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by Allen Forrest / June 5th, 2026
Why some out-spoken dissidents don’t get arrested.
by Michel Chossudovsky / June 5th, 2026
Google’s project to release genetically modified Wolbachia mosquitoes in Florida and Calfornia was announced on June 1, 2026. It’s an initiative of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, through its life sciences division Verily.
“Verily has filed for EPA approval to release millions of specially treated mosquitoes over the next two years as part of an effort to reduce disease-carrying mosquito populations.
The initiative is known as the Debug Project, a program that has been researching mosquito control for more than a decade.”
The premises as well as the narrative of the Verily initiative are similar to those put forth by …
by Caitlin Johnstone / June 5th, 2026
A series of surveys documents that citizens want international cooperation, solidarity and peace – but their ‘democratic’ governments couldn’t care less
by John Helmer / June 4th, 2026
Tehran Times spoke with John Helmer, a veteran journalist and geopolitical analyst based in Moscow, to assess the implications of the conflict for U.S. policy toward Iran, the role of domestic political calculations in Washington, and shifting regional alignments. In this interview, Helmer examines coercive diplomacy, regional security dynamics, and the limits of U.S. strategy.
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Tehran Times: After the 40-day war, to what extent …
by Allen Forrest / June 4th, 2026
Whose life is it that meaning is sought and why.
by Edward Curtin / June 4th, 2026
Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where old wooden structures had been abandoned years before and lay forlorn. But they drew us to them. Old names on walls, here and there a small plaque telling a little history of places and people long vanished, never to return, for the rest of this town had been modernized and gentrified, as was exemplified by the expensive shops and cars that lined its …
Why America's China policy hasn't changed since 1945
by Godfree Roberts / June 4th, 2026
1989: President Bush’s Secret Letter to Deng Xiaoping
On June 20, 1989, after his attempt to call Deng Xiaoping directly failed, President Bush hand-crafted a letter himself, initiating a secret top-level contact with China as his attempt to preserving the US-China relationship. Deng Xiaoping responded immediately to the letter. Bush later published it in his book All the Best.
The letter is an example of American hypocrisy: Bush replaced the US Ambassador to Beijing with Bush’s CIA protege …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 4th, 2026
Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression in southern Lebanon, a cause of concern even for those in Washington. The war’s increasing savagery is a reminder of how hollow the exhortations by the Netanyahu government seem following the official cessation of hostilities against Hezbollah in November 2024.
Israel’s pre-emptive war on Iran, commencing on February 28 with the full and criminal connivance of the United States, took place alongside an incursion into …
by Renee Parsons / June 4th, 2026
Many Americans may still remember when Donald Trump was masquerading as the Peace President. In his pre-and-post inaugural vows, Trump began by promising to end the war in Ukraine in ‘one day’ for a total of fifty three verbal guarantees. Today the Ukraine War continues as it is threatening to enlarge into a more widespread, significant conflict after a war crime strike in Lugansk that killed twenty two teenagers. In 2019, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky ran for President and was elected on a peace platform.
The Trump Presidency has deteriorated …
by Tricontinental Asia / June 3rd, 2026
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Every five years, the electorate in Keralam goes to the polls to elect a new state government. One of 28 states in India, Keralam has a population of 35 million. It has been governed by the Left Democratic Front (LDF), which is led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), for the past decade. On 4 May, the Election Commission of India announced that the LDF had won only 35 of the 140 seats in the legislature and that the LDF’s …
Can Israel Be Saved?
by Biljana Vankovska / June 3rd, 2026
Many of us who consider ourselves public intellectuals and outspoken voices feel compelled to follow all—or at least the most important—global developments and to have something meaningful to say about them. Few are as consistent in this endeavor as Princeton professor Richard Falk, who for decades has devoted himself to awakening both conscience and awareness of the suffering of the Palestinian people. Take a look at his bibliography, his personal blog, and his countless online appearances and debates. If anyone today deserves to be called a moral compass and …
by Global Times / June 3rd, 2026
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On Monday, China Coast Guard’s Daishan vessel formation conducted routine law-enforcement patrols in accordance with the law in the waters east of China’s Taiwan island, directly targeting the illegal collusion between Japan and the Philippines. China made it clear that this was a necessary operation in response to the announcement by Japan and the Philippines on their own, to begin talks on maritime delimitation in the waters east of China’s Taiwan island, which seriously infringed upon China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and …
by Allen Forrest / June 3rd, 2026
Who is to blame for voters voting in the same hackneyed political again and again?
by Arnold August / June 3rd, 2026
As someone who lives in Canada but has visited Venezuela seven times and written extensively on the Bolivarian Revolution, I do not have a fixed, original position on the current situation. Strange? I would rather defer to two experts who live in Venezuela.
Firstly, Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad Patria Grande in Venezuela, the educational initiative of the El Panal Commune. She is also a member of the International Communal Democracy Network. With Chris Gilbert, Pascual Marquina is co-author of several books on Venezuela, including Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly …
by Lee Camp / June 3rd, 2026
The Democrats have a long, storied history of rigging their own primaries. It takes a lot of work to keep all actual left-wing, truly anti-war, genuinely anti-genocide candidates out of the electoral process. Luckily, the Democrats are willing and ready to put in the time and effort.
This time around, the Democrats have worked to rig the primary race for Governor of California. Voters head to the polls this coming Tuesday, June 2nd. Despite the fact that California has an open primary in which any and all candidates appear on …
License to Inflate
by Binoy Kampmark / June 3rd, 2026
It sounds like an acute sewerage burst, but as much political commentary rests on the tired cliché, we see the language of liquid velocity apply to parties that suddenly emerge in the polls as portentously relevant to watchers and news cyclists. They “surge” away, giving hacks and pundits room to fill in column space while scraping psephologists can pack consultancy briefs and newsletters with apparently scientific information about the permanently transient.
Of late, those electoral quarriers at Redbridge Group have been doing much to add building material to One Nation’s momentum. First came a poll in May which …
by Ervin Hoskins / June 2nd, 2026
In the first quarter of 2026, President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures reported more than 3,600 buy-and-sell orders, moving tens of millions of dollars in and out of the market. Buried in the federal ethics filings is a striking pattern: up to 6 million dollars in Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of Washington’s geopolitical tech battles, and sizable stakes in major defense contractors whose fortunes rise and fall with war and peace, including Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman. It is a story about a political system that treats the presidency itself as an investment vehicle.
Recent presidents …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 2nd, 2026
One can never accuse the Australian political palate of being too demanding, let alone attentive. When it comes to matters of defense, that palate is happy to be deceived, remaining credulous to the notion that it is sensitive to good taste and observant of flavors. When it comes to alliances, this is especially so. As for the AUKUS agreement, it was clear that the Australian establishment was simply incapable of tasting anything other than the rancid or putrid. Of the three participating countries in this doomed ménage à trois – the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia – it …
by Ellen Brown / June 1st, 2026
Part 1 of this “Abundance Paradigm” series discussed predictions that artificial intelligence and robotics will, in the relatively near future, produce an economy of extraordinary abundance – one in which most labor is automated. Elon Musk contends that this development will require some form of government-issued “Universal High Income” (UHI) to provide the consumer demand necessary to keep the economy functioning in a world where machines do most of the work.
Based on those projections, I argued that if a UHI were to become necessary, it could not realistically be financed through taxes or debt alone, but would …
by Allen Forrest / June 1st, 2026
Why would the government cover up news of UFOs?
Now they’re canceling the visas of mainstream normie political pundits for criticizing the state of Israel, and investigating people for antisemitic hate crimes when they denounce Zionists who aren’t even Jewish.
by Caitlin Johnstone / June 1st, 2026
American progressive commentator Cenk Uygur and his nephew Hasan Piker have both been denied visas by the British government, saying they were blocked from entering the country because of their criticism of Israel.
“I’ve been banned from the UK,” Uygur said in a tweet. “I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!”
“the UK has revoked my visa as …
by Binoy Kampmark / May 31st, 2026
Saucer as depicted in the sci-fi tv series The Invaders.These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth column and anything that could risk being seen as ordinary. The human mind is obsessed by the need for a rounded explanation. In place of that arises a form of mysticism, even superstition. What cannot be explained must be otherworldly. Few better tests for this proposition can be found in the discussion about unidentified objects …
by Peter Blunt / May 30th, 2026
First published in June 2023, Sergei Karaganov’s [image left] case for a nuclear pre-emptive strike by Russia against a NATO country in Eastern Europe was greeted with almost universal derision or scepticism by establishment scholars. For example, Cimbala and Korb (2023) dismissed his proposals as ‘delusionary musings about walking on the wild side of nuclear first use.’
A small number of Russian commentators were also critical, stating that Karaganov’s views were not the official position in Russia and that in November 2022, ‘the Russian Foreign Ministry explicitly stressed the inadmissibility …
by Syed Salman Mehdi / May 30th, 2026
Malala at the Marxist school in Swat Valley
A girl locked out of school by force and a girl pushed out by neglect lose the same future.
When Malala Yousafzai stood before the United Nations in 2013 and declared that “one child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world,” much of the world imagined Afghanistan. The image seemed to fit easily. Afghanistan had already become a global symbol of women barred from schools and public life under militant rule. Yet …
by Allen Forrest / May 30th, 2026
The oft heard axiom cautions one to think before speaking. First consider the pros and cons of any potential action.
every third bite we take as Homo Consumopethicus is attributable to the bees
by Paul Haeder / May 30th, 2026
by Stansfield Smith / May 30th, 2026
Promoters of US empire decline make the claim that the world is de-dollarizing, the dollar is losing its role as the standard currency of international trade. If this were to happen, other countries would dump their stockpiles of trillions of dollars, foreign loans would no longer be primarily made and repaid in dollars, nor would international trade take place primarily in dollars. Other countries would lose interest in investing in US bonds, such as Treasury bonds; the world banking system would slip out of US control; US economic sanctions and blockades on countries would lose their coercive impact. This would …
The Death of Discernment
by Sammy Attoh / May 30th, 2026
There are ages when humanity loses its ability to tell the difference between truth and spectacle, wisdom and noise, justice and performance. Ours is such an age. Discernment — once a basic civic and spiritual discipline — has withered under the weight of distraction, propaganda, and the relentless hunger for entertainment. We no longer ask whether something is true. We ask whether it is trending.
Discernment requires patience, humility, and moral clarity. But we live in a time that rewards speed, certainty, and outrage. And so the human mind, once capable of depth, now skims the surface of everything. We react …
by Robert Malone / May 30th, 2026
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Three years ago, we wrote about a joint UK and German Ministry of Defense report titled Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm. At the time, many critics dismissed the document as speculative futurism, military fantasy, or the fever dream of transhumanists intoxicated by Silicon Valley ideology.
It is no longer possible to deny the reality of the situation – …
Past predictions of the future
by Binoy Kampmark / May 30th, 2026
While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving ever more predatory with the Gaza Strip. With aggrandizing impunity, more territory is being acquired for familiar reasons: Hamas is on the run and needs to be crushed further (the organisation is proving oddly resilient and contradictory to Israeli objectives here); Palestinian autonomy, even in so small an area, would be a future threat to Israel unless heavily invigilated and policed; and, well, there is that old desire to ethnically cleanse the territory.
Speaking at a conference on May …
