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USS Abraham Lincoln after docking in Laem Chabang port in Thailand

When the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln finally limped into the Thai port of Laem Chabang after an unbroken stint of 286 days at sea, the corporate media and defence commentators were seized by the visible layer of rust coating the ship from bow to stern. Mainstream analysts interpreted these indecorous and embarrassing signs of decay as the consequences of inadequate naval logistics, overextended supply chains, procurement backlogs, and insufficient maintenance budgets.

If we do not suppose too much …

This may seem like a dumb question, but perhaps it’s brilliant because it’s dumb: What happens if you just give struggling people money? Like on a regular basis? Have we ever studied that? Have we ever even tried it? We totally should.

(*Types question into internet machine.*)

Oh yes, we have indeed tried it, and it turns out it works spectacularly every fucking time. Like, every time.

Whether it’s an attempt to help with homelessness or joblessness or hunger or dropping out of school, guaranteed income always helps a lot — without fail — …

The men of the Russian military forces doing the fighting on the Ukraine front are defending far more unequally distributed Russian national income and asset wealth on the home front than the Red Army which fought and won the war against Germany and Japan, the Great Patriotic War of 1939-45.

Moreover,  if expert estimates are correct,  the men fighting World War I were defending the Romanov-regime tsarist nation whose measurable inequality was less – repeat less – than the Russian society of today. In 1917 that inequality …

On September 11, 2001, the world watched as the World Trade Center, the twin towers that represented US global dominance, were struck by hijacked U.S. commercial jetliners and came crashing to the ground. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, from high-powered executives to clerical workers and immigrant kitchen workers. The hijackers were Middle Eastern men, primarily from Saudi Arabia.

Twenty-five years later, many questions remain about how the US military and security establishment could have allowed this to happen. Hardly anybody believes the official 9/11 story, which raises more questions than it answers, and there are many competing theories about who was …

With the twenty-fifth anniversary of “9/11” this week, it is important to remember all the warning signs that were evident in the months leading up to the events of that terrible day and the anthrax attacks that followed. Despite their obviousness, the Bush administration, after the fact, denied that they were aware of them. They claimed they were taken by surprise by Al Qaeda terrorists led by Osama bin Laden.

They were lying.

The bitter truth – hard to swallow – is …

See “BUSTED! 2 ‘Measles Deaths’ Turned Out to Be Fake! As Per Coroner. Who Put the Story Out and Why…”

31 years ago, today the Ontario Provincial Police killed Ojibway protester Dudley George. The act of colonial violence highlights one way the Canadian military has dispossessed First Nations.

During World War II 1,000 hectares of Chippewa Territory was appropriated for a Canadian Forces (CF) training ground near Sarnia, Ontario. After the Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation rejected their offer, the government expropriated the land under the War Measures Act. At the time the Crown Canada Company had a similar sized piece of land nearby, but it would have cost the military …

How angry America gets when it attacks people and those people resist!

— Osama bin Laden, December 1998

How can they hope to be blessed with security while they are dishing out destruction, devastation, and murder on our people in Palestine and Iraq?

— Osama bin Laden, December 16, 2004

He dated his political awakening to 1973, when a U.S. airlift helped Israel turn the tide in the so-called Yom Kippur War. Egypt and Syria had overrun Israeli defenses and its vaunted Bar-Lev line at the beginning of the war, leading a stunned Tel Aviv to hint that it might resort to nuclear weapons …

The essay begins in Peter’s experience and widens into a shared reflection.

Let me start by saying that, up to a point, I am such a person. I live in Cambodia, where I am a stranger. My life’s work has made that a semi-permanent condition. I have resided and worked in many more strange lands, and for longer periods, than I have in those places that you could, if pressed, say I was “from”.

But there are strangers and strangers.

Some strangers are much stranger than others. And some seem much less aware than they should be of the fact that they are …

In the unpardonable ecosystem of graft, favours and corruption that is defence contracting, defence conferencing and all matters tanking over the thinking – in short, the world of defence – the convenient delusion will always have truck over the inconvenient empirical. Phantoms are elevated and celebrated; bogeymen are treasured by the entire security apparatus that links obeisant academics, overpaid consultants and waxwork politicians. Budgets of criminally unaccountable proportions are approved, not least because the fictional threat is so impressive as to scare the living daylights out of an imbecilic political class.

Even as the Australian public inquiry into the …

These days, it’s getting harder to keep up with all the education privatization schemes cropping up with increasing regularity.

Charter schools, vouchers, Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), tax credit scholarships, homeschooling, micro-schooling, innovation schools, so-called Alpha Schools—all are part of an extremely chaotic, anarchic, and violent education landscape that degrades education and society on a broad scale. And all are expanding in the name of “school-choice,” “competition,” “innovation,” and the “free market.” In this setup that upholds the buyer-seller dynamic, everyone is a fend-for-yourself “shopper,” not a human with a right to education. If things work out for you, that’s great, but …

Many of the books that shaped my work as a professor, author, and activist came into my life during my first two years of graduate school (1988-90), the most exciting period of concentrated learning I’ve ever experienced. As I write in my new book, This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning, I got to grad school and quickly realized that I was “an undereducated person getting a second chance to learn”:
I didn’t really start thinking—in the sense of a disciplined process of trying to understand how the physical and social worlds work—until I showed up …

The algorithm-driven debate-industrial complex recently gifted the internet another installment of its ongoing effort to merge cable news, professional wrestling, and civic collapse into a single monetized spectacle: Jubilee Media and Straight Arrow News released a video titled “1 Journalist vs 20 Trump Supporters” in which constitutional law attorney-turned-journalist Glenn Greenwald volleyed geopolitical common sense into a clown car of personalities parroting curated conservative talking points and outright falsehoods about the Iran war—“Operation Epstein Fury.” I highly recommend the video to anyone wishing to observe the effectiveness of propaganda and the failures of the American educational system in …

Can the man who’s brought back measles, fascism, and royal ballrooms raise impeachment from the grave? No, of course not. He can hardly raise himself from a chair. But with his help, the rest of us might be able to do it.

When the House Judiciary Committee passed articles of impeachment against Nixon, it carefully avoided the central issue of the war, but it did not limit itself to sex scandals, or offenses no Congress Member could commit, or partisan positions that only members of one party would support. …