The times they are a-changin. And quickly. And not in a good way. And it’s scary. The façade of democracy is being ripped away by politicians who never liked it but lately feel emboldened to admit it. Most important of all, they have begun to act like unapologetic...
Dissident Voice
Beyond Time to Say Who the Real Terrorists Are
In George Orwell’s book, 1984, the dominant force was able to determine what was true and what was false – hence 2+2=5. Today, those remaining in Gaza, who have survived the intensive bombing of almost all of Gaza’s infrastructure, sniper shootings, and starvation,...
Charlie Kirk Becomes Alive
On Wednesday, September 10, a shot was fired at a Utah college event, and Charlie Kirk became alive. Relatively unknown to the public outside of the Right Wing fringe that gains shekels and adoration from the misinformed, miscalculating, and mistaken cadre of...
The “Fat Boy Posse’s” Impending Attack on Iran
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. How many children in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have been hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient...
House Speaker Mike Johnson Is a Leading War Criminal
It’s a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we’re aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible...
Trump Wants “Denuclearization,” But Does Washington?
In the grim competition between environmental destruction and nuclear war over which one will cause the demise of civilization, the nuclear option gets considerably less media coverage than global warming. This is unfortunate, for nuclear weapons are no less of a...
Bernie Sanders Is a Ghoulish Zionist
Bernie Sanders finally issued a statement acknowledging the indisputable fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after two years of adamantly refusing to do so. The statement begins as follows: “Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal...
Are We Having a God Problem?
Hubble Spots Fireworks in Westerlund 2 (Image by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)) Is God not the ultimate human creation? The gods we inherited were designed for small populations, scattered across the earth, with narrow horizons. They concerned...
Why Do Men Watch Porn? A Feminist and Queer Analysis
The dominant neuroscientific discourse on male porn addiction is underpinned by a moral pedagogy that tacitly assumes a normative sexual baseline: that the brain’s reward circuits, genitalia, and arousal systems were designed by evolution for heterosexual intercourse...
Winston and Smith
“Let’s continue where we left off yesterday. What’s your name, when and where were you born? Hellllloo!” “Winston Smith,” the prisoner replies. The vizier turns to the linguistics professor from the University of Alexandria. “Now you’ve heard it. Whenever we ask him a...
Why the SanctionsKill Campaign Supports BDS
The SanctionsKill campaign was formed in 2019 to raise awareness of the human cost of the “sanctions”—actually economic coercive measures—imposed by the United States and its allies on over 40 countries, in which one-third of humanity lives. Our coalition of...
Great Moments in the History of Chrystia Freeland’s Failure to Have Achieved More for Ukrainian Fascism (2013-2025) than Her Grandfather Achieved as Hitler’s Propagandist and Spy (1939)
Chrystia Freeland’s final leap at political power in her 12-year attempt to rule Canada ended yesterday when she fell flat on her face. Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose push has proved more kinetic than Freeland’s jump, allowed this to be understood when he offered...