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by Jimmy Coleman / March 21st, 2026
Think of modern day Israel as a bowl filled with a mixture of ingredients, a few complementary, like salt and pepper. Other ingredients, however, like the intermingling of Zionism and Talmudic Judaism, while favorable to many family members who grew up among its ranks, it proves unpalatable for most outsiders. Mixed together, the concoction grows tentacles intertwined with the curse of Medusa, a vicious monster sporting writhing serpents in place of hair, fanged teeth and a face so hideous that the mere sight of her was sufficient to turn a man to stone.
Edward Said, in his Forward to Israel Shahak’s …
The Earth Remembers What Humanity Refuses to Learn
by Sammy Attoh / March 21st, 2026
The earth has always been the first witness and the last survivor. Long before humanity learned to write its own history, the soil was already keeping record. Every drought, every flood, every migration, every extinction — all of it is stored in the quiet memory of the land. The earth does not forget. It cannot forget. It carries the imprint of every choice humanity has made, especially the choices we pretend were harmless.
Human beings, however, have perfected the art of forgetting. We forget the lessons our ancestors paid for with their lives. We forget the warnings carved into the ruins …
by Yader Lanuza / March 19th, 2026
Since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, the US has attacked the Bolivarian Revolution in multiple ways, including through propaganda that categorize it as “authoritarian,” “unfree,” and “undemocratic.” This US propaganda assault is intended to dictate what should be done in Venezuela, including a return to “democracy,” with “free” and “fair” elections. Emboldened by the US military attack on Jan. 3, and relying on the US propaganda assault, the Venezuelan opposition has launched an aggressive move to seize control of the state by seeking concessions from …
The Age of Generative Warfare
by Nolan Higdon / March 19th, 2026
“Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral March 2026 video showing missiles hammering the Israeli city as explosions burst across the night sky. To the casual scroller, it appeared to be a harrowing document of modern conflict. The problem, however, was that the video was a deepfake.
Deepfakes are synthetic media edited or generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to the New York Times, a “cascade of A.I. fakes about war with Iran” have proliferated across social media since the United States (U.S.) and Israel reignited military actions with Iran on …
by J.S. O’Keefe / March 19th, 2026
Every answer carries the next problem inside it, the way a season carries the one that will replace it. We have learned not to be surprised by this.
We were born here, and so we stay. What else is there? The world ends at the television frame, where the evening news flickers and dies each night and we sit in its light a little longer than we need to. Beyond that edge is something we have no name for.
This place made us and we made something of it. We got up before light and we worked and we felt that the …
by Renee Parsons / March 19th, 2026
Almost one year after the 2024 election on a peace platform, the Trump Administration backed itself into an alarming militaristic US-Israeli tag team that is not what the American public voted for. Almost immediately, the newly elected Peace President who continued to lust for the Noble Peace Prize, allowed his country to be drawn into a series of unconstitutional conflicts with the most recent being a severe unprovoked war of aggression against Iran.
Early in Trump’s second term his no-new interventionist war pledge was no longer public policy when he failed to end the war in Ukraine as promised, followed by initiation of …
A friendly quarrel while we agree that the US sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction and kill more people than wars do. And that we must talk much more about sanctions than we have so far.
by Jan Oberg / March 19th, 2026
Image: The News Statesman
John Mearsheimer recently stated that U.S. sanctions murdered around 38 million people between 1971 and 2021 – see the video below. It is a dramatic figure, and it has spread quickly because it captures, in one sentence, the enormous human cost of modern sanctions.
I share his concern about the destructive effects of economic coercion. But the specific number he cites — and the way he attributes it — deserves a friendly academic clarification.
The figure comes from a 2023 Lancet Global Health article estimating the mortality effects of unilateral U.S. …
by Survival International / March 19th, 2026
President Hassan receives a report from the presidential commissions at an official handover ceremony, March 2026.
Two presidential commissions have recommended the mass eviction of Maasai people from some of East Africa’s most iconic conservation areas and tourist destinations.
The commissions were established by Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan following previous evictions of Maasai pastoralists from parts of the world-famous Serengeti ecosystem, and large-scale protests in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in 2024.
Now, despite a global outcry at the earlier evictions, the two Commissions have:
Backed the previous …
by Megan Russell / March 19th, 2026
Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S. and Israel carpet-bombed Iran, then Lebanon, displacing millions of people from their homes. The pure, unrelenting terror continues to unfold. We are shocked and devastated, but we are also enraged — because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
There is an urgent need to identify and address the burgeoning war profiteers that are leading the world headfirst …
by Peter Blunt / March 18th, 2026
The penny has clearly dropped. Trump and his domesticated colony of phocine honkers and clappers have been forced to admit what the Iranians (and presumably Western intelligence agencies) have known for some time: that Iran has a pretty much immovable stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, which has now clearly been shown to be the Achilles Heel of the US-Israeli position in the Middle East and, to some extent, of the global economy.
For reasons set out later in this essay, the CIA will have known that there was very little that the US and Israel could do if Iran chose …
by Mike Kesz / March 18th, 2026
Next month, on April 12, 2026, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections that will have a great impact not only on the country’s future domestic policy but also on the coordination of its actions and decisions with EU countries in foreign policy. The main struggle will take place between the Fidesz Party, that in now in power, and the opposition party Tisza.
The Fidesz headed by incumbent Prime Minister Victor Orban has been in power for more than 15 years now, and for this whole period of time it has conducted the policy that often contradicts to the political course of the …
by Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores / March 18th, 2026
I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which people from dozens of countries representing a variety of organizations will break the blockade, bringing much-needed supplies to the island. CODEPINK is bringing 6,300 pounds of medical equipment and medicine with help from Global Health Partners and others. These supplies will be given to clinics, hospitals, and maternity centers as Cuba deals with the latest horrifying crime against humanity perpetrated by the United States.
The U.S. is blockading oil, seizing …
by Greg Godels / March 18th, 2026
The chaotic Trump reign over US politics is showing critical signs of weakening on many fronts: Trumponomics is failing: Trumpian immigration policy has stirred a powerful backlash; Teflon Trump has been tarnished by his clumsy, slippery handling of the Epstein scandal; his foreign-policy contradictions and outrages have confused both international friends and foes alike; and his violation of his “end to endless wars” campaign has caused a break with some of his most ardent supporters.
It is easy to forget that this Trump regime has been in power for only a little more than a year, while enjoying a majority …
by Dan Lieberman / March 18th, 2026
Re-creation of an American foreign policy tactic, “We have to kill them in order to save them,” sheds a dark light on the executive leadership that guides foreign policies and on the political commentators who inform Americans of the policies. The U.S. government released its assessment of why Iran must be pulverized into the Stone Age, and favored political reporters persuaded their readers to agree with the policy.
The Iranian Regime’s Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens, The White House, March 2, 2026
For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — has killed …
by Stansfield Smith / March 18th, 2026
Since 1962 the US imposed an economic blockade on Cuba designed “to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Until 1990 this brutality was greatly alleviated by the solidarity of the socialist countries which provided the Cuban people with essential trade and aid. That provided some protection, but as 638 Ways to Kill Castro illustrates, the US had other tools, including many acts of terrorism and biological warfare.
Despite decades of resistance to the blockade by solidarity organizations in the US, despite polls consistently showing most people being against the blockade, despite the United Nations General Assembly votes for the …
by Stephen Gowans / March 17th, 2026
Facit indignatio versum
(Indignation makes my verses) – Juvenal
In his analyses of the causes of the first world war, Lenin stressed the importance of understanding the policies the belligerent states pursued before the war. Borrowing from the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, the Bolshevik leader argued that war is politics by other (namely, violent) means. Clausewitz put it this way: “War is policy itself, which takes up the sword in place of …
by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East / March 17th, 2026
Last Friday afternoon, Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched an attack on free speech, instructing his Attorney General to file an emergency injunction to prevent the Al-Quds Day march from taking place in Toronto. Ford’s action came just one day after his meeting with Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, and Israel’s Consul General in Toronto, Idit Shamir.
In response, we issued a statement condemning the use of state power to suppress a political demonstration in support of Palestinian rights. We argued that Doug Ford’s injunction posed a serious threat to the Charter-protected …
Missiles over Canaan and the death cult of Zionism
by Phil Rockstroh / March 17th, 2026
The Colossus, Francisco Goya
Tell me, should I feel guilt due to my anger-engendered desire for the collective butchers of Gaza (and Lebanon and Iran) i.e., Zionist true believers to experience a karmic dose of the pain and grief that they inflict, as a matter of routine, as Israeli Third Reich-adjacent state policy? Adding to the desire for Schadenfreude, the IDF’s war endless criminality is supported, in an overwhelming manner by the Israeli citizenry — polls reveal 88% of Israelis queried state they are …
by Miguel Santos García / March 17th, 2026
For decades, Panama successfully cultivated a foreign policy posture of strict neutrality defined by its unique geography centered on the operation of the Panama Canal.
This small-state hedging strategy allowed Panama to welcome commercial presence from both the United States and China while maintaining the waterway’s treaty-based impartiality.
However, in early 2026, this equilibrium shattered. Following Trump’s victory last year Panama has exited China’s Belt and Road Initiative and already signaled its alignment with US security concerns, yet it has secured no binding commitment that Washington to make up for the loss of investment.
Moreover, after sustained pressure from Washington characterized by Trump 2.0 rhetoric and Senate …
If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III
by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares / March 17th, 2026
The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are already severe and could become catastrophic. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately one-fifth of all oil traded globally, and 30 percent of the world’s LNG. A sustained closure of the Strait would trigger an energy shock without modern precedent.
The conflict is likely to spiral out of control because the US and Israel are dead set on hegemony in the Arab world and West Asia – one that combines Israeli territorial expansion with …
by Binoy Kampmark / March 17th, 2026
The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the usual prized duo that feature in the nervous chatter of global markets. There are other less conspicuous products that have also been snared in the process. Consider fertilisers, with a supply shock that may well push prices beyond the 2022 peak following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Given their role in agriculture, another, less publicised shock arising from this prolonged war is in the offing. Prices, at this writing, are already biting. Egyptian …
by Gary Olson / March 16th, 2026
Any objective observer knows that the U.S. has lost the war in Iran, a war fought for Israel. It’s obvious that the U.S. had no overall plan; now it only reacts to Iranian moves and is reduced to endless, ineffective bombing and murdering school children.
In one sense, we’re seeing what would have occurred if the 12-day war in June 2025 had gone on longer, but with one exception. This time, the Russians and Chinese have provided the satellite intelligence that allows Iran’s targeting accuracy to be vastly improved, and we’re seeing …
“Public” And “Private” Confounded Again
by Shawgi Tell / March 16th, 2026
Charter schools are privatized education arrangements that continually insist on being called “public” while routinely avoiding many public laws, standards, and requirements.
Charter school operators have always wanted to be both public and private for self-serving reasons—public so that they can seize public funds and private so that they can remain unaccountable.
Dr. Michael Mindzak at Brock University in Canada reminds us that, “The purpose of charter schools is to foster privatization under the guise of public education.” The Network for Public Education states that, “There …
When Humanity Forgets It Is Mortal
by Sammy Attoh / March 16th, 2026
There comes a moment in every age when humanity must confront the mirror it has spent centuries avoiding. That mirror does not flatter us. It reveals a species that has mastered the sciences of destruction while neglecting the simple art of living. It reveals a creature that speaks of peace while perfecting the machinery of war — a creature that claims intelligence yet behaves as though wisdom were an inconvenience. And at the center of this contradiction lies a question as old as civilization itself: why does humankind, in its restless hunger for permanence and power, continue to forge instruments …
Executive Order Secures Glyphosate Supply, EPA Regulatory Decisions Shape the Legal Defense, DOJ Supports Bayer, the Supreme Court Takes the Case, & House Farm Bill Advances Chemical Liability Shield
by Bhajan L / March 16th, 2026
Healthy soil, water, and ecosystems are the foundation of human life. The health of creation gives rise to the health of life.
Powerful outside interests are using America’s treasury and public policy to advance profit-driven agendas while the health, land, and future of the American people bear the cost.
The same public purse that finances war abroad is now underwriting policies that poison the land at home.
Political energy that should be confronting this system is instead being redirected into advertising, messaging, and branding, while the real decisions are made through law, …
by Michael Lee Longenecker / March 16th, 2026
Some catastrophes arrive like explosions; others arrive like a hand on the throat that tightens, loosens just enough to keep the victim conscious, then tightens again. What is happening to Cuba now is the second kind. It is less a “crisis” than the logical endpoint of a relationship Ada Ferrer, in Cuba: An American History, describes as “intimate, explosive, and always uneven”—a history in which the United States could never decide whether Cuba was a neighbor, a colony, or a mirror it couldn’t bear to look into.
If the Iran war …
by Serena Wylde / March 16th, 2026
Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson said on the independent news channel Democracy Now! that the current U.S. administration, in a matter of days, has committed war crimes in Iran on a scale he has not seen in his lifetime.
He told viewers that, not for the first time, the U.S. had initiated an illegal war, violated the U.S. Constitution and international law, but that the attacks on Iran, and in the midst of talks, have eclipsed all previous violations.
As Chief of Staff to Colin Powell in the lead-up to the Iraq war, he admitted that he came from an administration of …
Costly and Depleting
by Binoy Kampmark / March 14th, 2026
The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its air force and navy destroyed, its missile capabilities blunted, is now drawing the clumsy colossus of American power into the Middle East with embarrassing effect. The Middle East, where US President Donald Trump promised the “forever wars” would end, promises an end to his beginning.
The ledger of losses keeps rising with giddying pace. The US casualty list, for now, remains manageably low, but the military purse is being raided with manic relish. Operation Epic …
by Lee Camp / March 14th, 2026
I don’t think it’s controversial any longer to proclaim that the ruling class of the US and Israel (USrael™) are idiot psychopaths (idiopaths™). Some around the globe have noticed the two administrations sinking all of us into a possible global economic meltdown / possible nuclear war / probable really shitty 2026 don’t seem to have a “plan” or “strategy” or “inkling” for what happens next. Even the lawmakers who attended a closed-door briefing about the administration’s Persian Incursion exited the room completely baffled as to A) the reasons …
by Gary Olson / March 14th, 2026
In a major escalation of the war, Trump wrote on Truth Social last night that he ordered the US Central Command to conduct a bombing raid that “obliterated every MILITARY target on Iran’s crown jewel.” He said that “For reasons of decency, I have NOT chosen to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the island, however, should Iran, or anyone else do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Straights of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider.” He described …
