The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally denounces the brutal assault and abduction of Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls, who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Though he is now released, the exceptionally heinous treatment of Smalls by...
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Mirror or Mirage? The Future of Truth and Freedom of the Press Today
Truth or Perception? True to the words of the legendary 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert, “there is no truth. There is only perception”. The truth may sound or taste bitter. But in reality, there is no singular truth and perception about anything and...
Fear Porn
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UK’s Starmer and Lammy Prepare Ground for Dubious “Peace Plan”
Public opinion and party pressure have forced Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy to speak warm words about Palestinian statehood. But these guys are a Zionist double-act and will do the Palestinians no favours if they can help it. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy,...
The World Divided
An interesting news report revealed the discovery of a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in a southern India cave. Earth’s inhabitants ponder how they can escape the madness, and this woman found a simple and agreeable solution. She described a close to...
A Japanese Woman Called “Tornado”: Samurai Action in an 18th Century Scottish Setting
Tornado (2025) is a new action drama film written and directed by the Scottish film director, screenwriter and musician, John Maclean. It is set in Scotland in the 1790s and follows the travails of a young Japanese woman called Tornado who is on the run from a local...
Canada’s Complicity Laid Bare
We will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza, period. — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, March 20 2024 It was a cynical lie. Now we have the evidence. A damning new report from the Arms Embargo Now coalition traces hundreds of shipments of...
Snake Oil, PT Barnum, and Postmortem for July 4
Note: A new editor for the local rag, Lincoln County Leader, which was known for 100 years as the Newport News Times. The previous editor, Steve Card, who did 30 years in the journalistic trenches, left and retired. I was doubtful that my long-form op-eds would...
China’s Path from Desolation to Modernisation
In 1954, Mao Zedong said, ‘We cannot deny that we are still unable to produce motor cars. We are still very far away from being industrialised’. Mao was speaking to an audience of Chinese industrialists and merchants at a time when the country was desperately poor,...
Master of Distraction
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Genocide is Psychopathy
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau declares, “I am a Zionist.” Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a particular group. When it is your country, your troops, your government and its officials committing genocide, many people will stubbornly...
Snake Oil, PT Barnum, and Postmortem for July 4
Note: A new editor for the local rag, Lincoln County Leader, which was known for 100 years as the Newport News Times. The previous editor, Steve Card, who did 30 years in the journalistic trenches, left and retired. I was doubtful that my long-form op-eds would...






