Billionaires, beware: Thousands of your countrymen are focusing hard on reining in your riches. All of them, including large numbers of millionaires, want you to pay higher taxes. They want a twenty-first century America with less income inequality and more tax...
Dissident Voice
Predatory Culture and the Nasty Naked Ape
Why did humans, who lived for 40,000 years as egalitarian hunter-gatherers, become farmers and abandon equality for a dominance hierarchy permeated with all kinds of nastiness, including war, slavery, and exploitation? It has remained a mystery why, ten thousand...
Miracle on the Mediterranean—an Appeal to the Vatican State
Activists and human rights defenders ride aboard a vessel departing from Tunisia’s northern port of Bizerte on September 14, 2025 to join the last boats taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, bound for the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s blockade on the Palestinian...
Attempts to Delegitimize: Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly
It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly. But this was precisely what Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, managed to achieve in his September 26 speech. His address began by attempting to show his country as a...
We Are All antifa Now
Boom – by Mr. Fish Trump’s designation of the amorphous group antifa, which has no formal organization or structure, as a terrorist organization permits the state to charge us all as terrorists. The point is not to go after members of antifa, short for anti-fascist....
U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform
Since August, federal mandates carried out against Washington D.C. and intensified policing have been escalating with both the federal and local governments making it clear that they are waging a domestic war on African (Black) working class and migrant diaspora...
From Goebbels to Trump’s Christian Nationalists: Glorifying Motherhood, Promoting Female Submission
“Motherhood can be deeply fulfilling, and few would argue that family life is unimportant. Yet authoritarian movements have long politicized it, reframing it as women’s sole purpose and a substitute for autonomy and rights,” Adrienne Matei observes in the Guardian....
The Trouble with Tradwives
“Tradwives” are having a moment. Amidst the rejection of “lean-in” culture and “girl boss” backlash, a host of popular social media accounts created by and geared toward young women promote the role of traditional wives, or “tradwives.” Now, a proliferation of...
Pakistan’s Blasphemous Politics
Pakistan: TLP blockade causes disruptions. Image credit: ANI. The assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer by his own bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, in January 2011, marked a turning point in Pakistan’s politics. This act of violence opened up a new chapter in...
Eleven
After the smoke cleared, most of the subversives lay dead on the battlefield. Later the afternoon I offered my army ration to one of the survivors who seemed somewhat cultivated. He waved it away. “Thanks, I’m not hungry, only thirsty.” I handed him my canteen bottle....
How I’ve Learned to be a Social Socialist
Thriving by Not Minding My Own Business How many of you have met socialists who look like the one at the top of the article? I have and there are plenty like this. It was in the Fall of 2017 that my life-partner, Bruce Lerro and I travelled from Oakland to Berkeley to...
Trump’s Shock Doctrine: Exploiting Kirk’s Killing to Crush the Left and the Media
In the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, President Trump and his allies are insisting — without a shred of evidence — that a vast left-wing conspiracy are plotting violent attacks in this country. Naomi Klein, in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of...