Blessed are the bruised, for they remember the shape of mercy. In a world increasingly adrift from its ancient moorings, I find myself compelled to share a profound truth, whispered not through dogma, but through the very pulse of the Earth and the enduring wisdom of...
Dissident Voice
When Trash Infests Our Oceans, Some Choose to Act
Every year, around 8 million tons of plastic waste finds its way into the world’s oceans. Some of this plastic takes centuries to break down. For the plastic that drifts to the coast of Zhejiang, China, a new opportunity presents itself. Here it is collected, brought...
Organizing for a Breakout
There is a military axiom that if your positions are encircled by far superior forces, you will inevitably be annihilated, unless you break out. I have been a member of our labor movement and left wing since I got out of high school in 1979. For every one of those 46...
A Torturous Truce
The morning carried a different scent… One that I had been waiting two years to smell. The weapons of war had finally fallen silent, as a ceasefire draped the land. — from The Scent of Life by Maryam Hasanat, Gaza author and refugee On October 8th, 2025 the Occupation...
Who Was Eugene Debs?
Zohran Mamdani’s quoting of Eugene Debs in his recent victory speech (for mayor of New York City) should awaken interest in the man who gained a name for himself as “Mr. Socialism.” For seventeen years Debs was the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, starving himself...
Google on Christmas Island: Data Centres and Imminent Militarisation
Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific. In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint project with the US, Google and Vocus, an Australian digital infrastructure firm, to deliver the A$80 million South Pacific Connect initiative....
“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment,...
Winter Is Coming to Gaza
The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes. On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in the Jerusalem Post about Israel’s projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza. Perry laments that Israeli censorship has...
Gaza: The Arsonist’s Laurels
There is a peculiar, and telling, absurdity to the coverage of the Trump Administration’s agreement between Israel and Hamas. After entering office, this administration faithfully continued the efforts of its predecessor by providing the means Israel requires to...
Why Should the Arabs Not Make Peace?
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates...
The BBC’s Foolish Gift to Donald Trump
It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3. The paper had seen an internal memo in the BBC pointing to editing on its October 2024 Panorama programme of two parts of US President Donald Trump’s speech in January 2021. The sin was not in the editing but...
Let’s Shift Federal Subsidies to Loans After 1 Year, Starting With Oil/Gas Industry?
The origin of federal subsidies—to businesses, industries, farmers, national infrastructure—began with our country’s first Congress (1789) approving startup financing that banks and other sources couldn’t or wouldn’t provide. The idea then (and now) was that if these...