Sooner or later, all of us will have to face this question from a young child over Thanksgiving dinner: “Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma – why did we have all those fights with other countries back then?” VIETNAM? “We fought them there so that we didn’t have to fight them...
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Lessons from Vieques: Resisting U.S. Militarism, Building Unity
Around two years ago, I watched a puppet show, created by a group of eight to 16-year-olds at the summer camp where I worked, about the eviction of the U.S. Navy from the island of Vieques. After I conducted a few brief workshops reviewing the island’s history of...
How the US and Israel Used Rafael Grossi to Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran
IAEA Director General Grossi discusses Iran with former Israeli PM Bennett, June 3, 2022 (GPO) Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel—an undeclared nuclear weapons...
Distraction Wrestling
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A Silence that is Defining Our Age and Which is Deafening
Note: Another long opinion piece in the local rag, Lincoln County Leader, June 18, 2025. First, though, let me explain. The idea is to not just rattle my fellow citizens’ cages, those self-imposed prisons of the mind. It’s my own journalistic and controlled demolition...
US Bombs Have Impacted Foundation of Global Security Order
Destroying peace. Illustration: Liu Rui/GT On Saturday local time, the US announced that it had launched airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran. This marks the first time the US has officially intervened militarily in this round of the Iran-Israel conflict,...
Zionist “anti-semitic racism” Report Expected to be Given to School Boards Canada-wide
Ontario’s education ministry supposedly bans “political” bias, but with the TDSB, that “bias” means banning support of Palestinian rights: Zionism is not apparently “political”! The most disturbing aspect is that these damaging CIJA-developed recommendations will...
Directive to Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good
De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals. It’s almost always used to target the...
The Horror and the Shame
Yes, it’s deja vu all over again. As the U.S. moves huge amounts of military assets within striking distance of Iran, preparing to create another conflagration and initiate World War III, let’s contemplate the slaughterfest which resulted from World War II. Look at...
On Being Trump’s Director of National Intelligence
On 17 June, a member of the media asked Trump: “Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon.” Trump brusquely responded, “I don’t care what she said. I think they are very close to having one.” This...
Skewed Diplomacy: Europe, Iran and Unhelpful Nuclear Nonsense
Farce is a regular feature of international relations. It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of outfits. It can adopt an absurd visage that renders the subject comical and lacking in credibility. That subject is the European Union, that curious...
Why Do We Hate Iran?
Because they deserve it? Because we’re told to? Or because, in truth, we play dirty given the slightest excuse. Britain and America would like everyone to believe that hostilities with Iran began with the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But you have to go back over 70 years...