The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last December was so swift and surreal that the initial euphoria lingered both inside and outside the country despite public unrest turning to brutal arrests turning to executions turning to mass murder. These actions of the new...
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Eugenics and the Discriminatory Misuse of Gene Science Explored
A beautiful, troubling reminder… A must-watch. — Erik Peterson, Assoc. Prof. of the History of Science, University of Alabama, Author, The Shortest History of Eugenics In The Name of the Gene Directed by Stephanie Welch Produced by Stephanie Welch, Andrew Kimbrell,...
A Cry from the Ashes: Who Still Has a Conscience?
The world—eight billion strong—stands at a precipice. In Gaza, a people are being systematically pulverized, displaced, and erased. And the architects of this devastation—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the governments that arm him—continue their campaign with...
Global Warming en Vogue, Deal With It!
Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are turning tail and...
What Lies Behind Trump’s Attacks Against Venezuela?
As if President Trump intended to meet professional US mercenary Erik Prince halfway, US Attorney General Pam Bondi increased the existing US bounty on President Maduro—originally set at $15 million—from $25 million to $50 million for anyone providing “information...
How the Toxic Manosphere is Grooming Adolescent Boys
Attribution: Denitza Tchacarova: A Russian poster urging open your eyes – against women being abused. Over the past decade, the “Manosphere” — a loosely connected but increasingly influential network of blogs, forums, influencers, and online communities — has become a...
Trump Said It: “There’s No Better Word Than Stupid.”
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...
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...