass the Mirror Test](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/us-human-rights-report-on-venezuela-doesnt-pass-the-mirror-test/) - The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article, a mirror is held up to Uncle Sam to see how well “America the beautiful” holds up to the same charges, while also exposing the role of
- [Warmongering Astrologers: Sky News and The War Cabinet](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/warmongering-astrologers-sky-news-and-the-war-cabinet/) - Twenty-four-hour news networks have demonstrated that surfeit kills discretion. The search for fillers, distractions, and items that will titillate, enrage, or simply sedate is an ongoing process. Gone are the days when discerning choices were made about what constituted worthy news, an admittedly difficult problem that would always lead to priorities, rankings, and judgments that
- [Oregon Black Pioneers: Exclusion Laws, Sundown Provisos, Racism in the Oregon Trail State](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/oregon-black-pioneers-exclusion-laws-sundown-provisos-racism-in-the-oregon-trail-state/) - https://vimeo.com/687306414?fl=pl&fe=vl I had Zachary Stocks on my radio show, which will air Sept. 17. He’s a busy man, working as ED of this non-profit, covering the state of Oregon discussing Oregon Black Pioneers’ history outreach. Listen HERE. Oregon Black Pioneers is Oregon’s only historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of African Americans
- [A Cancer Spreading in Africa](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-cancer-spreading-in-africa/) - The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is a cancer spreading in Africa. This cancer has infected much of east Africa and is spreading into northern, central, and western parts of the continent. The worst outbreak of this disease, the UAE disease, has been in Sudan where the ruling Emirates family instigated an attempted coup d'etat
- [America Meets Its Hidden Destiny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/america-meets-its-hidden-destiny/) - Healthy societies revel in who they are. Unhealthy societies view themselves in terms of either an ignominious past, current enemies who endanger them, or internal elements degrading the true, virtuous nature of the commune and sapping its strength. The United States through most of its history was in the first category. Today, it is clearly
- [Zelensky Rejects Trump’s Push for Peace Deal](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/zelensky-rejects-trumps-push-for-peace-deal/) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels. © Getty Images / EU Commission Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has rejected US President Donald Trump’s call for a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev, reiterating that a truce has to be implemented before discussing details of a possible settlement. Zelensky made the
- [MSM Lies](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/msm-lies/)
- [Fighting Fire](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/fighting-fire/) - Texas started this fight Will we turn the other cheek? Knowing well it is not right The fierce against the meek Let’s be very clear They are devaluing the vote The very last thing you will hear Is the sinking of the boat They want to steal the next election With their gerrymandering plan They
- [To Reap](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/to-reap/) - I walk plague streets of nightmare city, people becoming insane, tormented by thwarted dreams, dismal expectations unmet as lost resources glibly siphoned off by the lords of profit, indifferent to the plight of the disenfranchised abandoned as offerings to Father Time harvesting the expended, riding inexorably on his bicycle of fate.
- [Mr. Tariff Man](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/mr-tariff-man/) - (To the tune of “Mr. Sandman”) Mr. Tariff Man, send us a dream You’re a big dummy like we’ve never seen. Before your bright thoughts we weren’t rolling in clover. Now we must think that perhaps it’s game over. Dear Tariff Man, we’re so alone Your billionaire friends want to take over our homes. Please find a spaceship to
- [Stray Dogs](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/stray-dogs/) - These stray dogs They create a trail Of sadness Why do they do it? Sniffing isn’t always A breathing space Maybe to them it is Or if you pin them in Shelter homes Where is their freedom? The stones tell their Story and the
- [Landay: For Muska](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/landay-for-muska/) - (for women in Afghanistan and everywhere under patriarchy and empire) In a country with long history of our empire’s soldiers, women write despite danger. Muska sang poems into her phone, dialing her defiance to be silenced, shut down. Brothers beat her, drove her to her death for the “dishonor” to author poems till last breaths.
- [A Coinkydink?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-coinkydink/) - Has there been an increase in hearing ambulance sirens?
- [Air Show, Chicago](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/air-show-chicago/) - you would have / to have lived / a different kind / of life. —from “No Explosions” by Naomi Shihab Nye A mild morning, sky bright blue with a few streaks of clouds above streets and skyscrapers—it was a good day to walk Millennium Park with a smile on my face I just could not
- [The Listmaker (for Fred Goff)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-listmaker-for-fred-goff/) - I never told him this, but I admired him for keeping copious lists on index cards, in the breast pocket of his button down shirt. Lists of meetings to attend, people to hit up for money for the organization, friends and co-workers' birthdays, books to read, movies to see, the hours that Fenton's Ice Cream
- [US-Russia Talks: the Choice Between Peace and Escalation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/us-russia-talks-the-choice-between-peace-and-escalation/) - Photo: AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump came into office promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now, six months later, his high stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska may have put the United States and Russia on a new path toward peace, or, if this initiative fails, could trigger an even
- [Antisemitism, Codes of Conduct, and the Bendigo Writers Festival](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/antisemitism-codes-of-conduct-and-the-bendigo-writers-festival/) - Write, but do not offend. Speak and comment, but do not divide. Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion. This is the constipating, stifling regime being put in place via suggested codes of conduct for organisers of writer events in Australia. The object of this intellectual veiling: discussing the exterminating war
- [Smoldering Syria: Ongoing Security Crisis Undermines the Country’s Future](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/smoldering-syria-ongoing-security-crisis-undermines-the-countrys-future/) - The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last December was so swift and surreal that the initial euphoria lingered both inside and outside the country despite public unrest turning to brutal arrests turning to executions turning to mass murder. These actions of the new Syrian authorities have been described either as efforts to “restore order”
- [Rise Up for Our Planet: September 18-21](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/rise-up-for-our-planet-september-18-21/) - It is crystal clear that millions of US Americans are prepared to organize and take action to fight the efforts of the Trump regime to impose a form of 21st Century fascism on the USA. From the first youth-led, #50501 actions in all 50 states on February 5 to the more than five million people who
- [What Lies Behind Trump’s Attacks Against Venezuela?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/what-lies-behind-trumps-attacks-against-venezuela/) - As if President Trump intended to meet professional US mercenary Erik Prince halfway, US Attorney General Pam Bondi increased the existing US bounty on President Maduro—originally set at $15 million—from $25 million to $50 million for anyone providing “information leading to his arrest or conviction.” In late 2024, Prince, a professional mercenary, alongside Venezuela’s far
- [Concise](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/concise/) - At the end of the semester, the instructor challenged us to write an essay with body paragraph shorter than the title—at least one word shorter, preferably by two or more. “The prize is high, guys,” he added, “much higher than just getting a good grade. The winner and the runner-up will receive a one-year fellowship
- [Global Warming en Vogue, Deal With It!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/global-warming-en-vogue-deal-with-it/) - Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are turning tail and de-emphasizing commitments to fight climate change. Several of the 196 countries subject
- [A Cry from the Ashes: Who Still Has a Conscience?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-cry-from-the-ashes-who-still-has-a-conscience/) - The world—eight billion strong—stands at a precipice. In Gaza, a people are being systematically pulverized, displaced, and erased. And the architects of this devastation—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the governments that arm him—continue their campaign with brazen impunity. This is not merely a geopolitical crisis. It is a moral apocalypse. Where are the men and
- [Trump Said It: “There’s No Better Word Than Stupid.”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trump-said-it-theres-no-better-word-than-stupid/) - For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official U.S. state, it is time to think again. If he is not a figurehead for those alleged hidden forces, then he will agree to a Russia-Ukraine settlement on Russia’s
- [How the Toxic Manosphere is Grooming Adolescent Boys](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/how-the-toxic-manosphere-is-grooming-adolescent-boys/) - Attribution: Denitza Tchacarova: A Russian poster urging open your eyes - against women being abused. Over the past decade, the “Manosphere” — a loosely connected but increasingly influential network of blogs, forums, influencers, and online communities — has become a powerful vehicle for promoting traditional gender roles, male grievance politics, and opposition to feminism. Once considered
- [Eugenics and the Discriminatory Misuse of Gene Science Explored](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/eugenics-and-the-discriminatory-misuse-of-gene-science-explored/) - A beautiful, troubling reminder... A must-watch. -- Erik Peterson, Assoc. Prof. of the History of Science, University of Alabama, Author, The Shortest History of Eugenics In The Name of the Gene Directed by Stephanie Welch Produced by Stephanie Welch, Andrew Kimbrell, Jed Riffe The concept of a "gene" — which came about during the Gilded
- [No Excuse for Refusing Palestinians their State a Moment Longer](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/no-excuse-for-refusing-palestinians-their-state-a-moment-longer/) - When it comes to recognising Palestinian statehood, the UK and US seem unable to grasp what their solemn obligations are. Fortunately, UN Resolution 37/43 of December 1982 is there to help. It comprehensively reaffirms previous resolutions and treaties on the universal right to self-determination and the speedy granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples
- [The West is in Panic as Israel's Plan for "Full Control" of Gaza Heralds a New Nakba](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-west-is-in-panic-as-israels-plan-for-full-control-of-gaza-heralds-a-new-nakba/)
- [Summer Days and Dark Nights](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/summer-days-and-dark-nights/) - One never knows where fascism “lite” might appear. We have one bumper sticker for our state which has confounded the foreign tourists along our coast: Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire . . . Qué significa . . . was bedeutet es? These French, Mexican and German tourists asked me last week, What does it mean
- [Race, Segregation, and Sectarianism in American Cinema](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/race-segregation-and-sectarianism-in-american-cinema/) - Due to the capitalistically orchestrated scourge of illiteratization and the machinations of the mass media, only a small percentage of Americans understand Washington’s penchant for launching illegal wars of aggression, and with the exception of the Gaza genocide and the Vietnam War the overwhelming majority of the population seldom has any understanding of what their
- [Condemn all UN Member States: They Spend 100 times More on Militarism than on the Entire UN System](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/condemn-all-un-member-states-they-spend-100-times-more-on-militarism-than-on-the-entire-un-system/) - The United Nations, facing a liquidity crisis, has been threatening to lay-off about 20 percent of its estimated 37,000 employees world-wide: a proposed move that has triggered widespread protests from staff unions both in New York and Geneva. Thus starts Thalif Dean’s analysis in a recent IPS article. The UN is in a liquidity crisis!!??
- [Partigiani](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/partigiani/) - Paranoid, probably clinically paranoid, the old captain saw partisans everywhere. He called them “partigiani,” the only Italian word he could pronounce properly. As we entered Bolzano the captain spotted a mansion, badly damaged by our artillery during the early morning shelling. He believed it was a potential partigiani hiding place and sent a dozen of
- [A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-shield-of-lies-netanyahus-battle-against-the-world/) - It was a sign of someone desperate that his message has failed to take wing and make its way to better lands. With the strategy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Gaza Strip sundered and falling over, leaving only a thick butcher’s bill (over 60,000 deaths for starters), extraordinary suffering and humanitarian catastrophe,
- [Our Corporatized Milieu:  From Chronic Stress to Depression](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/our-corporatized-milieu-from-chronic-stress-to-depression/) - In the United States today, everyday life has become for many an anxiety-driven race to nowhere, a stress-filled sprint on the work-and-spend treadmill. Under such dehumanizing conditions, people try to cope with such chronic stress through compulsive access to mood-altering drugs, food, alcohol, TV, the Internet, shopping, pornography and sex. Several decades ago, responding to
- [Ukraine: We Told You So](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/ukraine-we-told-you-so/) - I hate to say I told you so. It’s obnoxious, really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case, the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the “experts” who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong.
- [Stop the Violence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/stop-the-violence/) - It is paradoxical that many advocate for ending wars without acknowledging the root issue of violence. If now is not the time to finally address violence, when will it be? We must name and challenge all its forms—physical, religious, economic, political, psychological, cultural, sexual, and others—because violence in any form is the primary barrier to
- [The Hidden Costs of the Big Data Surveillance Complex](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-hidden-costs-of-the-big-data-surveillance-complex/) - Unbeknownst to much of the public, Big Tech exacts heavy tolls on public health, the environment, and democracy. The detrimental combination of an unregulated tech sector, pronounced rise in cyberattacks and data theft, and widespread digital and media illiteracy—as noted in my previous Dispatch on Big Data’s surveillance complex—is exacerbated by legacy media’s failure to inform the
- [Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/slaying-and-censoring-the-journalists-the-murder-of-anas-al-sharif/) - “Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”. Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. Resting in a tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, he was killed alongside Al Jazeera
- [Shanti Maheshwari: Brutally Silenced Forever](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/shanti-maheshwari-brutally-silenced-forever/) - Shanti Maheshwari in a bridal dress; her husband Ashok Kumar is behind the bars IMAGE/voicepk.net VIDEO/voicepk.net/Youtube From beautiful bride, to victim of marital rape, this is the story of Shanti, a 19-year-old whose husband has been charged under the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2013. IMAGE/Inter Press Service (IPS) Shanti Maheshwari was a
- [A Quartet of Nicaragua Critics Sings from Washington’s Songbook](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/a-quartet-of-nicaragua-critics-sings-from-washingtons-songbook/) - In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never visited the country; Jared O. Bell, a former USAID Foreign Service Officer; Barb Arland-Fye, editor of a Catholic newspaper in Iowa; and Gioconda Belli, a 76-year-old Nicaraguan
- [yodler 4 sub-'umen (funeral koan)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/yodler-4-sub-umen-funeral-koan/) - Then, as now, there was a war going on against poor people in a distant country, which our government presented to us as a civil war. I was a slow learner. Before I could recognize what the situation really was, I had to be a marine for three years, go to Vietnam for the State
- [This Is Not a Drill](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/this-is-not-a-drill/) - It does not start with tanks. A book gone from the shelves a whisper in the teacher’s lounge: not anymore (curriculum reform). Maybe don’t say her name maybe don’t name the thing maybe don’t say anything. I’ve lived this before under another flag where my existence was Moharebeh enmity against God and my gender a
- [this city stops for no one](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/this-city-stops-for-no-one/) - just another homeless woman, invisible drumming in a Van Nuys fog bank face down in the middle of Victory blvd head thrumming got one kid in college another in jail and the bus is coming
- [Dancing with the Devil: Is It Possible to Evaluate Stalin Dialectically?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/dancing-with-the-devil-is-it-possible-to-evaluate-stalin-dialectically/) - Orientation Boogey men on parade “How can you like Putin? He is a dictator who has been in power for 20 years. There is no democracy in Russia. Besides, Russia is not a socialist country, so why are you rooting for him?” Here is another one. “Venezuela is a failed country run by drug cartels.
- [The Rights of Sheep](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-rights-of-sheep/) - What would happen if sheep gave up their rights?
- [Water on Mars, Blood on Earth](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/water-on-mars-blood-on-earth/) - Mars Missions vs Earth’s Thirst: NASA’s Perseverance rover cost $2.7 billion. The global space economy exceeds $500 billion annually. Meanwhile, the UN estimates $11 billion per year could provide clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth. In Somalia, over 8 million people face water scarcity, while Cape Town nearly ran dry in 2018 due
- [He Rules The World](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/he-rules-the-world/) - Rejoice in his power, you racist swine. Rejoice in his greed, money-worshippers. He rules the world to make himself more flush, This vendor of trinkets and bric-a-brac, Over-priced and useless, symbols of excess. His ego is centipedal. It looks in On the cosmic emptiness of his soul. Breathe deep the lies of a perfect creep. He’s
- [Children Weep](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/children-weep/) - Let the strip of Gaza be a barren land Let not the blood there trouble your conscience But let it be a relic of history built on the monument of past, present and future Let the mounds of bodies there be a sacrament of truth Till you scratch the surface to unravel the miasma of
- [Netanyahu and Taking Over Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/netanyahu-and-taking-over-gaza/) - To say that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one. With a dearth of ideas as to how to come up with a “final solution” to the Palestinian problem, he has received a majority approval from his cabinet colleagues to take over Gaza City. It took
- [The Power of Future Thinking](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-power-of-future-thinking/) - In conversation about the global future with with Professor Zhang WeiWei of Fudan University -- one of the most respected, outspoken and productive Chinese social science scholars. It is of paramount attention that we focus on the future - on the world that can be and develop to benefit humankind, including how we can strengthen the
- [Poking Fun at the NWO](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/poking-fun-at-the-nwo/) - How to protect oneself from Deep State dislike of one's memes.
- [Trump’s Tariffs against Latin America](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trumps-tariffs-against-latin-america/) - President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order about the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, August 5, 2025 Trump's threat of imposing a crippling 50 per cent tariff on all Brazilian imports to the United
- [Social Media Sirenading Us to Death](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/social-media-sirenading-us-to-death/) - The Sirens and Ulysses by William Etty, 1837 Just when I figured I had plumbed the depths of capitalism's toxicity, I came across yet more proof; in fact, the apotheosis of toxicity. The toxicity to end all toxicity. Chris Hayes' The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource (2025) describes how, with
- [Trump’s Fatal Move](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trumps-fatal-move/) - The headline read, "Trump tells Israel to ‘finish the job’ against Hamas." Unexplained by Triumphant is why the United States is involved with determining the fate of Hamas. Has Hamas injured any American or threatened U.S. hegemony? Does Hamas have long-range ballistic missiles, tipped with nuclear weapons, that can reach the U.S. mainland? Does Hamas
- [Conspiracy Blues](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/conspiracy-blues/) - What kind of people just believe whatever they see on mass media news?
- [Why Western Hegemony is Over](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/why-western-hegemony-is-over/) - The tariff truce between China and the United States is set to end in August. What do you forecast will happen after that? And what will happen to trade relations between China and the US for the rest of US President Donald Trump’s second term? The United States learned that it can’t impose its will on China. The rare earths
- [Enslaved Girl Emerita](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/enslaved-girl-emerita/) - A small story On a small news outlet Helped a small girl Reach a small audience After all, do news junkies Look at SyriacPress Or care about Assyrians, Chaldeans, or Arameans? How many news junkies See “Enslaved Girl” As if it were a title, like Prof or Poet Laureate? She was a precocious girl Titled
- [Neverending Tragedy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/neverending-tragedy/) - The flood of the Guadalupe Was the beginning of a tragedy After so many needless deaths The response is a travesty They’re still waiting for a hand And they’ve waited long enough FEMA said: We understand The state of Texas said: Tough! When the cameras went away The politicians did the same Leaving no one
- [Never Again Has Lost Its Meaning](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/never-again-has-lost-its-meaning/) - The bombs stopped for a moment but the war went on. Bodies were piled on bodies as the war went on. Funerals could not be held because the war went on. Homes turned to rubble as the war went on. Children were starving because the war went on. At food aid stations bullets flew while
- [Lying AI](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/lying-ai/) - Why would AI lie?
- [English in the Trenches](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/english-in-the-trenches/) - The sergeant assured us we were able to monitor even the most littlest movements of the enemy with our hi-tech surveillance equipment day and night. “The most littlest?” hissed one of the younger soldiers, a perpetual graduate student of Literature in civilian life. “Did he say the ‘most littlest?’” “Yes, he did,” I said. “He
- [Reclaiming the Sacred in a World of Disparity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/reclaiming-the-sacred-in-a-world-of-disparity/) - In every season of abundance—when music pours through nightclubs, when diamonds clink in champagne flutes, when the glitter of modern life dazzles like divine light—there exists a parallel world. A world not less real, but far less seen. As capitalist empires grow ever more intoxicating, the dispossessed groan beneath their glitter. We live in a
- [Veterans Force NY County Sheriff to Take Down Israeli Flag](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/veterans-force-ny-county-sheriff-to-take-down-israeli-flag/) - The flag of Israel represents the greatest human rights disaster in modern history, yet has flown proudly at the Broome County Correctional Facility by order of Sheriff Akshar. His dedication to Trump’s unconstitutional actions has also made Broome County one of the leading penal camps for immigrants in New York State. For over 600 days the Israeli flag
- [Celebrating Nicaragua’s Gains and Feeling Anguish for Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/celebrating-nicaraguas-gains-and-feeling-anguish-for-gaza/) - 1999: Hurricane Mitch Aftermath The image is forever seared in my mind: Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds. It was the summer of 1999, and
- [Trump's Christian Nationalists' Apocalyptic Dreams, Are America's Nightmares](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trumps-christian-nationalists-apocalyptic-dreams-are-americas-nightmares/) - Apocalyptic visions are no longer confined to conferences of far-right organizations, End Times novels, small fringe obscure churches, and on movie theater and television screens. These days they are finding a home embedded in the War Room at Donald Trump’s White House. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 “calls for establishing a government that would be
- [The Titan Submersible Investigation Report](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-titan-submersible-investigation-report/) - A reckless enterprise bordering on criminal stupidity, the story of the Titan’s crushing demise as it descended to the ocean floor is one with many historical echoes. The Report of Investigation (ROI) by the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation into the events of June 2023 that led to the deaths of five people
- [Economic Terror and the Turbochuggf*ck in Texas](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/economic-terror-and-the-turbochuggfck-in-texas/) - I don’t know what word in the English language—I can’t find one—that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life … so they can put a few more dollars into highly overstuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t begin to approach it. —Noam Chomsky Unlike other historical periods of
- [Eighty years after the U.S. Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/eighty-years-after-the-u-s-bombed-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-are-we-on-the-verge-of-another-nuclear-war/) - Eighty years ago, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are now nine nuclear-armed nations, many in military confrontation with one another. It is quite remarkable that there has not been another nuclear war. How can this be explained? Some say the absence of another nuclear war proves
- [The Rabbi and the Robdozers - Heavy Machinery and Patriotic Demolition in the Service of Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-rabbi-and-the-robdozers-heavy-machinery-and-patriotic-demolition-in-the-service-of-genocide/) - Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a well-respected holy man in Israel with some devoted followers. He is a dayan, a judge in the rabbinical courts of Tel Aviv, dispensing wisdom in matters of religion and Jewish law. He’s also a reservist in the Sayeret Givati brigade of the IDF and is currently serving in Gaza. There,
- [Adjusting the Temperature: Climate Change and International Law](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/adjusting-the-temperature-climate-change-and-international-law/) - Before the clenching constipation of reluctant and cloddish policy makers, climate change advocates have found courts surprisingly amenable to their concerns. Bodies of environmental law in national courts and international tribunals are now burgeoning on the obligations of states to address ecological harms and the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. As is often the case,
- [Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/) - What follows is a revised and updated version of an essay from my 2020 book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies. “The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint…But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and
- [Foiling the Anti-Protest Sceptics: The Pro-Palestinian Sydney Harbour Bridge March](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/foiling-the-anti-protest-sceptics-the-pro-palestinian-sydney-harbour-bridge-march/) - There were the doomsdayers, the moaners, and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some 100,000 people attended the March for Humanity gathering, which began in Sydney’s central business district on August 3rd, before crossing to the Sydney
- [Joie de Vivre: Reclaiming a Positive Vision in Troubled Times](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/joie-de-vivre-reclaiming-a-positive-vision-in-troubled-times/) - Not recognizing the magic of the present moment may just be a crime against our humanity. In my recent article, From Personal Development to Human Development, I explored the imbalance between our inner growth and society’s relentless focus on external activity. One of the greatest obstacles to genuine human development today is the sheer level of
- [How to Keep the Faith](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/how-to-keep-the-faith/) - "Keep the Faith" Bon Jovi (Faith) You know you're gonna live through the rain Lord, we've gotta keep the faith (Faith) Don't you let your love turn to hate Now we've gotta keep the faith
- [Iranian Civil Society Calls for “Life for All, War for No One.”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/iranian-civil-society-calls-for-life-for-all-war-for-no-one/) - We believe that war, wherever and by whomever it is initiated, leads to violence, poverty, displacement, and the destruction of vital resources. The people of Iran, who have lived for years under the weight of war, sanctions, restrictions, threats, impositions, corruption, and environmental and economic crises, do not want another war. Continue now to read
- [Historic Peace Boat Arrives in San Francisco Bay](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/historic-peace-boat-arrives-in-san-francisco-bay/) - The historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat has arrived in San Francisco and will be officially welcomed at Pier 39 (J Dock) at 10 am Tuesday morning, August 5. The public and media are cordially invited to attend. The 34-foot wooden ketch and her 4-person crew will sail around San Francisco Bay throughout August, making stops in
- [From USSR & Russia and Islam, to Toronto to Antisemitic in the Eyes of the Overload](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/from-ussr-russia-and-islam-to-toronto-to-antisemitic-in-the-eyes-of-the-overload/) - Aug 03, 2025 Link to the Interview, ahead of the KYAQ.org 91.7 FM airing. Oh, we did it, via Zoom, from Newport, Oregon, to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We had to use the free version of Zoom (is anything free with digital gulag tools, since Zoom has our data, our recording, even the stuff we said
- [They’re Selling Postcards of the Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/theyre-selling-postcards-of-the-genocide/) - To me, they [Palestinians] are like animals, they aren’t human. -- Eli Ben-Dahan, Israeli Politician, 2013 They’re stripping all the truth to shreds. Don and Bibi’s gift shop’s Rent-a-Dissident will knock your conscience dead. If you purchase their postcards, they’ll know they got your head. If you buy four for a dollar, it’s a quarter
- [Regime Change 2025](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/regime-change-2025/) - The popular protest sign “They’re eating the checks, they’re eating the balances” exactly captures the destruction Donald Trump has wrought in his first six months in office as he follows the Project 2025 roadmap to change every aspect of American government and American life. No American institution has escaped Trump’s wrath: the U.S. Constitution’s three
- [Ice Is Hiring](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/ice-is-hiring/) - Your country needs you. Step up to a job That makes America safe again. Work For the premier institution where Safety and public service go hand in hand. Illegal immigrants and those who look like them are overrunning our land and taking away jobs in meat packing, landscaping, car washes and field work, jobs that
- [Cento: Collage of Now](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/cento-collage-of-now/) - I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed in a tent. I had not thought death had undone so many. Death sits to eat whoever remains of the kids. Eight bombs thump the field. Four kids killed. We didn’t hear the F-16s until
- [Supposed Onion](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/supposed-onion/) - growing up in Manhattan Phil subscribed to the philosophy the smoother the hummus the better but then about five years ago he tried chunky hummus in East Jerusalem and loved it turns out the ticket to chunky hummus is simple chop strong yellow onion coarsely use a fork not a blender to mash the boiled
- [Empire's Lullaby](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/empires-lullaby/) - Sleep is not silent in the empire, whose tentacles catch fire instead of dreams and lick the roots of trees in search of death. Empire feeds on sleep, preying on the cooing of babies once roused by a soft nipple, now torn apart by exploding stars that drink the human memory of milk.
- [Hood Winking Tragedy?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/hood-winking-tragedy/) - Etymologies are distorted, Are they immigrants or migrants That you are extirpating from the Land they have known for years? The soil they have nurtured carefully To build homes not houses? Edifices that withstood time And the floods Why do the poor only suffer The annihilation of time, humiliation Of being asked to go, or
- [Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/eighty-years-of-nuclear-terror/) - Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then and since, that the development of nuclear weapons did not bode well for human survival, were clear enough. The two small atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed between
- [No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/nuking-cities-did-not-save-lives/) - It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest right-wing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s almost as if the New York Times’ kookiest right-wing propagandist’s claiming that killing Palestinians is not genocide had to be one-upped by the Post. It’s even more
- [Forget about Epstein](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/forget-about-epstein/) - Who would say Epstein is a distraction?
- [Working Class Hero](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/working-class-hero/) - As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you
- [Indo-Pak Leaders Should “Have a Nice Dinner Together”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/indo-pak-leaders-should-have-a-nice-dinner-together/) - Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi IMAGE/PPI/AFP/The News Troublemakers Many leaders are averse to running their countries in a peaceful and progressive manner. Instead of concentrating on the problems the majority of their people face, they create trouble by introducing or undoing things, in order to gain political mileage
- [2 of 20,586 Misusing the Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy and Censorship](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/2-of-20586-misusing-the-children-the-uk-online-safety-act-privacy-and-censorship/) - The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of adventure in policy. Lately, those mad protectors and censors with their shields of false virtue and hollow intellect have decided to launch an assault on the users of the Internet. In this,
- [The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-genius-act-and-the-national-bank-acts-of-1863-64/) - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regulate stablecoins, a category of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value, the Act is highly controversial. Critics variously argue that it anoints stablecoins as the equivalent of “programmable” central bank digital currencies
- [Exploiting the Issue of Palestinian Recognition](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/exploiting-the-issue-of-palestinian-recognition/) - They have been the playthings of powers for decades, and there is no promise that this will end soon. Empires and powers seem to come and go, yet the plight of the Palestinians remains more horrific than ever. Now, in the next instalment of the grand morality game, France, the United Kingdom and Canada promise
- [Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/massive-ocean-regime-shift-alarming/) - This figure shows changes in heat content of the top 700 meters of the world’s oceans between 1955 and 2023 (US EPA) A new study claims severe ocean overheating may be causing a fundamental climate shift. Ocean heatwaves over the past couple of years have been massive and extensive and intensive on a scale never
- [With 2026 World Cup Coming to US, FIFA Head Gianni Infantino Cozies up to Trump](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/with-2026-world-cup-coming-to-us-fifa-head-gianni-infantino-cozies-up-to-trump/) - Trump presents Chelsea's Cole Palmer with the golden ball trophy after Chelsea defeats Paris St Germain in the Club World Cup final. A few weeks back, the FIFA Club World Cup concluded with Chelsea FC defeating Paris Saint-German. Flanked by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Donald Trump, greeted by a chorus of boos from fans at
- [UK's Starmer and Lammy Prepare Ground for Dubious "Peace Plan"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/uks-starmer-and-lammy-prepare-ground-for-dubious-peace-plan/) - Public opinion and party pressure have forced Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy to speak warm words about Palestinian statehood. But these guys are a Zionist double-act and will do the Palestinians no favours if they can help it. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, addressing the UN Conference on The Peaceful Settlement of the Question
- [The World Divided](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-world-divided/) - An interesting news report revealed the discovery of a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in a southern India cave. Earth’s inhabitants ponder how they can escape the madness, and this woman found a simple and agreeable solution. She described a close to nature life — swimming in waterfalls, painting, and doing pottery.
- [Mirror or Mirage? The Future of Truth and Freedom of the Press Today](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/mirror-or-mirage-the-future-of-truth-and-freedom-of-the-press-today/) - Truth or Perception? True to the words of the legendary 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert, “there is no truth. There is only perception”. The truth may sound or taste bitter. But in reality, there is no singular truth and perception about anything and everything in this divine universe, even about the most abstract ones. Inherent
- [The Zionist Brutalization and Detainment of Chris Smalls: Emblematic of the White Supremacy at the Core of Zionism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/the-zionist-brutalization-and-detainment-of-chris-smalls-emblematic-of-the-white-supremacy-at-the-core-of-zionism/) - The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally denounces the brutal assault and abduction of Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls, who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Though he is now released, the exceptionally heinous treatment of Smalls by the Zionist state forces demonstrates the historical neurotic fear of any interconnection between Black
- [Canada’s Complicity Laid Bare](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/canadas-complicity-laid-bare/) - We will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza, period. — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, March 20 2024 It was a cynical lie. Now we have the evidence. A damning new report from the Arms Embargo Now coalition traces hundreds of shipments of Canadian-made weapons and military
- [Snake Oil, PT Barnum, and Postmortem for July 4](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/snake-oil-pt-barnum-and-postmortem-for-july-4/) - Note: A new editor for the local rag, Lincoln County Leader, which was known for 100 years as the Newport News Times. The previous editor, Steve Card, who did 30 years in the journalistic trenches, left and retired. I was doubtful that my long-form op-eds would continue, but this month, today, July 16, it appeared.
- [China’s Path from Desolation to Modernisation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/chinas-path-from-desolation-to-modernisation/) - In 1954, Mao Zedong said, ‘We cannot deny that we are still unable to produce motor cars. We are still very far away from being industrialised’. Mao was speaking to an audience of Chinese industrialists and merchants at a time when the country was desperately poor, its resources stretched by decades of Japanese invasion, civil war with the nationalist Kuomintang, and ongoing US aggression in Korea, where China had intervened in support of the forces of national liberation.
- [Gullibility](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/gullibility/) - How best to represent gullibility that crops up among the masses?
- [Fear Porn](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/fear-porn/) - How to feed your addiction to fear porn.
- [Corrupt Government Official](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/corrupt-government-official/) - What do fiscal obligations mean for a corrupt government official?
- [Master of Distraction](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/master-of-distraction/) - Classic speaking out both sides of one mouth.
- [Of Hackers and Scammers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/of-hackers-and-scammers/) - A good friend of mine's bank account was recently raided and cleaned out by hackers. As soon as he found out, within minutes, my friend who, himself is a network engineer, reported the theft to the bank. The money was transferred out of his account and saved in another bank, and from there, sent out
- [A Japanese Woman Called “Tornado”: Samurai Action in an 18th Century Scottish Setting](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/a-japanese-woman-called-tornado-samurai-action-in-an-18th-century-scottish-setting/) - Tornado (2025) is a new action drama film written and directed by the Scottish film director, screenwriter and musician, John Maclean. It is set in Scotland in the 1790s and follows the travails of a young Japanese woman called Tornado who is on the run from a local violent gang led by Sugarman. The story
- [Genocide is Psychopathy](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/genocide-is-psychopathy/) - Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau declares, "I am a Zionist." Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a particular group. When it is your country, your troops, your government and its officials committing genocide, many people will stubbornly refuse to acknowledge such a fact. Such is the propagandic effect of patriotism that it erodes
- [The Paranoia of Officialdom: Age Verification and Using the Internet in Australia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-paranoia-of-officialdom-age-verification-and-using-the-internet-in-australia/) - Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers. Be it perceived threats to morality, the tendency of the populace to be corrupted, and a general, gnawing fear about what knowledge might do, Australia’s governing authorities have prized censorship. This recent trend is most conspicuous in an
- [Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, but US Media Ignores It](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/amazon-union-leader-chris-smalls-detained-beaten-by-idf-but-us-media-ignores-it/) - This week, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) boarded the Handala, a ship associated with the Flotilla Freedom Coalition, that was attempting to reach Gaza with supplies for starving Palestinians. The IDF detained 20 activists, who had their hands held up, in graphic images that the Freedom Flotilla Coalition captured. Among those on the ship was Chris
- [It Shouldn’t Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start Speaking Up About Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/it-shouldnt-have-taken-this-much-for-mainstream-voices-to-start-speaking-up-about-gaza/) - Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, and the overwhelming majority of leading authorities on the subject of genocide in their conclusion. The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost. And we are seeing this reflected
- [A Needed Realization](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/a-needed-realization/) - What should one do after a required realization?
- [When Israelis Call It Out: Finding Genocide in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/when-israelis-call-it-out-finding-genocide-in-gaza/) - It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions always spurred by the noblest, necessary motivations of self-defence against satanic enemies who wish genocide upon Jews. Over time, as Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov writes, “Ethical concerns and moral qualms were brushed aside as either
- [Before, During, and After Savagery](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/before-during-and-after-savagery/) - "But the state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jew; it was created for the salvation of Western interests." -- James Baldwin, “Open Letter to the Born Again” (September 29, 1979). Quoted in Hamid Dabashi, After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization (Haymarket Books, 2025): 159. Baldwin's assessment
- [The Well](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-well/) - Sara’s cleaning her M-16 and drinking water from the well. When she looks up she sees a multitude of nomads, exhausted and covered with dust. Apparently they just crossed the desert. “May we drink your water?” their spokesman asks. “We’re parched.” “It’s a public well, not mine,” says Sarah. Then she stares down the old
- [Ethiopia: Where Political Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/ethiopia-where-political-power-grows-from-the-barrel-of-a-gun/) - There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the western backed corrupt, brutal gangster regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, he who was bestowed the Nobel Peace prize by the imperialists on the Nobel Committee in Norway On the
- [Trump Targets Latino Migrants](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/trump-targets-latino-migrants/) - By escalating deportations, ending humanitarian protections, and cutting remittances, Trump’s immigration policy threatens to destabilize Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration. The importance of Latinos living and working in the US is enormous: if they were in a separate country, it would be the world’s
- [Fiscal Obligations](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/fiscal-obligations/) - What kind of fiscal obligations do politicians an government bureaucrats have?
- [To the Bone](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/to-the-bone/) - I think it’s the bones that finally broke me. Or maybe I lost any bones of hope more than a year ago when a hospital was left as burned and broken as one patient who could not be saved, or when I saw a kid holding her jaw together with nothing but her hands. That
- [Dystopian Killing Fields and Starvation in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/dystopian-killing-fields-and-starvation-in-gaza/) - Starvation as a way of life. Starvation as a way of death. Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance. As the state of Israel hums along frittering, scratching and violating international human rights conventions, the chroniclers are kept busy on the morgue’s relentlessly growing inventory and peace’s loss. Of late, a vast number of humanitarian organisations
- [While the Neo-Nazi Group The Base Ramps up Recruitment, Trump’s FBI Looks the Other Way](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/trumps-fbi-looks-other-way-at-neonazi-recruitment/) - Pre-2024 Election Pro-Trump Boat Parade Under Donald Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel, federal attention to tracking far‑right groups has reportedly waned, enabling neo-Nazi, militia and accelerationist groups to mobilize and recruit new members more openly and easily. One of the most active of these groups is The Base, a violent paramilitary network that promotes accelerationism;
- [Debunking Israeli Propaganda in Times of Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/debunking-israeli-propaganda-in-times-of-genocide/) - We live in interesting but brutal times. It is evident that myths are biting the dust with long held narratives dissolving when exposed to the harsh and bloody reality. Nowhere is this more evident than with all the myths that propped up Israel for many decades. Israel was portrayed as a fragile yet resilient little
- [A Post-Truth World](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/a-post-truth-world/) - After that pudgy little creep said it That’s the way things have been. It always was Perhaps a post-truth world from the time kings Pretended to have semi-divine blood And priests could save you if you just believed Whatever rules they overheard from heaven. War is the lodestone of post-truth crap. Let’s spend ourselves bankrupt
- [When Love Is locked](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/when-love-is-locked/) - In the divine tapestry of creation, color is not merely pigment—it is poetry. Each human hue whispers of the Creation’s ingenuity, each skin tone a stanza in the sacred hymn of life. And yet, humanity has tarnished this gift, not only misinterpreting color, but misusing it to justify exclusion, superiority, and division. The Betrayal of
- [Oh, Darn, the Ultimate Victims Have Cornered the Market on Nazism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/oh-darn-the-ultimate-victims-have-cornered-the-market-on-nazism/) - Reference: Chosen Trauma and Terrorism: The Jewish Victim Narrative The purpose of this research paper was to investigate the justification of Jewish terrorism against the Palestinians, through the lens of chosen trauma. Through qualitative research, it was deduced that chosen trauma is the result of victimization and large-group identity. Hence, the psychological domain of collective victimhood
- [By Choice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/by-choice/) - Armed soldiers in Gaza Shoot starving people queueing for food Politicians in Congress Vote to conceal evidence of child sex trafficking and rape And then leave town Immigrants whose only crime Is being in the U.S. without filling out paperwork Are herded into concentration camps Where, handcuffed, they are forced to kneel to eat like
- [Gringo Go Home](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/gringo-go-home/) - Up north they want the border closed Down south they’re beginning to see Both sides want the change to slow They’re not sure what to plead The northerners are moving in The cost of housing on the rise The locals lose, the landlords win When they cater to the gentrified The workers cannot pay the
- [Patterns: Butterflies](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/patterns-butterflies/) - For the man who should loose me is dead, Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for? -Amy Lowell, “Patterns” Amy, patterns by themselves are not the problem. Look at the multicolored, magical patterns on a butterfly wing: black, white, orange, purple, magenta, gold. Those patterns
- [Give Peace a Chance](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/give-peace-a-chance-2/) - Cain versus Abel: the first war in history. What will be the last?
- [HIPS Journalists: Honorable Intelligent Persistent Sane: Abby Martin and Gaza and MIC](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/hips-journalists-honorable-intelligent-persistent-sane-abby-martin-and-gaza-and-mic/) - And who wouldn’t want this journalist in the trenches fighting with you for truth? https://youtu.be/XZ3PJpLthL0?si=22_176Grx06dQ5U0 It was an honor to have her on my show, which airs July 30, 6 pm PST at KYAQ.org. Finding Fringe. DV gets the show early! Listen here. And, remember, Gaza now, but China in 2027, we will see blood.
- [Defining Israeli Zionist Racism: Part 12](https://dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/defining-israeli-zionist-racism-part-12/) - Section 2: [Continuation: Deconstructed Contents] Barbara Kay: If the Arabs had accepted the two-state solution proposed by the UN partition plan of 1947, they would have been living in their own state for 60 years in peace with Israel. Why do you blame Israel for Arab intransigence and stupidity? Refutation: Interestingly, lacking a coherent theory
- [Ethnic Cleansing in the United States](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/ethnic-cleansing-in-the-united-states/) - Until 1492, all of North America belonged to its many indigenous peoples. With the coming of Europeans, that began to change. Said Europeans came as conquerors and colonial settlers. They brought new diseases which massively depopulated the indigenous nations. The ubiquitous abuses, which European and Euro-American governments perpetrated against the Indigenes, were “justified” with racial
- [Animal Farm Amerika](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/animal-farm-amerika/) - It was 80 years ago that George Orwell's book Animal Farm was published. The last words of the book sum up what we have now been experiencing in Amerika: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which
- [The Civilized World Must Act Immediately over Mass Starvation in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-civilized-world-must-act-immediately-over-mass-starvation-in-gaza/) - Over 23 horrific months the people of Gaza (47% children before the present Gaza Massacre) have suffered bombing, shooting, burying under rubble, near-total devastation of homes and infrastructure, and substantial deprivation from water, food, shelter, fuel, electricity, medicine, and medical care. The mass murder of 680,000 Gazans by violence and imposed deprivation has now transmuted
- [Bring Back the Hammer: Why the Labor Movement Must Get Militant Again](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/bring-back-the-hammer-why-the-labor-movement-must-get-militant-again/) - We Were Built for Militancy A century ago there was no need for such a case to be made. Unions acted as the hammer of the working class, beating down the bosses and nailing down victory upon victory for workers. It is a sad day when the labor movement loses its militancy as that means
- [Prospects for the Continuation of Life on Earth and of the Human Species](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/prospects-for-the-continuation-of-life-on-earth-and-of-the-human-species/) - In the July 12, 2024 issue of the scientific journal Nature, an article was published by nineteen co-authors, entitled, “The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system.” The article describes the current status of research into the origin of life on Earth, and the latest available evidence,
- [The Strength of Peace: Nicaragua Celebrates its 46th Anniversary of July 19, 1979](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-strength-of-peace-nicaragua-celebrates-its-46th-anniversary-of-july-19-1979/) - This year was different from celebrations since 2021 when there were perhaps 5,000 people invited – this year there were about 50,000! It took place in the Plaza de la Fe where the July 19th celebrations were held for years and years with open attendance of hundreds of thousands and little organization. That changed in 2020
- [Palestinians Fight for Survival is at the Forefront of a Worldwide Struggle against Global Fascism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/palestinians-fight-for-survival-is-at-the-forefront-of-a-worldwide-struggle-against-global-fascism-an-interview-with-prof-david-klein/) - Q: How long did you teach mathematics at Cal State University, Northridge? David Klein: I was there for a little more than three decades. Before that, I taught at UCLA and USC, and before that at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. There, I got into some trouble. I was arrested for taking over a
- [Answering Questions from the Public](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/answering-questions-from-the-public/) - How should political figures do this? Ans what is the official name for this?
- [This Day in Anarchist History: The Attempted Assassination of Henry Clay Frick](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/this-day-in-anarchist-history-the-attempted-assassination-of-henry-clay-frick/) - On This Day in Anarchist History, July 23rd 1892, we remember Alexander Berkman and his attempted assassination of the union-busting industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Frick was the chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company. He had recently used 300 Pinkerton agents to break up a picket line in Homestead, Pennsylvania sparking a fierce battle that killed
- [The Struggle for Power in Ukraine Has Begun](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-struggle-for-power-in-ukraine-has-begun/) - The failure of diplomatic attempts to reach peace agreements in Ukraine amid increased military support from the USA and the EU has led to a major reshuffle in the government. The large-scale reshuffle is taking place against the background of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine with vague prospects for its cessation. Volodymyr Zelensky, fearing failure
- [Complications](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/complications/) - If I’ve got a function in life other than being a bloody dinosaur, then the job is to say things are complicated. They’re always complicated. — Mary Beard A man waits for a bus beneath a Remember George Floyd mural half-faded by sun and soot. He stands on pavement where marches once passed, where police horses
- [How Not to Reform a University: Trump’s Harvard Obsession](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/how-not-to-reform-a-university-trumps-harvard-obsession/) - The messy scrap between the Trump administration and Harvard University was always more than a touch bizarre. On June 4, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation claiming that the university was “no longer a trustworthy steward of international student and exchange visitor programs.” It had not pursued the Student Exchange Visa Program (SEVP) in good
- [Do Trump, Netanyahu, and Their Ilk Believe They Are Virtuous?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/do-trump-netanyahu-and-their-ilk-believe-they-are-virtuous/) - That the United States of America is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious to any reasonable (not rational, for the above-named people are very rational) person not living in what Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existential writer, called bad faith (mauvaise foi). Bad faith is based on Sartre’s premise that
- [Silicon Valley Sociocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/silicon-valley-sociocide/) - The rise of modern capitalism created and reflected the industrial technological revolution. The technology of the steam engine, coal, oil, and gas energy grids, and machinery, the railroads, automotive technology, and the telegram and telephone were all essential technological changes enabling the creation of the factory and industrial mass production. The new industrial technology shaped
- [Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/trumps-latin-american-policies-go-south/) - With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Whether animated by “America First” or globalism, the objective remains “full spectrum dominance.” And now with the neocon capture of the Democrats, there are no guardrails from the so-called opposition party. Call it the “new cold war,” the
- [From Personal Development to Human Development](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/from-personal-development-to-human-development/) - Leonardo da Vinci's extensive studies of human anatomy were hundreds of years ahead of their time. (Image by Wikimedia Commons, Leonardo da Vinci.) At the third assembly of the World Humanist Forum on July 19, Antonio Carvallo proposed the creation of a new working table on the theme of Personal Development. During his presentation, a spark
- [The Untouchables: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-untouchables-the-sexual-predators-within-americas-power-elite/) - “Now by coming in and being part of the cover-up, the Trump administration has become part of it.”—Alex Jones, InfoWars Once again, the American police state is choosing to protect predators, not victims. Jeffrey Epstein—the hedge fund billionaire/convicted serial pedophile and sex trafficker—may be dead, but the machinery that empowered and protected him is still very
- [Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/impotent-effusions-the-joint-statement-on-gaza/) - Impotence takes various forms. Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip with primeval cruelty, international impotence in the face of actions by the Israeli state has become a mockery of itself. The calls to end the war in Gaza grow in number, even among Israel’s
- [Restauranting in DC](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/restauranting-in-dc/) - Finishing Andy Shalal’s autobiographical book A Seat at the Table (OR Books, 2025), I said to myself, “This fellow tells a great story.” I should have said many great stories, because this eminently readable and highly enjoyable volume is brimming over with terrific tales. Anas Shallal’s family moved to Washington D.C. from Iraq in 1966,
- [Is It Time to Start a Trump Recall Movement?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/is-it-time-to-start-a-trump-recall-movement/) - When the U.S. Constitution became operational on March 4, 1789, it didn’t include a people’s recall referendum/initiative for president and other federal officials. And still hasn’t. Only 19 states so far have voted them into their constitutions—beginning with Nebraska in 1897 and up to Mississippi, the last so far, in 1992. We can only speculate
- [Humaira Asghar Ali in the Womb of Death](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/humaira-asghar-ali-in-the-womb-of-death/) - Model, theatre artist, media influencer, and actress Humaira Asghar Ali IMAGE/24 News IMAGE/Humaira Asghar Ali Twitter/Duck Duck Go IMAGE/The Nation IMAGE/Humaira Asghar Ali Twitter/Duck Duck Go Humaira Asghar Ali Chaudhry (1992 – 2025) was a Pakistani social media influencer, actress, model, reality TV star, and theatre artist who was linked with socially conscious theater groups. She was
- [NPK](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/npk/) - At breakfast the tour guide warned us, “Ladies and gentlemen, take some croissants and pastries with you and a couple bottles of water because there’s not going to be food or anything to drink where we’re going today. Also remember to bring suntan lotion. In addition to direct photon bombardment there’s also the reflection from
- [A Turn of the Screw if We Do](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/a-turn-of-the-screw-if-we-do/) - We all wind up cocked if we do, We get cocked hard if we don’t. This may sound pretty darn good If a great big cock is all one thinks they want. We start out in school To read their books, Where they teach us their golden rule And give us all dirty looks. They
- [Propaganda Siren: Silencing the Voice of America](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/propaganda-siren-silencing-the-voice-of-america/) - In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion of US policy and culture for over eight decades. Nearly all of its 1,300 staff of producers, journalists and assistants, including those working at the US Agency for Global Media, were placed on administrative leave.
- [Language of Domination -- First Contact and Tiokasin Ghosthorse's Intuitive Language](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/language-of-domination-first-contact-and-tiokasin-ghosthorses-intuitive-language/) - NOTE: Your first look at/ listen to an interview to air in October. DV readers rock! We talked for an hour, and he’s on his journey, now discontinuing First Voices Radio, a 33-year run featured on over a hundred community and public radio stations, even three in Germany, this July 6. Language of intuition, the
- [Big Hero](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/big-hero/) - Little mutts that yap-yap-yap, Those yappy dogs disgust me. My energy they simply sap, Then yap-yap-yap some more. Give me a big dog any day, A friendly canine I can hug, A bowser who will romp and play, Might even save a life, they say. But then I read this news report That made me
- [MacArthur Park](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/macarthur-park/) - The day the troops came to LA The images are stark They did not come to play When they stormed MacArthur Park They came for those with darker skin The workers of the sun I doubt that they will come again The summer has begun We need the workers in the fields We need them
- [How to Fix Everything](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/how-to-fix-everything/) - I probably lied to her when she asked about the future of her world— what else can you do when a young child pictures fields of fire, fueled by the fossils we burn, hands clutching rifles tighter than reason, the quiet neglect of those left shivering on street corners? I see the same— though I
- [Jaded Thoughts Cascaded](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/jaded-thoughts-cascaded/) - I’d likely describe myself as jaded as I take the world with a grain of salt kept sanity hard with thoughts cascaded so often I feel all hope has faded body politic resembles a cult I’d likely describe myself as jaded while humanity’s eradicated the angry earth yeets us, our own fault kept sanity hard
- [Superman Revised](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/superman-revised/) - It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a fat old man Trying to assume the fictive virtues Of a comic-book hero. Adjustments Were required of course. His flab was sent To a planet far from any semblance Of fact. Superman diets by decree it seems. His hair is blond now, his face tilted up To
- [Danny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/danny/) - He was my best friend in first grade. He had cancer, but we were too young to know that. Everyone just said he had two hearts and that's why he was sick. When he died, the whole class had to be told the truth. I haven't had a best friend since.
- [Ice Cream](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/ice-cream/) - She was always pretty good at hiding it from us as kids— the burnt aluminum foil, the cut-up plastic straw, the little baggies of strange powder. Whenever we found evidence like that, it was always just "a grown-up thing" or "for her medicine." She'd tell us not to worry about it, but we did. Because
- [God Told Me to Tell You This](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/god-told-me-to-tell-you-this/) - God told me he has a message for you. It is this. The peoples of the Earth, led by the United States, are concentrating wealth in the hands of a small percentage of the people. You may ignore this more than you deny it, but even if you deny it, as time passes, you go
- [Acrostic](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/acrostic/) - So what is M.A.I.D. ABOUT?
- [Revisiting Paul Baran’s <em>The Political Economy of Growth</em> for Today](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/revisiting-paul-barans-the-political-economy-of-growth-for-today/) - And this brings me to what I referred to earlier as a reaffirmation of my views on the basic problem confronting the underdeveloped countries. The principal insights, which must not be obscured by matters of secondary or tertiary importance, are two. The first is that, if what is sought is rapid economic development, comprehensive economic
- [I Have Voiced It Now…](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/i-have-voiced-it-now/) - I have voiced it now Everything, love, loneliness Only death eludes Stands in a corner Lugubrious, but in sands Of time it has ensnared Men, women and children In fascism and war Why am I not in it? It would be fantastic To be around with gunshots, Bombs and missiles, proudly Proclaim, Am in a
- ["Hunted Like Animals" Say Farmworkers Targeted by Trump’s Gestapo-Like ICE Raids](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/hunted-like-animals-say-farmworkers-targeted-by-trumps-gestapo-like-ice-raids/) - In the 1970s, during the height of the farmworker movement, United Farm Workers leader César Chávez often rallied supporters with the phrase “Sí se puede” (“Yes we can”)—a slogan coined by UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta in 1972 during Chávez’s 25-day fast in Phoenix, Arizona. Today, as undocumented farmworkers face aggressive immigration enforcement in California’s fields,
- [What It Feels Like When You Die from Hunger: Gaza’s Starvation Crisis in Slow Motion](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/what-it-feels-like-when-you-die-from-hunger-gazas-starvation-crisis-in-slow-motion/) - Quds News Network In Gaza’s emergency rooms, doctors now face a wave of patients suffering not from injury, but from hunger. The Ministry of Health confirmed that unprecedented numbers of people, from infants to the elderly, are arriving at hospitals in extreme exhaustion due to starvation. The cause is not a drought or a natural disaster.
- [I Don't Care](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/i-dont-care/) - And what if you did care?
- [BBC isn’t Failing. Its Job is to Obscure the UK’s Partnership in Israel’s Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/160015/) - After months of a confected furore over a BBC documentary supposedly demonstrating pro-Hamas bias, followed by the shelving of a second film on Gaza, an independent review found last week that the broadcaster had not breached impartiality guidelines. A long list of complaints against Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone – all pushed for months
- [Errant Child](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/errant-child/) - To the school shooter do we say: Oh, we understand, you had a difficult childhood. We didn’t protect you then, so we will go easy on you now. Carry on shooting, feel free to lash out, Providing the weapons we appease your anger, assuage our guilt. ‘The Chosen Child’ bringing destruction; stampeding through land and
- [Oh, Some are Saying Taxation Taxation for Rich  & Jubilee for us Peons!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/oh-some-are-saying-taxation-taxation-for-rich-jubilee-for-us-peons/) - “Those people ... ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.” — Donald TRUMP Trump’s buddy: This figure corresponds to the number of inmate deaths since the “State of Emergency” was implemented in March 2022. “These were people awaiting trial who had not been
- [Another Scandal, another War...](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/another-scandal-another-war/) - What does it all portend for reality?
- [Revolutionary Third World Leaders Praise China’s World Role](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/revolutionary-third-world-leaders-praise-chinas-world-role/) - China is a modern superpower, as is the US, but a qualitatively different superpower. The US uses military aggression, coups, and sanctions to impose US corporate interests worldwide. China is a peaceful power that respects national sovereignty, mutual development, and non-interference. Despite opposing imperialism, a tendency in the Western left is to recycle Western anti-China
- [Zohran Mubarak: The Battle Begins](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/zohran-mubarak-the-battle-begins/) - https://youtu.be/yxyXXVoi514?si=BK1Q7dZE5MpboMHm Saint Sun — a myth One day, a young prince died in the city of Unch in the Indian subcontinent. The boy had had great respect and love for a Shia Ismaili Pir Shams. (Pir means saint and Shams means Sun – Saint Sun.) The king was devastated; he ordered his magistrates and jurists to
- [A Catastrophic New Normal Has Arrived](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/a-catastrophic-new-normal-has-arrived/) - A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that climate change is morphing into a full blown ogre of destruction as several regions of the world are no longer affected by isolated events, instead, several different events occur concurrently or in quick succession.
- [Making Concentration Camp Gaza Inbox](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/making-concentration-camp-gaza-inbox/) - The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch of territory. These are the proposals ventured by the Israeli government even as the official Palestinian death toll marches upwards to 60,000. They envisage the placement of some 600,000 displaced
- [Faith or Fallacy: Religion at a Crossroads](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/faith-or-fallacy-religion-at-a-crossroads/)
- [The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-new-york-times-finally-stops-avoiding-the-g-word/) - The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious. It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
- [American Lie](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/american-lie/) - You ever have a dream where during the dream you really think you are getting some insight, things figured out, maybe a revolutionary idea, concept and you know you are going to remember it when you wake up and you know it’s still going to be amazing in the morning? It’s not really one of
- [Copland's War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/coplands-war/) - “War,” the veteran mutters in his defense. “Maybe I’m not smart enough to explain.” “What war?” the prosecutor bellows. “Mr. Copland, the last war ended eight or nine years ago. Frankly, I don’t even remember when exactly or what it was about. Also, kind of a sorry excuse, especially from a man who never served
- [Belief in Propaganda](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/belief-in-propaganda/) - When it comes to propaganda is there a best kind?
- [The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy: NATO Invades the Classroom](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-militarization-and-weaponization-of-media-literacy-nato-invades-the-classroom/) - During President Donald Trump’s second term, education has remained a central battleground in American politics. Republicans claim that classrooms have become hotbeds of “woke” indoctrination, accusing educators of promoting progressive agendas and tolerating antisemitism. In contrast, Democrats argue that conservatives are systematically defunding and dismantling public and higher education precisely because it teaches values like diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- [imp <i>is</i> 'bloeckh'-faust (funeral koans)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/imp-is-bloeckh-faust-funeral-koans/) - Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever—and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and “forgotten” even in its own time. —I.F. Stone, The Hidden History of the Korean War (Monthly Review Press, 2023) People who absolutely do not want another proxy war are living, here and now, on the
- [The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-wearables-trap-how-the-government-plans-to-monitor-score-and-control-you/) - Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing. We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts, moods, and biology are monitored and judged by the state. This is the dark promise behind the newest campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s Secretary of Health
- [Burying Genocide: The BBC, Gaza and the Role of the UK](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/burying-genocide-the-bbc-gaza-and-the-role-of-the-uk/) - One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person would deny that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name. But, over and above this basic requirement, a responsible public-service broadcaster should also scrutinize the government’s
- [Israel’s Demographic Project in Gaza: An Assault on the Palestinian Future](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/israels-demographic-project-in-gaza-an-assault-on-the-palestinian-future/) - Twenty years ago, Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza after the post-1967 years of occupation and settlement. An overriding factor governing the decision to withdraw was the issue of demography. With a population of over two million Palestinians, Gaza has always represented a significant part of a broad demographic problem facing the self-declared ‘only democracy in
- [New Superman Movie in MAGA Crosshairs: Will Right-Wing Critics Be Box Office Kryptonite?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/new-superman-movie-in-maga-crosshairs-will-right-wing-critics-be-box-office-kryptonite/) - These days, it doesn’t take much to antagonize MAGA, and James Gunn, the director of the new Superman film, scheduled to be released on July 11, has set off another outrage cycle. “I mean, Superman is the story of America,” Gunn said in an interview with the Times of London, “An immigrant that came from
- [Stop Israel’s Dystopian “Humanitarian City” Plan—Before It’s Too Late](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/stop-israels-dystopian-humanitarian-city-plan-before-its-too-late/) - The ruins of the city of Rafah. Photo: Getty Images The Israeli government has just put forward one of the most brazenly genocidal schemes in modern memory—and unless we act immediately, the world will once again let it happen. As reported in Haaretz, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz is proposing to force some 600,000 Palestinians—and eventually the entire population
- [Just Count the Deep Slippage in Services, Frayed Safety Nets, Dwindling Public Goods, Negative Community Health Outcomes and the Fabric of a Society in Your Neighborhood Up in Flames](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/just-count-the-deep-slippage-in-services-frayed-safety-nets-dwindling-public-goods-negative-community-health-outcomes-and-the-fabric-of-a-society-in-your-neighborhood-up-in-flames/) - The Neoliberal Predatory Penury Polluting Starving Terror Capitalism is putting our lives in the proper place — D.O.A. The tools for participatory democracy and FIGHTING city/state capital Hall have been degraded to nothing more than performative no kings day and indivisible concerts. https://youtu.be/eU9Au3cVTk0?si=eUJ_Res9U65IcP2p Just the Lincoln County, Oregon, where I live — Taking out our
- [Beauty Betrayed, from Global Militarism to Alligator Alcatraz](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/beauty-betrayed-from-global-militarism-to-alligator-alcatraz/) - "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" Great effort (and amounts of money) are required to churn out arguments justifying actions that cannot be justified by standards of common sense and human decency. For
- [To Each According to Their Need](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/to-each-according-to-their-need/) - To whatever extent we reach our potential in this world, my grandmother would be furious if I didn't say that it was due to a combination of our individual talents and the societal conditions – the real existing material conditions, as a good Marxist might say – that have shaped our lives. But while she
- [Challenging the Media Myth of Latino Machismo](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/challenging-the-media-myth-of-latino-machismo/) - Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the while overlooking significant feminist gains made in the region. Take, for instance, the entry under “machismo” in the latest edition of Britannica which asserts: “It has for centuries been
- [Matriarchy, Witchery and the Great Goddess](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/matriarchy-witchery-and-the-great-goddess/) - In the beginning men and women lived in harmony and peace. We were once one with nature and there were few differences between us in social power or wealth. Women had a special place in early tribal societies: their motherhood was revered, they held positions of authority, and they practiced forms of magic centered on the worship of a monotheistic Goddess. Figurines of Goddesses have been discovered, proving there was once a great women’s religion.
- [Disturbing the Simplicity of Life](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/disturbing-the-simplicity-of-life/) - What changes could could make life so hard?
- [What Do Birds of a Feather Do?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/what-do-birds-of-a-feather-do/) - Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: "I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend"
- [all killing](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/all-killing/) - it is not that one human life is worth more than another or that people of one country religion or race are good and those of another are bad it is not that and never will be all killing of innocent is killing of innocent man or woman or child but when hospitals and food
- [Mass Killings, Media Control, and the Machinery of US Soft Power](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/mass-killings-media-control-and-the-machinery-of-us-soft-power/) - Dismantling the ideological architecture of the U.S. empire by exposing how atrocity becomes infrastructure and propaganda becomes profession. From the Ford Foundation’s role in Indonesia’s Cold War genocide to the rise of figures like Orville Schell and Johnny Harris, KJ unpacks how soft power functions as a weapon: manufacturing consent, laundering imperial violence, and shaping global
- [Out of Fashion](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/out-of-fashion/) - Opened a drawer to pick a pen from the myriad lot, lying unscribbled, few bought, mostly collections from pointless meets and conventions Waiting for that rare occasion to be put to use Some long idle, parched, to be thrown away, only for a few more from seminars and hotels join in. For now, it’s more
- [Louhi Captures the Sampo, with You in My Arms](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/louhi-captures-the-sampo-with-you-in-my-arms/) - now and after all we can say it's a high night over Camelot or Carcassonne Wayne's Brewery stuck in the river on twenty stilts two hundred years later I'm not that old but I took the sideways road past 30 into 82 fifty years is nothing if you're talking about the mind the body never
- [Gaslighting: Trump, Epstein, and Soros](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/gaslighting-trump-epstein-and-soros/) - The Donald Trump administration has been continuously gaslighting the American people. The examples are myriad. Let's begin with the tariffs. The United States has imposed them on nearly every country. Ukraine has managed to escape being issued a tariff, so far. Israel, though, has not escaped a proposed 17% Trump tariff, which is bizarre since
- ["I Think I Hit a Nerve"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/i-think-i-hit-a-nerve/) - Not only is she an extremely courageous person fighting for THE right cause with THE legal arguments. She is also re-inventing what it means to be a diplomat and anyhow getting said what must be said. And, notice, that the UN S-G has never contacted her in THIS situation where she, more than anybody else,
- [Russophobia by the Collective West Opens the Doors of the Cold War 2.0](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/russophobia-by-the-collective-west-opens-the-doors-of-the-cold-war-2-0/) - The 2018 Skripal Attack Case The current orchestrated Western policy of total Russophobia, directed by Collective West, can be recorded to start by the British Cabinet of Theresa May – the focal servant-dog to US global imperialism, followed by the creation of the War Cabinet of the US President Donald Trump (first administration), was a
- [Maasai Demand Volkswagen Pull out of Carbon Offset Scheme on Their Lands](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/maasai-demand-volkswagen-pull-out-of-carbon-offset-scheme-on-their-lands/) - Still from a video by Oldonyo Media, showing residents of Engaruka Chini community protesting the carbon offset project. ©Oldonyo Media Maasai Indigenous people in Tanzania have called on Volkswagen (VW) to withdraw from a controversial carbon credits scheme which violates their rights and threatens to wreck their livelihoods. In a statement, the Maasai International Solidarity
- [Alligator Alcatraz](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/alligator-alcatraz/) - Hail America, bright city on a hill, Exemplar to the world of self-deception Hail to the proud ingenuity Of your unspeakable cruelty Packaged as a mode of self-defense. You have reinvented concentration camps And made them great again for persecution. The worst of the worst who work in crummy jobs Can now expect to spend
- [Al Gore Puts Down "Climate Realism"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/al-gore-puts-down-climate-realism/) - Al Gore, speaking in Nairobi, gave a TED speech that set the stage for where the world stands in its search for Net Zero by 2050: “Many of the oil, gas, and coal producers and their financial allies are now advocating a new approach that they call ‘climate realism.”Al Gore, TED speech, Nairobi, Nigeria, June
- [Globalist Monsters](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/globalist-monsters/) - What is conspiracy theory a monster code for?
- [Japanese Internment -- Topaz Utah, with a Caucasian Family Assisting Farming](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/japanese-internment-topaz-utah-with-a-caucasian-family-assisting-farming/) - Spend an hour with me and Earnie Bell, of Newport, Oregon, as we look at his past as his California father was hired to assist this concentration camp feeding itself with vegetables and meat. KYAQ. Ran in March of 2025. Listen and Eat Your Heart Out -- Earnie is ALL there, man. A heck of
- [When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It by the Throat](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/when-fate-knocks-at-the-door-take-it-by-the-throat/) - It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world. No one expected it to be this bad. The dogs howled like wolves. At most they said it would hinder
- [Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/why-public-funds-should-be-deposited-in-publicly-owned-banks/) - A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of giant banks diverts that flow into an exponentially-growing self-feeding pool of digital profits for themselves. Rather than allowing the free exchange of labor and materials for production, our system of banking and credit has acted as a tourniquet on
- [Remembering Cornelius Castoriadis, the only French Intellectual with Humor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/remembering-cornelius-castoriadis-the-only-french-intellectual-with-humor/) - Cornelius Castoriadis reflected on man. And he decided that the role of each person in the social-historical is so important. Philosopher with an intellect of many carats. Castoriadis was in awe of the ideas. And ideas are what in time brought about his faith in man. He is a Greek (—French) who honors our ancestors.
- [Eating the Fourth of July](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/eating-the-fourth-of-july/) - Today Joey Chestnut won by stuffing his face with more than seventy hot dogs faster than anyone on the planet. There was a crowd and cameras and ESPN to capture close-ups of him shoving hot dogs on buns down his throat while the crowd on Coney Island cheered him on. This week also saw the
- [KPK’s Monsoon Myopia: What KPK hasn’t learnt from Monsoon](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/kpks-monsoon-myopia-what-kpk-hasnt-learnt-from-monsoon/) - On June 27 and 28, 2025, tragedy struck the Swat Valley again. The once tranquil and verdant slopes of the Fizagat and Khwaza Khela have seen catastrophic devastation as a massive flash-flood, triggered by torrential monsoon shower and cloudburst, washed away tourists, families and livestock along the Swat River. Videos circulating on the social media
- [Tipping Point](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/tipping-point/) - President Donald Trump thought he had gotten the deal terms and the cover story right, and also the prize for himself (the Nobel Peace Prize ). The deal was that under cover of an authorized leak to the press from Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eldridge Colby, that the US was running out of ammunition
- [Made in America: A Patriotic Prayer](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/made-in-america-a-patriotic-prayer/) - Dearly Bewildered, We are gathered here today to Make America Great Again. MAGA? MAGA! Let’s pray to MAKE AMERICA… GASP GRASP GIVE UP…GIVE IN… GRIEVE GAG GENUFLECT…and GLAZE ALL OVER AGAIN With your help, we can MAKE IT… GROAN GAMBLE GRUNT GRIMACE…and GROWL AGAIN Yes, you can MAKE AMERICA… GREEDY GROTESQUE GRAVID GULLIBLE GARRULOUS GRAFT-RIDDEN
- [Vulgarity of Money](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/vulgarity-of-money-think-of-it-as-traumatic-insemination/) - Well, I wrote this below a while back, and I am updating it here: If anything you do brave liberators of Gaza, just find these people and immolate them many on my Substack tell me: "Court said to approve mom’s request to use fallen soldier son’s sperm to have grandchild. Sharon Eisenkot permitted to use
- [Different Types of Addicts](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/different-types-of-addicts/) - Addiction is addiction, but different addictions may have different consequences.
- [The Rise of the Prison State: Trump’s Push for Megaprisons Could Lock Us All Up](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-rise-of-the-prison-state-trumps-push-for-megaprisons-could-lock-us-all-up/) - America is rapidly becoming a nation of prisons. Having figured out how to parlay presidential authority in foreign affairs in order to sidestep the Constitution, President Trump is using his immigration enforcement powers to lock up—and lock down—the nation. Under the guise of national security and public safety, the Trump administration is engineering the largest federal
- [Fueling Genocide: Inside the Global Supply Chain that Delivers Jet Fuel to Israel’s Military](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/fueling-genocide-inside-the-global-supply-chain-that-delivers-jet-fuel-to-israels-military/) - Israel’s genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza has been fueled by a surge in deliveries of military-grade jet fuel from U.S. providers. In this visual, we expose the companies and governments complicit in this supply chain, while highlighting grassroots efforts to track and disrupt this deadly cargo through direct action, boycott campaigns, and community resistance.
- [Death by Fungi: Cashing in on Erin Patterson](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/death-by-fungi-cashing-in-on-erin-patterson/) - She has become a notorious figure of international interest, shamelessly exploited for news cycles, commercial worth, and career advancement. After a trial lasting nine weeks, conducted at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell, Victoria, Erin Patterson, a stocky, thick-set mother of two, was found guilty of three murders and an attempted murder. Date: July
- [Why I’m Running for Leadership of Canada's NDP](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/why-im-running-for-leadership-of-canadas-ndp/) - I’m running to lead the New Democratic Party. Canada needs a mainstream voice willing to challenge capitalism and imperialism while promoting decolonization, degrowth, and economic democracy. Initially, my reaction to the NDP Socialist Caucus’ request to run was to reject it. But there are two crucial issues before us that I am particularly well placed
- [DV Readers Get to Hear Bright Green Lies](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/dv-readers-get-to-hear-bright-green-lies/) - “There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story
- [Blood and Ashes: Genocidal Deathscapes from Treblinka to Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/blood-and-ashes-genocidal-deathscapes-from-treblinka-to-gaza/) - “He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right
- [Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/gunfire-communication-with-zombie-hordes-the-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-and-the-idf/) - It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish, and displace those in need of that aid. Finally, give the pretence of humanity by ensuring some aid to those whose suffering you created in the first place. As things stand, the system of aid distribution
- [Progressive Comradeship During the Trump Times](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/progressive-comradeship-during-the-trump-times/) - I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer to other organizers. Is this a good idea? During the days of McCarthyism in the 1950s, and probably before then, self-righteous conservatives used this word as a smear against people on the political Left. “Comrade” was a word
- [Lisa's Bed](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/lisas-bed/) - “Before I give you the grand tour,” says Gus, “put down those silly suitcases. Right over there, okay? This’s gonna be your bedroom for the next couple of weeks. Or longer, if you want to stay longer.” We look inside. On a king size bed there’s an old Nautilus strength machine. We step closer and
- [“Thou Shalt Not Kill”: The World's Silence Is Complicity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/thou-shalt-not-kill-the-worlds-silence-is-complicity/) - I do not write from comfort. I write from the salt of grief. From the agony of watching the world orchestrate its distractions while an entire people are burned, buried, and erased. The world has failed the Palestinian people. Utterly and entirely. This is not a political crisis—it is a moral apocalypse. Since October 2023,
- [Dehumanizing Smirk](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/dehumanizing-smirk/) - The world is not ending, my friend. It’s always been falling apart, To particles To cleanse ethnicities, To the battles of flags. This coffee talk was so needed. Coffee has the smell of peace, the taste of love, and the colour of old blood on dead bodies. Your smirk speaks of dehumanizing our dead, blaming
- [Depiction of a Win-Win Relationship](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/depiction-of-a-win-win-relationship/) - It is often stated that China engages in win-win relationships with its partners. In Africa, in exchange for the commodities that China receives, the African country will have Chinese-built ports, airports, highways, railways. In addition, China will train local people in the construction and maintenance of the economy-supporting infrastructure. It is the old story of
- [War is Peace](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/war-is-peace/) - The scariest thing, what if peace broke out? Imagine how many fat bottom lines Would weep from hunger, cry from lack of gain, Flail at the gross unfairness of it all. The next thing you know, some Marxist dogs Would want to give the savings to the young, The sick or needy to enhance their
- [Mahmoud Darwish](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/mahmoud-darwish/) - Rejected accusations of antisemitism: 'I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.’ Wrote in Arabic, also spoke Hebrew (among other languages). Four volumes of his poetry translated into Hebrew including Bed of a Stranger. Israeli education minister, Yossi Sarid: ‘Darwish should be included
- [Louis Theroux and the West Bank Settlers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/louis-theroux-and-the-west-bank-settlers/) - He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched. But what makes Louis Theroux’s The Settlers troubling is its examination of a seemingly inexorable process in the West Bank, one that has, at its core, a religious, nationalist goal of cleansing and violent
- [Logging, Drilling, & Mining](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/logging-drilling-mining/) - He cannot see past his nose Tomorrow does not exist His fantasy of treasure grows His guide is make-a-wish Clear out the old growth Redwood trees And mine the sacred mountains Do what you will and what you please Make Crater Lake a fountain The world is made for exploitation Use it up and use
- [Greed: The Survival of a Primitive Emotion](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/greed-the-survival-of-a-primitive-emotion/) - Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well. Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and their corporations. This largesse is facilitated by slashing over $1.4 trillion in healthcare
- [Marah’s Story, or The Disintegration of a <s>Country</s> Family](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/marahs-story-or-the-disintegration-of-a-country-family/) - In this miserable country love stories end too soon and families fall apart in the blink of an eye. This is how Marah Kamal begins her life story and if you know anyone from Gaza, you know how much they love the land they live on. They literally ‘worship the ground they walk upon.’ Only God is loved more than the land. So, for Marah to call her country miserable, is to admit that after a year and a half of war, there is nothing left. Even pregnancy is a curse.
- [Was Smallpox Weaponized against First Nations?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/07/was-smallpox-weaponized-against-first-nations/) - [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 War against the Haida (p 67). July 1, was recently celebrated in "Canada" as Canada Day by "Canadians." The Dominion of Canada was formed by
- ["From Sea to Singeing Sea”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/from-sea-to-singeing-sea-2/) - PRELUDE: If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. — Hannah Arendt I. Functional stoner / Still
- [We Will Never Forget that the BBC Has Helped to Enable a genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/we-will-never-forget-that-the-bbc-has-helped-to-enable-a-genocide/) - A damning report has now confirmed what many of us already knew: that the BBC’s reporting of Israel’s war on Gaza is far from impartial. The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) analysed the BBC’s coverage of the 12 months following Hamas’ one-day attack on 7 October 2023. Their huge report reveals a clear dynamic: “the marginalisation of
- [Dangerous Books?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/dangerous-books/) - The world of literature has turned purple, not knowing which color, blue or red, fits the current dilemma that’s causing serious students of the art to tear their hair out. The age of social media has opened the door to a cascade of new challenges to literary freedom that stifles creativity. Answers for what ails
- [Seven Things Tom Cotton Needs to Learn About China](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/seven-things-tom-cotton-needs-to-learn-about-china/) - US Senator Tom Cotton recently published a book titled Seven Things You Can’t Say About China. I decided to put myself through the aggravated torture of reading it, just to see what he had to say, and now mourn hours of life that I’ll never get back. Simply put, the book’s existence is a crime
- [Light And Darkness](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/light-and-darkness/) - I wonder if we are the third or fourth largest economy; as they say, then why do children in the furious heat or the cold, barter economy to sell glossy magazines ? which no one will buy at least, not from them or when the begging bowl clatters with noise of a few coins whose
- [I Remember It, Well….](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/i-remember-it-well/) - Fame is fleeting. We may be a Facebook celebrity today with ‘likes’ in the six digits, only to find as time goes by that the balance is shifting daily as we fade into the oblivion from which we emerged. Pretty much the same phenomenon is discernible in regard to the attention paid historical events. Images
- [The Way](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-way/) - nosebleed and cartilage build the private road the gourmet bread is baked with salts of sweat the hull of the superyacht is bent by callused hands ninety-nine goes to the one percent modern logic is older than ever backrooms govern nation and man the hoi polloi bail us out at every turn and get their
- [The Playbook for America: We Thought We Saw it All with Freedom Torches and Edward Bernays Fomenting Regime Change in Guatemala, Chile](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-playbook-for-america-we-thought-we-saw-it-all-with-freedom-torches-and-edward-bernays-fomenting-regime-change-in-guatemala-chile/) - Another rousing talk with a true socialist, Dan Kovalik, from Pittsburgh, here, pre-airing on my Radio Show, Finding Fringe on kyaq.org. Here’s today’s (July 1) link to the show which will air Sept. 10 —LISTEN: Dan Kovalik and Paul Haeder talking about Syria, regime change, all those spooks and kooks. Surprisingly, it all comes down
- [The Silent](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-silent/) - It would be over now. This Holocaust would be over now if all of you who privately claim to care publicly chose to do something – anything. If you could bring yourself to march and chant. If you could fly a flag. If you could wear a badge. If you could post a poster or
- [The Choice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-choice-3/) - Why should one choose between Left and Right?
- [Israel and the Albanese Report](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/israel-and-the-albanese-report/) - It makes for stark and dark reading. The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide makes mention of “corporate entities” who have been enriched by “the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now genocide.” Authored by the relentless Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the
- [New World Odor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/new-world-odor/) - President Donald Trump has just released fragrances for God-fearing, America-loving patriots. While proudly wearing Trump’s trademark red MAGA caps, they can now make an olfactory declaration of their love of the U S of A! The fragrances named “Trump Victory 45-47” — referring to his capturing the 45th and 47th presidencies — are available as
- [A Zionist Gaza is a Sick Vision Unworthy of any Country with Integrity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/a-zionist-gaza-is-a-sick-vision-unworthy-of-any-country-with-integrity/) - Dear Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada: Prime Minister Carney's statement that the solution to Mideast peace was a "Zionist Gaza" made me ill. It demonstrated his support for Israel's genocide of Palestinians and showed total contempt for international law. Canada's official foreign policy supports international law and Canada is a signatory to
- [Nothing to Say, Ma](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/nothing-to-say-ma/) - As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we are, you have such a friend whose interests and thoughts match yours so closely that it seems that you were separated at birth in a dream. We both felt from the days of our youth when
- [The Impeachment Problem](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-impeachment-problem/) - I wish U.S. academics would spend less time fantasizing choices between various murders with trollies, or playing games with theories about how greedy robots might do diplomacy, and more time on the impeachment problem. The United States has an impeachment problem. Impeachment was put into a Constitution that made no mention of, allowance for, or
- [The Perfect Islamophobic Storm](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-perfect-islamophobic-storm/) - A familiar violence is brewing in the heart of Europe. The numbers reveal only what has surfaced so far. A quarter of the voting population now openly support the AfD, a party classified by the security services as ‘right-wing extremist’ due to their Islamophobic rhetoric and white-supremacist affiliations. Boosted by the mainstream press and the endorsement from the Nazi-saluting billionaire, the xenophobic
- [Tyrant](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/tyrant/) - Dear Tyrant, You insist that life is black and white. You spit in spite and insist you’re right. Your citadel of certainty gives an illusion of security, barricading your beliefs behind narrow minded bars. To protect from the threat of complexity, you draw rigid lines to divide and malign. Dear Tyrant, You pray and preach
- [Mamdani and Beyond](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/mamdani-and-beyond/) - It should not surprise that many US leftists are excited by the victory of Zohran Mamdani in last Wednesday’s New York City primary election. They should be buoyed by a rare victory in a bleak political landscape. Mamdani defeated an establishment candidate showered with money and endorsed by Democratic Party royalty. His chief opponent, Andrew
- [Faramarz Farbod in Conversation with Yves Engler on Canada, the US, and Imperialism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/faramarz-farbod-in-conversation-with-yves-engler-on-canada-the-us-and-imperialism/) - Faramarz Farbod speaks with Yves Engler, a Canadian activist and author of 13 books, including most recently Canada's Long Fight Against Democracy and Stand on Guard for Whom? (A People's History of Canadian Military). The conversation explores Canada's role in the world, its relationship with US capitalism and imperialism, Canada's policies toward Iran and Cuba, misperceptions of Canada in the US,
- [The Difference between "News"-Reporting and News-Reporting](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-difference-between-news-reporting-and-news-reporting/) - On July 1, CBS ‘News’ and Yahoo News headlined "Comparing the Medicaid cuts in House and Senate ‘big, beautiful bill’," and presented news that was actually an analytical or “opinion” article which was 860 words of gobbledygook that enumerated minor differences between the House-passed and the Senate-passed versions of Trump’s budget-and-tax bill that he insists
- [Small Story in the News](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/small-story-in-the-news/) - Tens of thousands dead. Thirteen million displaced. Could be today’s worst atrocity. Where is this place? What do they call it? Who lives there? What color are its people? Do they have a religion? What language do they speak? Is there a reason this got buried in the news? Is there a reason no one
- [Trump, Leakers, and Journalists](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/trump-leakers-and-journalists/) - When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way to the digital treasure troves of WikiLeaks. The online publisher of government secrets had become an invaluable resource for Trump’s battering of the Democratic establishment hopeful, Hillary Clinton, with her nonchalant attitude to the security
- [Inalienable Rights in an Age of Tyranny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/inalienable-rights-in-an-age-of-tyranny/) - When a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government. —Declaration of Independence (1776) We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a constitutional republic, transformed into a kleptocracy (government by thieves), collapsing
- [Iran, Zionism, and the Limits of US Control: An Interview with Faramarz Farbod](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/iran-zionism-and-the-limits-of-us-control-an-interview-with-faramarz-farbod/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7fRg1zRkA
- [What July 5th Taught Me that July 4th Never Did](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/what-july-5th-taught-me-that-july-4th-never-did/) - Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th and July 5th. Two celebrations. Two flags. Two very different ideas of what it means to be free. In the U.S., the Fourth of July comes with fireworks, parades, and an almost unquestioned belief
- [“Have Some Blood! You Like Shedding It All Over the World So Much? There You Go!”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/have-some-blood-you-like-shedding-it-all-over-the-world-so-much-there-you-go/) - Through the looking glass. Mike Ferner, of Veterans For Peace, threw blood at the US mission to the UN today: “Here, United States, have some blood! You like shedding it all over the world so much? There you go! How about some blood? A small amount of the blood — the blood money — that
- [Reclaiming the Forgotten: Our Elders, Our Planet](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/reclaiming-the-forgotten-our-elders-our-planet/) - This Earth Day reflection urges us to confront two intertwined truths we too often ignore: our relationship to the environment and our treatment of the elderly. Growing up in Ghana, I was taught by my history professor that true life stems from connection—that severance invites death. This idea mirrors ancient Egyptian cosmology, where a vast community of affection included
- [That Morning](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/that-morning/) - That morning nothing seemed unusual. You had your tortillas and eggs for breakfast, I had my cereal. We talked about different things: the kids’ soccer scores, what bills need paying, your favorite tv chair that needs covering, an old bicycle that needs repair, the tree in the yard that needs pruning, who would take the
- [The Reddening Dust](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/the-reddening-dust/) - A father is walking in a large crowd With his two little boys, Holding each one by a hand. They are on their way To get food for their family From the distribution point Identified by Israel. Like all little boys, His toddler sons Want to play with other children They meet on their way.
- [America’s Republicans’ Hatred of the Poor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/americas-republicans-hatred-of-the-poor/) - The budget-and-tax bill that President Trump has placed before America’s U.S. Senators and Representatives to pass by a majority in each of the two houses of Congress is a total repudiation of the first Republican U.S. President (and the only progressive Republican U.S. President), Abraham Lincoln, as will here be documented. The Republican Party was
- [Operation Midnight Hammer: Were Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Damaged?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/operation-midnight-hammer-were-irans-nuclear-facilities-damaged/) - The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorized by President Donald Trump on June 22, was raucous and triumphant. But that depended on what company you were keeping. The mission involved the bombing of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, the uranium-enrichment facility at
- [Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/magical-theatricality-in-the-ice-age-caves-why-it-should-matter-to-socialists/) - Orientation From the time of the Renaissance until representational art began to be challenged at the end of the 19th century, most of us think of secular art as consisting of separate disciplines - dance, theatre, singing, painting, sculpture and writing. The exception to this was the theatrical work of Richard Wagner, a German composer,
- [Swat](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/swat/) - In the news today, the wretched obscene news, a desperate family surrounded by rushing waters. One by one, they’re plucked and carried away. The helpless man holding his phone stays with them as long as he can, just heads now, bobbing and spinning like seals, till they disappear.
- [Multitudes](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/multitudes/) - I am a cradle Catholic ecumenical Christian communist sympathizing far-left socialist with a capitalist day job that makes me very unhappy even though I am quite good at it. Do I contain multitudes? I am also a Gemini, a former pee wee hockey all-star, and a poet. I don’t expect you to follow everything in
- [Australia Backs US Strike on Iran](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/australia-backs-us-strike-on-iran/) - The initial statement from Australian government sources was one of constipated caution and clenching wariness. Senator Penny Wong’s time as head of the Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs has always been about how things come out, a process unsatisfyingly uncertain and unyielding in detail. Stick to the safe middle ground and sod the rest.
- [Charter Schools and “Paperism”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/charter-schools-and-paperism/) - It is standard practice for most charter school owners, operators, promoters, commentators, reporters, and even some “critics” of charter schools to habitually describe charter schools, word-for-word, as they are spelled out in state charter school laws (while often overlooking inconvenient or unflattering descriptions as well). Even those who try to be somewhat nuanced or grounded
- [Over 5,000 Gaza Children Treated for Malnutrition in May Alone](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/over-5000-gaza-children-treated-for-malnutrition-in-may-alone/) - The pictures are heartbreaking. Infants and toddlers Grown impossibly thin, Wispy almost, As if they were blades of grass Tied together to make dolls. The expressions on their faces Are utterly innocent. They are not crying. Their enormous eyes Are looking directly at us. They are calm, They do not weep, Do not sob, But
- [Violence in Costa Rica and the Rush to Blame Nicaragua](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/violence-in-costa-rica-and-the-rush-to-blame-nicaragua/) - Traditionally regarded as safe for visitors, Costa Rica has recently become Central America’s second most dangerous country, with 400 homicides recorded so far this year. The violence is attributed to an epidemic of drug-related crime, as the country has become a major staging post for narcotics smuggled to Europe. Costa Rica just detained a former
- [Anatomy of a Wrap-Up Smear](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/anatomy-of-a-wrap-up-smear/) - Article in Wired magazine by “Beth Mole” Speaking at an anti-vaccine rally in 2022, Malone spread dangerous falsehoods about mRNA Covid-19 vaccines: “These genetic vaccines can damage your children. They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system and their ability to have children in the future. Many of these damages cannot be repaired.”
- [A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/a-battle-for-humane-consciousness-in-a-war-against-truth-exposing-the-dark-arts-of-war/) - The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the
- [A Cambodian Ballerina](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/a-cambodian-ballerina/) - In her tale, there were a peaceful people who grew rice in paddies up and down the hill, knew nothing of cities, of politics, philosophies, wanted only to scratch out a living from the soil, the rains, the scorching sun. Not for her, broken English, but dance, a story told by hands, lithe body and
- [Public Schools, Climate Disasters, Workers’ Control](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/public-schools-climate-disasters-workers-control/) - When teachers’ union president Ray Cummings told the superintendent that her plan could put students in danger, he brought together problems of excluding workers from critical decisions and schemes to use climate disasters to privatize public schools. On May 16, 2025 a tornado tore through predominantly Black north St. Louis, killing 5, and leaving thousands
- [The Wobbly Planet](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-wobbly-planet/) - Science is under attack throughout the world. Meanwhile, there’s substantial scientific evidence that the planetary system is turning unstable. This may not strike most people as a big problem because ‘life goes on,’ an attitude that’s more, and more, prevalent and one of the factors behind anti-science attitudes. But, if in fact the planetary system
- [NATO’s Promise of War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/natos-promise-of-war/) - he confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President Donald Trump was hoping to impress upon all present that allies of the United States, whatever inclination and whatever their domestic policy, should spend mightily on defence, inflating the margins
- [Canada's Respect for the Rule of Law and Its Sacred Obligation to First Nations](https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/01/canadas-respect-for-the-rule-of-law-and-its-sacred-obligation-to-first-nations/) - It is time for a renewed, nation-to-nation relationship with First Nations peoples, one that understands that the constitutionally guaranteed rights of First Nations in Canada are not an inconvenience but rather a sacred obligation. -- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau speaking to First Nation leaders, 8 December 2015 In Part 1, it was noted that
- [Canadian Legal System’s Complicity in Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/11/canadian-legal-systems-complicity-in-genocide/) - [T]he US government no less than the government of Canada is required to obtain the consent of the Indian nations’ before assuming jurisdiction to invade, occupy and govern the yet unceded Indian national territories. – Bruce Clark, Ongoing Genocide caused by Judicial Suppression of the "Existing" Aboriginal Rights (2018), p 25-26 I have only been
- [What It Means to Be Human](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/what-it-means-to-be-human/) - Various domesticated bird species usually run around the farm, including guinea fowl. We love our guinea fowl because they spend their days eating bugs: including ticks, flies, and other noxious pests. Guinea fowl are funny creatures, with colorful bald heads, speckled feathers, long legs, and oddly shaped bodies. We often view them as comic relief
- [Carl von Clausewitz and the Clausewitzian Viewpoint of Warfare](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/carl-von-clausewitz-and-the-clausewitzian-viewpoint-of-warfare/) - The focal questions about war In dealing with both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types of war exist?; 3) Why do wars occur?; 4) What is the connection between war and justice?; 5) The question of war crimes?; and 6)
- [Rough Ballad](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/rough-ballad/) - Here’s the tale of a faithful dog for whom so many cried. Yes, even though more people died, his news spread far and wide. We do not always show concern when senators get shot, but just one wounded golden dog, that makes us care a lot. Some folks who even like to cheer when CEOs
- [Mourning Bill Moyers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/mourning-bill-moyers/) - Bill Moyers, the esteemed journalist, presidential adviser and philanthropist, died on Thursday at age 91 in New York. In the early 2000s, Moyers played a pivotal role in creating and promoting Free Press and delivered a series of powerful appearances at the National Conference for Media Reform. “You will search the dominant media largely in
- [Mamdani’s Win in NYC Transforms America’s Mid-Term Political Contests](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/mamdanis-win-in-nyc-transforms-americas-mid-term-political-contests/) - A typical initial take on the totally unexpected landslide win, by the self-declared socialist Zohran Mamdani, of the Democratic nomination for (and thus almost certainly) the Mayoralty of NYC, was Eric Levitz’s June 25 Vox News article "What Democrats can (and can’t) learn from Zohran Mamdani’s triumph," which said that Some on the left have
- [Depopulation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/depopulation/) - What and who is depopulation all about?
- [Insufficient Press Coverage of Big Data Surveillance](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/insufficient-press-coverage-of-big-data-surveillance/) - As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partnership with unregulated Big Tech, it also surveils online, helping itself to citizens’ personal identifiable information (PII). In the age of surveillance capitalism, information is a hot commodity for corporations and governments, precipitating a multi-billion-dollar industry
- [NATO’s 5% Pledge: An Obscene Betrayal of Global Needs](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/natos-5-pledge-an-obscene-betrayal-of-global-needs/) - No to NATO protest at The Hague, June 22, 2025. Photo credit: Xinhua News At this week’s NATO summit in The Hague, leaders announced an alarming new goal: push military spending to 5% of nations’ GDP by 2035. Framed as a response to rising global threats, particularly from Russia and terrorism, the declaration was hailed as a historic step. But
- [Choose a Side](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/choose-a-side/) - Is politics a dichotomy? Or is it a political continuum?
- [The Voice of the Far-Right is the Voice of the People](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-voice-of-the-far-right-is-the-voice-of-the-people/) - Over the past few years, the Europeans’ confidence in the current governments of the EU countries has been plunging. This trend is foremost caused by the unpopular policy of the ruling circles. They have made it clear to the population that total militarization requiring unprecedented $800 billion from the already shaky budget of the EU,
- [More Transparency on US Forces in Australia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/more-transparency-on-us-forces-in-australia/) - It was a blast to a past wiped out by amnesia, social media and mental decrepitude. Andrew Hastie, Australia’s opposition minister for home affairs, had been moved by an idea: greater transparency was needed regarding the US military buildup in Australia. It was an inspiration overdue by some decades, but it was worthwhile in its
- [Ruling from Houses of Clay: Regime Change for Washington and Tel Aviv](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/ruling-from-houses-of-clay-regime-change-for-washington-and-tel-aviv/) - "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." -- The Book Of Proverbs, 16:18 “CEASEFIRE IS IN EFFECT!” Trump shouts in upper case impotent rage into the pixel abyss. To bring about and sustain peace, the leaders of empires must surrender the illusion that they can maintain control of people and events
- [Getting Away](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/getting-away/) - “Those are called Abies alba, commonly known as silver fir. A type of evergreen. Once we walk past them we’ll reach the so-called timber line.” Bill looks at me. “Which is…” “The highest elevation where trees can still grow.” “If you say so, boss.” We’re climbing up the mountain at a pretty good clip. It’s
- [Brian’s Poem: I Can See Him Now](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/brians-poem-i-can-see-him-now/) - I can see him now, striding down a San Francisco street, two newspapers tucked under one arm, magazines slipping out of the back pocket of his black jeans. Black curls dancing in the fog, high-stepping in those Vans as if the sidewalk played his tune. I see him fiddling with his guitar; checking out maps
- [America’s Most Lawless Agency: ICE Is the Prototype for Tyranny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/americas-most-lawless-agency-ice-is-the-prototype-for-tyranny/) - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. — Justice Louis
- [Tulsi Gabbard: Another Lesser Evilist Offering](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/tulsi-gabbard-another-lesser-evilist-offering/) - On 20 June 2025, Galloway spoke about his dream team for the next presidential race: "Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, president and vice president of the United States of America." He advised Gabbard to "resign if Trump joins the war and should make plain that she intends to run for president." She hasn't. Given the public rebukes of her by Donald Trump, speculation had emerged of her doing just that: resigning. However, Gabbard has instead attempted to win her way back into Trump's good book.
- [Suckers, Losers, & Cucks](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/suckers-losers-cucks/) - Happy memorial day, even to the derelict gangs of roving cats who bite me in my sleep, and preach radical violence with nothing more than their fangs, as I lay in bed and plot out yet another plan to save America when no one else is willing to do the hard work. I am the
- [The Century of the Jew is Hot Hot Wars](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-century-of-the-jew-is-hot-hot-wars/) - Dr Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He writes extensively for various publications, including CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, and Eureka Street. He is currently lecturing at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. I just interviewed Binoy two hours ago, USA time, 3 PM PST, Sunday, 8 am Australia time.
- [Bombs Away](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/bombs-away/) - “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier,” said President Trump as he addressed the American people shortly after announcing he was bombing Iran. I was too young to watch my political leaders spiral themselves into the war
- [Why the All the Promotions for COVID Spokespeople?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/159402/) - What special talent do the spokespeople for the COVID "pandemic" have?
- [Unrelenting Bolivarian Resistance against Stubborn US Aggression](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/unrelenting-bolivarian-resistance-against-stubborn-us-aggression/) - On the eve of Venezuela’s presidential election on 29 July 2024, Guardian correspondents, Tiago Rogero (based in Rio de Janeiro) and Sam Jones (based in Madrid) predicted the vote “could end 25 years of socialist rule.” It did not. The following, 30 July, another group of Guardian correspondents gave prominent coverage to far-right wing Venezuelan politician
- [I Prefer The Word](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/i-prefer-the-word/) - I prefer the word 'death' To ‘passing away’ or 'passing on’ Death Is so direct, so straightforward That I would not like it to be Hidden In euphemism It tells the truth And we understand The truth even when We pay our homilies To the departed One By One That, only Death Will understand Antonym
- [Distraction Wrestling](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/distraction-wrestling/) - Is it as simple as the Left versus the Right?
- [How the US and Israel Used Rafael Grossi to Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/how-the-us-and-israel-used-rafael-grossi-to-hijack-the-iaea-and-start-a-war-on-iran/) - IAEA Director General Grossi discusses Iran with former Israeli PM Bennett, June 3, 2022 (GPO) Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel—an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules—to manufacture a pretext for war on Iran,
- [Directive to Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/directive-to-iran-retaliation-bad-de-escalation-good/) - De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals. It’s almost always used to target the person or entity that exerts retribution or seeks to avenge (dramatic)
- [A Silence that is Defining Our Age and Which is Deafening](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/a-silence-that-is-defining-our-age-and-which-is-deafening/) - Note: Another long opinion piece in the local rag, Lincoln County Leader, June 18, 2025. First, though, let me explain. The idea is to not just rattle my fellow citizens’ cages, those self-imposed prisons of the mind. It’s my own journalistic and controlled demolition of the grand narratives this country has foisted on a public
- [Where is Your Righteous Anger?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/where-is-your-righteous-anger/) - Woe is me and woe is my nation for its government wishes to ice out California’s warmth—to freeze a culture of zeal that built this altar, the altar you sacrifice them on Woe is this nation of brothers selling Joseph to Egypt, their father tears his clothes in grief and the flock mourns his absence,
- [Zionist "anti-semitic racism" Report Expected to be Given to School Boards Canada-wide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/zionist-anti-semitic-racism-report-expected-to-be-given-to-school-boards-canada-wide/) - Ontario's education ministry supposedly bans "political" bias, but with the TDSB, that "bias" means banning support of Palestinian rights: Zionism is not apparently "political"! The most disturbing aspect is that these damaging CIJA-developed recommendations will probably be attempted at school boards across Canada. Director of Education LaTouche, and Trustees: Many of us have been disappointed
- [The Horror and the Shame](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-horror-and-the-shame/) - Yes, it's deja vu all over again. As the U.S. moves huge amounts of military assets within striking distance of Iran, preparing to create another conflagration and initiate World War III, let’s contemplate the slaughterfest which resulted from World War II. Look at this chart. Like so many of the recent military conflicts, most of them
- [US Bombs Have Impacted Foundation of Global Security Order](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/us-bombs-have-impacted-foundation-of-global-security-order/) - Destroying peace. Illustration: Liu Rui/GT On Saturday local time, the US announced that it had launched airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran. This marks the first time the US has officially intervened militarily in this round of the Iran-Israel conflict, drawing widespread shock from the international community. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on social
- [The Poet’s Anthem](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-poets-anthem/) - If you believe in war more than you believe in words you are not a poet If you support rockets, tanks, and bombs assassination, invasion, aggression occupation, genocide, oppression terrorism, ethnocentrism, isolationism, expansionism, more than you support dialogue— if you justify bloodshed, displacement, starvation, poverty, censorship, dictatorship, your god, your nation, autocracy, free-worldism, third-worldism, hegemony,
- [Blood of the Poor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/blood-of-the-poor/) - There is a craving for the blood of the poor, a taste for a violent war right here at home, and no billionaire or politician will ever step up to start a peace process for this war, because it is their tongues that crave the blood, and there is no money to be made on
- [Do I Look Like I Belong?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/do-i-look-like-i-belong/) - Do I look like I belong? At school events, in volleyball, Wearing the team uniform we share? If anytime, masked men lay snare. Do I look like I belong? On training days, mid-belly crawl? Ready to fight, obey command— To protect our shared homeland. Do I look like I belong? In elders’ home, with Tylenol,
- [writ right body the shaman traps his koodoo](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/writ-right-body-the-shaman-traps-his-koodoo/) - cracker jack came calling like he said he would with all of his old deals trying to box me in with his dreams what I do when they shake my face with the radiation trying to penetrate every organ writing their name into my body I take the kite straw out of my spine and
- [Skewed Diplomacy: Europe, Iran and Unhelpful Nuclear Nonsense](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/skewed-diplomacy-europe-iran-and-unhelpful-nuclear-nonsense/) - Farce is a regular feature of international relations. It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of outfits. It can adopt an absurd visage that renders the subject comical and lacking in credibility. That subject is the European Union, that curious collective of cobbled, sometimes erratic nation states that has pretensions of
- [On Being Trump's Director of National Intelligence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/on-being-trumps-director-of-national-intelligence/) - On 17 June, a member of the media asked Trump: "Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said that Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon." Trump brusquely responded, "I don't care what she said. I think they are very close to having one." This is just another instance of the rudeness, arrogance, and
- [His Sad Parade](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/his-sad-parade/) - Ah, those glory days when he led cadets From his military school in a parade. Down Fifth Avenue struts drum major Don— Alleged bone spurs later stationed him at clubs. Now he orders a parade for himself Disguised to honor the Army’s big 2-5-0. He uses troops and weapons to tout his might. The most
- [Two Burnt Then Silence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/two-burnt-then-silence/) - according to reliable chronicles on the day when dogs became domesticated they started barking at the Moon it’s only clamor the Moon pays little attention it considers the dogs bumptious noisemakers only once not long ago about a hundred years ago the Moon decided it was high time to bark back at the dogs it
- [Lessons from Vieques: Resisting U.S. Militarism, Building Unity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/lessons-from-vieques-resisting-u-s-militarism-building-unity/) - Around two years ago, I watched a puppet show, created by a group of eight to 16-year-olds at the summer camp where I worked, about the eviction of the U.S. Navy from the island of Vieques. After I conducted a few brief workshops reviewing the island’s history of military occupation and contamination, the campers immediately
- [Mary and the Boy Who Rebuilt Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/mary-and-the-boy-who-rebuilt-gaza/) - With trembling hands, I gathered what remained of my family. We had been displaced more times than I can remember. Now we faced the pain of loss again Home is a piece of the past that only exists in memories. How painful it is to realize that you’ve left all that you have ever loved,
- [Scuttling International Humanitarian Assistance](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/scuttling-international-humanitarian-assistance/) - Since the return of Donald Trump to the White House, he and his Republican allies have worked to destroy the U.S. government’s overseas humanitarian aid programs. This action flies in the face of the U.S. government’s lengthy record of humanitarian assistance to people of other nations whose lives had been blighted by war, poverty, and
- [Lamentation for Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/lamentation-for-gaza/) - For the souls of Gaza, and all who mourn unheard. I weep for the children whose names were never written in victory, only in ledgers of loss. I cry for the mothers whose wombs bore only graves and whose lullabies are now silence. The streets run with fear thick as blood, and the walls echo
- [FAQ: Israel's Illegal War on Iran](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/faq-israels-illegal-war-on-iran/) - It has been one week since Israel launched a dangerous war against Iran. With so much misinformation and pro-war propaganda being repeated by politicians and news media, CJPME has just issued a new factsheet that addresses critical questions, including: Was Israel's attack pre-emptive or illegal? Is there evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Does
- [Why Do We Hate Iran?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/why-do-we-hate-iran/) - Because they deserve it? Because we're told to? Or because, in truth, we play dirty given the slightest excuse. Britain and America would like everyone to believe that hostilities with Iran began with the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But you have to go back over 70 years to find the root cause in America’s case, while
- [Thanksgiving Challenge](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/thanksgiving-challenge/) - Sooner or later, all of us will have to face this question from a young child over Thanksgiving dinner: "Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma - why did we have all those fights with other countries back then?" VIETNAM? “We fought them there so that we didn’t have to fight them on Wiltshire Boulevard!” CAMBODIA: “So that
- [Trump Is Inspiring a Historic Wave of Protests](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/trump-is-inspiring-a-historic-wave-of-protests/) - All those who have been wondering when mass resistance to Trump 2.0 would materialize need wait no longer. It is here. It is happening. It is now. In truth, the new wave of defiance has been swelling for some time. Following last November’s presidential election, media outlets such as the New York Times steadily pushed
- [Turning Political Repression into Movement Building](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/turning-political-repression-into-movement-building/) - My first years of progressive activism and organizing took place during the presidency of Richard Nixon, who, without a doubt, led one of the most repressive presidential administrations we have experienced in the United States in the modern era, prior to this Trump regime. It was under Nixon that the Republican Party, with its “southern
- [Swiss Re SONAR 2025 Report: Global Heat Kills 480,000/Yr](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/swiss-re-sonar-2025-report-global-heat-kills-480000-yr/) - Extreme heat is one of the world’s leading killers, outdistancing worldwide conflicts of 233,000 deaths in 2024 by more than double the count at 480,000 people dead from extreme heat. All indications suggest the death count via extreme heat is headed much higher because global warming is not appreciably slowing down as global CO2 emissions
- [NY Times and Roger Cohen Promote War Again](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/ny-times-and-roger-cohen-promote-war-again/) - The NY Times has been a major promoter of US "regime change" operations for decades. Today, while President Trump considers directly involving a US attack on Iran, the NYT is again performing this role despite many readers being skeptical or opposed. A June 19 NYT news/analysis is titled "An Islamic Republic With Its Back Against
- [Why Washington Targets Iran and Venezuela](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/why-washington-targets-iran-and-venezuela/) - Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have also been targeted for regime change by Washington. The two commonalities are not unrelated. Of course, the world’s hegemon would like to get its hands on all their oil. But it would be simplistic to think that would be
- [Meaning of Life](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/meaning-of-life/) - Where should one seek the meaning of life?
- [The Janitor Police](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-janitor-police/) - This carpet, this land I know each square inch with the vacuum of my eyes, designed to see humanly the good and bad, in the alleys under the tables between the chairs, the loose dirt, the innocent spots leave it or not I help clean it up, my beat like a street.
- [The Janitor Sweeps America](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-janitor-sweeps-america/) - I am the muscle, America, landscaper of land, pull weeds and grass and pick up trash, scrub baseboards from state line to state line of the page wipe chalk boards and desks, sweep and mop from the grandeur of mountains to the lowlands I write from the honesty of clouds to the deepest blue ink
- [Holocaust Survivors](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/holocaust-survivors/) - "Do you know that you're one of the few predator species that preys even on itself?" -- the astonished alien Trelane asks the humans of the Starship Enterprise in "The Squire of Gothos," Star Trek.
- [Death Has](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/death-has/) - A debris Black is not Colour, it is painted Death, Burnt All burnt In this furnace What they must Have felt in those Few minutes Charred Black and the man Who came out Is his mind intact? Did he scream Like the rest? Black, charred ruins Of last human vestiges And the inmates of the
- [From Hagiography to Reckoning, This Jew's Path Toward Rejection of Zionism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/from-hagiography-to-reckoning-this-jews-path-toward-rejection-of-zionism/) - In Perpetual Nakba I was raised on Zionist hagiography. As I have noted in past social media posts and internet essays, my late mother was a Holocaust survivor. To wit, belief in the Zionist project was a key aspect of my family’s coping methods in regard to navigating survivors’ trauma. But, over the years, I
- [Israel's Attack on Iran: The Violent New World is Going to Horrify You](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/israels-attack-on-iran-the-violent-new-world-is-going-to-horrify-you/) - Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of aggression against Iran as some kind of “defensive” move. This time there was no rationalising pretext, as there was for Israel to inflict a genocide in Gaza following Hamas’ one-day attack on 7 October 2023.
- [From Capitalist Control to Working-Class Power](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/from-capitalist-control-to-working-class-power/) - Introduction With growing disillusionment in capitalist “democracy,” more and more people are looking towards alternatives to provide the answers they need. As Marxists, our role is to guide others out of the darkness of liberalism and toward the liberating path of Socialism. With that in mind, one of the first steps is to clear up
- [Zionism Untethered: Inside the Legal Battle for the Soul of UCT](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/zionism-untethered-inside-the-legal-battle-for-the-soul-of-uct/) - Up until now, a narrative has been pushed in the local and international right-wing press that the council of the University of Cape Town had chosen to wilfully sacrifice R750-million in donor funding on the altar of its so-called Gaza resolutions. But new court papers submitted by an anti-Zionist Jewish group, as well as previously
- [The Great American Poem (or the last poem I’ll ever write)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-great-american-poem-or-the-last-poem-ill-ever-write/) - Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers / One hundred million angels singin'/ Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. -- Johnny Cash Johnny Cash will sing the last song ever played. Left behind on a scorched beach with no one to hear, grinding away on someone’s forgotten tape deck. We never learned. We jumped
- [Israel’s “Humanitarian” Project in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/israels-humanitarian-project-in-gaza/) - It’s official. If not, it ought to be. Israeli forces freely butcher Palestinians in Gaza of all stripes, standing and states of desperation. They do so casually or indifferently or maliciously. True, they might get the odd militant here and there, but the supposedly professional Israeli Defense Forces is rather good at killing civilians. In
- [Vindication for the Unvaccinated?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/vindication-for-the-unvaccinated/) - Salvador Dali — Geopoliticus Child Watching The Birth Of The New Man At a recent family gathering, I sat at the dinner table with a group of loved ones for the first time since the COVID-19 fiasco. Most of the cheerful discussion focused on the spectacular event of the week; my mother’s 100th birthday. I
- [Does China have an Internationalist Foreign Policy?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/does-china-have-an-internationalist-foreign-policy/) - A number of observant commentators have raised questions about Peoples’ China’s Belt and Road Initiative and more broadly, the foreign policy of the PRC. Reliable left observers like Ann Garrison, writing in Black Agenda Report, have voiced concerns about Chinese investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based on Siddharth Kara’s book, Cobalt Red,
- [Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/endless-wars-failing-infrastructure-and-a-dying-republic/) - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Chance for Peace" speech, delivered on 16 April 1953 Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- [Playing and Being Played on the Road to Nuclear War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/playing-and-being-played-on-the-road-to-nuclear-war/) - To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. -- Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh There
- [A Paralyzed World](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/a-paralyzed-world/) - People are paralyzed. How can it be? How can an obvious genocide, perpetrated by a small country, be allowed to occur? How can a small and newly developed nation, with a slight population and few resources, artificially stitched together with foreign people from unrelated parts of the world, pulverize a large and millennium developed nation
- [India: Police Raid Indigenous Village inside Tiger Reserve](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/india-police-raid-indigenous-village-inside-tiger-reserve/) - Forest Department officials break down the shelters of Jenu Kuruba people who had reclaimed their old village inside Nagarhole Tiger Reserve. This morning more than 250 police, forest guards and tiger force members raided a village which Indigenous people had reclaimed in a tiger reserve six weeks ago. The security forces tore down seven forest
- [Israel Attacks Iran: The Turning of the Tables](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/israel-attacks-iran-the-turning-of-the-tables/) - It all started in the early morning hours of 13 June 2025, with what Israel calls “Operation Rising Lion”. Israel’s Air Force launched dozens of air strikes against Iran, targeting its nuclear [energy] program. According to BBC, in Iran’s own words, this is the biggest assault on Iran’s territory since the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.
- [Mushroom Media](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/mushroom-media/) - How does the legacy media cultivate its reader/viewership?
- [Prediction with the Main Reasons: The US Will Bomb Iran to Bring about a Regime Change](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/prediction-with-the-main-reasons-the-us-will-bomb-iran-to-bring-about-a-regime-change/) - We’ve seen it repeatedly: You invent a pretext based on deliberate lies, fake news, exaggerations or a false flag operation which serves to construct a story that country or leader X is a threat to “us” which legitimates that we do a ‘preemptive’ strike against that against – obviously invented – threat to eliminate it.
- [Redefining Prosperity: Prioritizing Humanity Over Commodity](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/redefining-prosperity-prioritizing-humanity-over-commodity/) - In a world where market values dominate public discourse, the core essence of humanity risks being lost. Capitalism, with its relentless focus on profit and growth, has transformed every aspect of life—from healthcare and education to personal relationships—into commodities in constant exchange. Yet, this system has overlooked an enduring truth: prosperity should be measured by
- [Professor Reveals the Truth behind South China Sea Conflict](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/professor-reveals-the-truth-behind-south-china-sea-conflict/) - Why is the South China Sea such a flashpoint between China, the U.S., and Southeast Asia? In this eye-opening video, Professor Kishore Mahbubani breaks down the deeper truth behind the conflict that mainstream media often overlooks. With decades of diplomatic experience and sharp geopolitical insight, he explains what’s really at stake—and why the West’s narrative
- [Trump (Like Biden) is Simply Evil](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/trump-like-biden-is-simply-evil/) - On June 17, Trump demanded the unconditional surrender of Ayatollah Khamenei, and said "Our patience is wearing thin." On June 16, Trump posted to his Truth Social and to Facebook, this warning for everyone in Tehran to evacuate the City: He has said there that America is in this war not to invade Iran but
- [Satan’s Shadow](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/satans-shadow/) - And the night clove down, and then the Thunder. The fading of the charger, its Fathomless eye transfixed before the Onslaught, fiendish dance of harrowing Lights, a feast for groaning demons; Where dreams thus morph unto day, And day thrice back to night again. An Unraveling star bathed in crimson waters, Where the blood rain
- [Uncomfortably Numb!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/uncomfortably-numb/) - Having someone close to me with a severe mental condition as the needles of American Fascism penetrate my psyche is much too much. The boob tube lies to me about what Israel is doing to Gaza and now Iran. Having neighbors surrounding me who are either oblivious to what the MAGA machine is shredding, or
- [Apply the NPT to All Nations Equally](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/apply-the-npt-to-all-nations-equally/) - This is a case of awakening Iran to really the full deceit and the full evil that is represented by Israel and the United States and Europe in my view this uh you know the history of the last 60 years for my country I’m ashamed of it. You know my country was supposed to
- [Self-Defence and Acceptable Murder](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/self-defence-and-acceptable-murder/) - These are the sorts of things that tend to be discussed in bunkered facilities and grimy locker rooms. Now, very much in the open and before the presses, the head of state of one country is openly advocating murdering another head of state before news outlets with little reaction. Lawbreaking has become chic, and Israel
- [Provocation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/provocation/) - As tanks roll down the avenue The protest grows across the nation People want to know what they can do Without triggering provocation You know they want to call you names For engaging your right to protest Like traitors, cowards, you’re to blame For an era of civil unrest They’ll push you to the point
- [Greta Thunberg and the Merchants of Smear](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/greta-thunberg-and-the-merchants-of-smear/) - If there’s one thing the ‘impartial’, ‘independent’ ‘free press’ can’t stand, it’s someone – citizens, journalists, politicians, celebrities, anyone – protesting the West’s wars. The one-size-fits-all smear deployed to define and dismiss the concerns of these troublemakers – people who often pay a high price for their dissent – is ‘narcissist’. Consider the case of
- [A Broad Paint Brush STILL is not Enough to Express the HEINOUS Nature of America](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/a-broad-paint-brush-still-is-not-enough-to-express-the-heinous-nature-of-america/) - “What does it mean to want to belong to an empire?” In answering, he interlaced the concept of belonging during our terrifying political moment — full-fledged war on DEI, First Amendment violations of protesters, and weaponization of American border security against students. His work is a call to action for the literature of dissent at
- [Condemning the Right to Self Defence: Iran’s Retaliation and Israel’s Privilege](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/condemning-the-right-to-self-defence-irans-retaliation-and-israels-privilege/) - There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran is not playing by the rules. Instead of accepting with dutiful meekness the slaughter of its military leadership and scientific personnel, Tehran decided, promptly, to respond to Israel’s pre-emptive strikes launched on June 13. Instead of
- [Israel’s Strikes on Iran Spark Growing Dissent in Congress](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/israels-strikes-on-iran-spark-growing-dissent-in-congress/) - Photo credit: CODEPINK On Monday, June 16, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation, a War Powers Resolution, to prevent President Trump from using military force against Iran without Congressional authorization. This will force all Senators to go on record supporting or opposing the following: “Congress hereby directs the President to terminate the use of United
- [This Day in Anarchist History: The Oaxaca Commune](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/this-day-in-anarchist-history-the-oaxaca-commune/) - On this day in anarchist history, June 14th 2006, we remember the Oaxaca Commune, when a sit-in organized by a militant teacher's union transformed into a months-long popular insurrection against the Mexican state. https://youtu.be/fbyxyrSB2QE?si=XzuUaedWb52ytBTd
- [The Middle East as a Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-middle-east-as-a-zone-free-of-nuclear-weapons/) - Why the focus ought to be on Israel, not Iran. Israel has 90-400 nuclear weapons. Here is what a simple AI dialogue yields. Any journalist could do it. No one does. The UN General Assembly Resolution that declares the Middle East a zone free of nuclear weapons is UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/76/30. Title: Establishment
- [Boomerang](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/boomerang/) - Who cares if it was stolen or not. Maybe this is all that we deserve. Foucault’s boomerang, and all that we’ve done, finally come back around. We’ve trampled this world, breaking it to our benefit. Countries, economies, Families, homes, Battered and broken. Yet we’re still here struggling in spite of it. We’ve been the bully,
- [The Great Poisoning](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-great-poisoning/) - "The Great Poisoning Explained by Catherine Austin Fitts"
- [Summer Camp](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/summer-camp/) - “Sorry, Sean, you can’t stay here. I think… actually I’m fairly certain, the house is under surveillance.” “Surveillance! What’s going on, Bill?” “I believe I’m being watched and possibly followed.” “By…” “By them.” “Who’s them?” “Them. You know.” “No, I don’t know.” “I am scared shitless, Sean. I have this sixth sense…” “You’re being paranoid,
- [The Ignorance That Pervades Us](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-ignorance-that-pervades-us/) - The uncalled for attack on Iran by the most insane group of people who ever inhabited this planet is expected; what do the insane do, they do the insane. Not expected is that recognized people do not recognize the insanity of the action. Put in simple. Iranians are not eager to have a nuclear bomb.
- [Hole in the Soul](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/hole-in-the-soul/) - On my 21st birthday my grandfather gave me an army jacket. It had a hole above the right chest pocket. “Kid, if the bullethole bothers you, no problem, just ask your mother to fix it up. You know the saying, a stitch in time saves nine.” That was mildly surprising given that the jacket looked
- [Traitor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/traitor/) - I am a traitor to what I love the most: my land— left it to tyrants to oppress the ones I left behind I am a traitor— rejoice the enemy has killed the commanders who have killed my people I am a traitor to mourning mothers for I mourn the death of commanders who defended
- [Aid as a Means to Commit Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Bleaching the Atrocities of Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/bleaching-the-atrocities-of-genocide/) - A team of public health researchers have called for the expunging of the term “ethnic cleansing” from official use, declaring that it “bleaches the atrocities of genocide and its continuing use undermines the prevention of genocide.” In their paper, published in The European Journal of Public Health (EJPH), the researchers, Rony Blum, Shira Sagi and
- [Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/ethnic-cleansing-or-genocide/) - [A] coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups,
- [LAPD Running Amok, Dishing out Numerous Injuries to Protesters and Journalists in LA](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/lapd-running-amok-dishing-out-numerous-injuries-to-protesters-and-journalists-in-la/) - On 11 June, the Substack, Closer to the Edge, penned a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department, and the opening graph says it all: You shot a journalist on live television. You struck another in the forehead while he was standing alone under a freeway. You sent one man into emergency surgery after punching a
- [Justice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/justice-2/) - Starving mouths Swollen vaults And a sense of justice Long reduced To clerical abstraction Processed daily In crumbling annexes And over-burdened bureaucracies Where ink-stained drones Mutter verdicts to empty rooms In glass towers Where corruption rises Like a monument To the failure of conscience With trials No longer requiring defendants Just the whisper Of unapproved
- [The Puppet Master’s Parade](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-puppet-masters-parade/) - Never mind the flash bang grenades, He’s staging a birthday parade. Forget about the National Guard, Trump wants MAGA to party hard. Watch out for the stooges of ICE, No mercy there, no playing nice. In the USA today, Trump determined to have it his own damn way. He been preparing for this for eight
- [The Middle East is on Fire because Israeli and U.S. Imperialism Lit the Match](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [A Meditation on the Song “Strange Fruit”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/a-meditation-on-the-song-strange-fruit/) - The trees are now streets, the nooses now guns but the “Strange Fruit” beat goes on and on─ how many women and men, even children are shot down, murdered again and again by badged, blue-sheeted gangs or herded, disappeared to be tortured in lawless lands. In the song “Strange Fruit” the trees were not at
- [Prove That You Matter](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/prove-that-you-matter/) - Get off your duff. Real Americans Work till they drop. You, I’m looking at you, Freeloaders, scum, your government is talking. Prove that you matter. Do something that earns A buck or two and makes Uncle Sam smile. Don’t give me, I got PTSD While serving my country or from abuse While I was growing
- [There are Only Jewish-Inspired Warsaw Ghetto Pogroms for Palestinians](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/there-are-only-jewish-inspired-warsaw-ghetto-pogroms-for-palestinians/) - 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
- [Scott Ritter: “We are at war with Iran.”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Q and A with Kondō Makoto about the Revision of the Science Council of Japan](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/q-and-a-with-kondo-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
- [Asim and Shehbaz in the Same Row but …](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Fathers and Sons](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Speaking Against Tyranny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/speaking-against-tyranny/) - How to avoid arrest.
- [Jean Piaget vs Lev Vygotsky: Communist Criticisms of Genetic Epistemology](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Plummeting Insects](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Israel Strikes Iran](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/israel-strikes-iran/) - 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
- [Snake Oil](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/snake-oil-2/) - Safe and effective?
- [Project 2025: Five Months in, Trump’s Shock Doctrine Is Delivering](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/project-2025-five-months-in-trumps-shock-doctrine-is-delivering/) - 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
- [Daniel Ortega is No Nayib Bukele](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Ethiopia: As Things Fall Apart](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [A Quick and Easy Way to Starve to Death](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [The Morality of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-morality-of-small-means-sanctioning-israels-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
- [Marketing Mars](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Christopher Black: Balancing the Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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,
- [Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Amnesia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/amnesia-2/) - One day you realise that immigrants have made a silent invasion into your land so while cutting down on imports you deport Forgetting that once you too were an immigrant You are recalcitrant to travel circuitous routes of history obsessed with the present You forget that you too we’re a part of history Was, is
- [Driven](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/driven/) - the girl chose the path of the loyal and just scrambling through infinite yards muddy forest floor and slippery rocks thorns and angry insects claimed her blood she arrives covered in cobweb and mud the man paid a local guide good money for the 3D map of shortcuts he reaches the summit first without breaking
- [Diagnosis](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/diagnosis/) - She recorded my symptoms with fidelity: Heaviness, hopelessness, uncontrollable crying. “I wear it like a blanket.” She thought I was being poetic. But I meant my keffiyeh. Distrust, disillusionment, distraction. “I don’t know what to do or where to go.” She suggested journaling or a walk in woods. But I meant should I get arrested
- [When Media Tell Us Who "Won" a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Duel of the Century?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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!
- [Social Media Posts](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/social-media-posts/) - Just what is the reach of social media?
- [The Spectacle of a Police State: This Is Martial Law Without a Formal Declaration of War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Catching Israel Out: Gaza and the Madleen “Selfie” Protest](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [Two bites One time](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/two-bites-one-time/) - It isn’t done that cut flowers cry or talk to you, given time they shrivel and die. It isn’t done to suck the bones at table above the ground. It isn’t done to bite the apple, then place it back in the bowl, or cry to the plants in perennial rows. It isn’t done to
- [Cellphone Correlates](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/cellphone-correlates/) - First considerations about cellphones.
- [Israeli Commandos and Crew Swoop in on Gaza Freedom Flotilla Sailboat <em>Madleen</em>](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/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
- [The Pragmatic-Demolition of  Techno-Feudalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-pragmatic-demolition-of-techno-feudalism/) - 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
- [Erasing Gaza: Genocide, Denial and "the Very Bedrock of Imperial Attitudes"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/erasing-gaza-genocide-denial-and-the-very-bedrock-of-imperial-attitudes/) - Noam Chomsky offered a rule of thumb for predicting the ‘mainstream’ response to crimes against humanity: ‘There is a way to calibrate reaction. If it’s a crime of somebody else, particularly an enemy, then we’re utterly outraged. If it’s our own crime, either comparable or worse, either it’s suppressed or denied. That works with almost
- [Thank You for Your (Safe) Service](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/thank-you-for-your-safe-service/) - As we have those great warriors leading our nation, let's look at their military service. You know, the important things that so many love to thank them for. Let's see, we have Donnie Trump, who supported the Vietnam War but just could not serve, due to 4 student deferments and then one medical for bone
- [Piers Morgan Just Can’t Stop Himself Inciting against the Palestinian People](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/piers-morgan-just-cant-stop-himself-inciting-against-the-palestinian-people/) - Through his dehumanisation of Palestinians, his racist incitement and mindless conflation of “Israelis” and “Jews”, Morgan continues to add fuel to the fire of genocide. I already had a very low opinion of Piers Morgan. But I was stunned by his display of racist ignorance last night while interviewing the Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, who
- [The Fraudulence of Economic Theory](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-fraudulence-of-economic-theory/) - Ever since the economic crash in 2008, it has been clear that the foundation of standard or “neoclassical” economic theory — which extends the standard microeconomic theory into national economies (macroeconomics) — fails at the macroeconomic level, and therefore that in both the microeconomic and macroeconomic domains, economic theory, or the standard or “neoclassical” economic
- [Don’t Fund the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: It’s a Genocidal Smokescreen](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/dont-fund-the-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-its-a-genocidal-smokescreen/) - Chaos at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site in Rafah. Photo: AP Recent reports say that US AID is considering giving $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—an “aid” initiative launched at Israel’s request. At first glance, that might sound like a generous effort to help desperate Palestinians in Gaza. But peel back even one
- [When the War Was Done It Was Not Over](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/when-the-war-was-done-it-was-not-over/) - When the war was done it was not over When the war was done it was not over For anyone who lived there or anyone who fought there For those who came back home it was not over When the war was done there still was screaming By those trapped in a hell of endless
- [Poll: 82% of Israels Want to Expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% Want to Kill Every Man, Woman, Child](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/poll-82-of-israels-want-to-expel-palestinians-from-gaza-47-want-to-kill-every-man-woman-child/) - In the books and stories I read When I was a young boy I learned how cruel People could be to each other – Torture chambers In medieval castles, Live human sacrifices Atop Aztec pyramids, Beheadings of political opponents, Immolations and lynchings Of the those With the wrong skin color, Or the wrong beliefs. And
- [Nation-Building Requires Taking up the Aim of Satisfying the Collective Interests of Society](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/nation-building-requires-taking-up-the-aim-of-satisfying-the-collective-interests-of-society/) - It is noteworthy that those in the U.S. fighting for their rights against the oligarchs have as one of their slogans "No Kings" and here Carney is going in the opposite direction. It is another indication of the anti-people, anti-democratic aims of this government. No matter what variant the ruling circles give of nation-building, of
- [Trump Fascism?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/trump-fascism/) - With the second coming of Trump, many who profess left credentials again proclaim fascism is back, after we voted “fascism” out in 2020. Every four years we hear the story: “this election is the most important in our lifetime.” Republicans are the new fascism, Democrats are the lesser evil. No matter corporate interests fund both
- [Listening to a Mother's Horror with US Marshals: Perpetual Vicarious Trauma](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/listening-to-a-mothers-horror-with-us-marshals-if-you-are-human-will-put-your-ass-in-perpetual-vicarious-trauma/) - The U.S. Marshals always get their kill shot — and a young man, young woman, and two five-year-old children swarmed by SOG, special operations group/gang, in Michigan, and the man bleeds out, the kids are in the house traumatized, and the mother is swarmed in the town getting groceries. I expected to get deep into
- [Just a Slice of Peace](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/just-a-slice-of-peace/) - I raise a finger Is it death or war Why will the sirens Call, if there is no bombing Territorial attacks? What is war then Dismembered bodies In shanty towns? I remember as a child We had rehearsals, running To the trenches, simulating War, Does war need to be acted Rehearsed, as today long distance
- [Hamlet's Father Came to Him in Armor on the Parapet](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/hamlets-father-came-to-him-in-armor-on-the-parapet/) - Hamlet's father came to him in armor on the parapet inviting revenge but mine comes in the bathroom while I'm brushing my teeth speaking in a quiet voice about 1980s databases and cell phone throughput the counter that begins when the old antennae of the flip phones is raised and the great machines whir up
- [Gaza Flotilla Ship Madleen Begins It's Voyage to Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/gaza-flotilla-ship-madleen-begins-its-voyage-to-gaza/) - Freedom Flotilla coalition The Gaza Flotilla sailboat Madleen set off from Catania, Sicily, Italy on June 1, 2025 for a 7-day voyage to Gaza to break the 40-year illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and now to stop the 600 day genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The Madleen and her 12-person crew and participants departed
- [Orwell, Bradbury, Burgess, and Atwood's 20th Century Dystopian Tales Becoming 21st Century Reality](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/orwell-bradbury-burgess-and-atwoods-20th-century-dystopian-tales-becoming-21st-century-reality/) - Works of dystopian fiction, from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, and Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, once seemed like dark fantasies of an authoritarian future. Their themes were warnings, not forecasts. Now, in 21st Century America, with the political landscape being fashioned by Donald Trump,
- [Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The Death of a Radical Writer and Novelist](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/ngugi-wa-thiongo-the-death-of-a-radical-writer-and-novelist/) - Ngugi wa Thiong’o (5 January 1938-28 May 2025) Let us now look about us. Where are our national languages now? Where are the books written in the alphabets of our national languages? Where is our own literature now? Where is the wisdom and knowledge of our fathers now? Where is the philosophy of our fathers
- [Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias in Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/bad-old-habits-israel-backs-palestinian-militias-in-gaza/) - It is one of those things that should be recorded and replayed for eternity: Israel, in order to guard some misplaced sense of security, happily backs Palestinian groups in order to divide themselves. Hamas, seen now as an existential monster, was tolerated and even supported for lengthy stints in efforts to undermine the various factions
- [Attitude and Health](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/attitude-and-health/)
- [NWO Blues](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/nwo-blues/) - The result of media collaboration with psyops.
- [Is There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/is-there-a-crack-in-western-support-for-genocide/) - Dorothy Shea, interim US representative to the UN, vetoed a resolution for a permanent ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian aid for Gaza on June 5th, 2025 - Photo via US mission to the UN. After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift—but will words translate into action?
- [Nightmare of Nightmares: New (Big) CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/nightmare-of-nightmares-new-big-co2-emissions/) - Global warming just got a brand-new source for trapping heat as Arctic tundra turns up the dial on CO2 emissions. It’s now in the ranks of cars, trains, and planes as an official emitter of carbon dioxide, CO2. But it distinguishes itself in one critical way. There’s no “on/off” switch. Once turned on, it’ll self-reinforce
- [Trump’s Absurd War on Education](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/trumps-absurd-war-on-education/) - The US is at war. It has always been at war. Whether a world war, a proxy conflict, an armed intervention, a psyop, or a regime change mission, the United States has not enjoyed a single moment of true, unadulterated peace. And it's not just at war with nations abroad. The US is also at
- [Zen and the Art of <em>New York Times</em> Headline Writing](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/zen-and-the-art-of-new-york-times-headline-writing/) - The New York Times has just published one of the most insane headlines I have ever seen it publish, which is really saying something. “Gaza’s Deadly Aid Deliveries,” the title blares. If you were among the majority of people who only skim the headline without reading the rest of the article, you would have no idea that
- [Public Funding of "Antisemitism Industrial Complex" Must End](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/public-funding-of-antisemitism-industrial-complex-must-end/) - Historians aren’t going to believe this happened. All Canadians are paying a special envoy to lobby the police to exempt genocidaires from Canadian law. On Thursday Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism Deborah Lyons posted: Yesterday I spoke to the RCMP and confirmed that there is no investigation into Israeli Canadians.
- [The Inevitable Souring: Elon Musk Falls Out with Donald Trump](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-inevitable-souring-elon-musk-falls-out-with-donald-trump/) - Sandpit politics is rarely edifying, and grown toddlers taking their fists to each other is unlikely to interest. But when they feature US President Donald Trump and the world’s wealthiest man, the picture alters. Disputes are bound to be on scale, rippling in their consequences. No crystal ball was required regarding the eventual sundering of
- [Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/trumps-palantir-powered-surveillance-is-turning-america-into-a-digital-prison/) - Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic into a digital dictatorship armed with algorithms and powered by unaccountable, all-seeing artificial intelligence. This isn’t about national security. It’s about control.
- [When the Strategy of Words Fights the Strategy of Force, Who Wins the War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/when-the-strategy-of-words-fights-the-strategy-of-force-who-wins-the-war/) - On the one hand, there are the words. In the analysis of Oleg Tsarev, the leading Ukrainian opposition leader now in Crimea, the end-of-war terms presented by the Russian side at Istanbul on Monday afternoon are “'not an ultimatum at all,’ [Russian delegation head Vladimir] Medinsky has stressed. Of course, Medinsky (lead image, left) is right.
- [Off to War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/off-to-war-we-go-starmers-strategic-defence-review/) - Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious distractions. And there is no more obvious distraction than preparing for war against a phantom enemy. That is exactly where the government of Sir Keir Starmer finds itself. Despite a mammoth majority and a
- [The Guards](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-guards/) - unpeopled are the cities now overpeopled are the camps how were the guards selected and sent here to watch us who are we to them no charges were ever made the whole world knows we’re guilty otherwise we wouldn’t be here you wonder if the guards wonder are we simple crooks or politicals maybe they
- [Law, Not Crime, Has Come from South of the Border](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/law-not-crime-has-come-from-south-of-the-border/) - Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law — that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin’s wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, América: A New History of the New World. It’s a book you can dive back
- [Israel is Fully Integrating its Gaza "Food Aid Hubs" into the Genocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/israel-is-fully-integrating-its-gaza-food-aid-hubs-into-the-genocide/)
- [Why do US/EU Media Hide this Truth about the War in Ukraine?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/why-do-us-eu-media-hide-this-truth-about-the-war-in-ukraine/) - https://youtu.be/g0LJ7G4L1-o?si=dyM78VjJ_dUzW0hw To boil it all down (and the speakers here have never yet been found to be wrong about this war, which they have been analyzing ever since 2016): the only way that America and its allied countries can now avoid a total defeat in this war is by directly going to war themselves against
- [Badenoch Blurts out the Truth: Britain is at the Heart of Gaza "Proxy War"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/badenoch-blurts-out-the-truth-britain-is-at-the-heart-of-gaza-proxy-war/) - Tory leader says the quiet part out loud, admitting that both Israel and Ukraine are fighting for the West If you have spent the past 20 months wondering why British leaders on both sides of the aisle have barely criticised Israel, even as it slaughtered and starved Gaza’s population of more than two million people,
- [Thieves in the Kitchen: The Stealing of Recipes](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/thieves-in-the-kitchen-the-stealing-of-recipes/) - Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved. Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy. Her accusation: the apparent copying of recipes for caramel slice and baklava from Maehashi’s RecipeTin Eats website, released in Bellamy’s Bake with Brooki, published in October last year. “Profiting from plagiarised recipes is unethical,” she
- [Ahh, Little Red Barns Don't Exist Anymore, Israel Was Never a Democracy, and Neither US the Shining City on the Hill](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/ahh-little-red-barns-dont-exist-anymore-and-israel-was-never-a-democracy-and-us-the-shining-city-on-the-hill/) - I’ll be interviewing Will this Tuesday, for my radio show, Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge, and it will air in July. Here’s a blub — a promotional positive statement about the book: "We are in a fight for our lives against a rising authoritarian tide, and this clear-eyed, compelling, clarion call of a book
- [January 2025](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/january-2025/) - Rarely do we find anything complimentary to say about our own present day. But in works of nostalgia and historical fantasy, we revel. Golden times. Greener grass. Greatness we once had. Might we make it so, again? But the past is an empty promise of an impossible future. Break new ground! Don’t endlessly dig up
- [Shadows of Loss and Heartbreak](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/shadows-of-loss-and-heartbreak/) - Yesterday was a heartbreak we will never forget. Two young men from our family were martyred — souls full of life, torn from us too soon. Each left behind a wife clinging to memories, and children too young to understand the weight of absence. Now they face the harsh winds of life without the warmth
- [The Burning of Children Instead of Paper](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-burning-of-children-instead-of-paper/) - Israel Has Wiped Out Over 1,000 Entire Families International Middle East Media Center, 27 May 2025 Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.
- [Fatal Decline of the Imperial Power](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/fatal-decline-of-the-imperial-power/) - A previous article, "Challenging China," described the mixed and managed economy that enables China (PRC) to overcome the economic pressures posed by an overly contentious America. More to it. China’s mixed and managed economy is designed to match its stage of development and is well managed. The U.S. non-managed economy has no design and does
- [About the Truth](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/about-the-truth/) - Who to believe?
- [Now that I'm Dead](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/now-that-im-dead/) - now that I'm dead I can do anything the old wavelengths shutter past my eyes a hypnotic glimmer steam rising round my neck the maelstrom mainframe is turning too slow to see out of my eyes where wounded I grow antenna spikes they hound the day above my house looking for snipers sunspot rovers I
- [A Child’s Dream](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/a-childs-dream/) - I dream the smell of bread from bakeries, bread baked from flour not lentils or beans, bread baked from flour without bugs you can see, bread more than once every other day. I dream I am riding my bicycle on streets not blocked by piles of rubble, past markets filled with food and people, shouts
- [Does Israel Control America, or Does America Control Israel?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/does-israel-control-america/) - On 23 May 2020, I headlined “Israel — an enemy of America” and documented that though U.S. taxpayers donate to Israel each year $3.8 billion, of which 3.3 billion goes to pay American weapons-producers such as Lockheed Martin to supply Israel with weaponry, Israel’s record has been as an enemy of the U.S. (or at
- [The Gong Show, Jerry Springer, Maury Povitch, Howard Stern, Seinfeld](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-gong-show-jerry-springer-maury-povitch-howard-stern-seinfeld/) - And we thought the Borscht Belt had died out. We have it in the corridors of power, in the White Man's House, in every corner of media and the law. To take this to its silliness level: The name comes from borscht, a soup of Ukrainian origin (made with beets as the main ingredient, giving it a deep reddish-purple
- [Management Trainee Blues](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/management-trainee-blues/) - In 1973, I was still a somewhat naive college senior ready to face the business world. My major had been in Speech and Theater, with a minor in Sociology. As the year was ending and the new one upon us, I was engaged to be married and needed to find secure employment. Graduation was really
- [If Each One of Us](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/if-each-one-of-us/) - Six thousand five hundred seventy-five Kids die each day just from malnutrition. Those hungry children would now be alive If we had made a small contribution. That’s two million three hundred ninety-nine Year after year and could even be more. It seems as though that should be the headline Ev’ry day for those who want
- [Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/humanitarian-camouflage-the-debut-of-the-gaza-humanitarian-foundation/) - What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid in favour of expediency and security – and the naked show of violent desperation. Via the shoddy US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation company, distribution of necessaries in the Gaza Strip through
- [Tobacco: Death Sentence with Perks](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/tobacco-death-sentence-with-perks/) - Meet Joe Black (1998) is basically a 2 1/2 hr anecdote, where an angelic Brad Pitt, the angel of death, comes and saves the day by impersonating an IRS agent investigating and exposing the vile young suitor Drew, as Brad takes fiancee Allison's father (Anthony Hopkins) to heaven. Brad quotes money-grubbing Drew: You can't avoid
- [Science Decommissioned!](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/science-decommissioned/) - “But truth’s a menace. Science is a public danger.” (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932). Huxley’s “World State” promotes stability and social harmony over scientific progress. According to the dystopian World State, science is a threat that challenges existing beliefs, which leads to “questioning the established order.” 2025 - America Decommissions Science The decommissioning of
- [Watch This New Hollywood Movie About Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/watch-this-new-hollywood-movie-about-gaza/) - Our society doesn't always stand out for its values, but damn well does for its production values. There may be nothing more powerful in the world than a film -- or even a commercial -- with high production values. So I'm deeply appreciative when a well-made movie actually says something that needed saying, when you
- [Changing the past](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/changing-the-past/) - If only i knew I would plant two drops of crystal, to see people more clearly today. If I knew, I would send two gray sparrows, in front of your window to cast out the clouds. Only if i knew I would raise that little blue-eyed fox, who watched me in the evening from the
- [Psyop Circus](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/psyop-circus-2/) - Did you fall for any of the psyops?
- [Islamophobia in France](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/islamophobia-in-france/) - As summer approaches, the French government and its media echo chambers are once again launching an Islamophobic offensive. By seizing on a newly released report about the so-called ‘influence’ of the Muslim Brotherhood, they are using a crude pretext to target and suppress any visible expression of Islam in society. This comes in the wake
- [Zombie Dancer](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/zombie-dancer/) - He’s on-stage swaying to music, eyes closed, The world shut out. No one is worthy enough To be admitted to his private thoughts. Or maybe he’s dancing because the beat Has seized his girth and loaded his feet with lead. His head droops, rolls right and left in surprise That he can dance though less
- [The Next Crime](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-next-crime/) - It'll be a super hard one to guard against committing.
- [Emily Beyond the Main](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/emily-beyond-the-main/) - A glistening glass upon the main, A weeping waif in faded sallows; The steely eye that rent the brook, An ebbing stone in pale and shadow. A fleeting wave that clove the night, A sickly dram unto the time that wove; A faith that hovered beyond the rain, The crimson bleed of fleeting tallow. A
- [Building Bridges between Vygotsky and Marx](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/building-bridges-between-vygotsky-and-marx/) - From Promiscuity to Polyamory In the early 1970s I joined a community organization called Radical Psychiatry in Berkeley, California. The purpose of the group was to help people in the community who were suffering with moderate to severe mental problems so they did not have to go to a traditional psychiatrist or use drugs. As
- [A Sketch of the Origins of Jiang Jieshi’s Relationship with the United States](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/a-sketch-of-the-origins-of-jiang-jieshis-relationship-with-the-united-states/) - A public opinion poll in 2023 found that 64% of likely United States voters thought that our government should officially recognize the Island of Taiwan as an independent nation, while a poll this year found that 82% of them believe that Taiwan “is” independent. A few months ago the U.S. State Department removed a line
- [Welcome to the Inquisition: Trump’s Christ Nationalist Brigades Aim to Gut Church-State Separation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/welcome-to-the-inquisition-trumps-christ-nationalist-brigades-aim-to-gut-church-state-separation/) - The ghosts of Paul Weyrich, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, the OG’s (Old Guard) of the religious right are dancing these days. Since his inauguration, Trump has rewarded his religious right allies with executive orders creating a “Religious Liberty Commission” and a “Task Force to Eliminate Anti-Christian Bias.” “Together they will put the force of
- [Ish Kabibble (I should worry?)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/ish-kabibble-i-should-worry/) - In an age of maximum disruption, Ideological corruption, In this state of uncertain thoughts, Chaos sought, destruction wrought. In a period of maximum uncertainty, Searching externally. In this nightmare of mystery, Scouring history, American violence, As American as cherry pie. American exception/Undisguised deception Fatuous Fantasyland/Grabbing it while they can Plutocratic embolism/Filling up American prisons Financial
- [How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/how-ai-and-the-deep-state-are-digitizing-tyranny/) - If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which
- [A Short Guide on How to Starve a Population to Death](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/a-short-guide-on-how-to-starve-a-population-to-death/) - A short guide on how to engineer a genocide by starvation and ethnic cleansing: 1. Choose your moment. Ok, you’ve been ethnically cleansing, occupying, oppressing, and killing your neighbours for decades. The international courts have ruled your actions illegal. But none of that will matter the moment your neighbours retaliate by attacking you. Don’t worry.
- [Ballots and Bias: How the Press Framed Venezuela’s Regional and Legislative Elections](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/ballots-and-bias-how-the-press-framed-venezuelas-regional-and-legislative-elections/) - The pro-government alliance achieved a sweeping victory in Venezuela’s May 25 elections, while a fractured opposition suffered losses. Western media distorted the results – spinning low turnout claims, ignoring the role of illegal US sanctions, and offering selective sympathy to elite opposition figures. Opposition fractures, pro-government consolidates At stake for the 54 contesting Venezuelan political
- [No One Is Safe Until Everyone Is: Humanity’s Missing Project](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/no-one-is-safe-until-everyone-is-humanitys-missing-project/) - Fragmented by nationalism and distracted by power games, humanity stands at a turning point. We face global crises that threaten our survival, yet we remain without a common purpose rooted in solidarity and mutual care. This—our failure to recognize our shared fate—is the true crisis of our time. Every nation clings to its sovereign right
- [Roads to War: The EU’s Security Action for Europe Fund](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/roads-to-war-the-eus-security-action-for-europe-fund-2/) - As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following glum observation: “Openly and flagrantly, certain countries express their will to expand and make preparations for war. The politics of rearmament is pursued in broad daylight and at breakneck speed; every day you read in
- [Why Are Veterans and Allies Fasting for Gaza?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/why-are-veterans-and-allies-fasting-for-gaza/) - Last Thursday, May 22, a coalition named Veterans and Allies Fast for Gaza kicked off a 40-day fast outside the United Nations in Manhattan in protest against the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Military veterans and allies pledged to fast for 40 days on only 250 calories per day, the amount recently reported as what
- [Split Supreme Court Ruling on Catholic Charter School Still a Big Win for School Privatizers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/split-supreme-court-ruling-on-catholic-charter-school-still-a-big-win-for-school-privatizers/) - On April 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard the much-awaited and much-discussed case of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School v. Drummond, which originated in Oklahoma.1 On May 22, 2025, less than a month later, and without issuing an actual opinion, the SCOTUS delivered a 4-4 split ruling
- [Is it Your Victory](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/is-it-your-victory/) - Once a country Now two countries Pahalgam April 2025 26 killed Attack Counter attack All this took place Within ten days Each country Claiming they had won Is this a game Game changers Ask for peace In the search for A volatile cease fire. INDIA my land What troubles you Why are you so restless
- [The Moral Bankruptcy of The West](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-west/) - The collective “The West” is now not ONLY supporting (and the U.S. Government itself is supplying virtually all of the bombs, ammunition, weapons, and satellite intelligence to) Israel’s (and America’s) genocide against the formerly 2.2 million Gazans, but also is making life hell for journalists who honestly report this and other ugly realities that The
- [The Janitor’s Vacation](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-janitors-vacation/) - Each day going to work clumps and clumps like needing a good shave rag, broom and dust pan mop and bucket to break the chain the hum drum of bills in the mailbox, and maybe going out to dinner, then sleeping shorter than a shooting star it seems, the same sun that sun I awake
- [The Janitor Shaves](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-janitor-shaves/) - Says the janitor good as a dust mop that shaves the gray whiskers on the face of the tile making it young again shiny and colorful while the trash can is the sink the floor the mirror oh how it handsomely cleanly reflects.
- [The Janitor and His Plow](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/the-janitor-and-his-plow/) - Pushing and pulling the vacuum cleaner like the old plow says the janitor reigns, harness, and horse sweat and dirt, muscle and bone, the yellow cord burning between my palms the fresh smell of carpet the stinky underarms, the janitor’s closet like the barn. Placed back on the hook.
- [Follow the Money? The Algorithm Follows Us to Make the Money](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/follow-the-money-the-algorithm-follows-us-to-make-the-money/) - …Those who control the food, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’) …Those who control the water, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’) …Those who control the money, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’) …Those who control the media, control the (fill in the
- [You Promised](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/you-promised/) - The little Palestinian child Is almost not there, So absent is flesh From his skeleton. In the photo we see him Lying on a table Looking directly at the camera With enormous brown eyes. He has his tiny hand Wrapped around the thumb Of an adult Who is mostly Out of the picture. Beneath him
- [Israel’s Claim that "Hamas is stealing aid" is Patently a Lie](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/israels-claim-that-hamas-is-stealing-aid-is-patently-a-lie/) - Western journalists – having promoted Israel’s lies for more than a year and half – have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide. Israel’s claim that Hamas is “stealing aid” is so preposterous no serious journalist or politician ought to give it any kind of airing – yet there it is continuously cropping
- [Fighting for the Planet means Sovereignty for the Sahel](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/fighting-for-the-planet-means-sovereignty-for-the-sahel/) - At the core of most demands for the US empire, we’re asking for kindergarten ethics– is that a stretch? It’s what the climate movement teaches about our relationship with the Earth: not to take and take and extract and extract because we have a reciprocal relationship. For most of its history, the US has largely
- [Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/squabbling-siblings-india-pakistan-and-operation-sindoor/) - On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group, slaughtered 26 tourists in the resort town of Pahalgam in the Indian administered portion of Kashmir. This came as a rude shock to the Indian military establishment, which decided that rebellious sentiments
- [Manufacturing America’s Contenders](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/manufacturing-americas-contenders/) - Citing as being critical to protection of the United States’ defense, and a need to punish China’s alleged use of forced labor, U.S. government policies have restricted dozens of Chinese companies from operating on U.S. soil, exporting to the U.S, and receiving materials, including advance computer chips from U.S. and allied sources. All of these
- [Abuse by and of Public](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/abuse-by-and-of-public/) - Is intolerance of abuse not a two-way street?
- [Past and Present Terrorism](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/past-and-present-terrorism/) - Who are the major present-day terrorists?
- [Smart and Dangerous](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/smart-and-dangerous/) - What some do with a high IQ?
- [Domestic Violence Is Part of What War Creates](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/domestic-violence-is-part-of-what-war-creates/) - As Stacy Bannerman has been telling us for decades, the U.S. military has a domestic violence problem. So do some other — and I strongly suspect all — militaries. The Pentagon has long known about the significantly increased risk of domestic violence by combat-exposed troops, yet has failed to properly inform military members or their
- [80% of U.S. Senators Now Back Blockade of Russia](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/80-of-u-s-senators-now-back-blockade-of-russia/) - As-of now, 80% of the 100 U.S. Senators — that’s 80 U.S. Senators — are co-sponsors of the bill that was written by the U.S. Senate’s arch-neoconservative (i.e., pro-MIC or pro Military Industrial Complex) U.S. Senator, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to blockade shipments of Russian oil, and to punish all nations which refuse to comply with
- [Moral Cyclone in Texas](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/moral-cyclone-in-texas/) - When you think of Feb. 14 do you think of Valentine’s Day? On Feb. 14, 2022, the University of Texas at Austin Faculty Council adopted a fateful resolution affirming that “educators, not politicians, should make decisions about teaching and learning” (doc. 19141). Little did they realize that their forthright declaration of a principle old as
- [The Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-killing-of-israeli-embassy-staffers/) - Here was another chance – at least as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw it – of threading one set of events with another. It’s all part of the Israeli security state’s playbook: any killing of Jews or its citizens, wherever they might be, will have a causal link to rabid, drooling antisemitism. To protest
- [Happy Birthday to Me](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/happy-birthday-to-me/) - Dear Americans, you lucky boys and girls, To have me as your president for life I hope. There’s never been anyone like me. On that point at least we can all agree. To honor my birthday some very chic sheiks Are giving me a luxury jet for keeps. It’s free except for the upgrades required,
- [Dear Rümeysa Öztürk](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/dear-rumeysa-ozturk/) - People in the USA Support your right to speak Professors also say This and their students too Even some in Congress lay Down the law for you That should be the way. You have this right And I support it. I wonder if I were to study At Koç University Maybe write something pretty Get
- [Duplex on U.S. Freedom](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/duplex-on-us-freedom/) - freedom of speech, bastion of democracy— a democracy for only the powerful. the powerful::white, propertied men who gaze at all “Others” as animals to be corralled & controlled::objects of their gaze. rule of law has never existed::genocide & enslavement its origins. in this country, $ & whiteness trumps rule of law. white supremacy::white supremacy no
- [Elon Musk’s Worst Nightmare Is Happening (But Not How You Think)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/elon-musks-worst-nightmare-is-happening-but-not-how-you-think/) - Tesla was once the undisputed king of electric vehicles but BYD is now the King. In this video, we break down how China’s BYD dethroned Elon Musk’s Tesla to become the world’s #1 EV manufacturer. From dominating domestic sales to overtaking Tesla in global deliveries, BYD’s meteoric rise is reshaping the future of the auto
- [Trump Calls For Investigations of Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah and U2’s Bono for Endorsing Harris](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/trump-calls-for-investigations-of-springsteen-beyonce-oprah-and-u2s-bono-for-endorsing-harris/) - Donald Trump went off the rails again early in the morning of Monday, May 19, calling for a “major investigation” of Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and other celebrities who endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, accusing them of taking illegal payments from Harris' campaign for their endorsement. “Monday’s post was different in that it
- [Memorial Day: It’s Not About the Dead Soldiers but About Glorifying War](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/memorial-day-its-not-about-the-dead-soldiers-but-about-glorifying-war/) - Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war. Rather than being haunted by the ghosts of war, many Americans are very proud
- [The Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza Must End Now](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-genocide-and-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-in-gaza-must-end-now/) - The horrific images of children starving in Gaza, due to Israel’s cruel, inhumane blockade of all humanitarian aid since early March, shocks the world’s conscience. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recently announced plan to distribute aid, while forcing Gazans to move yet again, is a spurious cover for his and Trump’s ethnic cleansing scheme. Yet
- [Justice Demands Action against Zionism, not Hypocritical Rhetoric from the States of the “West”](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/justice-demands-action-against-zionism-not-hypocritical-rhetoric-from-the-states-of-the-west/) - Just as Nazi Germany sought the total elimination of Jewish life, the state of Israel, with full U.S. support, is now openly pursuing the systematic annihilation of the people of Gaza, the acceleration of mass displacement in the West Bank, and the denial of Palestinian nationhood itself. Those who dare to speak out are vilified,
- [Mapping Militarism 2025](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/mapping-militarism-2025/) - World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years, or switch from map view to list
- [Super Rich Oligarchs](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/super-rich-oligarchs/) - What do they dream of and why?
- [jim crow, alabama](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/jim-crow-alabama/) - rotting black men hang from sturdy limbs of oaks, their eyes burning holes through dark shadows of pernicious grins. black passersby gaze at dangling parts and open wounds now covered in flies. they wonder whether luck will spare them another day. fear. it must find its feet in railways leading north. black terror rumbles along
- [Hebron](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/hebron/) - here we are, in the red winds of our lives, throwing jagged rock, bits of brick, what objects we can find into the abyss we hurl our voices, god help us, as our mothers, our fathers, our children pass through the red winds to the other side. we travel to a distant realm within ourselves
- [pants on fire](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/pants-on-fire/) - if you unzip the doctor’s suit of my palestinian husband’s mind, underneath the clutter and debris, you will find the vibrant soul of a homeless man, chewing the fat with the open air. he begs for a slice of bread and water, just a mile from his former home in jerusalem. he nibbles and sips
- [Blasted Acres](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/blasted-acres/) - Wasteland Real Estate Associates Is proud to announce The opening of a new development In North Africa. Blasted Acres, In the Mediterranean nation of Libya, Is now ready For the resettlement of Palestinian refugees Who have been ethnically cleansed From their homeland. Blasted Acres offers an environment That will make the refugees feel Right at
- [We Are Not Sure](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/we-are-not-sure/) - We are not sure Whether it was A war or not There was a lull Officially described As cease fire Yet we are not sure Whether it was a war or not Or whether it continues Yes there was a cease fire But we are not sure Terrorists were killed But we are not sure
- [Veterans Reflect on Meaning of Memorial Day](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/veterans-reflect-on-meaning-of-memorial-day/) - This Memorial Day weekend, Veterans For Peace is calling on its members and friends to reflect on the gravity of the day, whose official purpose is to “honor all those who died in service to the U.S. during peacetime and war.” Veterans For Peace chooses to honor ALL who have died in wars, both combatants
- [Obscene Wealth](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/obscene-wealth/) - Gabriel Zucman is a French-born economist who teaches at California, Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics. Zucman’s academic specialization is in wealth inequality, using tax data to track the stratification in wealth in the US and the rest of the world. A student of famed inequality expert, Thomas Piketty, he is an important figure
- [Ignore Starmer's Theatrics. Gaza's Trail of Blood Leads Straight to His Door](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/ignore-starmers-theatrics-gazas-trail-of-blood-leads-straight-to-his-door/) - Western capitals are still coordinating with Israel and the US on their ‘criticisms’ of the genocide – just as they earlier coordinated on their support for the slaughter After 19 months of being presented with dissembling accounts of Gaza from their governments, western publics are now being served up a different – but equally deceitful
- [An "In" on Getting in Small Town Newspapers](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/an-in-on-getting-in-small-town-newspapers/) - Thousand-word Opinion Editorials are a fine thing to pen, and you can cover a lot of ground in this amount of verbiage. Normally, local rags limit letters to the editor to 300 words, and alas, in this sound bite sort of scrolling-on-the-screen culture, going over a 500-words limit is the kiss of death -- you
- [Making Sense of Schrodinger's Cat](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/making-sense-of-schrodingers-cat/) - How can a cat be alive and dead at the same time? I love how science has rediscovered religion. Leaving aside the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, the universe itself is conscious. In the beginning was consciousness -- inner light. Then there was outer light, etc. Mind you it took billions of years,
- [Masterpieces of Contemporary American Cinema, Part Two](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/masterpieces-of-contemporary-american-cinema-part-two/) - In part one of this series, we discussed a number of films which encapsulate the depravity of an America enslaved to unbridled corporate power, and how many of our countrymen dispense with all semblance of morality in order to earn a living. In part two we will revisit this theme, while delving into “the war
- [Disgraced Televangelist Jim Bakker Warns of End Times and Pleads for $1 Million to Survive](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/disgraced-televangelist-jim-bakker-warns-of-end-times-and-pleads-for-1-million-to-survive/) - One of the 20th Century’s most popular – and disgraced -- televangelists is pleading with his supporters to donate $1 million dollars to save his ministry. On the May 6 episode of The Jim Bakker Show, Bakker warned his viewers that unless they sent him one million dollars, he could lose his ministry. Never shy
- [Americide (Cliff Notes)](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/americide-cliff-notes/) - ransacked dreams idiocracy's global rising conmen conniving strawmen wielding torches bulldozed brains and flattened spines baffled masses boiling in flood water without a float or fire hose debris the nature of our lives litter spewed lies cardiac arrests and bumpstock babies wailing for relief mourning the cliff drop body slam reality show spectacle – demolition
- [Starmer & Lammy’s Empty Words](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/starmer-lammys-empty-words/) - Lammy called Israel’s escalation of the genocide “morally unjustifiable.” But what is beyond unjustifiable is for Lammy to say this while directly arming and providing surveillance information for the genocide. Yesterday, after releasing a joint statement with France and Canada threatening “concrete actions” if Israel did not allow aid into Gaza, the UK government suspended
- [Getting Bogged Down: The State and the Natural Environment in Art](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/getting-bogged-down-the-state-and-the-natural-environment-in-art/) - We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening– Everywhere the eye concedes to Encrouching horizon, Is wooed into the cyclops’ eye Of a tarn. Our unfenced country Is bog that keeps crusting Between the sights of the sun "Bogland" by Seamus Heaney A fascinating exhibition called BogSkin has just finished in the
- [Gaza: “Holocaust” Is the Necessary Word in the Fight for Historical Memory](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/gaza-holocaust-is-the-necessary-word-in-the-fight-for-historical-memory/) - No other word than Holocaust suits what is occurring now in Gaza. Perhaps the future will provide a unique term to suit the unique horror, but for now we we need to know this as a Holocaust with a capital H. The world has never witnessed atrocities in the way that they have witnessed this
- [Possible Consequences of Overcoming an Addiction](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/possible-consequences-of-overcoming-an-addiction/) - What might one lose when one losses an addiction?
- [Immigrants and Reality Television](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/immigrants-and-reality-television/) - Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television program to select immigrants vying for US citizenship. Whether this involves gladiatorial combat or inane pillow battles remains to be seen, though it is bound to involve airhead celebrity hosts and a set of fabricated challenges. What matters is the premise: the reduction of a government agency’s functions to a debauched spectacle of deceit, desperation and televisual pornography. Much, in some ways, like the Trump administration itself.
- [Palestine and the Conscience of China](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/palestine-and-the-conscience-of-china/) - Illustration by Fourate Chahal El Rekaby, tni [A] lot of people across the global majority are asking the extremely serious question: why the BRICS, and especially why Russia and China, are not doing more than what they're doing on behalf of Palestine and to defend Palestine. This is an extremely serious question and it's not
- [Pushing Back on Tyranny](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/pushing-back-on-tyranny/) - What does one push back against tyranny with?
- ["Childish" Adolescence](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/childish-adolescence/) - Not one to enter discussion on the cultural relevance of television shows often, it is hard to miss the fervour surrounding Netflix’s Adolescence, which recounts the dramatized events surrounding the investigation of a brutal teenage murder of a young female by the protagonist Jamie, a 13-year-old boy. Not wishing to belabour the extent analysis on
- [Putin-Trump Phone Call on Ukraine](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/putin-trump-phone-call-on-ukraine/) - On Monday President Donald Trump telephoned President Vladimir Putin and they talked for two hours before Trump put lunch in his mouth and Putin his dinner. On the White House schedule, there was no advance notice of the call and no record afterwards. The White House log is blank for Trump’s entire morning while the
- [Genocide in Gaza: The BBC’s Self-Inflicted "Trust Crisis"](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/genocide-in-gaza-the-bbcs-self-inflicted-trust-crisis/) - BBC News regularly proclaims its supposed editorial principles of fearless, independent, impartial, fair and accurate journalism. In a January 2023 speech to the Whitehall & Industry Group in London, then BBC Chairman Richard Sharp boasted that BBC journalism is the ‘global gold standard’ of credible news reporting. Two years previously, in 2021, the public broadcaster
- [Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/israels-operation-gideons-chariots/) - The latest phase of slaughter and seizure on the part of Israeli forces in Gaza has commenced. Following relentless airstrikes that have left hundreds of Palestinians dead, Operation Gideon’s Chariots is now in full swing, begun even as Israel and Hamas concluded a second day of ceasefire talks in Doha. The intention, according to the
- [They’re Coming for Your Birthright: Citizenship as Spectacle, Transaction, or Privilege](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/theyre-coming-for-your-birthright-citizenship-as-spectacle-transaction-or-privilege/) - A $5 million gold card. A reality show for migrants. A birthright under assault. Let us be very clear: the Trump Administration does not want citizenship to be a right. They want it to be a reward for the loyal, the rich, or the compliant. To this end, President Trump’s bid to unilaterally end birthright citizenship for
- [Ambulance Guessing Game](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/ambulance-guessing-game/) - The most recent ambulance guessing game? Could it still be continuing?
- [Stockholm Syndrome](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/stockholm-syndrome-2/) - What is a sign of Stockholm syndrome?
- [Trump’s First Four Months](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/trumps-first-four-months/) - Today marks four months since would-be dictator Trump took office. How is the progressive resistance doing in its urgent battle to prevent what Trump and the MAGA want to impose? In early February, a few weeks into this time of testing, I identified our objectives over the next two years as “making as many advances as we
- [Dispatch from Texas: The Billion-Dollar Heist of Public Education](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/dispatch-from-texas-the-billion-dollar-heist-of-public-education/) - The 89th Texas Legislative Session will be remembered for many things—but if you’re a student, teacher, or parent trying to make public education work in this state, it’s going down as the year lawmakers finally dropped their mask. With the official end of the legislative session (called adjournment sine die, which is looming on June 2), the
- [The Quiet Revolution: Women, Power, and the Transformation of Our Time](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-quiet-revolution-women-power-and-the-transformation-of-our-time/) - NYC Women's March Jan 21, 2017 (Image by David Andersson) The mainstream media seems to be waiting for a clash between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump. Both figures embody starkly different visions of the present moment. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first woman president and a self-described humanist, enjoys an approval rating around 70%
- [TRUMP](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/trump/) - He is a Caesar, a Nero, a global warning, a planet whose orbit collides with everyone. He is the golden age of narcissism who provokes attacks so, the focus is on him, and recruits clones to his Court and Senate. He declares climate change was created by socialists and that immigrants of which he is
- [Scarcely a Peep in Mainland China](https://dissidentvoice.org/2003/07/scarcely-a-peep-in-mainland-china/) - What originally began as opposition to an anti-sedition law has evolved into expressions for greater democracy in Hong Kong. A second Hong Kong demonstration brought out 50,000 on 9 July and a third follow-up protest on 13 July was much smaller ranging from 9,000 to 20,000 depending on the source. The protests are increasingly being
- [Japan's Dark Side](https://dissidentvoice.org/2003/10/japans-dark-side/) - Nanjing is a large, relatively prosperous city of 5.3 million souls in the Chinese province of Jiangsu, but 64 years ago it was the site of an outburst of insanity that too often blackens human history. From December 1937 to February 1938 the Japanese invaders savagely killed up to 300,000 Chinese. The Memorial Hall of
- [Trump Proposes Tax-Increases on Poor to Fund Tax-Cuts on Rich](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/trump-proposes-tax-increases-on-poor-to-fund-tax-cuts-on-rich/) - On May 17, MSNBC, a Democratic Party propaganda-site, issued an “opinion” article that was loaded with links to its sources, including Republicans, and the article honestly represented what it reported, and its sources were entirely credible, so that that article actually constituted news, and not only this, but it is very important news for every
- [Let Me Now Praise James Agee](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/let-me-now-praise-james-agee/) - James Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome are these words, which he chose: “HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER.” His name is not there, by choice. Keats was twenty-five when he died. In Ode to Psyche he
- [US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/us-reinstates-funding-to-propaganda-outlet/) - The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds to opposition groups in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, meddling in their internal affairs. Regime change on
- [What Would Hippocrates Call It?](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/what-would-hippocrates-call-it/) - Plato, writing soon after The Oath was written, discussed the voluntary and informed relationship between physicians and patients. The medical treatises of The Oath’s time depict an attractive model for physician–patient communication and securing consent. The first of the Aphorisms pointedly says: “The physician must be ready, not only to do his duty himself, but
- [The Death of Christos Tsoutsouvis](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-death-of-christos-tsoutsouvis/) - This Day in Anarchist History, May 15, we remember the insurrectionary life and tragic, early death of Christos Tsoutsouvis. Tsoutsouvis had been a member of one of the first Greek leftist guerrilla orgs known as the ELA or Revolutionary People’s Struggle. Over the years he participated in a number of militant acts of property destruction
- [The Nakba Never Ended](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/the-nakba-never-ended/) - May 15 marked 77 years since the Nakba, which refers to the expulsion, destruction, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians associated with the creation of Israel in 1948. While we advocate for the colonization of Palestine to be recognized by our leaders and institutions in Canada as an injustice, we are also witnessing the Nakba continue
- [Bruce Springsteen Lambastes "Treasonous" Trump During Start of European Tour](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/bruce-springsteen-lambastes-treasonous-trump-during-start-of-european-tour/) - Speaking at a concert in Manchester, the American singer-songwriter said his country was “in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.” Musicians protesting against political leaders and government policies have a long and distinguished history in the United States. Bruce Springsteen, 75, one of the country’s most beloved singer-songwriters, lambasted President Donald Trump
- [Al-Sharaa, Trump, and Sanctions](https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/al-sharaa-trump-and-sanctions/) - Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. It encourages change, for ill or otherwise. The stance taken, righteously pitiful, on not negotiating with those who practise it, is as faulty as battling gravity. The case of Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is a brilliant

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- [Germany](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/germany/)
- [History](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/history/)
- [France](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/france/)
- [Security](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/security/)
- [Disinformation](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/disinformation/)
- [Neoliberalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/neoliberalism/)
- [Incarceration](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/)
- [Anarchism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/anarchism/)
- [Spain](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/spain/)
- [Arts and/or Entertainment](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/arts-and-entertainment/)
- [Nicaragua](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/nicaragua-central-ixachilan-america/)
- [Equatorial Guinea](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/equatorial-guinea/)
- [Propaganda](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/propaganda/)
- [Agriculture](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/)
- [Guantanamo](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/guantanamo/)
- [CIA](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/espionage/cia/)
- [Caucasus](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/caucasus/)
- [Cartoon](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/cartoon/)
- [Turtle Island](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/)
- [Water](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/water/)
- [Obituary](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/obituary/)
- [Honduras](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/honduras/)
- [South Africa](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/south-africa/)
- [Sudan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/sudan/)
- [Somalia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/somalia/)
- [Democratic Rep. Congo](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/democratic-rep-congo/)
- [Argentina](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/argentina/)
- [Brazil](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/brazil/)
- [Syria](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/syria/)
- [Mexico](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/mexico-turtle-island/)
- [Statism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/statism/)
- [Rwanda](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/rwanda/)
- [Mining](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/mining/)
- [Privacy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/privacy/)
- [Uganda](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/uganda/)
- [Zimbabwe](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/zimbabwe/)
- [International Criminal Court](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/justice/international-criminal-court/)
- [El Salvador](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/el-salvador/)
- [Crimes against Humanity](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/crime/crimes-against-humanity/)
- [Egypt](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/egypt/)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/saudi-arabia/)
- [Jordan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/jordan/)
- [Hunger/Famine](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/starvation/)
- [Timor-Leste](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/east-timor/)
- [Cambodia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/cambodia/)
- [Beer](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/foodnutrition/beer/)
- [Chile](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/chile/)
- [Guns](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/guns/)
- [Qatar](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/qatar/)
- [Iceland](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/iceland-europe/)
- [Peru](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/peru/)
- [NATO](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/nato/)
- [LGBTQ2S+](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/lgbt/)
- [Political Prisoners](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/political-prisoners/)
- [Darfur](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/sudan/darfur/)
- [EU](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/eu/)
- [Refugees](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/immigrationimmigrants/refugees/)
- [Thailand](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/thailand/)
- [Nigeria](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/nigeria/)
- [Japan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/japan/)
- [Philippines](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/philippines/)
- [FBI](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/security/fbi/)
- [Osama Bin Laden](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/saudi-arabia/osama-bin-laden/)
- [Guatemala](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/guatemala/)
- [Gabon](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/gabon/)
- [Morocco](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/morocco/)
- [Logging](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/logging/)
- [Bulgaria](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/bulgaria/)
- [Ukraine](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ukraine/)
- [Video](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/video/)
- [Norway](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/norway/)
- [Georgia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/caucasus/georgia-caucasus-asia/)
- [Botswana](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/botswana/)
- [Privatization](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/neoliberalism/privatization/)
- [Kuwait](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/kuwait/)
- [Libya](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/libya/)
- [Malaysia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/malaysia/)
- [Denmark](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/denmark/)
- [Dominican Republic](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/caribbean/dominican-republic/)
- [Western Sahara](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/western-sahara/)
- [Mossad](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/espionage/mossad/)
- [Heroes](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/heroes/)
- [9-11](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/9-11/)
- [Switzerland](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/switzerland/)
- [Czechia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/czech-republic/)
- [Resistance](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/resistance/)
- [Mercenaries](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/mercenaries/)
- [Currency](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/currency/)
- [Yemen](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/yemen/)
- [Latvia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/latvia/)
- [Greece](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/greece/)
- [Panama](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/panama-central-ixachilan-america-turtle-island/)
- [IMF](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/imf/)
- [Sweden](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/sweden/)
- [Netherlands](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/netherlands/)
- [Belgium](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/belgium/)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/united-arab-emirates/)
- [Bangladesh](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/bangladesh/)
- [Whistleblowing](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/whistleblowing/)
- [Azerbaijan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/caucasus/azerbaijan/)
- [Armenia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/caucasus/armenia-caucasus-asia/)
- [Libertarianism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/libertarianism/)
- [WikiLeaks](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/wikileaks/)
- [Assassinations](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/assassinations/)
- [Kyrgyzstan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/kyrgyzstan/)
- [Tea Party movement](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/tea-party-movement/)
- [Belize](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/belize/)
- [ALBA](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/alba/)
- [Uzbekistan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/uzbekistan/)
- [Puerto Rico](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/caribbean/puerto-rico-caribbean-turtle-island/)
- [Eritrea](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/eritrea/)
- [Djibouti](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/djibouti/)
- [Ethiopia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/ethiopia/)
- [Fishing/Fish farming](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/fishingfish-farming/)
- [Costa Rica](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/costa-rica/)
- [Weaponry](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/)
- [Tajikistan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/tajikistan/)
- [Disasters](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/disasters/)
- [ASEAN](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/asean/)
- [Oceania](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/)
- [Aotearoa (New Zealand)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/aotearoanew-zealand/)
- [Pharma](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/pharmaceuticals-healthmedical/)
- [Sierra Leone](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/sierra-leone/)
- [West Papua](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/indonesia/west-papua/)
- [Opinion](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/opinion/)
- [Patriotism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/patriotism/)
- [Portugal](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/portugal/)
- [Uruguay](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/uruguay/)
- [Tunisia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/tunisian-republic/)
- [Wall Street](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/wall-street/)
- [Belarus](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/belarus/)
- [Bahrain](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/bahrain/)
- [Mongolia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/mongolia/)
- [Ivory Coast](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/ivory-coast/)
- [Finland](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/finland/)
- [Guinea](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/guinea/)
- [Salmon](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/life/salmon-animal-rights/)
- [Pesticides](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/pesticides-environment/)
- [Transportation](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/transportation-2/)
- [Crime](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/crime/)
- [Narrative](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/narrative/)
- [Poland](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/poland/)
- [Drones](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/drones/)
- [Debt](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/debt-finance/)
- [Romania](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/romania/)
- [Turkmenistan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/turkmenistan/)
- [BRICS](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/brics/)
- [Mali](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/mali/)
- [South Sudan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/south-sudan/)
- [Occupy movement](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/activism/occupy-movement-activism/)
- [Sanctions](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/sanctions-economics/)
- [Crimes against Peace](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/crime/crimes-against-peace/)
- [Austerity](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/neoliberalism/austerity-neoliberalism/)
- [Fiji](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/fiji/)
- [Laos](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/laos/)
- [Pollution](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/pollution-environment/)
- [Algeria](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/algeria/)
- [School Yard Fights](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/school-yard-fights/)
- [Rendition](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/rend/)
- [Literature](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/literature/)
- [Cyprus](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/cyprus/)
- [Kenya](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/kenya/)
- [Tanzania](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/tanzania/)
- [Internet](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/internet-media/)
- [Fracking](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/energy/fracking-energy/)
- [Xizang (Tibet)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/xizang/)
- [Cybersecurity](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/cyber-security/)
- [NSA](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/espionage/nsa/)
- [Trade](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/trade-economics/)
- [Sustainability](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/sustainability-environment/)
- [Austria](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/austria/)
- [Singapore](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/singapore/)
- [Renewables](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/energy/tidal/)
- [Extinction](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/life/extinction/)
- [Kazakhstan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/kazakhstan/)
- [Social media](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/social-media-media/)
- [Nuclear Energy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/energy/nuclear-energy-2/)
- [Hungary](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/hungary/)
- [Namibia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/namibia/)
- [Angola](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/angola/)
- ["Aid"](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/aid/)
- [Transparency/Secrecy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/transparencysecrecy/)
- [Micronesia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/micronesia/)
- [Seychelles](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/seychelles/)
- [Burundi](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/burundi/)
- [Marijuana](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/drug-wars/marijuana-healthmedical/)
- [Burkina Faso](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/burkina-faso/)
- [False Flag](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/false-flag/)
- [Grenada](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/caribbean/grenada/)
- [Zambia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/zambia/)
- [Serbia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ex-yugoslavia/serbia/)
- [Taiwan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/taiwan/)
- [Cameroon](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/cameroon/)
- [Slovakia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/slovakia/)
- [Oman](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/oman/)
- [Macedonia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/macedonia/)
- [Ecology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/ecology/)
- [Chad](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/chad/)
- [Solitary confinement](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/solitary-confinement/)
- [Republic of Mauritius](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/republic-of-mauritius-africa/)
- [Diego Garcia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/republic-of-mauritius-africa/diego-garcia/)
- [Chagos Archipelago](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/republic-of-mauritius-africa/chagos-archipelago/)
- [Cluster bombs](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/cluster-bombs/)
- [Mauritania](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/mauritania/)
- [BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/activism/bds-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-movement/)
- [Charter Schools](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/education/charter-schools/)
- [Weapons Sales](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/weapons-sales/)
- [Prison Industry](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/prison-industry/)
- [Liberia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/liberia/)
- [Central African Republic](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/central-african-republic/)
- [Mozambigue](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/mozambigue/)
- [Niger](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/niger/)
- [Massacres](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/crime/massacres/)
- [Adoption](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/children/adoption/)
- [Federal Reserve](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/federal-reserve/)
- [Jamaica](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/caribbean/jamaica/)
- [Universal Basic Income](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/universal-basic-income/)
- [Ghana](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/ghana/)
- [Migration/Migrants](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/immigrationimmigrants/)
- [George W. Bush](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/george-w-bush/)
- [Fake News](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/fake-news/)
- [Public Relations](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/public-relations/)
- [Apartheid](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/discrimination/apartheid/)
- [United States](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/)
- [International Law](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/justice/international-law/)
- [Chemical weapons](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/chemical-weapons/)
- [Global Inequality](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/global-inequality/)
- [Land](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/land/)
- [Vehicles](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/transportation-2/vehicles/)
- [Bhutan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/bhutan/)
- [Nationalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/nationalism/)
- [Jeremy Corbyn](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/jeremy-corbyn/)
- [Mythology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/literature/mythology/)
- [Interest](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/interest/)
- [World Bank](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/world-bank/)
- [Occupation](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/occupation/)
- [Museums](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/arts-and-entertainment/museums/)
- [Ethnic Cleansing](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/genocide/ethnic-cleansing/)
- [Supremacism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/racism/supremacism/)
- [NAFTA](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/nafta/)
- [Free Trade Agreement (FTA)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/free-trade-agreement-fta/)
- [Artificial Intelligence (AI)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/technology/artificial-intelligence-ai/)
- [Democratic Republic of North Korea (DPRK)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/korea/north-korea/)
- [Al-Qaeda](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/al-qaeda/)
- [War](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/war/)
- [Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/gaza/)
- [Courts and Judges](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/justice/courts-and-judges/)
- [Bashar al-Assad](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/syria/bashar-al-assad/)
- [Color Revolutions](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/coup/color-revolutions/)
- [Hamas](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/hamas/)
- [Global Warming](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/climate-change-environment/global-warming/)
- [Hollywood](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/arts-and-entertainment/hollywood/)
- [Papua New Guinea](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/papua-new-guinea-oceania/)
- [Co-operatives](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/co-operatives/)
- [Violence](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/violence/)
- [World War One](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/war/world-war-one/)
- [Corporate Globalization](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/globalization/)
- [Asylum](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/immigrationimmigrants/refugees/asylum/)
- [Mind Control](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/psychologypsychiatry/mind-control/)
- [Robert Mugabe](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/zimbabwe/robert-mugabe/)
- [Fukushima Daiichi](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/japan/fukushima-daiichi/)
- [Borneo](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/indonesia/borneo/)
- [Public Spaces](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/public-spaces/)
- [World War Two](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/war/world-war-two/)
- [Sexual Misconduct](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sexuality/sexual-misconduct/)
- [Tourism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/tourism/)
- [Workers' Safety](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/labor/workers-safety/)
- [Ecosystems](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/ecosystems/)
- [Hillary Clinton](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/democrats/hillary-clinton/)
- [Julian Assange](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/wikileaks/julian-assange/)
- [Internationalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/internationalism/)
- [Plastic](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/plastic/)
- [Marshall lslands](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/marshall-lslands/)
- [Solomon Islands](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/solomon-islands/)
- [Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/israel/)
- [Cities](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/cities/)
- [Medical Ethics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/medical-ethics/)
- [Kabul](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/afghanistan/kabul/)
- [Taliban](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/afghanistan/taliban/)
- [Extradition](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/extradition/)
- [West Bank](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/west-bank/)
- [Brexit](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/brexit/)
- [New Democratic Party (NDP)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/canada/new-democratic-party-ndp/)
- [Mental Health](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/mental-health/)
- [M16](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/espionage/m16/)
- [Wage](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/labor/wage/)
- [Torture](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/crime/torture/)
- [Deep State](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/deep-state/)
- [Palestine](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/)
- [Land ownership](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/land/land-ownership/)
- [Hugo Chavez](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/venezuela/hugo-chavez/)
- [Soviet Union](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/russia/soviet-union/)
- [Nakba](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/genocide/nakba/)
- [Christianity](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/christianity/)
- [Emmanuel Macron](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/france/emmanuel-macron/)
- [Xi Jinping](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/xi-jinping/)
- [Golan Heights](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/syria/golan-heights/)
- [Hezbollah](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/lebanon/hezbollah/)
- [Kim Jong-un](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/korea/north-korea/kim-jong-un/)
- [Moon Jae-in](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/korea/moon-jae-in/)
- [Food Sovereignty](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/food-sovereignty/)
- [Public banks](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/banks/public-banks/)
- [Nicolas Maduro](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/venezuela/nicolas-maduro/)
- [The Commons](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/the-commons/)
- [Robert F. Kennedy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/democrats/robert-f-kennedy/)
- [John F. Kennedy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/democrats/john-f-kennedy/)
- [Martin Luther King Jr.](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/martin-luther-king-jr/)
- [Malcolm X](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/malcolm-x/)
- [Amnesty International](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/ngos/amnesty-international/)
- ["Regime Change"](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/coup/color-revolutions/regime-change/)
- [Catholicism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/christianity/catholicism/)
- [Urbanization](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/cities/urbanization/)
- [Romanticism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/arts-and-entertainment/romanticism/)
- [Modernism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/modernism/)
- [Postmodernism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/postmodernism/)
- [Industrial Farming](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/industrial-farming/)
- [Rain Forests](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/ecology/rain-forests/)
- [Boris Johnson](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/boris-johnson/)
- [UK Labour Party](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/uk-labour-party/)
- [Croatia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ex-yugoslavia/croatia/)
- [Buddhism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/buddhism/)
- [Censorship](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/censorship/)
- [Hiroshima](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/japan/hiroshima/)
- [Nagasaki](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/japan/nagasaki/)
- [Kosovo](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ex-yugoslavia/kosovo/)
- [Daniel Ortega](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/nicaragua-central-ixachilan-america/daniel-ortega/)
- [Bosnia-Herzegovina](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ex-yugoslavia/bosnia-herzegovina/)
- [Tariffs](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/tariffs/)
- [Chelsea Manning](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/whistleblowing/chelsea-manning/)
- [2008 Financial Collapse](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/2008-financial-collapse/)
- [Bicycles](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/transportation-2/bicycles/)
- [Estonia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/estonia/)
- [Lithuania](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/lithuania/)
- [Oslo Accords](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/israel/israel_/oslo-accords/)
- [White Helmets](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/ngos/white-helmets/)
- [Peace](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/antiwar/peace/)
- [Paris Agreement](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/paris-2015/)
- [Right of Return](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/right-of-return/)
- [Nauru](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/nauru/)
- [Identity Politics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/wokism/identity-politics/)
- [Elitism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/elitism/)
- [World Trade Organization](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/trade-economics/world-trade-organization/)
- [Paul Kagame](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/rwanda/paul-kagame/)
- [Elections](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/elections/)
- [Referendum](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/elections/referendum/)
- [Medical Insurance](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/medical-insurance/)
- [Norendra Modi](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/india/norendra-modi/)
- [Fidel Castro](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/caribbean/cuba/fidel-castro/)
- [Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/espionage/canadian-security-intelligence-service-csis/)
- [Andrés Manuel López Obrador](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/mexico-turtle-island/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador/)
- [Conspiracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/conspiracy-theories/)
- [NAFTA-2](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/nafta/nafta-2/)
- [Mohammed bin Salman](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/saudi-arabia/mohammed-bin-salman/)
- [Air travel](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/transportation-2/air-travel/)
- [Jair Bolsonaro](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/brazil/jair-bolsonaro/)
- [Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) Movement](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/activism/yellow-vest-gilets-jaunes-movement/)
- [Justin Trudeau](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/canada/justin-trudeau/)
- [Totalitarianism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/totalitarianism/)
- [Banks](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/banks/)
- [Google](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/internet-media/google/)
- [Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/palestinian-liberation-organization-plo/)
- [International Court of Justice](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/justice/international-court-of-justice/)
- [X (formerly Twitter)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/social-media-media/twitter/)
- [Facebook/Meta](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/social-media-media/facebook/)
- [Hate Speech](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/language/hate-speech/)
- [Shinzo Abe](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/japan/shinzo-abe/)
- [Eugenics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/eugenics/)
- [Wokism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/wokism/)
- [Architecture](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/architecture/)
- [Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/belt-and-road-initiative-bri/)
- [Economic Inequality](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/economic-inequality/)
- [Land Theft](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/land/land-theft-land-use/)
- [Authoritarianism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/authoritarianism/)
- [War on Terror](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/war/war-on-terror/)
- [Monsanto (now Bayer)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/foodnutrition/gmo/monsanto-now-bayer/)
- [Glyphosate](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/foodnutrition/gmo/glyphosate/)
- [Edward Snowden](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/whistleblowing/edward-snowden/)
- [Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/organisation-for-the-prohibition-of-chemical-weapons-opcw/)
- [Bill Clinton](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/democrats/bill-clinton/)
- [Human Rights Watch](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/ngos/human-rights-watch/)
- [Hong Kong](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/hong-kong/)
- [Speciesism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/life/speciesism/)
- [Scotland](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/)
- [Riots](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/riots/)
- [Evo Morales](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/bolivia/evo-morales/)
- [Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/caribbean/cuba/miguel-diaz-canel-bermudez/)
- [Anti-semitism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/racism/anti-semitism/)
- [Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/shanghai-cooperation-organization-sco/)
- [Organization of American States (OAS)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/organization-of-american-states-oas/)
- [England](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/england/)
- [Northern Ireland](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/northern-ireland/)
- [Child Labour](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/children/child-labour/)
- [Drought](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/disasters/drought/)
- [Qasem Soleimani](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/iran/qasem-soleimani/)
- [Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/weapons-of-mass-destruction-wmd/)
- [International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/energy/nuclear-energy-2/international-atomic-energy-agency-iaea/)
- [Juan Guaidó](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/venezuela/juan-guaido/)
- [War Crimes](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/crime/war-crimes-war/)
- [Mahmoud Abbas](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/mahmoud-abbas-palestine/)
- [Public Schools](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/education/public-schools/)
- [Students](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/education/students/)
- [COVID-19](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/covid-19/)
- [Lockdown](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/covid-19/lockdown/)
- [Vanessa Baraitser](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/district-judge-vanessa-baraitser/)
- [World Health Organization (WHO)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/world-health-organization-who/)
- [Fearmongering](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/fearmongering/)
- [Vaccines](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/vaccines/)
- [Bill Gates](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/bill-gates/)
- [Belmarsh Prison](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/belmarsh-prison/)
- [Surveillance](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/espionage/surveillance/)
- [Student Loans](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/education/students/student-loans/)
- [May Day](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/labor/may-day/)
- [Rent/rent strikes](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/housing/rent-rent-strikes/)
- [Biology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/science/bioology/)
- [Spiritualism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/spiritualism/)
- [UN Security Council](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/united-nations/un-security-council/)
- [Ernesto “Che” Guevara](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/caribbean/cuba/ernesto-che-guevara/)
- [UN General Assembly](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/united-nations/un-general-assembly/)
- [Evictions](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/housing/evictions/)
- [Black Lives Matter](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/activism/black-lives-matter/)
- [Amazon Rain Forest](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/brazil/amazon-rain-forest/)
- [Diplomacy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/diplomacy/)
- [Ethics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/ethics/)
- [Pandemics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/pandemics/)
- [Masks](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/masks/)
- [Fatah](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/fatah/)
- [Islam](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/islam/)
- [Green New Deal](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/world-economic-forum-wef/green-new-deal/)
- [Enlightenment](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/enlightenment/)
- [Murder](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/crime/murder/)
- [World Economic Forum (WEF)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/world-economic-forum-wef/)
- [Lesser Evilism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/elections/lesser-evilism/)
- [Kamala Harris](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/democrats/kamala-harris/)
- [Gentrification](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/cities/gentrification/)
- [Muammar Gaddafi](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/libya/colonel-moammar-gaddafi/)
- [Special Administrative Measures (SAMS)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/special-administrative-measures-sams/)
- [Karl Marx](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/communismmarxism/karl-marx/)
- [Medicare for All](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/medicare-for-all/)
- [Great Barrier Reef](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/australia/great-barrier-reef/)
- [South China Sea](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/south-china-sea/)
- [Fourth Industrial Revolution](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/fourth-industrial-revolution/)
- [Consumerism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/consumer/)
- [Joe Biden](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/democrats/joe-biden-democrats/)
- [Benjamin Netanyahu](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/israel/benjamin-netanyahu/)
- [Viktor Orban](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/hungary/viktor-orban/)
- [Hypocrisy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/hypocrisy/)
- [The Pentagon](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/the-pentagon/)
- ["Free" Market](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/free-market/)
- [The "Left"](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/the-left/)
- [The "Right"](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/the-right/)
- [US Congress](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/us-congress/)
- [Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership-rcep/)
- [Advertising/Marketing](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/advertising-marketing/)
- [Farmers](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/farmers/)
- [The "West"](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/the-west/)
- [Agroecology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/agroecology/)
- [Agrochemicals](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/agrochemicals/)
- [Dance](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/arts-and-entertainment/dance-arts-and-entertainment/)
- [Hunger Strikes](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/prisons/hunger-strikes-prisons/)
- [Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/egypt/abdel-fattah-al-sisi/)
- [Psychological Warfare](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/psychologypsychiatry/psychological-warfare/)
- [Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/iran/iran-nuclear-agreement-jcpoa/)
- [Bank of North Dakota](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/banks/bank-of-north-dakota/)
- [The New Normal](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/the-new-normal/)
- [Sandinistas](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/nicaragua-central-ixachilan-america/sandinistas/)
- [Vaccination Passports](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/healthmedical/vaccination-passports/)
- [Lula da Silva](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/brazil/lula-da-silva/)
- [Fundamentalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/fundamentalism/)
- [Anthropology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/anthropology/)
- [Football](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/football/)
- [Judaism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/judaism/)
- [Abiy Ahmed](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/ethiopia/abiy-ahmed-ethiopia/)
- [Keir Starmer](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/keir-starmer/)
- [Corporate Media](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/corporate-media/)
- [East Jerusalem](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/east-jerusalem/)
- [Chernobyl](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ukraine/chernobyl/)
- [Olympics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/olympics/)
- [Human Trafficking](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/anti-slavery/human-trafficking/)
- [Farming](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/farming/)
- [Cabo Verde](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/cabo-verde/)
- [Segregation](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/education/segregation/)
- [Freedom](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/freedom/)
- [Ebrahim Raisi](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/iran/ebrahim-raisi/)
- [Islamophobia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/racism/islamophobia/)
- [Saddam Hussein](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/iraq/saddam-hussein/)
- [Residential Schools](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/canada/residential-schools/)
- [Tigray](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/ethiopia/tigray/)
- [Uyghurs/Xinjiang](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/uyghurs-xinjiang/)
- [Daniel Hale](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/whistleblowing/daniel-hale/)
- [California](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/california/)
- [Rio Tinto](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/mining/rio-tinto/)
- [Progressivism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/progressivism/)
- [Malta](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/malta/)
- [Floods](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/disasters/floods/)
- [Archaeology/Archaeologists](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/archaeology-archaeologists/)
- [New Age Mysticism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/new-age-mysticism/)
- [Alex Saab](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/venezuela/alex-saab/)
- [Technology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/technology/)
- [Pesticide Toxicity](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/foodnutrition/gmo/pesticide-toxicity/)
- [Klaus Schwab](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/world-economic-forum-wef/klaus-schwab/)
- [Cryptocurrency](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/currency/crypto/)
- [Hegemony](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/hegemony/)
- [Employment](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/labor/employment/)
- [Humanitarianism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/humanitarianism-2/)
- [The Great Reset](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/the-new-normal/the-great-reset-the-new-normal/)
- [United Nations Human Rights Council](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/united-nations/united-nations-human-rights-council/)
- [Global South](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/global-south/)
- [Corporations](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/corporations/)
- [Cancel Culture](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/wokism/cancel-culture/)
- [Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/ethiopia/tigray-peoples-liberation-front-tplf/)
- [Neo-Paganism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/neopaganism/)
- [Common Prosperity](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/common-prosperity/)
- [Nelson Mandela](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/south-africa/nelson-mandela/)
- [Participatory Economics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/participatory-economics/)
- [Alexander Lukashenko](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/belarus/alexander-lukashenko/)
- [B’Tselem](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/ngos/btselem/)
- [Wildfires](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/disasters/wildfires/)
- [Ireland](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ireland/)
- [Robert F Kennedy Jr](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/robert-francis-kennedy-jr/)
- [Christmas](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/christmas/)
- [Child Trafficking](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/children/child-trafficking/)
- [Tennis](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/tennis/)
- [Critical Thinking](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/critical-thinking/)
- [Desmond Tutu](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/south-africa/desmond-tutu/)
- [Xiomara Castro](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/central-ixachilan-america/honduras/xiomara-castro/)
- [Tonga](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/tonga/)
- [Truckers for Freedom Canada Convoy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/activism/truckers-for-freedom-canada-convoy/)
- [Minsk Protocol](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ukraine/minsk-protocol/)
- [Maidan Coup](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ukraine/maidan-coup/)
- [FIFA](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/fifa/)
- [George H.W. Bush](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/george-h-w-bush/)
- [Khmer Rouge](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/cambodia/khmer-rouge/)
- [Volodymyr Zelenskyy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ukraine/volodymyr-zelenskyy/)
- [Jenin](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/jenin-palestine/)
- [Insects](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/life/insects/)
- [Donbass (Donetsk and Lugansk)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/russia/donbass-donetsk-and-lugansk/)
- [Sovereignty](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sovereignty/)
- [Unions](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/labor/unions/)
- [Elon Musk](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/elon-musk/)
- [Summit of the Americas](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/summit-of-the-americas/)
- [Gustavo Petro/Francia Márquez](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/colombia/gustavo-petro-francia-marquez/)
- [Coup](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/coup/)
- [Anthony Albanese](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/australia/prime-minister-anthony-albanese/)
- [Strikes](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/labor/strikes/)
- [Fertilizers](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/farming/fertilizers/)
- [Cults](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/cults/)
- [Republicans](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/)
- [Türkiye](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/turkiye/)
- [AUKUS Security Pact](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/australia/aukus-security-pact/)
- [Inflation](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/inflation/)
- [Universities/Colleges](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/education/universities-colleges/)
- [Recep Tayyip Erdogan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/turkiye/recep-tayyip-erdogan/)
- [Donald Trump](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/donald-trump-republicans/)
- [Golf](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/golf/)
- [Imran Khan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/pakistan/imran-khan/)
- [Monarchy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/monarchy/)
- [Salvador Allende](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/chile/salvador-allende/)
- [Liz Truss](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/liz-truss/)
- [Torres Strait Islands](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/australia/torres-strait-islands/)
- [Nord Stream 1 and 2](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/germany/nord-stream-1-and-2/)
- [Giorgia Meloni](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/italy/giorgia-meloni/)
- [Solar Energy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/energy/tidal/solar-energy/)
- [Myanmar](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/republic-of-the-union-of-myanmar/)
- [Rohingya](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/republic-of-the-union-of-myanmar/rohingya/)
- [Rishi Sunak](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/rishi-sunak/)
- [Tuvalu](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/tuvalu/)
- [Biodiversity](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/biodiversity/)
- [Alberto Fernández](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/argentina/alberto-fernandez/)
- [Pedro Castillo](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/peru/pedro-castillo/)
- [Luis Arce](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/bolivia/luis-arce/)
- [Corruption](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/corruption/)
- [Dubai](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/dubai/)
- [Evolution](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/science/evolution/)
- [Crimea](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/russia/crimea/)
- [Moldova](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/moldova/)
- [Tyranny](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/tyranny/)
- [Manus Island](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/papua-new-guinea-oceania/manus-island/)
- [Baseball](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/baseball/)
- [Art](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/arts-and-entertainment/art/)
- [Daniel Ellsberg](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/whistleblowing/daniel-ellsberg/)
- [Nova Kakhovka dam](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ukraine/nova-kakhovka-dam/)
- [Nazis](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/fascism/nazis/)
- [Psychopathy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/psychologypsychiatry/psychopathy/)
- [Academia](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/education/academia/)
- [Adolf Hitler](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/germany/adolf-hitler/)
- [Mohandas Gandhi](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/india/gandhi/)
- [Angela Merkel](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/germany/angela-merkel/)
- [COP](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/cop/)
- [CO2 Emissions](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/environment/co2-emissions/)
- [De-Dollarization](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/currency/de-dollarization/)
- [Profits](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/economics/profits/)
- [Skepticism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/critical-thinking/skepticism/)
- [Politics](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/politics/)
- [G20](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/g20/)
- [Stepan Bandera](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/ukraine/stepan-bandera/)
- [Augusto Pinochet](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/chile/general-augusto-pinochet/)
- [Depleted Uranium (DU)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/militarism/weaponry/depleted-uranium-du/)
- [Gabriel Boric](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/chile/gabriel-boric/)
- [Khalistan Movement](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/india/khalistan-movement/)
- [Tony Blair](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/tony-blair/)
- [David Cameron](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/united-kingdom/david-cameron/)
- [Guyana](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/guyana/)
- [Israeli Defense Force (IDF)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/israel/israeli-defense-force-idf/)
- [Film](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/arts-and-entertainment/film-review/)
- [Hinduism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/beliefs/hinduism/)
- [António Guterres](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/united-nations/antonio-guterres/)
- [Tax](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/tax/)
- [Vladimir Putin](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/europe/russia/president-vladimir-putin/)
- [Scott Morrison](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/australia/scott-morrison/)
- [Sociology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sociology/)
- [Liberalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/liberalism/)
- [Olive Trees](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/olive-trees/)
- [Monroe Doctrine](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/monroe-doctrine/)
- [Ansar Allah (Houthis)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/yemen/houthis/)
- [Javier Milei](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/south-america/argentina/javier-milei/)
- [Dubai](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/united-arab-emirates/dubai-united-arab-emirates/)
- [Suez Canal](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/egypt/suez-canal/)
- [Journalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/journalism/)
- [John Howard](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/australia/john-howard/)
- [AFRICOM](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/africom/)
- [Charles Taylor](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/liberia/charles-taylor/)
- [Antony Blinken](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/anthony-blinken/)
- [Derivatives](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/finance/banks/derivatives/)
- [Steroids](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/steroids/)
- [UNRWA](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/united-nations/unrwa/)
- [Anwar Ibrahim](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/malaysia/prime-minister-anwar-ibrahim/)
- [Rugby](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/rugby/)
- [Rafah](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/rafah/)
- [Khan Younis](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/gaza/khan-younis/)
- [David McBride](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/whistleblowing/david-mcbride/)
- [Kanaky (New Caledonia)](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/new-caledonia/)
- [Civil War](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/republic-of-the-union-of-myanmar/civil-war/)
- [Noam Chomsky](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/noam-chomsky/)
- [Bill of Rights](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/justice/legalconstitutional/bill-of-rights/)
- [Benny Gantz](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/israel/benny-gantz/)
- [Immigration](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/immigration/)
- [Samoa](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/oceania/samoa/)
- [Palau](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/palau/)
- [Seeds](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/agriculture/seeds/)
- [President Masoud Pezeshkian](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/iran/president-masoud-pezeshkian/)
- [Palestinian Authority](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/palestine/palestinian-authority/)
- [Swimming](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/sports/swimming/)
- [Transhumanism](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/transhumanism/)
- [Ronald Reagan](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/ronald-reagan/)
- [Congo](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/africa/congo/)
- [J.D. Vance](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/j-d-vance/)
- [Marco Rubio](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/marco-rubio/)
- [Mark Carney](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/canada/mark-carney/)
- [WWII Holocaust](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/genocide/wwii-holocaust/)
- [Mao Zedong](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/china/mao-zedong/)
- [Claudia Sheinbaum](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/mexico-turtle-island/claudia-sheinbaum/)
- [Tulsi Gabbard](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/turtle-island/united-states/republicans/tulsi-gabbard/)
- [Mohammad Mossadegh](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/asia/middle-east/iran/mohammad-mossadigh/)
- [Media Literacy](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/media-literacy/)
- [Public Media](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/media/public-media-media/)
- [Geneva Convention](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/justice/international-law/geneva-convention/)
- [Social Psychology](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/psychologypsychiatry/social-psychology/)
- [Censorship](https://dissidentvoice.org/category/politics/censorship-politics/)

## Tags

- [psychology](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/psychology/)
- [psychoanalysis](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/psychoanalysis/)
- [fear](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fear/)
- [american Psychological Association](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/american-psychological-association/)
- [interrogations](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/interrogations/)
- [Bush](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bush/)
- [women](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/women/)
- [HIV/AIDS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hivaids/)
- [Iowa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/iowa/)
- [Facebook](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/facebook/)
- [occupation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/occupation/)
- [rules of engagement](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rules-of-engagement/)
- [anti-zionism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/anti-zionism/)
- [snakes](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/snakes/)
- [susan abulhawa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/susan-abulhawa/)
- [palestine](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/palestine/)
- [palestinian](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/palestinian/)
- [israel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/israel/)
- [internet](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/internet/)
- [press freedom](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/press-freedom/)
- [Hugo Chavez](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hugo-chavez/)
- [Bolivarian](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bolivarian/)
- [Pentagon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pentagon/)
- [human-testing](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/human-testing/)
- [veterans](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/veterans/)
- [Edgewood](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/edgewood/)
- [chemical weapons](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/chemical-weapons/)
- [war](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/war/)
- [Jewish Question](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jewish-question/)
- [self-determination](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/self-determination/)
- [one state](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/one-state/)
- [Palestinians](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/palestinians/)
- [Cheney](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cheney/)
- [economy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/economy/)
- [subprime](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/subprime/)
- [McCain](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mccain/)
- [Clinton](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/clinton/)
- [Fallon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fallon/)
- [naqba](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/naqba/)
- [naqbe](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/naqbe/)
- [nakba](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nakba/)
- [israeli](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/israeli/)
- [60th anniversary](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/60th-anniversary/)
- [60 years](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/60-years/)
- [war of independence](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/war-of-independence/)
- [independence day](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/independence-day/)
- [native struggles](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/native-struggles/)
- [BSCT](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bsct/)
- [psychologists](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/psychologists/)
- [Special Forces](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/special-forces/)
- [NAFTA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nafta/)
- [Mexico](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mexico/)
- [BBC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bbc/)
- [media bias](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/media-bias/)
- [Nicaragua](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nicaragua/)
- [American Interventionism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/american-interventionism/)
- [Real News](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/real-news/)
- [blacksites](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/blacksites/)
- [Propaganada](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/propaganada/)
- [South Ossetia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/south-ossetia/)
- [Georgia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/georgia/)
- [Vincent Bugliosi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vincent-bugliosi/)
- [Olympics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/olympics/)
- [property](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/property/)
- [wealth](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wealth/)
- [ownership](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ownership/)
- [anthrax](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/anthrax/)
- [Bruce Ivins](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bruce-ivins/)
- [biological warfare](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/biological-warfare/)
- [Iceland](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/iceland/)
- [Leonard Peltier](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/leonard-peltier/)
- [Resources](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/resources/)
- [transition team](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/transition-team/)
- [bailout](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bailout/)
- [Feingold](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/feingold/)
- [Biden](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/biden/)
- [Rubin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rubin/)
- [Gates](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gates/)
- [seals](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/seals/)
- [JUPITER study](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jupiter-study/)
- [Crestor](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/crestor/)
- [international law](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/international-law/)
- [Gaza](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gaza/)
- [abulhawa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/abulhawa/)
- [susan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/susan/)
- [Ben Affleck](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ben-affleck/)
- [Dian Fossey](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dian-fossey/)
- [Paul Kagame](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/paul-kagame/)
- [Amnesty International](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/amnesty-international/)
- [Hypocrisy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hypocrisy/)
- [Wright Patman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wright-patman/)
- [George Galloway](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/george-galloway/)
- [Puerto Rico](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/puerto-rico/)
- [HRW](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hrw/)
- [Allison Des Forges](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/allison-des-forges/)
- [Domestic Violence](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/domestic-violence/)
- [celebrities](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/celebrities/)
- [beauty](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/beauty/)
- [magazines](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/magazines/)
- [movies](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/movies/)
- [television](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/television/)
- [glamour](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/glamour/)
- [Baltics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/baltics/)
- [Pharmaceuticals](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pharmaceuticals/)
- [Zyprexa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/zyprexa/)
- [Suicide](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/suicide/)
- [FDA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fda/)
- [Stanley McChrystal](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/stanley-mcchrystal/)
- [Monsanto](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/monsanto/)
- [Swat](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/swat/)
- [Murtha](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/murtha/)
- [Tamil Tigers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tamil-tigers/)
- [LTTE](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ltte/)
- [Black Budget](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/black-budget/)
- [Defense Appropriations](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/defense-appropriations/)
- [Intelligence](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/intelligence/)
- [H1N1](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/h1n1/)
- [SARS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sars/)
- [Armenia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/armenia/)
- [trade](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/trade/)
- [Mir-Hossein Mousavi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mir-hossein-mousavi/)
- [Euro-Parliament](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/euro-parliament/)
- [Criminal Justice](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/criminal-justice/)
- [McNamara](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mcnamara/)
- [hubris](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hubris/)
- [Ashkelon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ashkelon/)
- [Al-Majdal](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/al-majdal/)
- [NED](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ned/)
- [Spirit of Humanity](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/spirit-of-humanity/)
- [David Miliband](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/david-miliband/)
- [Hillary Clinton](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hillary-clinton/)
- [Council on Foreign Relations](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/council-on-foreign-relations/)
- [Microsoft](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/microsoft/)
- [Hotmail](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hotmail/)
- [1969](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/1969/)
- [SDS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sds/)
- [Nixon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nixon/)
- [antiwar](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/antiwar/)
- [Pricewaterhouse Coopers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pricewaterhouse-coopers/)
- [books music](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/books-music/)
- [Beatles](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/beatles/)
- [book review](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/book-review/)
- [military](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/military/)
- [troops resistance](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/troops-resistance/)
- [occpation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/occpation/)
- [Attorney General Eric Holder](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/attorney-general-eric-holder/)
- [Convention Against Torture](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/convention-against-torture/)
- [Disbar Torture Lawyers Campaign](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/disbar-torture-lawyers-campaign/)
- [Mi'kmaq](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mikmaq/)
- [Halifax](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/halifax/)
- [Edward Cornwallis](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/edward-cornwallis/)
- [NFLPA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nflpa/)
- [NFL salaries](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nfl-salaries/)
- [single-payer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/single-payer/)
- [Turks and Caicos Islands](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/turks-and-caicos-islands/)
- [Karzai](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/karzai/)
- [Cronkite](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cronkite/)
- [kidnapping](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kidnapping/)
- [US Foreign Policy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-foreign-policy/)
- [Colin Powell](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/colin-powell/)
- [Condi Rice](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/condi-rice/)
- [Aristide](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/aristide/)
- [PMOI](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pmoi/)
- [Caster Semenya](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/caster-semenya/)
- [Dr. Ivor van Heerden](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dr-ivor-van-heerden/)
- [Hurricane Katrina](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hurricane-katrina/)
- [Pittsburg](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pittsburg/)
- [G-20](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/g-20/)
- [Labor Sweatshops](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/labor-sweatshops/)
- [Oligarchy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/oligarchy/)
- [Peace](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/peace/)
- [1960s](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/1960s/)
- [Black Panthers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/black-panthers/)
- [ElBaradei](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/elbaradei/)
- [the Fed](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/the-fed/)
- [Breaking the Silence](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/breaking-the-silence/)
- [G20](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/g20/)
- [IAEA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/iaea/)
- [Pacifica](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pacifica/)
- [Intellectual Property Rights](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/intellectual-property-rights/)
- [Total Information Awareness](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/total-information-awareness/)
- [CIFA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cifa/)
- [TALF](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/talf/)
- [US history](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-history/)
- [italian fiction](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/italian-fiction/)
- [President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad/)
- [Jewishness](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jewishness/)
- [P5+1](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/p51/)
- [Javier Solana](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/javier-solana/)
- [Mohamed ElBaradei](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mohamed-elbaradei/)
- [Nobel Peace Prize](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nobel-peace-prize/)
- [Cindy Sheehan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cindy-sheehan/)
- [Animal-Vues](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/animal-vues/)
- [Mondragon Cooperatives](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mondragon-cooperatives/)
- [Federal Reserve](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/federal-reserve/)
- [STOLI](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/stoli/)
- [Prime Minister Netanyahu](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/prime-minister-netanyahu/)
- [Ehud Olmert](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ehud-olmert/)
- [Subsidizing Sweatshops](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/subsidizing-sweatshops/)
- [SweatFree Communities](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sweatfree-communities/)
- [OPEC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/opec/)
- [civil rights](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/civil-rights/)
- [monopoly capital](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/monopoly-capital/)
- [Toronto International Film Festival](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/toronto-international-film-festival/)
- [Toronto Palestinian Film Festival](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/toronto-palestinian-film-festival/)
- [tuna](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tuna/)
- [solitary confinement](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/solitary-confinement/)
- [AARP](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/aarp/)
- [CSTO](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/csto/)
- [Vatican](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vatican/)
- [homophobia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/homophobia/)
- [United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/united-nations-climate-conference-in-copenhagen/)
- [350.org](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/350-org/)
- [Kim Jong-il](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kim-jong-il/)
- [adoption](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/adoption/)
- [Rupert Murdoch](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rupert-murdoch/)
- [globalization](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/globalization/)
- [Wal-Mart](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wal-mart/)
- [Glass-Steagall Act](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/glass-steagall-act/)
- [Netanyahu](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/netanyahu/)
- [flu](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/flu/)
- [depleted uranium](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/depleted-uranium/)
- [Goldstone report](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/goldstone-report/)
- [review](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/review/)
- [Vietnam. veterans](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vietnam-veterans/)
- [Iraq War](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/iraq-war/)
- [Marines](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/marines/)
- [PTSD](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ptsd/)
- [HRC/Fed-Up!](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hrcfed-up/)
- [USSR](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ussr/)
- [Avaaz](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/avaaz/)
- [Wells Fargo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wells-fargo/)
- [New York Three](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/new-york-three/)
- [Black Panther Party](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/black-panther-party/)
- [John Brown](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/john-brown/)
- [science fiction](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/science-fiction/)
- [salmon farming](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/salmon-farming/)
- [Alexandra Morton](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/alexandra-morton/)
- [Damien Gillis](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/damien-gillis/)
- [Chilcot Inquiry](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/chilcot-inquiry/)
- [Clare Short](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/clare-short/)
- [Robin Cook](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/robin-cook/)
- [Aliant](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/aliant/)
- [Zeev Sternhell](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/zeev-sternhell/)
- [interrogation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/interrogation/)
- [ethics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ethics/)
- [psychological ethics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/psychological-ethics/)
- [Mohammed al Qahtani](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mohammed-al-qahtani/)
- [Prime Minister al-Maliki](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/prime-minister-al-maliki/)
- [John Kerry](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/john-kerry/)
- [Prussia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/prussia/)
- [apartheid](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/apartheid/)
- [national debt](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/national-debt/)
- [Copenhagen](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/copenhagen/)
- [ACORN](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/acorn/)
- [Free Competition in Currency Act](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/free-competition-in-currency-act/)
- [International Monetary Fund](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/international-monetary-fund/)
- [National Assembly](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/national-assembly/)
- [single payer health reform](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/single-payer-health-reform/)
- [hate crimes](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hate-crimes/)
- [Pennsylvania](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pennsylvania/)
- [Dick Wolf](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dick-wolf/)
- [murder](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/murder/)
- [Shenandoah](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/shenandoah/)
- [Wilkes-Barre](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wilkes-barre/)
- [Luzerne County](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/luzerne-county/)
- [Schuylkill County](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/schuylkill-county/)
- [Luis Ramirez Zavala](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/luis-ramirez-zavala/)
- [David Vega](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/david-vega/)
- [John P. Karoly](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/john-p-karoly/)
- [Pfizer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pfizer/)
- [Seroquel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/seroquel/)
- [Risperdal](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/risperdal/)
- [Geodon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/geodon/)
- [Vytorin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vytorin/)
- [Gaza for the Freedom March](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gaza-for-the-freedom-march/)
- [Al Qaida](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/al-qaida/)
- [United States](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/united-states/)
- [insurgencies](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/insurgencies/)
- [ammunition](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ammunition/)
- [Agreement on Movement and Access treaty](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/agreement-on-movement-and-access-treaty/)
- [Arne Duncan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/arne-duncan/)
- [Hosni Mubarak](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hosni-mubarak/)
- [Binyamin Netanyahu](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/binyamin-netanyahu/)
- [Gordon Brown](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gordon-brown/)
- [sanctions](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sanctions/)
- [Brown vs. Board of Education](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/brown-vs-board-of-education/)
- [Milton Friedman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/milton-friedman/)
- [Sputnik](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sputnik/)
- [Suzanne Mubarak](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/suzanne-mubarak/)
- [Gaza Freedom March](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gaza-freedom-march/)
- [Coca-Cola](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/coca-cola/)
- [American Academy of Family Physicians](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/american-academy-of-family-physicians/)
- [American Medical Association](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/american-medical-association/)
- [OAS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/oas/)
- [WB](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wb/)
- [IDB](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/idb/)
- [PDVSA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pdvsa/)
- [SSRI antidepressants](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ssri-antidepressants/)
- [homelessness](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/homelessness/)
- [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/strategic-arms-reduction-treaty/)
- [Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/anti-ballistic-missile-treaty/)
- [The Universal Brotherhood of Officers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/the-universal-brotherhood-of-officers/)
- [Lincoln Gordon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lincoln-gordon/)
- [Bono](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bono/)
- [Albert Einstein](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/albert-einstein/)
- [al Qaeda](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/al-qaeda/)
- [NHL](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nhl/)
- [Todd Bertuzzi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/todd-bertuzzi/)
- [Steve Moore](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/steve-moore/)
- [Slap Shot](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/slap-shot/)
- [Paul Newman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/paul-newman/)
- [Martha Coakley](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/martha-coakley/)
- [HFCS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hfcs/)
- [honey bees](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/honey-bees/)
- [COINTELPRO](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cointelpro/)
- [femicide](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/femicide/)
- [Houthis](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/houthis/)
- [Blackwater/Xe](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/blackwaterxe/)
- [Iron Dome](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/iron-dome/)
- [Hamas](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hamas/)
- [Sandinista](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sandinista/)
- [Daniel Ortega](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/daniel-ortega/)
- [ADL](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/adl/)
- [insurance](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/insurance/)
- [Jean-Bertrand Aristide](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jean-bertrand-aristide/)
- [Hezbollah](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hezbollah/)
- [reparations](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/reparations/)
- [USAID](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/usaid/)
- [Golden Globes](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/golden-globes/)
- [Hollywood](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hollywood/)
- [Yulia Tymoshenko](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/yulia-tymoshenko/)
- [Viktor Yanukovich](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/viktor-yanukovich/)
- [Viktor Yushchenko](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/viktor-yushchenko/)
- [National Endowment for Democracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/national-endowment-for-democracy/)
- [debt](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/debt/)
- [Fanmi Lavalas](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fanmi-lavalas/)
- [Rahm Emanuel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rahm-emanuel/)
- [GOP](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gop/)
- [tea-party](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tea-party/)
- [left](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/left/)
- [Scott Brown](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/scott-brown/)
- [FoxNews](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/foxnews/)
- [ludoteca](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ludoteca/)
- [women’s liberation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/women’s-liberation/)
- [Volcker Rule](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/volcker-rule/)
- [Timothy Geithner](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/timothy-geithner/)
- [Paul Volcker](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/paul-volcker/)
- [Bear Stearns](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bear-stearns/)
- [AIG](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/aig/)
- [the left](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/the-left/)
- [earthquake](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/earthquake/)
- [René Cassin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rene-cassin/)
- [Universal Declaration of Human Rights](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/)
- [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/eleanor-roosevelt/)
- [John Humphrey](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/john-humphrey/)
- [Stans](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/stans/)
- [negotiations](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/negotiations/)
- [Taliban](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/taliban/)
- [White privilege](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/white-privilege/)
- [HMOs](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hmos/)
- [knowinglessness](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/knowinglessness/)
- [deniability](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/deniability/)
- [USIS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/usis/)
- [pacification](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pacification/)
- [Gilad Shalit](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gilad-shalit/)
- [Paul and Rachel Chandler](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/paul-and-rachel-chandler/)
- [Convention on the Rights of the Child](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child/)
- [disappeared](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/disappeared/)
- [Mahmoud Abbas](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mahmoud-abbas/)
- [Fahmi Shabaneh](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fahmi-shabaneh/)
- [Yasser Arafat](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/yasser-arafat/)
- [MK-ULTRA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mk-ultra/)
- [2010 Olympics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/2010-olympics/)
- [California](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/california/)
- [social movements](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/social-movements/)
- [organizing](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/organizing/)
- [liberals](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/liberals/)
- [Phyllis Bennis](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/phyllis-bennis/)
- [IOC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ioc/)
- [Vancouver](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vancouver/)
- [ractopamine](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ractopamine/)
- [Paylean](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/paylean/)
- [Dubai](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dubai/)
- [Jonathan Leake](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jonathan-leake/)
- [2010 Vancouver Olympics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/2010-vancouver-olympics/)
- [Battle of Baghdad Cover-Up](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/battle-of-baghdad-cover-up/)
- [CCSA Schools Privatization Education Neoliberalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ccsa-schools-privatization-education-neoliberalism/)
- [sweatshop](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sweatshop/)
- [CCSA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ccsa/)
- [Charter](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/charter/)
- [Voucher](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/voucher/)
- [Struggle](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/struggle/)
- [ethnic cleansing](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ethnic-cleansing/)
- [freedom of conscience](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/freedom-of-conscience/)
- [Muhammad Ali](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/muhammad-ali/)
- [toads](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/toads/)
- [Diego Garcia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/diego-garcia/)
- [Greenpeace](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/greenpeace/)
- [SSRIs](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ssris/)
- [right to resistance](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/right-to-resistance/)
- [divide and conquer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/divide-and-conquer/)
- [Paxil](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/paxil/)
- [Wellbutrin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wellbutrin/)
- [Ingenix Study](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ingenix-study/)
- [Glaxo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/glaxo/)
- [drug war](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/drug-war/)
- [marijuana](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/marijuana/)
- [OECD](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/oecd/)
- [Operation Moshtarak](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/operation-moshtarak/)
- [International Solidarity Movement](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/international-solidarity-movement/)
- [FIFA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fifa/)
- [soccer/football](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/soccerfootball/)
- [World Cup](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/world-cup/)
- [sayanim](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sayanim/)
- [press](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/press/)
- [information](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/information/)
- [freedom](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/freedom/)
- [Icelandic Modern Media Initiative](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/icelandic-modern-media-initiative/)
- [Ban ki-Moon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ban-ki-moon/)
- [mass movements](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mass-movements/)
- [Ayn Rand](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ayn-rand/)
- [Ron Paul](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ron-paul/)
- [East Jerusalem](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/east-jerusalem/)
- [Joe Biden](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/joe-biden/)
- [ANC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/anc/)
- [dispossession](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dispossession/)
- [General Barry McCaffrey](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/general-barry-mccaffrey/)
- [right to self-determination](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/right-to-self-determination/)
- [humanism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/humanism/)
- [GM](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gm/)
- [NDP](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ndp/)
- [Republicans](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/republicans/)
- [Dennis Kucinich](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dennis-kucinich/)
- [Alan Grayson](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/alan-grayson/)
- [Markos Moulitsas](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/markos-moulitsas/)
- [9/11](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/911/)
- [AIPAC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/aipac/)
- [Ralph Nader](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ralph-nader/)
- [Benjamin Netanyahu](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/benjamin-netanyahu/)
- [al-Sadr](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/al-sadr/)
- [US military](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-military/)
- [MINUSTAH](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/minustah/)
- [sea lice](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sea-lice/)
- [WellPoint](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wellpoint/)
- [ISI](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/isi/)
- [Felipe Calderon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/felipe-calderon/)
- [George Orwell](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/george-orwell/)
- [Martin Luther King](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/martin-luther-king/)
- [Jr.](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jr/)
- [pedagogy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pedagogy/)
- [Hamid Karzai](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hamid-karzai/)
- [dolphins](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dolphins/)
- [whales](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/whales/)
- [leftists](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/leftists/)
- [AFRICOM](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/africom/)
- [Joseph Kabila](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/joseph-kabila/)
- [Florida](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/florida/)
- [Quebec](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/quebec/)
- [niqab](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/niqab/)
- [NPT](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/npt/)
- [Siebel Edmonds](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/siebel-edmonds/)
- [1970](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/1970/)
- [protest](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/protest/)
- [Vo-Tech JOC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vo-tech-joc/)
- [Arizona](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/arizona/)
- [Quadrennial Defense Review](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/quadrennial-defense-review/)
- [pedophilia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pedophilia/)
- [Reporters without Borders](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/reporters-without-borders/)
- [Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gen-stanley-a-mcchrystal/)
- [Governor Jan Brewer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/governor-jan-brewer/)
- [Derrek Hall](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/derrek-hall/)
- [Ken Kendrick](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ken-kendrick/)
- [Arizona Diamondbacks](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/arizona-diamondbacks/)
- [Walter Hickel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/walter-hickel/)
- [Jena Six](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jena-six/)
- [Okinawa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/okinawa/)
- [Copenhagen Accord](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/copenhagen-accord/)
- [Coca Colla](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/coca-colla/)
- [Evo Morales](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/evo-morales/)
- [B’Tselem](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/b’tselem/)
- [collaboration](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/collaboration/)
- [BP](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bp/)
- [Noam Chomsky](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/noam-chomsky/)
- [Halliburton](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/halliburton/)
- [free market](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/free-market/)
- [economic apartheid](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/economic-apartheid/)
- [Mahinda Rajapaksha](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mahinda-rajapaksha/)
- [Sinhalese](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sinhalese/)
- [Tamils](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tamils/)
- [DARPA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/darpa/)
- [Ron Saba](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ron-saba/)
- [Abraham Weizfeld](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/abraham-weizfeld/)
- [Hizbullah](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hizbullah/)
- [Tardive dyskinesia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tardive-dyskinesia/)
- [Reglan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/reglan/)
- [accountability](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/accountability/)
- [progressivism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/progressivism/)
- [Rhodesia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rhodesia/)
- [Detroit](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/detroit/)
- [youth](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/youth/)
- [siege](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/siege/)
- [piracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/piracy/)
- [State Terrorism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/state-terrorism/)
- [ICC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/icc/)
- [Hasbara](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hasbara/)
- [flotilla](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/flotilla/)
- [philanthropy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/philanthropy/)
- [Furkan Dogan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/furkan-dogan/)
- [Freedom Flotilla](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/freedom-flotilla/)
- [American Government](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/american-government/)
- [Conspiracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/conspiracy/)
- [E. Howard Hunt](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/e-howard-hunt/)
- [J. F. Kennedy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/j-f-kennedy/)
- [J. P. Morgan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/j-p-morgan/)
- [Goldman Sachs](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/goldman-sachs/)
- [Lyndon Johnson](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lyndon-johnson/)
- [Operation Northwoods](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/operation-northwoods/)
- [Plutocracy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/plutocracy/)
- [Smedley Butler](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/smedley-butler/)
- [William F. Pepper](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/william-f-pepper/)
- [hate speech](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hate-speech/)
- [Amazon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/amazon/)
- [climate change](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/climate-change/)
- [plagiarism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/plagiarism/)
- [Rene Preval](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rene-preval/)
- [insurgency](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/insurgency/)
- [University of Ottawa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/university-of-ottawa/)
- [Allan Rock](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/allan-rock/)
- [President Paul Kagame](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/president-paul-kagame/)
- [Juan Manuel Santos](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/juan-manuel-santos/)
- [President Alvaro Uribe](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/president-alvaro-uribe/)
- [population transfer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/population-transfer/)
- [Beatrice Munyenyezi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/beatrice-munyenyezi/)
- [Jerusalem](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jerusalem/)
- [video games](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/video-games/)
- [OAU](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/oau/)
- [Olli Heinonen](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/olli-heinonen/)
- [ecology](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ecology/)
- [deflation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/deflation/)
- [Kevin Rudd](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kevin-rudd/)
- [Julia Gillard](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/julia-gillard/)
- [cluster bombs](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cluster-bombs/)
- [annexation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/annexation/)
- [Nir Barkat](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nir-barkat/)
- [Muhammad Abu Ter](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/muhammad-abu-ter/)
- [PERFECT CITIZEN](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/perfect-citizen/)
- [Oath Keepers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/oath-keepers/)
- [tasers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tasers/)
- [FCC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fcc/)
- [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mahmoud-ahmadinejad/)
- [Shin Bet](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/shin-bet/)
- [HB 2281](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hb-2281/)
- [Fidel Castro](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fidel-castro/)
- [Affirmative Action](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/affirmative-action/)
- [IHRC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ihrc/)
- [MSD](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/msd/)
- [Jack Benny](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jack-benny/)
- [Harry Truman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/harry-truman/)
- [Tony Blair](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tony-blair/)
- [FARC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/farc/)
- [hypoxia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hypoxia/)
- [dead zone](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dead-zone/)
- [UNASUR](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/unasur/)
- [conscientious objector](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/conscientious-objector/)
- [Wyclef Jean](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wyclef-jean/)
- [Transocean](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/transocean/)
- [Credit Suisse](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/credit-suisse/)
- [General Motors](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/general-motors/)
- [David Kelly](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/david-kelly/)
- [Avigdor Lieberman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/avigdor-lieberman/)
- [pollution](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pollution/)
- [Combat](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/combat/)
- [Troops](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/troops/)
- [Contractor](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/contractor/)
- [Leave](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/leave/)
- [Delusion](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/delusion/)
- [Denial](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/denial/)
- [Colonization](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/colonization/)
- [Embassy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/embassy/)
- [Banks](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/banks/)
- [Museums](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/museums/)
- [Looted](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/looted/)
- [Radiation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/radiation/)
- [Illness](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/illness/)
- [Cancer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cancer/)
- [Native](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/native/)
- [American](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/american/)
- [Gas](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gas/)
- [Pipelines](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pipelines/)
- [International Court of Justice](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/international-court-of-justice/)
- [Public Relations](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/public-relations/)
- [Consumerism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/consumerism/)
- [CSIS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/csis/)
- [Zapatista](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/zapatista/)
- [news](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/news/)
- [Islamophobia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/islamophobia/)
- [SB 1070](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sb-1070/)
- [anthropology](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/anthropology/)
- [Franz Boas](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/franz-boas/)
- [repression](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/repression/)
- [Kashmir](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kashmir/)
- [salmon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/salmon/)
- [peace talks](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/peace-talks/)
- [antibiotics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/antibiotics/)
- [food safety](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/food-safety/)
- [organic](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/organic/)
- [Economic Inequity](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/economic-inequity/)
- [Manufactured Populism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/manufactured-populism/)
- [false narratives](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/false-narratives/)
- [Glen Beck](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/glen-beck/)
- [Sarah Palin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sarah-palin/)
- [demagogues](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/demagogues/)
- [Political displacement and distraction](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/political-displacement-and-distraction/)
- [Kashmir Intifada](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kashmir-intifada/)
- [Disputed Territory](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/disputed-territory/)
- [Atrocities](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/atrocities/)
- [Neoliberalsim](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/neoliberalsim/)
- [US Empire](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-empire/)
- [Duopoly](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/duopoly/)
- [Rebublicans](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rebublicans/)
- [status quo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/status-quo/)
- [Halloween](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/halloween/)
- [monsters](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/monsters/)
- [zombies](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/zombies/)
- [vampires](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vampires/)
- [corporate state](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/corporate-state/)
- [coops](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/coops/)
- [U.S. Chamber of Commerce](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/u-s-chamber-of-commerce/)
- [workers rights](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/workers-rights/)
- [biography](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/biography/)
- [Union Carbide](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/union-carbide/)
- [Dow Chemical](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dow-chemical/)
- [Bhopal](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bhopal/)
- [nationalization](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nationalization/)
- [ForeclosureGate](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/foreclosuregate/)
- [Ben Bernanke](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ben-bernanke/)
- [quantitative easing](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/quantitative-easing/)
- [Federal Reserve Board](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/federal-reserve-board/)
- [financial asset price bubbles](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/financial-asset-price-bubbles/)
- [dot.com bubble](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dot-com-bubble/)
- [housing bubble](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/housing-bubble/)
- [bond bubble](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bond-bubble/)
- [drugs](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/drugs/)
- [Ahmed Karzai](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ahmed-karzai/)
- [Human Rights Watch](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/human-rights-watch/)
- [failed state](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/failed-state/)
- [Lancet](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lancet/)
- [Sebastián Piñera](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sebastian-pinera/)
- [National Security State](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/national-security-state/)
- [US Emipire](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-emipire/)
- [Hannah Arendt](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hannah-arendt/)
- [TSA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tsa/)
- [airports](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/airports/)
- [body scans](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/body-scans/)
- [opt out](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/opt-out/)
- [cholera](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cholera/)
- [Monsato](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/monsato/)
- [Organic Consumers Association](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/organic-consumers-association/)
- [Lindsey Graham](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lindsey-graham/)
- [Fernando Lugo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fernando-lugo/)
- [Ben Dangl](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ben-dangl/)
- [ADHD](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/adhd/)
- [Ablechild](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ablechild/)
- [CHADD](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/chadd/)
- [Patty Weathers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/patty-weathers/)
- [Dextrostat](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dextrostat/)
- [Sheila Matthews](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sheila-matthews/)
- [Lilly](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lilly/)
- [QE2](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/qe2/)
- [Interest rates](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/interest-rates/)
- [TARP](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tarp/)
- [Bernanke](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bernanke/)
- [inflation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/inflation/)
- [Shahab-3](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/shahab-3/)
- [Ghadr-1](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ghadr-1/)
- [Ovadia Yosef](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ovadia-yosef/)
- [International Council on Security and Development](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/international-council-on-security-and-development/)
- [literacy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/literacy/)
- [Duvalier](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/duvalier/)
- [BDS](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bds/)
- [George Soros](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/george-soros/)
- [Glenn Beck](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/glenn-beck/)
- [Raza](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/raza/)
- [Dolores Huerta](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dolores-huerta/)
- [Lee Myung-bak](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lee-myung-bak/)
- [x-rays](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/x-rays/)
- [grope](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/grope/)
- [University of Florida](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/university-of-florida/)
- [Mingzhou Ding](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mingzhou-ding/)
- [hooding](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/hooding/)
- [Muslim Brotherhood](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/muslim-brotherhood/)
- [Michael Danby](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/michael-danby/)
- [cablegate](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cablegate/)
- [Game theory](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/game-theory/)
- [corporate media](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/corporate-media/)
- [Obama Administration](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/obama-administration/)
- [US Imperium](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-imperium/)
- [cars](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cars/)
- [sprawl](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sprawl/)
- [strikes](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/strikes/)
- [guns](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/guns-2/)
- [Fallujah](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fallujah/)
- [free trade](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/free-trade/)
- [Julian Assange](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/julian-assange/)
- [Michael B. Oren](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/michael-b-oren/)
- [Dr. Martin Luther King](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/dr-martin-luther-king/)
- [Bradley Manning](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bradley-manning/)
- [Daniel Ellsberg](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/daniel-ellsberg/)
- [Assange](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/assange/)
- [Preval](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/preval/)
- [exceptionalism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/exceptionalism/)
- [Tom Flanagan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tom-flanagan/)
- [Tariq Aziz](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tariq-aziz/)
- [charities](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/charities/)
- [Michael Moore](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/michael-moore/)
- [Taiji](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/taiji/)
- [Sea Shepherd](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sea-shepherd/)
- [OCIAA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ociaa/)
- [Alejandro Toledo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/alejandro-toledo/)
- [ScotiaBank](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/scotiabank/)
- [CIDA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cida/)
- [FTA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fta/)
- [Desert Storm](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/desert-storm/)
- [Gabrielle Giffords](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gabrielle-giffords/)
- [Stuttgart declaration](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/stuttgart-declaration/)
- [corporate charters](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/corporate-charters/)
- [vouchers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/vouchers/)
- [standard of living](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/standard-of-living/)
- [Security Council](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/security-council/)
- [Andaman Islands](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/andaman-islands/)
- [Jawara](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jawara/)
- [ecocide](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ecocide/)
- [revolution](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/revolution-2/)
- [rendition](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rendition/)
- [Omar Suleiman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/omar-suleiman/)
- [Laser Man](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/laser-man/)
- [Sweden Democrats party](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sweden-democrats-party/)
- [Kent Ekeroth](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kent-ekeroth/)
- [Malmö](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/malmo/)
- [John Ausonius](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/john-ausonius/)
- [Ted Ekeroth](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ted-ekeroth/)
- [General Musharraf](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/general-musharraf/)
- [rape](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rape/)
- [Howling Dog Tours Whistler](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/howling-dog-tours-whistler/)
- [Outdoor Adventures Whistler](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/outdoor-adventures-whistler/)
- [Yom El Raheel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/yom-el-raheel/)
- [football](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/football/)
- [Super Bowl](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/super-bowl/)
- [M? Lai](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mỹ-lai/)
- [Freedom House](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/freedom-house/)
- [Al-Abidine bin Ali](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/al-abidine-bin-ali/)
- [QE1](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/qe1/)
- [Omar Sulieman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/omar-sulieman/)
- [Mohammad Mossadegh](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mohammad-mossadegh/)
- [Georg Soros](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/georg-soros/)
- [strike](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/strike/)
- [Luis Fortuño](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/luis-fortuno/)
- [Agents of Change](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/agents-of-change/)
- [Baron Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/baron-karl-theodor-von-und-zu-guttenberg/)
- [Angela Merkel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/angela-merkel/)
- [monarchy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/monarchy/)
- [celebrity](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/celebrity/)
- [Srdja Popovic](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/srdja-popovic/)
- [Al-Khalifa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/al-khalifa/)
- [Shi'a](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/shia/)
- [Wisconsin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wisconsin/)
- [Scott Walker](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/scott-walker/)
- [privatizion](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/privatizion/)
- [MKULTRA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mkultra/)
- [TV](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tv/)
- [frustration-aggression hypothesis](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/frustration-aggression-hypothesis/)
- [mind control](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mind-control/)
- [Kubark](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kubark/)
- [critical thinking](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/critical-thinking/)
- [Taylorism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/taylorism/)
- [taxes](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/taxes-2/)
- [deficit](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/deficit/)
- [unions](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/unions-2/)
- [googoo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/googoo/)
- [Richard Daley](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/richard-daley/)
- [police state](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/police-state/)
- [J-Street](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/j-street/)
- [Jaafar Nimieri](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jaafar-nimieri/)
- [FNSL](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fnsl/)
- [Green Book](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/green-book/)
- [Third Universal Theory](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/third-universal-theory/)
- [uranium](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/uranium/)
- [freedom fighters](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/freedom-fighters/)
- [Irwin Cotler](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/irwin-cotler/)
- [Madison](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/madison/)
- [Muammar Gaddafi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/muammar-gaddafi/)
- [intervention](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/intervention/)
- [Rio Tinto](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rio-tinto/)
- [Onggi River Movement](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/onggi-river-movement/)
- [Tsetsegee Munkhbayar](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tsetsegee-munkhbayar/)
- [Green Nobel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/green-nobel/)
- [Layton Croft](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/layton-croft/)
- [Ivanhoe Mines](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ivanhoe-mines/)
- [The Asia Foundation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/the-asia-foundation/)
- [WWF](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wwf/)
- [Rebecca Darling](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rebecca-darling/)
- [British Columbia](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/british-columbia/)
- [Prime Minister Naoto Kan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/prime-minister-naoto-kan/)
- [tsunami](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tsunami/)
- [nuclear industry](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nuclear-industry/)
- [environment](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/environment-2/)
- [economics inequity](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/economics-inequity/)
- [Koch brothers](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/koch-brothers/)
- [neocons](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/neocons/)
- [faux republic](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/faux-republic/)
- [corporatist coup](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/corporatist-coup/)
- [Thomas Pynchon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/thomas-pynchon/)
- [culture wars](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/culture-wars/)
- [gold](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gold/)
- [Upper Amazon Conservancy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/upper-amazon-conservancy/)
- [US Chamber of Commerce](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-chamber-of-commerce/)
- [Mohamed Bouazizi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mohamed-bouazizi/)
- [TEPCO](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tepco/)
- [Fukushima](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fukushima/)
- [Geneva Conventions](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/geneva-conventions/)
- [Andrew Jackson](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/andrew-jackson/)
- [TGTE](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tgte/)
- [BRIC](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bric/)
- [Ben Ali](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ben-ali/)
- [advertising](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/advertising/)
- [no-fly zone](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/no-fly-zone/)
- [Chancellor Merkel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/chancellor-merkel/)
- [Gaddafi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gaddafi/)
- [Sarkozy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sarkozy/)
- [Maher Arar](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/maher-arar/)
- [Humanitarian" Bombing](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/humanitarian-bombing/)
- [Joseph Beuys](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/joseph-beuys/)
- [Coyote](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/coyote/)
- [Carl Jung](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/carl-jung/)
- [shadow projection](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/shadow-projection/)
- [James Hillmam](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/james-hillmam/)
- [conservatives](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/conservatives/)
- [Nazis](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nazis/)
- [UN Declaration of Human Rights](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/un-declaration-of-human-rights/)
- [Trident](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/trident/)
- [Steven Weinberg](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/steven-weinberg/)
- [civil war](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/civil-war/)
- [Abdelbasset Megrahi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/abdelbasset-megrahi/)
- [Lockerbie](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lockerbie/)
- [Naoto Kan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/naoto-kan/)
- [AREVA](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/areva/)
- [MOX-fuel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mox-fuel/)
- [Haile Selassie](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/haile-selassie/)
- [holocaust](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/holocaust/)
- [Deborah Lipstadt](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/deborah-lipstadt/)
- [Erdogan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/erdogan/)
- [intentional ciommunities](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/intentional-ciommunities/)
- [self-sufficiency](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/self-sufficiency/)
- [homesteading](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/homesteading/)
- [Angola Penitentiary](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/angola-penitentiary/)
- [Jordan Flaherty](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jordan-flaherty/)
- [baseball](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/baseball/)
- [reserve clause](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/reserve-clause/)
- [Pearl Protests](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pearl-protests/)
- [Ana Guadalupe](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ana-guadalupe/)
- [Richard Goldstone](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/richard-goldstone/)
- [unemployment](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/unemployment/)
- [Laurent Gbagbo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/laurent-gbagbo/)
- [Alassane Ouattara](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/alassane-ouattara/)
- [Institute for New Economic Thinking](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/institute-for-new-economic-thinking/)
- [R2P](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/r2p/)
- [UNSC Resolution 1973](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/unsc-resolution-1973/)
- [sports](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sports-2/)
- [soccer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/soccer/)
- [fans](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fans/)
- [Bill Gates](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bill-gates/)
- [Warren Buffet](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/warren-buffet/)
- [tragedy in Japan](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tragedy-in-japan/)
- [Gulf of Mexico](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gulf-of-mexico/)
- [Perpetual War](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/perpetual-war/)
- [Class warfare](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/class-warfare/)
- [Southern culture](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/southern-culture/)
- [shame](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/shame/)
- [energy addiction](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/energy-addiction/)
- [Nuclear energy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nuclear-energy/)
- [Coal](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/coal/)
- [Optimism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/optimism/)
- [Goldstone](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/goldstone/)
- [Che](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/che/)
- [Operation Odyssey Dawn](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/operation-odyssey-dawn/)
- [Lawrence Rockwood](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/lawrence-rockwood/)
- [Ikea](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ikea/)
- [Gbagbo](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/gbagbo/)
- [Umaru Yar’Adua](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/umaru-yar’adua/)
- [books](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/books/)
- [Mark Twain](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mark-twain/)
- [American Indian Movement](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/american-indian-movement/)
- [Oglala Nation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/oglala-nation/)
- [Sandinistas](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sandinistas/)
- [Larry Flynt](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/larry-flynt/)
- [Mondragon](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mondragon/)
- [Cooperatives](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/cooperatives/)
- [Medvedev](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/medvedev/)
- [Putin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/putin/)
- [Operation Cast Lead](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/operation-cast-lead/)
- [Origin of Species](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/origin-of-species/)
- [Darwin](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/darwin/)
- [biofuel](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/biofuel/)
- [Sayed Ahmed Al-Wedaie](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sayed-ahmed-al-wedaie/)
- [Joe Bageant](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/joe-bageant/)
- [US interstates](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/us-interstates/)
- [anomie](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/anomie/)
- [alienation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/alienation/)
- [southern US](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/southern-us/)
- [Atlanta](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/atlanta/)
- [Deep Water Horizon disaster](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/deep-water-horizon-disaster/)
- [depression](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/depression/)
- [Stephen Harper](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/stephen-harper/)
- [Michael Ignatieff](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/michael-ignatieff/)
- [Omar Guevara](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/omar-guevara/)
- [Standard and Poor’s](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/standard-and-poor’s/)
- [United States of Africa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/united-states-of-africa/)
- [African Monetary Fund](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/african-monetary-fund/)
- [African Central Bank](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/african-central-bank/)
- [African Investment Bank](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/african-investment-bank/)
- [Nelson Mandela](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nelson-mandela/)
- [Mercy For Animals](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mercy-for-animals/)
- [Aung San Suu Kyi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/aung-san-suu-kyi/)
- [bankruptcy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bankruptcy/)
- [Charter Schools](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/charter-schools/)
- [Abe Foxman](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/abe-foxman/)
- [Mark Zuckerberg](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mark-zuckerberg/)
- [Jason Kenney](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jason-kenney/)
- [Bev Oda](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bev-oda/)
- [Kairos](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kairos/)
- [Democratic Party](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/democratic-party/)
- [Republican Party](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/republican-party/)
- [Donald Trump](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/donald-trump/)
- [Barack Obama](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/barack-obama/)
- [corporate oligarchy](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/corporate-oligarchy/)
- [marginalized left](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/marginalized-left/)
- [endangered species list](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/endangered-species-list/)
- [TSX](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tsx/)
- [Copper Mesa](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/copper-mesa/)
- [greenwashing](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/greenwashing/)
- [Ecuacorriente](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ecuacorriente/)
- [Klippenstein](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/klippenstein/)
- [Boeing](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/boeing/)
- [International Association of Machinists](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/international-association-of-machinists/)
- [Sunni](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/sunni/)
- [Palestinian Authority](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/palestinian-authority/)
- [Operation Outlook](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/operation-outlook/)
- [medicine](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/medicine/)
- [healthcare](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/healthcare/)
- [detainees](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/detainees/)
- [prisoners](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/prisoners/)
- [medical ethics](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/medical-ethics/)
- [bin Laden](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/bin-laden/)
- [Baltimore](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/baltimore/)
- [Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/wakil-ahmed-muttawakil/)
- [Pervez Musharraf](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/pervez-musharraf/)
- [Yequana](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/yequana/)
- [Jean Liedloff](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/jean-liedloff/)
- [Osama bin Laden](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/osama-bin-laden-2/)
- [U.S. militarism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/u-s-militarism/)
- [U.S. imperium](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/u-s-imperium/)
- [culture of domination](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/culture-of-domination/)
- [black freedom fighters](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/black-freedom-fighters/)
- [Arab revolts](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/arab-revolts/)
- [Kent and Jackson State](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/kent-and-jackson-state/)
- [Fatah](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/fatah/)
- [Rafah](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/rafah/)
- [Ehud Barak](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ehud-barak/)
- [Geert Wilders](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/geert-wilders/)
- [True Finns](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/true-finns/)
- [International Security Assistance Force](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/international-security-assistance-force/)
- [Haim Saban](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/haim-saban/)
- [Nancy Pelosi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nancy-pelosi/)
- [Benghazi](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/benghazi/)
- [World Social Forum](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/world-social-forum/)
- [Tobin Tax](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/tobin-tax/)
- [AFL-CIO](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/afl-cio/)
- [Open Society Institute](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/open-society-institute/)
- [free speech](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/free-speech/)
- [PATRIOT Act](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/patriot-act/)
- [Patrick Fitzgerald](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/patrick-fitzgerald/)
- [Eric Holder](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/eric-holder/)
- [Abudayyeh](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/abudayyeh/)
- [privatisation](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/privatisation/)
- [GE](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/ge/)
- [Shaykh Yusuf](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/shaykh-yusuf/)
- [Media hologram](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/media-hologram/)
- [loss of community](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/loss-of-community/)
- [Decline of U.S. Working Class](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/decline-of-u-s-working-class/)
- [neo-liberal paradigm](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/neo-liberal-paradigm/)
- [Punk Rock](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/punk-rock/)
- [mercantilism](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/mercantilism/)
- [David Hume](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/david-hume/)
- [Adam Smith](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/adam-smith/)
- [physiocrats](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/physiocrats/)
- [Francois Quesnay](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/francois-quesnay/)
- [Eugen Dühring](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/eugen-duhring/)
- [Nahum Barnea](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/nahum-barnea/)
- [Elliot Spitzer](https://dissidentvoice.org/tag/elliot-spitzer/)