Dissident Voice

Human beings tend to long for a refuge, and occasionally find one. And there exist places, outside of geography, that serve as playgrounds of thought, shared intimately between people. Even though these spaces are never physical, they can still generate strong...

Our assembly here transcends mere consensus; it is an urgent summons to awakening. We speak of a table, not hewn from material wealth or embellished by status, but forged in the crucible of collective memory. Its surface is etched with the silent pleas of the...

Accomplishing change in the institutions that control and manipulate society for their personal benefit has been difficult. Inability to succeed in the endeavor is due to the inability to create the organizations that can effectively oppose the powers that exercise...

Since my prediction in April of 2007 of an impending economic crash, I’ve vowed not to risk my unblemished record with any further predictions. But a simple thing that I learned from the run-up to that catastrophe was when the “little people” — the “every man and...

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards artificial...

Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, not for preserving life so much as ending it at a fiery, radiated...

Your rulers want you to depend on machines to do your thinking for you. They want you relying on AI to do your reasoning, researching, analysis, and writing. They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express...

Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced separation of the states that are permitted to have nuclear weapons and those that do not – sits that rumpled,...

“Control over rare earth elements … is a central determinant of geopolitical power and industrial sovereignty in the 21st century.” — —Dr. Kalim Siddiqui[1] As part of US-China trade talks, we are hearing a great deal about China’s near-total domination over rare...