A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up. They casually explained that the mafioso comes weekly to collect their drug money. Later, I...
Dissident Voice
There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part.
This was what the President of the United States initially lied: “Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a...
From Doha to the UN: Turning Israel’s Terror Into Global Action
Funeral in Doha for 5 people killed in the September 10 Israeli strike. Photo: AFP Responding to Israel’s September 10 attack aimed at Hamas negotiators in Qatar, all 12 members of the UN Security Council issued a toothless statement of condemnation that didn’t even...
Charlie Kirk and the Tsunami of U.S. Political Violence
Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot to death yesterday during a speaking engagement at a university in Utah. A single shot to the neck by a sniper ended the life of the 31-year-old, whose two little children will now have to grow up without him. President Trump...
The desperation of Israel’s Qatar attack
Israel might claim that they were not attacking Qatar per se, but rather Hamas in Qatar, but that is neither a distinction nor a difference. Qatar is considered neutral territory in the region, a place where representatives of Hamas, the Israeli government, the US,...
How Immigrant Communities Are Reclaiming Media on Their Own Terms
In an age of relentless misinformation, immigrant communities in the United States are not just resisting—they are rebuilding. While corporate and legacy news outlets often filter immigrant experiences through sensationalism, victimization, or meritocratic tropes,...
From the Paint to the Pulpit: Ralph Drollinger’s Christian Nationalist Power Play in Washington
Capitol Ministries’ Ralph DrollingerYou probably wouldn’t recognize his face, but at over 7 feet, Ralph Drollinger is hard to miss. A former center for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins, he had a brief professional career before turning to ministry. In recent years, he...
Democrats’ Digital Dysfunction
“HAVE A GREAT LABOR DAY WEEKEND, PATRIOTS!!! GOD BLESS THE WORKING PEOPLE WHO MAKE AMERICA GREAT!,” read an August 2025 tweet, capped with three American flags and a photo of its author in a convertible, sunglasses on, peace sign raised. This wasn’t 2016. This wasn’t...
What Happens to Stories About Palestine in U.S. Newsrooms?
Our latest visual, created in partnership with Prism Reports, visualizes a months-long Prism investigation conducted by journalist Laura Albast, on pro-Israel bias in mainstream U.S. newsrooms, particularly after Oct. 7, 2023. Read the full investigation here. Special...
Language, Mind Control, and 9/11
An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the instrument of the mind, become ‘pure sound,’ a symbol directly evoking feelings and reflexes. – Jacques Ellul, Propaganda A leader or an...
Buying Time: Israel’s Rogue Attack on Qatar
It’s all part of a stratagem, bleak and brutal. With Palestinian recognition being promised by France, the UK, Canada and Australia at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli aggression is becoming more brazen and panicked. Time must be bought...
Absentee Landlords
There are three major motion pictures that every working stiff should watch… and recommend to others. The first such film ( and of course there are so many more) this writer recommends is Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires (1970). Inside the disgrace of the feudal...