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On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness, lamented in The Atlantic that the United States had suffered a unique defeat in its efforts to subjugate Iran. The article says much about Kagan’s own identification with the obvious, some feat given the military fancy and fantasy that continues to blot the current Trump administration.

Be that as it may, he finds the Iran War dishing out a defeat to the United States of unique quality, one that “can neither be repaired nor ignored.” No ultimate American …

There are ages when humanity forgets how to listen, and ours is unmistakably one of them. We speak constantly, argue reflexively, and broadcast without pause, yet we rarely hear anything beyond the echo of our own convictions. The world is saturated with noise but starved of understanding. Listening — once a basic human discipline — has become a fragile and endangered practice.

We listen to respond, not to understand. We listen to defend, not to discern. We listen to win, not to witness.

In this collapse of listening, something fundamental has been forfeited: the capacity to recognize one another’s humanity.

In 2022, a Stanford-trained physician who’d quit her surgical residency to start a continuous-glucose-monitor company was largely unknown outside Silicon Valley wellness circles. Her brother, a Harvard MBA who’d worked in food and pharma consulting, was less known than that.

By 2024, Casey and Calley Means had co-authored a bestselling book, advised a presidential campaign, helped flip RFK Jr. into Trump’s coalition, and become the public faces of “Make America Healthy Again.” In May 2025, Casey was nominated for Surgeon General. In April 2026, the nomination was withdrawn.

Two years from …

The concepts that shaped the minds that eagerly approve of the genocide, buried in the Old Testament and in the history of independent Jewish governing, are targets for extinction, Zionist behavior today includes a messianic endeavor that complements the original political Zionism and aligns with behavior of Jews in ancient history. This is a significant change that demands revelation. Theodore Herzl’s incipient Zionism, promoted by secular Jews, brought havoc to the Middle East; the messianic attachment is creating havoc to the entire world.

No longer are Jews and their religion veiled from criticism; the protective shield of anti-Semitism has been lifted …

The public-private distinction is one of the most crucial distinctions to have emerged in society over the past few centuries.

Each realm has distinct legal, economic, political, and cultural dimensions. For example, many spaces, activities, and lived experiences inhabit the private sphere (e.g., the home) while many others occupy the public sphere (e.g., broad social public debate).

Importantly, the public and private spheres should not be confounded or blurred, as so often happens. Each sphere has its own aims, structures, and functions. Public and private are actually antonyms.

A major problem today is that both concepts are routinely trivialized, distorted, or blurred by …

Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000)

Inevitably, it seems, great power comes with great hubris. For a brief, glorious moment, brick walls appear as doorways, and everything seems possible. Nemesis lies in wait.

Having taken just six weeks and one day to conquer all of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in 1940, Hitler said of his plans to invade the Soviet Union the …

British antiwar protesters during the Suez crisis September 12, 1956. Photo: Socialist Worker archive

Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shift in the economic tides but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind …

Being very much the all-American figure that he was, Ted Turner’s passing was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotted descriptions: the philanthropist, the conservationist, the yachtsman, the sporting proprietor, and the twenty-four-hour news pioneer. “He thought big and lived large,” observed Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan with irritating triteness. “He was the original,” added former CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, barely an improvement. “He made us all strive for his vision of a better world.”  No doubt the hagiographers will be kept busy with words of statuary on various aspects of his life in due course.

One contribution …

MOSCOW — Once upon a time, in 2019, President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia and Israel make “a true common family; I can say this without exaggeration. Almost 2 million Russian speakers live in Israel. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking country…Without any exaggeration, I can say with pride that probably there has never been such a high level of relations between Russia and Israel, if, of course, we don’t go back to the very first months or maybe the first couple of years of …

It is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA by destructive corporate power, or even to be committed to hard work for the next eight and a half [now 6] months here in the USA to defeat the billionaire-supporting, would-be dictator Donald Trump. Our problems are too deep to accept this essential next step as the ultimate goal. Short-term, essential goal yes, but looking at things historically, it can only be the first major step in a fundamental, revolutionary process that over time not just saves the …

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Big Brother in Orwell’s 1984: “and ignorance is strength” and “2 plus 2 does not equal 4” as now realized in US- and Zionist-perverted Australia:

(1) Australia was involved  in all post-WW2 US Asian wars (40 million Asian deaths from violence and deprivation) and supported the 9/11-enabled  and Zionist-promoted devastation of 7 Muslim countries  (as set out in the Pentagon Plan revealed by anti-racist Jewish presidential candidate and top US general Wesley Clark in Winning Modern Wars; the post-9/11 War on Muslims was associated with 30 million Muslim deaths). …

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns the imperialist-backed terrorist and separatist attacks against the Transition Government of Mali on April 25, 2026. This was a major attack that terrorized the population in several towns, resulting in casualties, among whom the minister of defense, General Sadio Camara, his wife, and grandchildren were killed. The Black Alliance for Peace offers our condolences to the family and comrades in the Malian transition government, as well as the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

Consistent with our principles, BAP stands in unity with all anti-imperialist fighting …

Human beings often search for meaning in distant philosophies, institutions, or ideologies, but the truth is far more immediate: what confronts us, what resists us, and what shapes our condition is what ultimately defines us. And nothing shapes the human condition more profoundly than the woman who brings humanity into existence. She is not a symbol to be admired from a distance, nor an accessory to the historical record. She is the creator of the species, the first architect of human survival, and the most exploited force in every civilization that …

Artisanal fishers collective, La Guaira, Venezuela

A US military strike on May 4 killed two mariners in an alleged “narco boat” campaign which now has a cumulative death toll of at least 188. The pace of extrajudicial executions is ramping up, according to The Guardian. But why?

The serial murders could be, as the Trump administration claims, a genuine counter-narcotics operation. Or Mr. Trump and company may be conducting a demonstration exercise of executive power. Alternatively, the “kinetic strikes” may reflect more domestic concerns or perhaps foreign policy issues. Another possibility …