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October 22–24 gathering intends to catalyze the national movement to create public banks in American cities, regions, and states; the October 24 public event and press conference features a costumed Colonial Town Crier reading the “Declaration of Financial Independence”

PHILADELPHIA – America’s local governments face increasingly challenging financial demands. Their reliance on Wall Street borrowing doubles project costs and extracts almost $200B in interest each year. These unsustainable realities will bring banking experts, policymakers, economists, and community advocates to Philadelphia October 22–24, 2026, for the national Public Banking, Public Prosperity Conference, hosted by the Public Banking Institute at Friends Center, 1501 …

On December 3, two traditions risk combining in a foul, if remarkable, fashion. In the United States, an execution is set to take place with a ghoulish offering of livestreaming through the World Wide Web. This, at least, is the sprightly proposal from Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense (or War, depending on the mood) regarding the fate of Nidal Hasan. The former ex-US Army major and psychiatrist was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013 for the premeditated murder of 13 people at Ford Hood on November 5, 2009. This will make it the first US …

On October 9th, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid political prisoners on Robben Island, and went on to serve as a judge on the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court (ICC), and as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 2025, Navi Pillay led the UN Commission of Inquiry that confirmed that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

With the world in the grip of seemingly intractable war and chaos, the Nobel Committee clearly wanted to honor someone …

A ‘quisling’ may be an unfamiliar term.

The word’s root goes back to Nazi-occupied Norway, when politician and military man Vidkun Quisling led a puppet government – later coined the Quisling regime – which infamously collaborated with and was propped up by Berlin.

Alongside the Vichy government in France, Quisling was seen as one of Europe’s foremost traitors during WWII, and his surname became a synonym for treason, …

When people talk about Karl Marx, they immediately think about The Communist Manifesto and equate Marx with communism.

For his anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist stance, Marx is demonized as an enemy by default in the West ever since.

Few in the West have any idea about Marx’s actual economic thoughts, like with so many other things they are taught to hate without understanding by the propaganda machine.

In reality, Marx’s thoughts are profoundly relevant and prescient for today’s world when we look back at them with 150 years of hindsight.

When one peals …

The mainstream corporate media — always a mere two to three years behind every story — is finally coming to terms with (some of) the reality of the October 7, 2023, attack. It is suddenly acceptable for the liberal corporate pro-Israel outlets to say Netanyahu obviously knew October 7th was going to happen.

It’s been three whole years since the attack. For three whole years, many of us in the endlessly maligned and suppressed independent media world have been shouting from the hills that Israel’s ruling …

Ranbir Kaleka (India), Conference of Birds and Beasts, 2010.
At a moment of war and genocide, when words such as Gaza and Sudan have become tragedies, it is easy to ask whether the United Nations (UN) has outlived its usefulness or can be reformed. But the better question is: reform what, and for whom?

The UN Charter (1945) promises that states must settle disputes peacefully, refrain from the threat or use of force, and cooperate on common problems. Powerful states’ violations are a reason to defend and enforce the UN Charter, …

They are a trying lot, spruiking their overvalued, loss-making firms, sowing discord and fear, and then seeking state collaboration that will serve to implicate all the parties concerned should things sour. And what will the rest of us get? Hardly the promised land. But the United Nations, for the first time in history, became a centre stage for the propagandists from Artificial Intelligence firms during the September deliberations, diplomats hanging off the banal declarations from such figures as Sam Altman, the CEO from OpenAI, and Dario Amodei, his equivalent from Anthropic. …

The Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to Navi Pillay who is not, like last year’s laureate, pleading for the world’s largest military to attack her country. Nor is she, in the manner of various past laureates, waging war. Nor is she, like various past recipients, an admirable humanitarian working in a field unrelated to war. In fact, Navi Pillay has long been recognized as advancing the cause of peace. In 2025 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize …

The World Health Organization declared that the Covid emergency ended in mid-2023. Since then, the 500 Standard and Poor’s companies (the benchmarks of US capitalism) have enjoyed a steady and significant increase in earnings growth. This remarkable growth persisted quarter after quarter, culminating in “more than 440 S&P 500 companies reporting second-quarter earnings so far [and] 86% have beaten analysts’ estimates, according to FactSet data” as reported in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ further adds: “Companies are reporting earnings that are around 29% higher than those estimates, on track …

Here is what Aljazeera told the world on — October 7, 2026 — while the Western world and its media largely kept silent.

We see it as our duty to help spread these facts about the overkill in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel. And remember that the conflict did not start there and then as many will have us believe.

It’s painful reading. Let us send our gratitude to the 300 journalists and media people who lost their lives doing their job. Someone did not want …

The country’s airspace is now “a theater for military operations,” the Yemeni militants have warned….

“You can talk about your Julie and your Peggy Sue
You can keep your Miss Molly and your Mary Lou
When it comes to the Chicken or doin’ the Bop
I got a gal they call the Queen of the Hop”

When I started out on my socialist path 57 years ago, I had high expectations about the kind of people socialists were. I read about the anarchists in Spain and how joyful they were. You can see this in many of the pictures of …

Rare rare rare, that a local rag, weekly, would run my piece. Three years of the current iteration of genocide. Of course, those of us who have been railing against the death machines — war profiteers, economic hitmen, ag-chemical-mining-oil thugs, the Kosher Nostra, the endless pipeline of infantilized and McDonaldized crap imbuing everything about Western Culture — knew this Orwellian day was on the horizon.

Here, the piece, unadulturated:
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Deaf ears. Media malpractice. A public hoodwinked by the machinations of the Jewish State of Israel’s lobby that make runaway slave catchers’ attack dogs seem like poodles.

It …

Canada’s ties to Duvalier corruption should inform public reaction to Ottawa’s gang suppression force in Haiti.

Last week Radio Canada’s flagship investigative program Enquête revealed that provincial Liberal Party candidate Michel Leblanc was the main beneficiary of an $800,000 payment made to his lawyer father by a former finance minister during the Jean-Claude Duvalier dictatorship. In “Des fonds liés à la dictature de Duvalier aboutissent à Chambly”, the public broadcaster traced funds former minister Frantz Merceron probably stole, to a Caisse Desjardins trust account set up for Leblanc.

This is one of several examples of Canadians/institutions implicated in Duvalierist …