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by Dennis Morrisseau / March 2nd, 2026
Everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
— W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Today the Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school, killing 57 children. Let that sink in. Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.
Now tell those parents, as we are being told, that America has done this so the Iranian people can be free. …
by Jan Oberg / March 2nd, 2026
There were only two things that surprised me – and would have been fitting – namely that he had been dressed in military battle uniform (I predict that, as Supreme Commander, he will soon show up in that), and that he did not argue that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize even more for what he has now announced.
That said, here is how you speak when you are a danger to the world:
WE ARE THREATENED BY EVIL ITSELF
You accuse Iran of being a threat to the American people – while the US itself …
What on Earth Are We Doing? The Madness of Mining the Cosmos While Poisoning Our Only Home
by Sammy Attoh / March 2nd, 2026
Humanity stands at a strange and tragic crossroads. We boast of our intelligence, our innovation, our “progress,” yet we behave like a species determined to sabotage its own future. We tear open the earth for minerals, metals, and rare elements—lithium, cobalt, gold, copper—feeding an insatiable appetite for technology, weapons, and spectacle. We burn forests, poison rivers, and choke the atmosphere, all while congratulating ourselves for planning missions to Mars in search of water.
What kind of madness is this?
We are a civilization that contaminates the water beneath our feet while spending billions to search for droplets on distant planets. We destroy …
by Michael Brenner / March 2nd, 2026
Into every commentator’s life falls a one-time permission slip to make ad hominem remarks. This is confirmed by Hoyle, the Marquess of Queensbury and natural law.
· Donald Trump is a psychotic Fascist who is consumed by the mad fantasy of becoming the global emperor. The former was evident 9 years ago; the latter was evident on Inauguration Day 12 months ago
· The American voting public nonetheless chose him President twice – almost did so on a third occasion
· The United States’ elites – political and otherwise – have failed totally to protect the Republic by their acquiescence in his despotic actions. Treating …
Roguish Justifications
by Binoy Kampmark / March 2nd, 2026
February 28, 2026. Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter. A gross violation of international law. As usual, a violation celebrated as ethical, necessary, and high-minded in principle by the powerful who dictate such terms. Not squalid, dangerous, destabilising. Not, apparently, following the same pattern as before: interventions in Iraq, Libya. Not, goodness, another intervention to overthrow the regime of this same country orchestrated by the United States and Britain in 1953.
Yes, this was Iran, bombed for a second time in under a year, its hierarchy targeted, again, only more comprehensively. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was …
by Binoy Kampmark / March 1st, 2026
Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so chronologically distant as to be fiction. If not Marvel, it’s not marvellous. But another fiction came into play towards the end of February as the United States and Israel reprised their role as world rogues and crockery breakers by attacking Iran for a second time in less than a year in a joint campaign called Operation Lion’s Roar and Epic Fury. Following the vulgar playbook on regime change used against Iraq in 2003 by the US-led forces, a variation …
Military gutlessness
by Kim Petersen / February 28th, 2026
A sucker punch is a punch delivered when the recipient of the punch is hit by surprise. As such a sucker punch indicates cowardice — that the sucker puncher did not have courage and decency to announce his intentions to engage in fisticuffs or battle. The current sneak attack (a so far failed attack) to take out the Iranian leadership by the US-Israel while negotiations are still ongoing in an attempt (half-heartedly or not by the US-Israel negotiators) to settle differences among the sides is a textbook example of cowardice, pusillanimity … gutlessness!
As such the United States and Israel have …
by Jan Oberg / February 28th, 2026
Today, USrael attacked Iran, for the second time within just one year. Today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme (1927-1986).
In the video below, Palme condemns the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, at Xmas 1972. He paid a price for it. He lists the names of places where crimes were committed up till then.
Today, we can add places such as Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Gaza — and on this very day, February 28, 2026, we can add Iran, Iran again and again — places Palme was spared …
Why Conservation Is Not Charity but Survival
by Sammy Attoh / February 28th, 2026
For most of human history, we lived as one species among many. We shared forests with elephants, rivers with hippos, skies with vultures, and coastlines with turtles whose migrations predate our earliest civilizations. The natural world was not a backdrop to human life; it was the condition that made human life possible. For millennia, animals and ecosystems existed in a balance shaped by climate, instinct, and time — not by human ambition. Today that balance is collapsing, not because nature changed, but because we did.
Deforestation, industrial expansion, mining, poaching, and the global appetite for profit have pushed countless species to …
by Ted Glick / February 28th, 2026
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year and a half later in the hope that I could find paying work focused on the climate crisis. What happened that summer to lead to that personal change?
Here is how AI Overview reports it:
The 2003 European heatwave was an extreme, prolonged, and deadly weather event, …
by Shawgi Tell / February 28th, 2026
Charter schools are outsourced schools that have always opposed teachers’ unions, which is why about 90% of the nation’s roughly 8,200 charter schools have no unions. In other words, the vast majority of charter school teachers nationwide have no collective security or real decision-making power. As private employers, charter schools consider teachers “at will” employees—someone they can terminate at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all.
When teachers do strive to form a union at a charter school it is usually …
by Jimmy Coleman / February 28th, 2026
Oh what a relief it is to see that 13 Billion of our tax dollars, give or take, are well spent. The Empire’s newest and largest Aircraft Carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford is swimming in its own excrement. News around the world reports the Ford is having major sewage problems. Evidently the overflow affects 650 Necessaries, aka, toilets, aboard the Gerald R. As scuttlebutt has it, the Captain restricted their use among the 5,000 sailors aboard. Not sure just how the Navy’s high brass plans on enforcing such a restriction.
In a number 1 emergency, which in this case it undoody’ably is, instead of using the Head the male …
by Binoy Kampmark / February 28th, 2026
Britain’s Labour Prime Minister is an accidental genius. Having won a comprehensive election victory in 2024 for not being a disturbed, sociopathic Tory leader, Sir Keir Starmer is now engineering his party into a position of electoral defeat and obituary-laden oblivion. Sclerotic, static, inert, incapable, his Labour Party government risks suffering a most deserved annihilation at the next general election. What they will be replaced with remains the fat, troubling question.
Predictions in politics are always hazardous, and there is nothing to say that Starmer will not gasp across the finishing line when the time comes, should the Labour Party permit …
by Charles Sullivan / February 27th, 2026
One of the things I have learned in my more than seven decades of life is that everything has its opposite. For instance, you wouldn’t know up if there was not also a down. You wouldn’t know warmth without cold. Darkness reveals the light. For every peak there is a corresponding valley. In the same way, good and evil reveal one another.
Not long ago, a group of Buddhist monks and a dog named Aloka completed a peace walk of more than two thousand miles from Texas to Washington, DC, in the dead of winter. Their long walk was a continuation …
An outsiders introduction to developing a Large Language Model
by Rick Sterling / February 27th, 2026
In front of the Israeli Consulate in downtown San Francisco, a memorial to Aaron Bushnell took place on Wednesday February 25. This date marks the second anniversary of what Aaron called his “extreme protest” against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The demonstration was organized by Veterans for Peace and Noise Against Genocide. Leaders of local Veterans for Peace chapters spoke about the significance of Aaron’s action in 2024. At the time, VFP published an eloquent statement titled “Madmen Arsonists Strike Again: They as Much as Lit Aaron Bushnell’s Match for Him.”
Others spoke about how Aaron has been honored around the world including in …
An outsiders introduction to developing a Large Language Model
by Robert Malone / February 27th, 2026
Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It answers our questions, writes our emails, and holds conversations that feel startlingly human. But how does it actually work? How is an AI built, taught, and kept from going off the rails? The answer is more fascinating, and more human, than most people realize.
Part One: Building the Brain
Every AI starts with a goal. Do you want it to recognize faces? Translate languages? Answer questions? That goal determines everything that follows. Once the goal is clear, the real work …
by J.S. O’Keefe / February 27th, 2026
Driving through Yellowstone, I watch a black bear stand on her hind legs at the roadside, teaching her cubs to beg. She rises, sways slightly, forepaws lifted in a gesture that tourists find irresistible. This is her curriculum: stand tall, look needy, wait for the windows to roll down.
The cubs aren’t interested. They scramble up a lodgepole pine or dig furiously at the ground, noses pressed to earth, hunting for the pulse of ground squirrels beneath the soil. They’re terrible students, or maybe the only ones paying attention to what the …
by Binoy Kampmark / February 27th, 2026
This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alleged “narco-boats” and vessels supposedly heading to US shores laden with illicit drugs, Cuba had its turn at engaging a boat with “a known history of criminal and violent activity”.
On the morning of February 25, the speedboat in question was identified in Cuban territorial waters. Registered in Florida in the United States, it approached, according to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, “up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo Falcones, Corralillo …
by George Galloway / February 26th, 2026
history of repression in Canada. Yves Engler is the latest victim. Mark Carney wants a Zionist Palestine state. And Canadians see the US as their main threat. And why wouldn’t they?
Oprah, Deepak Chopra, Huckabee, Trump and his ICE marks
by Phil Rockstroh / February 26th, 2026
I have been writing for decades that Oprah Winfrey was a more effective force insofar as retailing capitalist propaganda than the Joseph Goebbels’ progeny of Fox News/NewsMax outrage peddlers and the corporate-funded nomenklatura/apparatchik clowns of the rightwing think tank shit-circuses.
Oprah’s grift emanates from the same capitalist ideological snake oil of self-bootstraps transcendence; withal, if an individual visualizes the capitalist order’s conception of success with the proper measure of rigorous intensity and unquestioning belief in the magical nature of the system then the universe will …
by Jan Oberg / February 26th, 2026
It is old hat for those who know a bit about peace that it cannot be created by looking only at the various types of violence employed. The world’s focus on the Ukrainian battlefield and its characteristic mixing up ceasefire with peace is misplaced.
One has to ask: And why did they take to violence in the first place, particularly when other options and tools were ready to be employed? And could have stopped the violence and helped the parties find some kind of peaceful existence.
Further, what is it that makes it necessary …
by Ellen Brown / February 26th, 2026
On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair, markets sold off and gold and silver plunged. Investors were positioned for a “dove,” someone inclined to cut rates aggressively and keep money loose; and Warsh has a long-standing reputation as a “hawk.”
So wrote Michael Nicoletos in an article titled “Everyone Is Focusing on the Wrong Thing.” But Nicoletos and some other commentators are seeing something else on the horizon – a rebalancing of the banking system through an overhaul of the Federal Reserve itself. In recent months, noted Nicoletos, Warsh …
by Greg Godels / February 26th, 2026
It was in 2013 that Thomas Piketty rediscovered the problem of wealth inequality with his celebrated book Capital in the Twenty-first Century. Published by Harvard University Press and selling several million copies, the book turned prevailing mainstream economic thinking on its head. Academic economists and capitalist apologists had long assured us that capitalism persistently created wealth and distributed it fairly to all the factors of production, with deviations from this fair distribution attributable to unusual or exceptional intervention in the process.
But Piketty’s look at all the available, relevant data showed just the opposite: capitalism– absent any external or exceptional circumstances– invariably …
by Binoy Kampmark / February 26th, 2026
It was good of Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, to come clean with the witchery and superstition that marks the Bible. When a text advocating genocide, ethnic cleansing and dubious real estate advice in the name of a vengeful Sky God becomes foreign policy and the sentiment of an office holder, foreheads should crease with worry. But Huckabee has no concerns on conceding, as he did to conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson in a podcast interview, that Israel has an ancient, unsubstantiated right drawn from the heavens to claim good chunks of the Middle East.
In the interview, …
by Dan Lieberman / February 25th, 2026
Each day we learn that the leaders of the “free world” lag behind us. Relying on them to give us peace and stability has its doubts. The annual Munich Security Conference, a gathering of Western world’s movers and shakers, tells us why we have this insecure world.
The Conference reached deep into the nitty gritty that determines European security, stability, and prosperity.
Topics addressed at the MSC 2026 will include European security and defense, the future of the transatlantic relationship, the revitalization of multilateralism, competing visions of the global order, regional conflicts, and the security implications of technological advances, to name a …
by Tricontinental Asia / February 25th, 2026
Jumping up and down like a fangirl called on stage by their favourite celebrity, Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s 104th prime minister, was all smiles standing next to US President Donald Trump aboard the USS George Washington. The image was symbolic of the decades long postwar US-Japan alliance, where Japan continues to serve as an ever more subservient client state and unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US empire.
On 8 February, just months after Takaichi took office, a snap election was held during a severe snow storm in most parts of the country, which overlapped with school entrance exams. Many argued that this …
Mayor Mamdani won't be there
by Gary Olson / February 25th, 2026
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of the “capital of capitalism” was a tremendous accomplishment and a blow to Zionists, Wall Street and Democratic Party higher-ups. Even the New York Times described his victory as a “surge of anti-establishment discontent.” Just a few of Mamdani’s frequent pre-election critical comments on capitalism include:
* Taxation isn’t theft. Capitalism is.
*. Socialism doesn’t mean stealing from the rich. It means taking back money from the rich who stole it from everyone else.
*Socialism isn’t some utopian fantasy but the only pragmatic response …
Condescending and Harmful
by Binoy Kampmark / February 25th, 2026
With much in the way of pomp and false premises, the social media ban in Australia for those under 16-years-old was celebrated as a healthy incentive to encourage children to get off the screens and into the playgrounds. A stampede of reinvigorated youth would rush to libraries to borrow books. Sport would be taken up with vim and vigour. Conversations in person would, miraculously, take place with renewed vigour. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had treacly visions of young Australians growing up playing in the outdoors with their friends, pursuing the game of “footy” and swimming and other sports, “discovering music …
by Jeffrey Sachs / February 24th, 2026
The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of these illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief. You took the money illegally; now you should return it.
President Donald Trump, you took funds from the American people that were never yours to take. Give them back, and end the abuse of power.
Friday, the Supreme Court confirmed what many of us argued from the beginning: Your sweeping tariffs were an unlawful overreach of executive power. The Constitution gives …
by Lawrence Davidson / February 24th, 2026
California politics is currently being shaken up thanks to a drive, led by the Service Employees International Union, to enact a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to offset federal cuts to healthcare and support public education and food assistance programs. Campaigning for the measure, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told an enthusiastic crowd that “never before have so few people had so much wealth and so much power.” In a democratic society, he thundered, “the billionaire class cannot have it all.”
It’s a message that’s particularly relevant in today’s world.
In January 2026, as the World Economic Forum opened in Davos, a …
