Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK James W. Douglass
Broken Stars: Gaza Poems Buff Whitman-Bradley
Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza Peter Oborne
What I Saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022 – Diary of an International Observer Benoit Paré
Surviving the 21st Century Noam Chomsky and José Mujica
At the Lost and Found: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope Edward Curtin
Class War, Then and Now: Essays toward a New Left Chris Wright
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine Scott Horton
Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024 Scott Ritter
Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation Visualizing Palestine
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 predecessors who prepared the way for him and who generally wore traditionally allaying masks to hide their evil actions, he is the greatest blatant fraud to ever occupy the White House. He is a war monger, a genocidal killer, and an enemy of people …
The barbarism of the North American conquest was exemplified by scalping and mutilation of Indigenes.
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….
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 fading popularity of “free enterprise”. Capitalism’s legitimacy is sinking so quickly that even the right-wing Cato Institute recently complained that “Young Americans Like Socialism too Much.” This, of course, raises two questions: Just how unpopular is capitalism and, most importantly, why are people …
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 safety. But all are born into the same human condition: vulnerability.
While some exchange gifts wrapped in gold and toast to comfort, others search for clean water. Others sleep on concrete. Others raise children in tents. These are not distant statistics. They are neighbors. They are kin.
The …
Exaggerated Utility
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 state. The toadies, in that case, pose themselves as insiders rather than sycophants of moulded consensus. They are the blessed recipients of approved wisdom, officially or otherwise. In this cosmos of regulation, even those who disagree with official policies can be given a gentle airing. …
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 someone here refer to “how people lived several hundred years ago,” they almost always mean how people lived in Europe several hundred years ago. I see great value in studying European history and that of the whole globe. But I have no particular connection to or …
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 partner. US imperialism’s response, started well before Trump, has been to weaponize the dollar, impose illegal and crippling economic sanctions, and levy arbitrary tariffs. When these fail, the recourse is to military aggression.
US War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced preparations for war with China. …
“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 man. “You seem an intelligent person, I’m sure you’ll figure it out.”
A month later when the plague hit most of Europe and the priest started developing chills and fever, he conceded that on purely practical grounds the old knucklehead might have had a point.
He also decided, if …
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, the AI tool flashes a variety of suggestions and solutions. Apart from its imperative benefits, the core nature of artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword that cannot be ignored. Overdependence on AI often dilutes the fundamental …
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 a Congressional election year. It’s an off-year electorally.
But it’s not an off-year politically. The battle is fully joined between the forces of democracy and the forces of authoritarianism, between the resistance and blind Trumpism. And because of this, what happens over the next three weeks could …
Wounded Nostalgia
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 claim laid with trowels of suggestion by the editors of GQ.
They certainly stretch it. No fewer than 125 rules are suggested, some with greater sense than others. And they lack a contextual focus, misleading the reader about the origins of a title with …
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 it means the state can get away with hiding things regardless of the obvious public interest. Does this mean the answer is to demand release of the files and focus on that as a way to discredit Trump? No, that …
Review of Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture 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 comparisons of apartheid South Africa and Israel, I was hooked. I get goosebumps realizing how close we are now to a rivetting, deja vu replay of that glorious struggle leading to victory. Saree Makdisi shows …
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, personal betrayals, and nuts who know nothing but can’t stop telling you the nothing that they know. They are always falling but seem to be reborn endlessly, popping up in new clothes as advocates for the latest fashionable truths that they rejected only yesterday. They always jump …
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 Nicaragua.
US actions indicate a strike on Venezuela is imminent:
After the Trump administration designated international drug-trafficking groups as “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTOs), without any …
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.”
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 living Israeli hostages convalescence after their exchange for Palestinian detainees, sidesteps the Palestinian people, those fly in the ointment irritants who never seem to exit the political scene.
The peace plan, in effect, is being executed to eliminate Hamas and any semblance of a Palestinian …
Genius decision or lost cause?
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 United Kingdom’s spy agency launched a web portal on the dark web to recruit informants and receive secret data from agents worldwide. …
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 something else. Look at how many members of both political parties continued to vote YES to whatever Israel has chosen to do to Gaza. Cui Bono?
This writer has read from …
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 to medieval feudalism; whereupon, a centralized consortium of economic power is now firmly localized in big-tech firms, namely, those big-tech firms strewn throughout the globe and ideologically-concentrated in Silicon Valley, California.
Notwithstanding, all the way back to the early writings of the political-economists of the late 18th …
Complicity, Citizenship, and the Genocide in Palestine
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 all of us … Prosecutor! Understand that when one of us enters the nation’s battle of destiny, he takes into consideration all possible results. But above all, he places his confidence in …
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 change. That’s the main message of Roots and Shoots.
Above all, I want you to think about the fact that we are part—when we’re on Planet Earth—we are part of Mother Nature. We depend on Mother Nature for clean air, for water, for food, for clothing, …
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 openly advocates foreign military intervention.
In a CBS News interview, Machado declared:
“The only way to stop the suppression is by force—U.S. force.”
She has also appealed directly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to use …
Don’t Help Demonize Maduro
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 in Venezuela. There is a relentless effort to demonize Maduro, and some on the putative left fail to recognize the need for a strong state and how difficult it is to construct socialism when your country “has been singled out by Washington for special attack, …
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 in the awarding of the prize to warmongers and those antithetical to peace. And those on the Nobel Prize peace panel would barely cause a murmur of acknowledgment outside the spine-like length of that country of only 5.6 million inhabitants. (The current membership of five …
No More Deaths is about stopping the Sacrifice Zones of La Frontera…
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 …
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 longtime Toronto Star columnist complained that in August, I wrote, “Over the past century, Canada’s ties to the US and British empires, its interest in geopolitical control of the region, Protestant Zionism, anti-Muslim sentiment, and settler-colonial solidarity have all shaped Canadian policy [towards Israel] to varying …
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 attack inside Venezuela. But first a little historical context.
Regime change has failed…so far
In 2002, a US-backed military coup temporarily ousted Hugo Chávez. A mere 47 hours later, the people of Venezuela spontaneously arose and …
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 hurry up and kill as many people as possible before it takes effect.”
But it does appear that the killing and abuse will at least diminish for a time, which is an objectively good thing no matter …
