A significant number of Zionist trolls plaguing the comment sections of my posts were, as I was, raised on Zionist hasbara i.e., outright lies. As I grew up, and later visited Israel, I was repulsed, as the son of a Holocaust survivor, by the Third Reich-adjacent...
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Julian Assange: Sweden Broke Own Laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado
By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened the principles enshrined in its founding documents, as well as Swedish law, Julian Assange alleged in an explosive...
Confusion at NATO: Rutte, Russia, and Delusions about Trump
It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy had belittled Europe’s...
Learning from Myles Horton’s Legendary Career in Social Movements
Left: Myles Horton (Wikipedia/Wisconsin Historical Society). Right: The Highlander Folk School welcome sign on the original Tennessee location. (Wikimedia Commons/Bryan MacKinnon)(This article was first published in Waging Nonviolence) Over a career that spanned more...
U.S. Racist Immigration Policy Toward Haiti Reinforces Imperialism and Weakens Popular Sovereignty
On November 26th, 2025, the Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti using nearly identical language to the TPS cancellations earlier this year for displaced Venezuelans and affecting upward of 353,000 Haitian migrants. In both cases,...
Without the Persians/Iranians There Would Be No Jews
Cyrus’s Cylinder. Photo: dynamosquito. Licensed CC-BY-SA. Twenty-five year ago, give or take, I asked myself a rather straightforward question – “Why is it seemingly impossible to have peace in the Middle East?” After expending a quarter century in research, shedding...
West Virginia Judge Says Charter Schools Violate State Constitution
In December 2025, Judge Jennifer Bailey of the 8th Judicial Circuit Court in West Virginia ruled that the creation of the state’s charter schools are unconstitutional because they were authorized by the West Virginia Professional Charter School Board (PCSB) instead of...
Without the Persians/Iranians There Would Be No Jews
Cyrus’s Cylinder. Photo: dynamosquito. Licensed CC-BY-SA. Twenty-five year ago, give or take, I asked myself a rather straightforward question – “Why is it seemingly impossible to have peace in the Middle East?” After expending a quarter century in research, shedding...
Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget
Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it reflects a mathematical truth. Interest on earlier interest grows exponentially, outrunning the linear growth of...
Colonel Jacques Baud and Nathalie Yamb Sanctioned
Pascal Lottaz, who runs the YouTube channel Neutrality Studies and is also a TFF Board member, talks with Professor Glenn Diesen of Norway, a TFF Associate. In different ways, they express their deepest concerns at the news that the EU Council has placed sanctions on...
The Trump Cabal’s “Apocalypse Again”
In Francis Ford’s Coppola’s brilliant 1979 film Apocalypse Now, we have the CIA ordering the assassination of a renegade colonel. Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, rambled “Off the reservation” and simply went too far, even for the genocide loving US government...
Using the Slain: Israel Exploits the Bondi Beach Shootings
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic hatred directed against Jews remains one of history’s grotesque legacies, opportunism in the Netanyahu government is a...