[A version of this essay was presented to the 4th International Congress on Critical Interventions with Men Who Exercise Violence Against Women in Mexico City on December 6. 2025.] From social media influencers to academic theorists, preachers and politicians,...
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Mexico is Transforming for the Good
On Saturday, December 6 an estimated 600 thousand persons packed the huge “Zocalo” plaza in Mexico City to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Mexico’s “Transformation.” President Claudia Sheinbaum, after one year in power, gave a powerful speech outlining the...
Everlasting Collapse: 70 Years’ Predictions Of China’s Imminent Doom
From 1980-2008, EU GDP grew 2.7%, the US 3%, and China 9% . Since then, the EU has averaged 1.5%, the US 1.8% and China 7%. In other words, China’s economy has grown 300% faster than Western countries’ and, as they slip out of the top bracket of high income countries,...
Blanked: A Tale of Two Books
A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in the ‘respectable mainstream’. In 2025, two important – indeed, groundbreaking – bestselling books about British...
First International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures
In June of 2025, the United Nations General Assembly designated December 4 as the annual International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, urging States to stop using such measures (commonly called “sanctions”) because they violate international law and impose...
Schemes of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues, and Human Rights
The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s alleged impotence. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he posed to gathered world leaders. All it seemed to...
Not in My Jewish Name: From Israel’s (perpetual) Crimes Against Humanity to Slandering Ms. Rachel
A tragic canard of history — i.e., the assertion: “Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people; therefore, we Jews have the right to return and establish a Jewish ethno-supremacist state.” Only by a literal reading — i.e., cracked-brained — of Old Testament...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Turns Dissent into Domestic Terrorism
President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is Operation TIPS on steroids. After 9/11, President George W. Bush proposed a program recruiting ordinary workers — truck drivers, postal workers, utility workers, cable installers — to report...
Bearing Witness and Finding Place: Kathy Kelly Seeking a World Beyond War
This was me, Tipping Points, Spokane community radio, KYRS-FM, 19 years AGO? Scroll and find this interview with Kathy Kelly. Better yet, she’s on my Oregon radio show, Feb. 11, but you get to hear her now, ABOVE, an early bird special for all those 100.00 a year...
Lord Hughes Buries the Skripals Alive
As all cricket and football followers know, the British are bad losers. They blame the other side or the umpire; they stampede inside the stadium, then they riot outside. They believe their cleverness is in getting the media to portray their defeats on the...
The North-South Project Reclaims Human Rights as People(s)-Centered
December 10th, International Human Rights Day, represents one year since the launch of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights. The North-South Project seeks to address the contradiction of the human rights idea being co-opted and instrumentalized...
Ragebait Governance
Image information: “Trollface” by Me in ME is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Oxford University Press’ 2025 Word of the Year is “ragebait.” The term captures a defining feature of today’s information ecosystem: content engineered to provoke anger, boost engagement, and...