While millions waited in hopes that the Global Sumud Flotilla would win this year’s Nobel peace prize for its epic solidarity with Palestine, the Norwegian committee charged with granting the award gave it to Maria Corina Machado instead, veteran CIA coup plotter in...
Dissident Voice
Trump’s Diplomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk?
Prefatory Note: The post below is based on modified responses to questions addressed to me by Rodrigo Craveiro, a Brazilian journalist. The focus is on what to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from the Trump diplomatic offensive to bring an Israeli-crafted peace to...
Annie Dillard a la Rachel Carson a la David Quammen — Meet Journalist Caroline Tracey
Caroline Tracey’s debut book, a blend of environmental reportage and memoir titled Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, is forthcoming in March 2026 from W.W. Norton. Originally from Colorado, Caroline holds a doctorate in geography from the University of California,...
Trump, Tomahawks and Telephone Calls
Zelensky arrived in Washington on Friday, attired in his newly tailored suit, but he found no red carpet or even a high-level Trump official to greet him. Anticipating a cache of Tomahawks, he was apparently unaware of the telephone call between Trump and Putin and...
The West’s Dehumanization Of Arabs Is Completely Unforgivable
In October 2024, a Lebanese writer named Lina Mounzer wrote, “ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the...
“No Kings” — Another Chapter in the Quest for an Empire without an Emperor
There are many hyped “No Kings” protests this weekend. They seem fairly clearly a creation of the DNC or some appendage of it. They reflect a wretched sentiment I criticized back in 2017 — how many were “In Search of an Empire without an Emperor”: When Trump uses...
It was never a Gaza ‘war’. The ‘ceasefire’ is a lie cut from the same cloth
[First published by Middle East Eye] Ceasefires stick because the two sides in a war have reached military stalemate – or because the incentives for each side in laying down their arms outweigh those of continuing the bloodshed. None of this applies in Gaza. The past...
Reclaiming the Sacred in a World of Disparity
In a world where chandeliers glitter above champagne flutes and wealth is paraded as virtue, I ask for a pause. Not to pray—but to reckon. There are over eight billion people on this planet. Each one born into a body, a breath, a need. Not all are born into shelter....
Is Capitalism Reaching the End of the Road?
Capitalism is fast becoming so unpopular that the money-grubbing old autocrat in the White House wants to protect it by promising to investigate and prosecute anyone who speaks against it. Free speech be damned. But Milton Friedman said Capitalism and Freedom go...
Basta! This Land is YOUR Land, Hermanos y Hermanas
I had Alexis Lisandro Guizar-Diaz, M.S. on my studio recorder today, but it airs Nov. 20 on KYAQ. He’s the Electoral Field Director PCUN. LISTEN HERE! April 1985 PCUN is founded as Oregon’s union for farmworkers and treeplanters. WVIP continues its service and...
The Masks Have Come Off
If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a...
Terrorists: NOT a Love Story!
Being a baby boomer who protested against the Vietnam debacle, what the Trump regime is now doing is disgusting. All this week we see Republican Congressional minions and members of the Trump gang standing in front of cameras calling those who peacefully protest as...