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The stupidity of it all could be a daily column, mushrooming into a book, and then into a series that clogs library shelves. Each day batters our senses with insensible remarks, debatable stories, and drastic policies from the delegated powerful, those who tell us how wonderfully we live and why we should cherish the freedoms that bind us all. The policies that engage the U.S. with Iran and Russia have proved worthless, knocking a fist against a glass wall, slightly breaking the wall, and suffering a bleeding cut. Initiating them has not been smart; continuing them is “just plain stupid.” …

UAE’s ties to Israel, hostility to Iran and its large wealth funds explain Mark Carney’s obsession with the federation of seven monarchies situated at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula.

Last week Prime Minister Carney talked with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ). On X, Canadian researcher Anthony Fenton quipped, “Carney placed his bi-weekly call to MbZ on Friday.” In June Carney also met MbZ at the G7 and traveled to Abu Dhabi last November.

Foreign affairs minister Anita Anand is currently in the UAE. According to …

Early Morning: Watering the Roots

Before processing any political thought on Palestine, we have to ask ourselves one simple question: What did the beloved martyrs of Palestine, like Ghassan Kanafani and Naji al-Ali, say—or what would they say—about this?

If the answer is “I don’t know,” then that is what needs to be recovered first. Before …

President Donald Trump has been less than coy about possibly ramping up his illegal war of aggression against Iran after the mid-term elections, and now states the United States would not use a nuclear weapon, but possibly the “Mother of All Bombs,” MOAB for short (with apologies to that lovely town in Utah), officially the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb. The target would supposedly be Iran’s energy infrastructure and nuclear facilities, which were supposedly obliterated by U.S. and Israeli attacks over a year ago.
A few reminders are in order. The US-Israeli war on Iran …

In an inadvertent attempt to recoup his prestige in time for the mid term elections, President Donald Trump canceled the public execution of Nidel Malik Hasan which was scheduled for December 3. The execution will take place but just not with thousands of public witnesses.
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You may have noticed that since the US and Russia agreed on their diesel deal, there has been a spat with President Trump calling out President Zelensky. Trump announced for all the world to hear “that’s a war that should have never started and I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new …

I asked VEED to create a short video exemplifying how peace is preferable to war, then chose the lady as a template. Simple as that. In less than a minute, it produced this video, which any peace-loving person would appreciate.

The only problem is that human intelligence (HI), at least the one that exists among Western decision-makers, isn’t half as moral or smart as AI.

I have used AI to dialogue about peace and peace plans, creative conflict resolution and visions of a better future for humankind. It …

As the mid term elections are imminent, considerable debate is centered around election results including whether the Uniparty will dissolve after having shared their mutual support of AIPAC and its campaign funds.

What has not received its deserved attention is how deep and penetrating the political realignment will occur – most importantly, whether the GOP as a political party survive sufficiently to be considered a full activated partisan option to compete with the Democrats.

How such a realignment may adversely affect the quality of AIPAC checks is yet to be determined.

Political realignments are not an uncommon events in American …

Over seventy years ago, the US took control of South Korea’s military.  To this day, it still controls it.

Why?

This confounds every notion of state sovereignty: a supposedly sovereign country–South Korea–has its own military subjugated under US control.

Opcon (operational control) of one nation’s army by another country is usually temporary, usually during wartime among allies.

In Korea, it has lasted over 76 years.

South Korea has asked for opcon back, repeatedly.  It has been three decades since South Korea first made the demand.

The US has always delayed, filibustered, waffled, and moved goal posts.

More recently, the US has signaled more delay on the return of …

It’s revealing that Avi Lewis ignores the most successful leftist leader in the imperial core. It’s not Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s anti-capitalism that explains the NDP leader’s reticence, but the French presidential candidate’s opposition to NATO.

In a summary of a recent interview with Lewis Politico noted, “He has worked before with ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (on a ‘Green New Deal’ cartoon; he was a writer), admires BERNIE SANDERS — and his team has traded notes with ZOHRAN MAMDANI’s staff.”

I was unable to find any mention by either Lewis or the NDP of Mélenchon, who has …

Competition is fundamentally about winning and losing. The basic premise behind competition is that there will be winners, losers, and inequality. Competition rejects the view that humans have equal rights and embraces a hierarchy in which some people are considered more worthy and deserving than others.

Competition, moreover, is not synonymous with excellence. If anything, it makes everyone a loser.

Does social Darwinism belong in the sphere of education in a modern society? Should students be treated as winners and losers? What message does this send to everyone?

Poaching students from this or …

While preparing the brief for the visual “Sowing Terror in Palestine’s Harvest” earlier this year, we reviewed dozens of case reports on incidents of Israeli settler violence. The statistics on this issue are alarming, but the stories are unforgettable. In case after case, the level of collusion between Israeli settlers and Israeli officials created situations so absurd and nightmarish that they belong in the pages of a Franz Kafka novel. The Farmer and the Settler is just one example of what Israeli settler colonialism is systematically doing to Palestinian families across the …

How does one survive against globalist control freaks?

A viral video clip shows a group of wild boars getting caught in a corral trap. When the gate snaps shut, the poor animals run around in a panic, searching in vain for an exit.
According to the caption that’s been going around, the trapper waited patiently for five days for the entire sounder to get comfortable enough to take the bait and enter the trap all at once. The gate didn’t close until the final pig walked …

Does B’nai Brith really want to sic the state on hundreds of Jewish organizations?

According to a recent official lobbying report, B’nai Brith is pressing Public Safety Canada to “conduct a national security review of organizations, networks, and entities that promote, finance, facilitate, or legitimize extremist ideologies.” They’ve held formal meetings with government officials to promote their authoritarian position.

As former Canadian Jewish News head Yoni Goldstein’s incitement against Avi Lewis …