The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, has been an obvious prime target for assassination by the US/Israel perhaps for the whole of his period in office, which began in 1989. It will have been just as or more obvious that his status in this regard would be amplified in the event of a fresh outbreak of war. Yet he was killed in broad daylight on the first day of the latest US/Israeli attacks, while at his office in his family compound.
Puzzling to say the least.
Not so, however, for mainstream media like the BBC who depicted the …
Rembrandt’s depiction of the biblical account of King Belshazzar seeing a hand writing the words “mene, mene, tekel, upharsin” on a wall.
Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools and private residences, slaughtering all who happen to be on the premises. The tactic, rather than demoralizing civilian populations, galvanizes contempt and the will to resist a foreign aggressor.
The chasm between consciousness and anti-consciousness continues to grow in the context of failing economies and failed states at home and abroad. In this fractured and decaying context where the gap between authoritarianism and democracy grows wider with greater speed, every day brings new criminal thinking and agendas masquerading as much-needed innovative ideas and plans.
In the world of K-12 education, the latest neoliberal proposal comes from New Hampshire. Recently, House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, R-Auburn, sponsored House Bill 1358 “…
When the Israeli lobbying group UN Watch spread disinformation about Francesca Albanese, they were trying to silence her condemnations of the true “common enemy of humanity”—the illegal system of oppressive, corporate-media-military and surveillance forces shaping a brutal new world order, and now bombing Iran.
Francesca Albanese has evoked the ire of Israeli officials, the US government, and Western countries that have failed to stop, and continued to support, Israel’s genocide in Gaza. They are mad at her for doing her job and excelling at it. When she accepted the position as United Nations …
by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares / March 3rd, 2026
Let us be clear about what the United States and Israel are pursuing. The US objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and the international rule of law—an attempt that will fail.
On February 16, 2026, one of us (Jeffrey Sachs) sent a letter to the UN Security Council warning that the United States was on the verge of tearing up the United Nations Charter. That warning has now come to pass. The …
The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we keep hearing about how awful Russia’s war against Ukraine is, with its shattering of international law and its dismissiveness of the provisions of the United Nations Charter, the Israeli-US attack on Iran has been given the seal of approval by America’s client states and supporters. Countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Canada, for instance, were clear in endorsing a UN General Assembly resolution on February 24 supporting Ukraine in the …
The developments in Iran are greatly concerning. We remain in close contact with our partners in the region. We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to safeguarding regional security and stability.
Ensuring nuclear safety and preventing any actions that could further escalate tensions or undermine the global non-proliferation regime is of critical importance.
The European Union has …
Everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
— W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Today the Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school, killing 57 children. Let that sink in. Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.
Now tell those parents, as we are being told, that America has done this so the Iranian people can be free. …
There were only two things that surprised me – and would have been fitting – namely that he had been dressed in military battle uniform (I predict that, as Supreme Commander, he will soon show up in that), and that he did not argue that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize even more for what he has now announced.
That said, here is how you speak when you are a danger to the world:
WE ARE THREATENED BY EVIL ITSELF
You accuse Iran of being a threat to the American people – while the …
What on Earth Are We Doing? The Madness of Mining the Cosmos While Poisoning Our Only Home
Humanity stands at a strange and tragic crossroads. We boast of our intelligence, our innovation, our “progress,” yet we behave like a species determined to sabotage its own future. We tear open the earth for minerals, metals, and rare elements—lithium, cobalt, gold, copper—feeding an insatiable appetite for technology, weapons, and spectacle. We burn forests, poison rivers, and choke the atmosphere, all while congratulating ourselves for planning missions to Mars in search of water.
Into every commentator’s life falls a one-time permission slip to make ad hominem remarks. This is confirmed by Hoyle, the Marquess of Queensbury and natural law.
· Donald Trump is a psychotic Fascist who is consumed by the mad fantasy of becoming the global emperor. The former was evident 9 years ago; the latter was evident on Inauguration Day 12 months ago
· The American voting public nonetheless chose him President twice – almost did so on a third occasion
· The United States’ elites – political and otherwise – have failed totally to protect the Republic by their acquiescence in his despotic actions. …
February 28, 2026. Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter. A gross violation of international law. As usual, a violation celebrated as ethical, necessary, and high-minded in principle by the powerful who dictate such terms. Not squalid, dangerous, destabilising. Not, apparently, following the same pattern as before: interventions in Iraq, Libya. Not, goodness, another intervention to overthrow the regime of this same country orchestrated by the United States and Britain in 1953.
Yes, this was Iran, bombed for a second time in under a year, its hierarchy targeted, again, only more comprehensively. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, …
Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so chronologically distant as to be fiction. If not Marvel, it’s not marvellous. But another fiction came into play towards the end of February as the United States and Israel reprised their role as world rogues and crockery breakers by attacking Iran for a second time in less than a year in a joint campaign called Operation Lion’s Roar and Epic Fury. Following the vulgar playbook on regime change used against Iraq in 2003 by the US-led forces, a variation …
A sucker punch is a punch delivered when the recipient of the punch is hit by surprise. As such a sucker punch indicates cowardice — that the sucker puncher did not have courage and decency to announce his intentions to engage in fisticuffs or battle. The current sneak attack (a so far failed attack) to take out the Iranian leadership by the US-Israel while negotiations are still ongoing in an attempt (half-heartedly or not by the US-Israel negotiators) to settle differences among the sides is a textbook example of cowardice, pusillanimity … gutlessness!
Today, USrael attacked Iran, for the second time within just one year. Today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme (1927-1986).
In the video below, Palme condemns the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, at Xmas 1972. He paid a price for it. He lists the names of places where crimes were committed up till then.
Today, we can add places such as Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Gaza — and on this very day, February 28, 2026, we can add Iran, Iran again and again — places Palme …
For most of human history, we lived as one species among many. We shared forests with elephants, rivers with hippos, skies with vultures, and coastlines with turtles whose migrations predate our earliest civilizations. The natural world was not a backdrop to human life; it was the condition that made human life possible. For millennia, animals and ecosystems existed in a balance shaped by climate, instinct, and time — not by human ambition. Today that balance is collapsing, not because nature changed, but because we did.
Deforestation, industrial expansion, mining, poaching, and the global appetite for profit have pushed countless species to …
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year and a half later in the hope that I could find paying work focused on the climate crisis. What happened that summer to lead to that personal change?
Here is how AI Overview reports it:
The 2003 European heatwave was an extreme, prolonged, and deadly weather event, …
Charter schools are outsourced schools that have always opposed teachers’ unions, which is why about 90% of the nation’s roughly 8,200 charter schools have no unions. In other words, the vast majority of charter school teachers nationwide have no collective security or real decision-making power. As private employers, charter schools consider teachers “at will” employees—someone they can terminate at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all.
When teachers do strive to form a union at a charter school it is usually in secret and a long uphill battle fraught …
Oh what a relief it is to see that 13 Billion of our tax dollars, give or take, are well spent. The Empire’s newest and largest Aircraft Carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford is swimming in its own excrement. News around the world reports the Ford is having major sewage problems. Evidently the overflow affects 650 Necessaries, aka, toilets, aboard the Gerald R. As scuttlebutt has it, the Captain restricted their use among the 5,000 sailors aboard. Not sure just how the Navy’s high brass plans on enforcing such a restriction.
In a number 1 emergency, which in this case it undoody’ably is, instead …
Britain’s Labour Prime Minister is an accidental genius. Having won a comprehensive election victory in 2024 for not being a disturbed, sociopathic Tory leader, Sir Keir Starmer is now engineering his party into a position of electoral defeat and obituary-laden oblivion. Sclerotic, static, inert, incapable, his Labour Party government risks suffering a most deserved annihilation at the next general election. What they will be replaced with remains the fat, troubling question.
Predictions in politics are always hazardous, and there is nothing to say that Starmer will not gasp across the finishing line when the time comes, should the Labour Party …
One of the things I have learned in my more than seven decades of life is that everything has its opposite. For instance, you wouldn’t know up if there was not also a down. You wouldn’t know warmth without cold. Darkness reveals the light. For every peak there is a corresponding valley. In the same way, good and evil reveal one another.
Not long ago, a group of Buddhist monks and a dog named Aloka completed a peace walk of more than two thousand miles from Texas to Washington, DC, in the dead of winter. Their long walk was a continuation …
In front of the Israeli Consulate in downtown San Francisco, a memorial to Aaron Bushnell took place on Wednesday February 25. This date marks the second anniversary of what Aaron called his “extreme protest” against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The demonstration was organized by Veterans for Peace and Noise Against Genocide. Leaders of local Veterans for Peace chapters spoke about the significance of Aaron’s action in 2024. At the time, VFP published an eloquent statement titled “Madmen Arsonists Strike Again: They as Much as Lit Aaron Bushnell’s Match for Him.”
An outsiders introduction to developing a Large Language Model
by Robert Malone / February 27th, 2026
Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It answers our questions, writes our emails, and holds conversations that feel startlingly human. But how does it actually work? How is an AI built, taught, and kept from going off the rails? The answer is more fascinating, and more human, than most people realize.
Part One: Building the Brain
Every AI starts with a goal. Do you want it to recognize faces? Translate languages? Answer questions? That goal determines everything that follows. Once the goal is clear, the real work …
Driving through Yellowstone, I watch a black bear stand on her hind legs at the roadside, teaching her cubs to beg. She rises, sways slightly, forepaws lifted in a gesture that tourists find irresistible. This is her curriculum: stand tall, look needy, wait for the windows to roll down.
The cubs aren’t interested. They scramble up a lodgepole pine or dig furiously at the ground, noses pressed to earth, hunting for the pulse of ground squirrels beneath the soil. They’re terrible students, or maybe the only ones paying attention to what the …
This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alleged “narco-boats” and vessels supposedly heading to US shores laden with illicit drugs, Cuba had its turn at engaging a boat with “a known history of criminal and violent activity”.
On the morning of February 25, the speedboat in question was identified in Cuban territorial waters. Registered in Florida in the United States, it approached, according to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, “up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo …
A history of repression in Canada. Yves Engler is the latest victim. Mark Carney wants a Zionist Palestine state. And Canadians see the US as their main threat. And why wouldn’t they?
Oprah, Deepak Chopra, Huckabee, Trump and his ICE marks
by Phil Rockstroh / February 26th, 2026
I have been writing for decades that Oprah Winfrey was a more effective force insofar as retailing capitalist propaganda than the Joseph Goebbels’ progeny of Fox News/NewsMax outrage peddlers and the corporate-funded nomenklatura/apparatchik clowns of the rightwing think tank shit-circuses.
Oprah’s grift emanates from the same capitalist ideological snake oil of self-bootstraps transcendence; withal, if an individual visualizes the capitalist order’s conception of success with the proper measure of rigorous intensity and unquestioning belief in the magical nature of the system then the universe will …
It is old hat for those who know a bit about peace that it cannot be created by looking only at the various types of violence employed. The world’s focus on the Ukrainian battlefield and its characteristic mixing up ceasefire with peace is misplaced.
One has to ask: And why did they take to violence in the first place, particularly when other options and tools were ready to be employed? And could have stopped the violence and helped the parties find some kind of peaceful existence.
On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair, markets sold off and gold and silver plunged. Investors were positioned for a “dove,” someone inclined to cut rates aggressively and keep money loose; and Warsh has a long-standing reputation as a “hawk.”
So wrote Michael Nicoletos in an article titled “Everyone Is Focusing on the Wrong Thing.” But Nicoletos and some other commentators are seeing something else on the horizon – a rebalancing of the banking system through an overhaul of the Federal Reserve itself. In recent months, noted Nicoletos, Warsh …
It was in 2013 that Thomas Piketty rediscovered the problem of wealth inequality with his celebrated book Capital in the Twenty-first Century. Published by Harvard University Press and selling several million copies, the book turned prevailing mainstream economic thinking on its head. Academic economists and capitalist apologists had long assured us that capitalism persistently created wealth and distributed it fairly to all the factors of production, with deviations from this fair distribution attributable to unusual or exceptional intervention in the process.
But Piketty’s look at all the available, relevant data showed just the opposite: capitalism– absent any external or exceptional circumstances– …
