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When the Radio Lied: Cold War Propaganda and the Shaping of the Middle East
In the summer of 1967, millions across the Arab world tuned into the radio and heard what sounded like victory. Egypt’s Voice of the Arabs announced sweeping military successes over Israel, claimed the liberation of Palestine was underway, and reported that American...
The Fourth of July, 2025
Happy Fourth of July, fellow Americans, or should I say “associates”–this surely being the new mandated term once the fullness of our new corporate charter, the BBB comes into fruition. Just as our corporations are now fully human and enjoying those rights of free...
Regulate AI for the Sake of Our Jobs, Our Brains and Our Planet
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Everywhere we look, AI is treated like an inevitability. AI companies like ChatGPT and Open AI are expanding rapidly, and many Americans rely on AI assistants such as Alexa and Siri in their day-to-day lives. For some college...
Does Politics Make Us Blind to Art? (Part 2)
Rose Garden at Sissinghurst, Kent, June 2025. Photo: The author. A disturbance of memory at Sissinghurst It was 10:45 on a Saturday morning in June, sunny and 80 degrees. Harriet and I were standing near the front of the queue for admission to the gardens at...
Trinity Bomb Test — Risking Doomsday They Lit the Match Anyway
The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. When Robert Oppenheimer, the civilian head of the program, informed his boss, the Nobel Prize winning...
Cruelty as Policy
Cruelty is the worst of all human vices. The intentional infliction of pain upon others, when done at the individual level, is called murder, manslaughter, or assault and is illegal under domestic law. On a mass scale, when directed against an ethnic group, it is...
Another Tale of Two Uncle Sams: Mamdani’s Unexpected Win and Hope for a Democratic Democracy
Photograph Source: SWinxy – CC BY 4.0 Split Screen: On one side is the current president of the United States striding to a microphone to tell how the U. S. military had bombed Iran. Behind him are the Vice President, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, all...
The End of Multilaterlism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The recent unilateral strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been so for some time. It is not only when it comes to the question of the deployment of...
The Madmen Behind the Israel/US-Iran War
Photograph Source: Dan Scavino – Public Domain It has now been more than 30 years since the butcher of Auschwitz Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the world that Iran would soon acquire nuclear weapons. In 1992, in an address to the Israeli Knesset, he stated: “Within...
Iran and the Nuclear Order
Photo by Arman Taherian A spate of break-ins has been taking place in your neighborhood. Armed thugs associated with a crime syndicate have been knocking down doors and grabbing what they can. The police show up only after the assaults, which have led to injuries and...
Israel and the Albanese Report
It makes for stark and dark reading. The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide makes mention of “corporate entities” who have been enriched by “the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now...