The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates ‘In the bad old days when I was embroiled in the business of churning out MBAs from capitalist ‘sausage’ factories masquerading as places of ‘higher education’ (business schools that were “the engine rooms of...
Dissident Voice
A Tale of Colliding World Views
In December, documents were released asserting two radically different political perspectives. They could not be more different. On December 4, under the President of the United States’ Seal, the White House published the administration’s 2025 National Security...
Trump’s Hosting of Kennedy Center Honors Tanks
While Donald Trump has long treated ratings as a personal scorecard, his turn as host of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors delivered a result he has conspicuously avoided addressing: the lowest viewership in the history of the broadcast. While its clear that the...
The U.S. Airstrike in Nigeria Confirms why the U.S African Command (AFRICOM) Must be Shut Down
If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The...
Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments, and Khashoggi
The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler can now count, not only on efforts made by...
The Teacher’s Burden
Teachers have always been society’s most underestimated heroes. They carry the emotional, intellectual, and social development of entire generations—yet they work inside systems that often value credentials more than contribution, compliance more than creativity, and...
Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a universal breakthrough — a tool that will democratize knowledge, expand opportunity, and usher in a new era of human progress. But AI does not emerge in a vacuum. It is built inside a global order shaped by conquest,...
Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity
The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid...
Understanding Western Praxis
A recent book offers valuable lessons on Western crimes and their global impacts. We are living in a period of intense global transformation. The transition to a multipolar world has brought historical and contemporary tensions to the surface, revealing patterns of...
A Moment of Hope in Gaza
Gazan doctors graduate in front of an Al-Shifa Medical Complex building destroyed by Israeli bombing. Photo credit: Al Jazeera On Thursday, December 25, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza....
Jacques Baud and the EU/NATO Censorship Architecture
If Baud, then we are all potential targets now! Jacques Baud’s case is mind-boggling. A Swiss citizen, a former NATO-, OSCE- and UN-related colleague and author who relies mainly on Western sources, has been sanctioned by the European Union. There is no evidence that...
Epstein, Dershowitz, and the Israel Lobby
Conman, convict, paedophile and a life terminated in circumstances of purported suicide. The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long. Trafficking in female flesh for his extensive client list,...