Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a military hospital in Moscow on Wednesday, meeting servicemen wounded in the Ukraine conflict. The president spoke about the frontline situation, namely the encirclement of Kiev’s troops in two critical locations, as well as...
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The Mirage of Development: Gwadar’s Water Wars
A view of the Gwadar port of Pakistan Photo: VCG While the rest of Pakistan’s major cities were drenched in monsoon rains, a group of children stood hand in hand and chorused this in unison in Gwadar’s New Tobagh Ward near Koh-a-Bun Ward: “Pani Dho, bijli dho, warna...
Every Day is Halloween in Trumpland!
With his storm troopers… oops, his ICEMEN, rambling into a town like a pack of ghosts, replete with no faces. With his navy , My **** navy, blowing up speedboats outside a sovereign nation (Venezuela) with no evidence of drug dealing or terrorism. With his Congress...
Beneath
Beneath the town’s ancient stones, there is a tunnel holding secrets – ideas probably deemed outdated and, quite possibly, against the law. But superstitions and legends survive, morph into daydreams, false hopes. The universe weighs heavy on man’s heart. deep under...
The Battery Belt: When the Sun Touches the Silk
Nako Dost Muhammad (image on left) had never heard the hum of a fan. Living in a village named Kolahu in Tump, a tehsil in district Kech tucked between dusty hills and near the edge of the Iranian border, Nako’s life has been cloaked in darkness. Since 2016, the...
The Pure Evil of America’s QME Doctrine
Shameful US legislation commits to ensuring Israel always has superiority in weapons, technology, training, command and control, and intelligence over its neighbours. It’s time everyone knew why the US is joined at the hip with a loathsome genocidal ethnocracy like...
Fascism Is Imperialism Turned Homeward
Admiral Alvin Halsey resigned his post as the Pentagon’s Southern Commander after a fraught meeting with Pete Hegseth involving the US military’s unconstitutional attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats. Since then, the Trump administration has shown ever increasing signs...
Toxic Stew: Chemicals, Poisons, Sprays, Nanoparticles, VOCs, PFAS’s and the Evil Monsters Cooking up this Brew
Listen to my interview here: Carol Van Strum on Haeder’s Finding Fringe. If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed whether by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our...
No Kings, Fascism, and Democracy
The disease gets worse and worse every year, and the only remedy that will have permanent effect is to abolish private ownership of industry and production for profit, and substitute public ownership with production for use. — Upton Sinclair, “Production For Use” in...
Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese in the White House
The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in no mood to be combative, and US President Donald Trump was accommodating. There was, however, an odd...
Apartheid Israel Is a U.S.-Sustained Genocide
Intro: The following is a statement from a U.S. war criminal, Harry S. Truman, who authorized the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, revealing the foundational logic of American complicity in the Nakba: I had been to Potsdam and I’d seen some of the...
Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy
We really have reached the crossroads, where such matters as having coitus with an artificial intelligence platform has become not merely a thing, but the thing. In time, mutually consenting adults may well become outlaws against the machine order of things, something...