There can be no peace without justice, yet this simple truth still hasn’t penetrated at UKgov and USgov levels. Or is it ignored because it squelches the West’s lawless policies in the Middle East? Statehood means self-determination with no outside interference. In...
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Surreal Reality: Global School Principal and His Favorite Monitor
IMAGE/Khaama Press VIDEO/Mirror Now/Youtube The Principal of Global School had asked his favorite Monitor to keep an eye on other students in the Middle East class. The Monitor’s family had given hefty donation to the Principal for running the school. In return, the...
What Abolishing Militaries Includes
“Abolition” isn’t just a fun word to say. “I want to abolish prisons” doesn’t just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they are too horrible. “Abolish the police” isn’t just a hip way to say “I’m angry at abuse by police.” Abolishing something means...
The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council
On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025, the UN Security Council voted to adopt a resolution drafted by the U.S. and Panama that would create a so-called “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) to invade Haiti. The resolution was adopted with 12 votes in favor and 3 abstentions (China,...
Israel Is Committing Genocide in the Gaza Strip
Sliman Mansour (Palestine), The Sea Is Mine, 2016. 7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation’s data page on Palestinian casualties, regularly updated using figures from the Palestinian Health...
The Shock of the Obvious: Australia’s University Oligarchs
It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdom and novel notions long known to those who vote for them. This tendency endears the dim rascals to you, showing an ignorance that remains, for the most part, unblemished. If we get democracy, as H. L. Mencken...
From Nazi Germany to US-Israel – Who Are the Real Untermenschen?
Matt Haig’s The Humans (2013) uses sci fi, ‘speculative fiction’, for what it does best: reveal to us how lethal human beings are and how we need to control technology before it turns us into monsters and reduces planet Earth to … Gaza. This time it’s a simple tale of...
300+ Million Angry Americans
This is from Wikipedia: 12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay.[6][7] A critique of the American jury system during the McCarthy era,[8][9] the film...
The Moral Memory of Empire
When Jay Janson declared, “You’re writing history with your breath,” I recognized the profound truth in his words. For Jay speaks not in ephemeral metaphors, but in potent mandates, each utterance a call to profound moral engagement. He is more than a historian; he is...
He Tells the Truth When He Lies
Lately, I’ve had lyrics to ‘I’ve Got No Idols,’ by 1990s indie-darling Juliana Hatfield running through my head, particularly the line, “But I am a liar, that’s the truth, go home and think it through.” Why is this song, especially that particular lyric, taking up so...
“Israel Says” Is Not Journalism
Note added 1 October 2025: This alert was originally published on 14 August 2025. However, a technical problem prevented it from being shared via our usual email lists. This has now been fixed. Apologies for the delay in sending this out. Late last Sunday, a targeted...
Will California Zionise K-12 Education?
Factual information about Israel and Palestine may soon be outlawed in the California K-12 school system. Assembly Bill 715 is currently on Governor Newsom’s desk. The legislation was recently rushed through the California legislature, amended just days before...