“A straightforward case,” says the public defender assigned to me. “We’ll settle this easy. Don’t you lose a wink of sleep over it.” “That’s good to hear,” I say, “but it’s unsettling that the law I supposedly broke is identified only by symbols and numbers, not...
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No Truth in the World – Part II
Read Part I. Truth today is not measured by justice but by geopolitical convenience. Nations are told who to admire and who to despise, and the contradictions are suffocating. Castro vs. Mandela: Contradictory Legacies Fidel Castro: After the Cuban Revolution in 1959,...
Parochialism, Justice and International Law: Türkiye’s Genocide Warrants for Israel
The authorities in Türkiye have hit their stride regarding international humanitarian law, a subject they are not always consistent about. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the defence minister Israel Katz, and others are facing arrest warrants for...
Venezuela, Project 2025 and Big Oil’s Trump Investment
If you think Trump’s threat to invade Venezuela is about stopping the influx of drugs into the United States, you need to take a closer look at Project 2025. That document advocates American hegemony over the Western Hemisphere. But Trump does not read documents or...
What are Canadian military learning from genocidal apartheid state?
Canadian forces are learning from the génocidaires, directly assisting the US/Israeli occupation of Gaza, and will likely help build a colonial Palestinian force. Canadian troops have been taking tips from the Israeli occupation forces. According to a series of...
Who Is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody
On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed by Trump himself and an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that is expected, among other tasks, to disarm...
Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions
Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear. On October 31, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned...
The UNSC vote to gift Gaza to its enemies
Why did the United Nations Security Council vote to give authority over Gaza to a genocidal demolition squad called the Board of Peace, headed by Donald Trump? This question has several dimensions. The resolution itself was drafted by the US, and more specifically the...
‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed
And then came the universities. After waging war on public broadcasting and the arts, the Trump administration threatened last month to cut federal funding to nine prominent colleges unless they restricted campus speech that opposed conservatives. “Academic freedom is...
Disobey an Order That Is Illegal Or From Trump (But I Repeat Myself)
A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that members of the so-called National Guard occupying Washington, D.C., do so only by obeying illegal orders. At Nuremberg, the U.S. and its allies tried and convicted Nazis despite their defense that they had been obeying orders,...
Things Happen: Trump, the Crown Prince and Killing Khashoggi
The Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is at it again. Gulling, wooing, and grinning his way into the establishment of another country, he is greasing palms and making deals. Effusive and flattering of his host, this time US President Donald Trump, he...
Nobody’s Coming To Humanity’s Rescue; We’ve Got To Save Ourselves
AI isn’t going to save us. Tech innovation isn’t going to save us. Your favorite politician isn’t going to save us. The Epstein files aren’t going to save us. China isn’t going to save us. The aliens aren’t going to save us. No one is coming to save us. There is no...


