In the theatre of global conflict, where empires clash and ideologies contend, one truth remains tragically constant: it is not the architects of war who suffer its consequences, but the poor. The dispossessed, the voiceless, the expendable—these are the true...
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Trump’s Contronymal “Peace” with Russia
They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain. – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye With all the hullabaloo about President Donald Trump’s “peace” gestures toward Russia over Ukraine and the resetting of U.S.-Russia bi-lateral...
Are Conspiracy Theorists Right?
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Bolivia: Unprincipled Left Split Causes Electoral Debacle
A man looks at newspapers front pages the day after presidential and legislative elections in La Paz, Bolivia At the general election on August 17 2025, Bolivia’s right wing scored a greater electoral and political victory than expected, bringing 20 years of MAS-IPSP...
Israel’s Bulldozers of Mass Destruction
Several people have been writing recently about the use the Israeli military has been making of Bulldozers of Mass Destruction (BMDs) in its erasure campaign in Gaza. On Tuesday, Haaretz published a wide-reaching investigation into the topic by Hagai Amit. It starts...
Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws
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...
Black Power Move
In late August 1968, one of the largest military protests in American history took place at Fort Hood in Central Texas. You’ve never heard of it. Why? The year before, on April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out for the first time against the Vietnam War. He...
Unethical Medicine
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What Do We Know About Zelensky and the Seven Dwarfs Visit to the White House?
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...
Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful to Social and Racial Justice
My subheading could have been: Writing for Survival, Sanity and Soldiering On …Sterncastle Publishing in Lincoln County Brings Voices Who Have Been in the Shadows into the Book World From California to Iraq and Falluja to Antigua, to local politics and now the wounded...
The Aesthetics of Insistence in The Kills’ “Tape Song”
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...
The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide
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...