Baroness Chapman (Minister of State for International Development) has been telling Parliament: “We all wish this peace process well and will do everything we possibly can to see it sustained.” At the same time John Healey (Secretary of State for Defence), answering a...
Dissident Voice
The Hidden Cost of Comfort: How Everyday Consumption Fuels Global Violence
In a world increasingly defined by convenience, luxury, and technological advancement, few pause to consider the true cost of their comfort. From the cars we drive to the cell phones we cradle, from the diamonds we gift to the beauty products we apply—modern life is...
Profits, Prophets and Overvalued AI Stock I
In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes to economics, investments and finance, this is particularly so. Certitude, however, tends to be in abundance for those...
Florida “Schools of Hope” Law Intensifies School Privatization
Over the past 33 years privately-operated charter schools have seized billions of dollars in public funds and public property that rightly belong to public schools. This neoliberal parasitism has been achieved mainly through state laws and schemes that legalize and...
Venezuela’s Oil, US-led “Regime Change,” and America’s Gangster Politics
The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The United States is...
Portugal’s Fight over the Muslim Veil
Portugal, long admired for its tolerance and moderate social fabric, has taken a shocking and regressive turn. The country’s parliament has recently approved a bill proposed by the far-right Chega party to ban face veils such as the burqa and niqab in most public...
China’s Ten Noes: Sun Tzu Has Swallowed the Frog and Is Keeping His Smile to Himself
In a conversation lasting one hour and forty minutes according to the Chinese stopwatch– “a long meeting” on President Donald Trump’s clock — President Xi Jinping first knocked the stuffing out of Trump’s warmaking threats, then forced him to beat a retreat behind...
Taps
Who will place coins on the sightless eyes of American democracy when the river Styx carries it to the door of Hades where Charon awaits his due to ensure a serene eternal rest? It has been a shameful/ignominious ordeal and a cowardly demise. This would be the last...
How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence
There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its independence, to integrating its functions into the U.S. Treasury Department, to dismantling it and returning...
Trump: Sincerity and Verisimilitude
US president Donald Trump is apparently trying to burnish his Christian bona fides on Truth Social: If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into...
Nobel Prize or Not, Trump is the Winner!
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, and the United States President Donald Trump IMAGE/semana.com/Duck Duck Go Trump Some crave fame, recognition, medals, and honors persistently, more so in competitive cutthroat...
From Strip Mall USA, to Gaza, to Venezuela: An Architecture of Lies
So begins the revolution in behalf of soul: The world is primarily and always an aesthetic phenomenon with which our animal senses and innate reactions are attuned. — James Hillman, Healing Fiction We tell white lies to avoid conflict or embarrassment. We tell...