“Now is not the accepted time to make new enemies,” said the philosopher on his death bed, responding to the priest’s exhortation to renounce Satan. “Why the intransigence?” marveled the young clergyman. “Frankly, sir, I cannot imagine there could be a downside to...
Dissident Voice
Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” Western...
The Ancient History of Socialism in North America
Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary and missionary who couldn’t tell one continent from another, wisdom from ignorance, or value from waste. I was born...
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition Statement on US Aggression against Venezuela
The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition demands an end to US aggression against Venezuela, which is on the brink of outright war. Any escalation in the violence against Venezuela will cause more suffering and deaths in the South American country, destabilize the region,...
Nuts or Not, We Have the Music
Art is magic liberated from the lie of being truth. – Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia It is hard to keep your head when all about you, nuts are knocking on it to remind you of things that are not true in a world where reality is hard to find because of endless...
Denial of Denial
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022). What a gloomy title! I am overwhelmed by the horrors of Gaza, all the boringly excruciating details of genocide, our helplessness. For some reason, I ordered this book from the library and finally...
Scott Ritter: A Palestinian Victory!
Scott Ritter: “… what everybody’s forgetting is that the basic terms of this deal are the same terms that Hamas has been laying out since October 7th. And now these terms are being met. And uh, this is a Hamas victory.” The post Scott Ritter: A Palestinian Victory!...
Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting and the Gaza Ceasefire
Depending on which source you consult, the twenty-point peace plan of President Donald Trump for securing peace in Gaza shows much exultance and extravagant omission. The exultance was initially focused on the return of the hostages. It then shifted to the broader...
Techno-Capitalist-Feudalism Is Malthusian to the Core!
Introduction All rigged markets, all rigged financial-mechanisms, and, as well as, all the rigged authoritarian-structures of techno-capitalist-feudalism, indeed, did achieve their maturity in the early 21st century, through rampant surveillance, social conditioning,...
Recruiting New Spies via Internet
It’s no secret that almost every state conducts intelligence both at home and abroad. However, if several decades ago this activity was in the sidelines, the emergence and development of the Internet and information technologies lifted the veil on espionage and...
Jane Goodall: “Fight to the Very End”
I have no doubt that we have the tools to make the change, but do we have the will to make the change? It seems with some of the top politicians and corrupt corporations there’s no such will. We need to reach people’s hearts. If millions, billions of people do little...
The Convenient Lie
Newspaper: Democracy. The case of death is not at all the cause of the dead, it’s the cause of the living. — Ghassan Kanafani, from the novel Men Under the Sun My people are fearless and the gallows to each person among us is the instance that precedes the dawn of a...


