For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official U.S. state, it is time to think again. If he is not a figurehead for those alleged hidden forces, then he will agree to...
Dissident Voice
Summer Days and Dark Nights
One never knows where fascism “lite” might appear. We have one bumper sticker for our state which has confounded the foreign tourists along our coast: Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire . . . Qué significa . . . was bedeutet es? These French, Mexican and German tourists asked...
Partigiani
Paranoid, probably clinically paranoid, the old captain saw partisans everywhere. He called them “partigiani,” the only Italian word he could pronounce properly. As we entered Bolzano the captain spotted a mansion, badly damaged by our artillery during the early...
Condemn all UN Member States: They Spend 100 times More on Militarism than on the Entire UN System
The United Nations, facing a liquidity crisis, has been threatening to lay-off about 20 percent of its estimated 37,000 employees world-wide: a proposed move that has triggered widespread protests from staff unions both in New York and Geneva. Thus starts Thalif...
Race, Segregation, and Sectarianism in American Cinema
Due to the capitalistically orchestrated scourge of illiteratization and the machinations of the mass media, only a small percentage of Americans understand Washington’s penchant for launching illegal wars of aggression, and with the exception of the Gaza genocide and...
A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World
It was a sign of someone desperate that his message has failed to take wing and make its way to better lands. With the strategy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Gaza Strip sundered and falling over, leaving only a thick butcher’s bill (over 60,000...
Our Corporatized Milieu: From Chronic Stress to Depression
In the United States today, everyday life has become for many an anxiety-driven race to nowhere, a stress-filled sprint on the work-and-spend treadmill. Under such dehumanizing conditions, people try to cope with such chronic stress through compulsive access to...
The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba
[First published by Middle East Eye] If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed. As ever, events have moved on – even if the extreme hunger and...
Our Corporatized Milieu: From Chronic Stress to Depression
In the United States today, everyday life has become for many an anxiety-driven race to nowhere, a stress-filled sprint on the work-and-spend treadmill. Under such dehumanizing conditions, people try to cope with such chronic stress through compulsive access to...
The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba
[First published by Middle East Eye] If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed. As ever, events have moved on – even if the extreme hunger and...
Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif
“Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”. Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. Resting in a tent located outside the...
The Hidden Costs of the Big Data Surveillance Complex
Unbeknownst to much of the public, Big Tech exacts heavy tolls on public health, the environment, and democracy. The detrimental combination of an unregulated tech sector, pronounced rise in cyberattacks and data theft, and widespread digital and media illiteracy—as...