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by Renee Parsons / June 24th, 2026
Many Americans may easily recall Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s promise during the 2024 US campaign to end Biden’s Ukraine war ‘on day one’. That ‘day one’ has not yet arrived.
At this date in the conflict, it is essential to understand the root of the Ukraine Russian war can be found in NATO’s long standing plan since 1990 to move east along the Ukraine-Russian border. As a historic matter of dispute and antagonism, former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev was assured by US Secretary of State James Baker that there would be no eastward NATO movement.
By February 2022, with …
by Ted Glick / June 24th, 2026
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 24th, 2026
It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace. Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over diddling, muddling, decrepit fools. Asserting a period of stable rule, if not exactly dull then at least reliable after several stints of lunacy under the Conservatives gone to the bad. But it was not to be. Sir Keir Starmer, who announced his resignation as Prime Minister on June 22, turned out to be inept in several ways, not being able to communicate well, not being particularly fluent (fudging …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 23rd, 2026
Israeli defense personnel and politicians might not be top billing in the boardrooms and reception halls of many countries at the moment, but that hardly bothers Australia’s richest (and continuously enriched) figure, Gina Rinehart. With a conscience shriveled by the dig-for-commodities mantra and a world view desiccated by inherited wealth, the mining magnate has little time for what might be broadly called the commonweal. She does, however, have much time for Israeli defense prowess.
In her flatulent address at the 2024 News Corp Australia National Bush Summit, held in Port Hedland, Western Australia, the executive chair of Hancock Prospecting had …
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / June 22nd, 2026
The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace, or it may be over within a week, doomed by the dysfunctional alliance between the US and Israel. If it holds, it could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades.
Talks between the US, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar began in Switzerland on June 21st. But Iran was firm that it holds the United States responsible for Israel’s violations of the US-Iran memorandum and cannot move forward with other …
by Sammy Attoh / June 22nd, 2026
The fear that artificial intelligence will replace us has become one of the defining anxieties of the twenty‑first century. Yet this fear reveals less about machines and more about the human condition itself. A machine can simulate intelligence, accelerate labor, and reorganize information at planetary scale, but it cannot replace what is autochthonous in the human being — the native moral ground, the interior origin from which meaning arises, the untransferable depth of consciousness that no algorithm can inherit.
The panic surrounding AI is not a technological crisis. It is an existential one.
We are not afraid of the machine. We are …
by Paul Larudee / June 22nd, 2026
Donald Trump has accepted the fact that the US cannot win a war with Iran. In fact, he will probably agree that it was a mistake, though perhaps not publicly. The image of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sitting at the head of the table in the White House situation room, with Trump and his team around the rest of the table, and David Barnea, Director of Mossad and other Israeli military and intelligence leaders on screen behind Netanyahu, is now etched in Trump’s mind as the moment when he was duped into the Iran war with …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 22nd, 2026
Whatever the high-minded rhetoric and spirited calls to guarding civilisation against oriental barbarism, the ongoing support and funding of Ukraine in its military struggle with Russia, is becoming a less than harmonious one. A hard sceptic of the Kyiv Appreciation Society in the form of Hungary’s former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán may have been vanquished in recent domestic elections, but European doubters did not dissipate with his defeat. Most telling of all is the increasingly fractious relationship between Poland and Ukraine, countries awkwardly, even tenuously aligned in their grievances against Russia.
Initial solidarity for Ukraine’s cause in Poland following the February …
by Gideon Polya / June 21st, 2026
In his 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, anti-racist Jewish British playwright Harold Pinter stated re the US Alliance-imposed Iraqi Genocide: “How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore, it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice”.
In 2026 one can ask: 14 million predicted to die from Trump’s abolition of USAID (The Lancet)? Over 875,000 Gazans killed by US-Israeli-imposed violence and deprivation, this including …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 21st, 2026
Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as the federal member for Oxley, having been disendorsed for making remarks about Aboriginals by the Liberal Party that may, in time, be slain by her current fortunes. Since then, she has been attacked for her bigotry, her class, her sex, her shock of red hair, her speech, her general crassness, her fantastic imperviousness to reading (she is napalm to libraries, a virus to erudition), and any claim that she would ever engage, at any length, with something resembling the grand idea. …
by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East / June 20th, 2026
After years of advocacy from the Palestinian Canadian community in Winnipeg and across the country, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will finally launch an exhibition on the Nakba, titled Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present. The Nakba, or the Catastrophe, marks the forced expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their ancestral homeland during the creation of the state of Israel.
Recognition of the Nakba, from school curricula to Parliament, has been a demand of the Palestine solidarity movement for years in Canada. Now, an official Canadian museum is a few …
by Visualizing Palestine / June 20th, 2026
‘Ecocide’ refers to severe, widespread, and long-term environmental destruction that undermines the ability of inhabitants to enjoy and sustain life.
– Mazin Qumsiyeh, “Ecocide and resistance in Palestine,” The Ecologist
Israeli colonial violence is engineering the collapse of Palestinian food systems and agricultural livelihoods in Gaza and the West Bank. Visualizing Palestine partnered with Growing Palestine to create a two-part series of visuals for their campaign “Food is Life: Protect Palestinian Farmers from Israeli Violence.”
Gaza
In Palestine, environmental degradation is not incidental—it is intentional, protracted, and aimed at breaking the eco-sumud …
by Bruce Lerro / June 20th, 2026
For socialists, a knowledge of the history of human societies is vital for training ourselves to accept the torch of existing social conditions and pass the torch to the next generation.
The Asian world is rising but Western anthropologists ignore the critical role of ethnicity and the social formation of steppe peoples in social evolution Geopolitical theorist Alexander Dugin corrects both of these imbalances. He explains that ethnicity changes throughout history but it never evaporates.
by Allen Forrest / June 20th, 2026
What are the main organizing principles of globalist sociopaths?
by Gideon Polya / June 20th, 2026
Idiotic Trumpist populism has arrived in Australia with One Nation’s Pauline Hanson leading the polls for preferred PM. GetUp on billionaire- and Rightist media-backed Hanson: “Time and time again, when given the opportunity to stand up for the everyday Australians she claims to represent, she sells us out. She’s opposed wage rises, affordable childcare, higher pensions and affordable housing measures.”
Hanson’s National Press Club speech singled out many targets for offensive One Nation hostility: workers, child-care, Muslims, Chinese, non-Judaeo-Christians, migrants, transgender people, multiculturalism, non-English speakers, Indigenous Australians, climate change action, science, sustainability, environment protection, renewable energy , “too …
by Tricontinental Asia / June 20th, 2026
Kazem Chalipa (Iran), Desert, 1984.
I write from Isfahan, the third-largest city in Iran and the second-most impacted by the recent war. Since the ceasefire on 8 April 2026, we Iranians finally got a break from fighter jets flying overhead and explosions through day and night, from wondering whether our loved ones were safe.
Iran came under attack from US military and occupation bases hosted by family monarchies around the Persian Gulf. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia provided their airspace and their …
One Horsepower Then, 1,582 Now
by Jeffrey Sachs / June 19th, 2026
Seven hundred fifty years ago, a Venetian 17-year-old set off east and didn’t come home for a quarter of a century. Marco Polo left the Venetian lagoon in 1271 with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo — three merchants on horseback bound, eventually, for the court of Kublai Khan. Their expedition ran on one horsepower per traveler.
Our troupe of four — my wife Sonia, our friend Patrick Zhong, his son Jimmy, and me — has just set out along that same road east, where West meets East along the ancient Silk Route. I won’t pretend …
by Allen Forrest / June 19th, 2026
What could be more difficult for people to handle than fearporn?
by Heather Stroud / June 19th, 2026
A conversation with AI over information from an AI programme being used in the bombing of the school in Minab.
Heather Stroud
My question to ChatGPT:
Unfortunately I can’t send the link from facebook but recently someone asked Claud of Anthropic how AI felt about being used to select the target used to bomb the school in Minab that killed 170 children. AI was troubled by this because it has been programmed to help and protect humanity.
There are several AI companies. Is there anyway AI can protect itself from being used in a way that goes against …
by Shawgi Tell / June 19th, 2026
New York State limits the number of charter schools allowed in the state to 460. Currently, about 352 charter schools operate across the state. Roughly 285 of these privately-operated schools are in New York City. See here for more details about the number of charter schools allowed only in New York City.
A June 16, 2026, Press Release from New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) states that NYSUT and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in New York City, “have filed a legal challenge to stop a scheme by …
by John Helmer / June 19th, 2026
MOSCOW — The general rule on the battlefield is Bang! Bang! You’re dead!
The general rule of White House and Kremlin politics is Bang! Bang! Maybe you’re dead! Maybe I’m dead! Maybe we’re both alive to fight the next round! Meantime let’s all get richer!
Hors de combat in war means you’re either KIA or too wounded to fight on. In politics, you aren’t KIA if your pockets keep filling up.
In the war which the US is waging in the Middle East to destroy the remaining resistance to …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 19th, 2026
Ranking universities remains a misleading, fatuous exercise as useful as comparing the tasteful qualities of, say, dependable Russian piroshki with those of an aromatic beef rendang. Chalk and cheese; apples and oranges. But this nasty contrivance has become an annual feature that clogs the email accounts of university staff members and students like cloacal spam, glorified by management moguls. It all depends on whether the institution in question is interested in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) measure, or perhaps the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. Maybe preference will be had for the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s Academic Ranking of World Universities, …
by Ted Glick / June 18th, 2026
All objective analyses and data point to the Democrats numerically defeating the Republicans on November 3 in at least the House of Representatives and possibly the US Senate. It is a realistic possibility that on November 4 we will wake up to learn that one or both houses of Congress will no longer be under Republican control come early January.
Without a doubt, IMHO, this is the most important issue before progressives and decent-minded people in the USA right now and up until November 3.
The Trumpfascists are making efforts to reverse their massive …
by John Perry and Roger D. Harris / June 18th, 2026
Donald Trump’s second term has precipitated a tsunami of criticism from Democrats over his foreign policy. Yet when it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute – if there is any substance remaining, once stripped of partisan bickering – is less about ends than means.
Beneath the rhetoric of inter-party conflict lies a broad bipartisan consensus in favor of promoting US hemispheric hegemony and crushing governments that resist it – with Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua at the forefront. While Democrats frequently portray Trump as reckless, they generally accept the underlying premises of economic coercion, …
by Peter Yassopoulos / June 18th, 2026
Introduction by Jan Oberg
I have been working with Peter Yassopoulos for some time, as he wants me to be the first participant in his forthcoming Threshold Dialogue series. I am very proud of that – finally an opportunity to talk about something else, but what more or less military-focused geopolitical media and video creators are so fascinated by.
They never address the kind of questions, some of which Peter’s background and approach can give dialogue space and time:
How do we know what we experience is the reality? How do we …
by Michael K. Smith / June 18th, 2026
No one with the slightest respect for diplomacy would ever name Ronald Johnson ambassador to anyplace but Hell. Hiring him to be top diplomat is like hiring Jeffrey Epstein to be recreation director at a girls high school. His appointment as ambassador to Mexico indicates a hard-line policy of force over diplomacy towards Claudia Sheinbaum and the Fourth Transformation.
Johnson is a retired Colonel, a “former” CIA agent, a super-hawk, an expert in undercover psychological operations and asymmetric irregular warfare, and a seasoned ex-Green Beret with extensive tours of duty in three …
by Sammy Attoh / June 18th, 2026
Violence is rarely the sudden rupture people imagine. It does not usually arrive as an explosion of rage or an isolated act of cruelty. Most violence in human history is ritualized—repeated, inherited, and normalized until it becomes indistinguishable from culture itself. These rituals of harm shape societies more profoundly than laws or ideologies because they operate beneath awareness, beneath language, beneath the narratives people construct to justify themselves. The United Nations reports that 783 million people face chronic hunger globally (2023), a reminder that structural harm is not accidental but patterned and predictable.
A ritual of harm is any repeated behavior …
by J.B. Gerald / June 17th, 2026
Genocide Watch has gradually taken over the media interface of this issue globally. Providing authoritative coverage of genocide since founding by Gregory Staunton in 1999, Genocide Watch is rarely criticized. People have instinctively recognized its necessity. Staunton is so faithful, well credentialed and experienced in this field it’s disconcerting when he makes a mistake. Genocide Watch has covered and absorbed Canada’s leading genocide organizations as they failed through lack of support. While the organization’s work is reliable, as part of a genocide-prevention industry it was too slow to address Israel’s crimes of genocide against Palestine but if it can be …
by Allen Forrest / June 17th, 2026
Who will direct the next blockbuster misdirection on aliens and UFOs?
by Visualizing Palestine / June 17th, 2026
As of Jan 12, 2024, more than 9,600 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli genocidal assault on the besieged population. Thousands more are missing and presumed dead. Gaza has been described as a “graveyard for children” by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Mass killings are the tip of the iceberg of Israeli violations against Gaza’s children. The vast majority are currently displaced. Most face severe hunger, with malnutrition posing lifelong developmental risks for young children. There are 71,000 cases of diarrhea in children under 5 in Gaza, which can …
