It appears that what many of us predicted about Ukraine may be coming to pass. Last Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appeared on the CBS program Face the Nation. In response to a question about Ukraine from Margaret Brennan, Lavrov said,“Trump is...
Dissident Voice
The Defeat of Nazism?
The episode of 25 April, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi fascism, begins with the memory of Livia Gereschi. She was a foreign language teacher who, during a round-up by an SS unit in La Romagna in the Pisan Mountains on the night of 6 to...
The Limitations of Military Might
Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that, in one form or another, has motivated a great many people, from the members of teenage street gangs to the statesmen of major...
InterRebellium 01. The Estallido Social
The first of a multipart documentary series, InterRebellium 01. The Estallido Social is a story told through the eyes of anarchist and anticolonial participants of the 2019 uprising in the territories occupied by the state of Chile. The Estallido Social (or Social...
UK’s Continued Designation of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Makes It Complicit in Genocide
‘In a historic, groundbreaking legal challenge The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) have instructed British lawyers to submit a formal application to the British Secretary of State, requesting that the movement be de-proscribed as a ‘terrorist organisation’. The...
ICE Contracts Avelo Airlines to Fly Deportees
Boycott Avelo Airlines protest, Santa Rosa Airport, CA, April 26. (Photo by Roger D. Harris) Avelo Airlines has entered into a controversial agreement with US immigration authorities to operate deportation flights, sparking protests from coast to coast. Activists,...
Will Trump Keep Flouting Constitution and Courts?
When President Donald Trump declared at mid-month he had no power to return an innocent man —Kilmar Abrego Garcia—that his staff mistakenly dispatched to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), one of the arguments used was non-interference in a...
How to Avoid Trade Wars – and World War Three
Not a day goes by without a new shock to Americans and our neighbors around the world from the Trump administration. On April 22, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its forecasts for global growth in 2025, from 3.3% to 2.8%, and warned that no country...
How Fair Was it to Label Hamas “Terrorists”?
So Hamas have finally got around to appealing against the UK Government branding their political wing a terrorist organisation. In their legal submission, they say “the proscription has hindered the group’s ability to broker a political solution to the conflict,...
Feed Gaza, Just Feed Gaza
Today the World Food Program, the biggest supplier of food to Gaza, ran out of food. Its supplies inside Gaza are gone, and Israel is allowing no food, no water, no medical supplies or anything else to get in. The WFP distributed the last of its food, mainly to...
Baby Gaza
I am a pregnant seventeen-year-old Gaza refugee, and I have to deal with messages like these sent to those who want to help me: “You’re getting scammed for money. Makes sense now. Preying on your good will and good intentions to soak money from you and those around...
Yale, Ben-Gvir, and Banning Palestinian Groups
Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very least could, be put into practice. How unfortunate for rich ideas to linger in cold storage or exist as the mummified status of esoterica. But...