Dissident Voice

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalising protests against the war in Gaza, branding certain groups “terrorist” in inclination. While the laws dealing with...

With the usual qualifier that I could be entirely wrong, my sense is that both the Alaska Summit and Monday’s meeting at the White House were reality checks. They revealed that Putin was finally able to convince the “collective Trump” (Gilbert Doctorow’s term), that...

In The Kills’ “Tape Song,” there is enjoyment, but enjoyment of a peculiar kind, enjoyment that doesn’t come from aiming at enjoyment, but enjoyment that is simply picked up, assumed along the way, in the very act of roaming, of extending the roaming without...

Have you read “The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide“? I don’t mind promoting it to you, since I agree with most of it (and also consider most of it to do absolutely nothing to advance any case for military intervention to stop the Gaza...

History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered. Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction. As the economist and...

Democrats are politically flummoxed by the flurry of regressive proposals and policies daily manufactured by the Trump administration. Party leadership has been reduced to a reactionary political presence, simply reacting to Trump’s initiatives. Weakened and...

Ever since childhood they’d called me Champion. In school, at work, in the gym, just about everybody would greet me as Champion. (Even our mood-disordered vicar, who wouldn’t call anybody by first name or nickname even if his life depended on it, brought himself to...