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Malala at the Marxist school in Swat Valley
A girl locked out of school by force and a girl pushed out by neglect lose the same future.
When Malala Yousafzai stood before the United Nations in 2013 and declared that “one child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world,” much of the world imagined Afghanistan. The image seemed to fit easily. Afghanistan had already become a global symbol of women barred from schools and public life under militant rule. Yet …

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We talked for an hour on my radio show. Andony Melathopoulos, Associate Professor Pollinator Health Extension, Department of Horticulture | Oregon State University….

There are ages when humanity loses its ability to tell the difference between truth and spectacle, wisdom and noise, justice and performance. Ours is such an age. Discernment — once a basic civic and spiritual discipline — has withered under the weight of distraction, propaganda, and the relentless hunger for entertainment. We no longer ask whether something is true. We ask whether it is trending.

Discernment requires patience, humility, and moral clarity. But we live in a time that rewards speed, certainty, and outrage. And so the human mind, once capable of depth, now skims the surface of everything. We react …

While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving ever more predatory with the Gaza Strip. With aggrandizing impunity, more territory is being acquired for familiar reasons: Hamas is on the run and needs to be crushed further (the organisation is proving oddly resilient and contradictory to Israeli objectives here); Palestinian autonomy, even in so small an area, would be a future threat to Israel unless heavily invigilated and policed; and, well, there is that old desire to ethnically cleanse the territory.

Speaking at a conference on May …

The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas had weaponized sexual violence on October 7. It was written by the paper’s pro-Israel Jerusalem-based reporter, Isabel Kershner.
Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times Op-ed piece titled The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians, published on May 11, was based on documentation and grueling victim testimonies of rapes that Palestinians have experienced at the hands of Israeli security forces. Brutal and sadistic acts of sexual torture are described in a piece …

Chancellor Merz,

When I wrote an open letter to you a half year ago, I urged Germany to pursue diplomacy with Russia rather than the normalization of war. Six months later, the situation in Europe is dramatically worse. Europe and Russia are slipping into open war. And in that drift, Chancellor, your responsibility is singular. No European leader — not in Paris, not in Warsaw, not in Rome — holds the position that Germany holds, or has the power that you personally hold, to interrupt this catastrophe. Will you try for peace?

You yourself, with Prime Minister Meloni and President Macron, called …

Although they are “public schools” on paper, in reality charter schools are private businesses that siphon billions of dollars a year from traditional public schools. These traditional public schools educate about 88% of the nation’s youth and are typically under-funded and vilified by the rich and their political and media representatives.

Over the last 30+ years, numerous court cases, thousands of news articles, and hundreds of scholarly papers and books have shown that charter schools also regularly oppose public accountability and transparency. Not surprisingly, the charter school sector is constantly plagued …

Every society reveals its true character in the way it treats its children. A nation may boast of power, wealth, or technological brilliance, but if its young grow up in fear, hunger, or neglect, its moral foundation is already compromised. A global order that pours trillions into weapons while millions of children lack food, shelter, or safety is not simply misguided — it is ethically disfigured. (Readers should confirm political information with trusted sources.)

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $916 billion on its military in 2023 — more than the next ten countries …

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Among the many horrors unleashed by the current regime in the U.S., little has been written about its impacts on the extraordinary social and political experiment that was underway in Eastern Syria, in the area of Rojova. Even though Rojova has been essentially dismantled due to Trump’s policies in the region, I think more of us need to understand what they attempted, as it could provide a model for the future, once the authoritarian project has …

When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026 commencement declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered boos that escalated when she spoke of “living in a time of profound change.” Gloria Caulfield, an aloof real estate executive, paused and looked around confused, asking, “Whoop, what happened?” She seemingly did not realize the graduating students were booing her techno-utopian position on AI, a fact made clear seconds later when she drew cheers for saying, …

Professor Richard Falk has been a TFF Associate for all the 40 years, TFF has existed. A dear friend, too. And now at soon 96, a world-leading brilliant thinker, a clear voice for law, peace, justice, decency and ethics.

Here is Richard’s blog, written since he turned 80.

He is interviewed by Pascal Lottaz, who is a TFF Board member and operates one of the finest peace-oriented channels: Neutrality Studies on YouTube and Rumble.

The war on Iran is the 21st century ‘Ten days that shook the world’. That was John Reed’s account of the 1917 Russia revolution, the secular utopian experiment that defined world politics for the entire century, terrifying world elites, at the same time, defeating German fascism, and liberating the colonial world, from Africa to Asia.

The imperialists finally defeated communism, but its goals – security and peace for the masses – remain unfulfilled. They are the goals of Islam, which took the communists’ torch, holding it higher than atheism ever could. Supersonically high. …

Polly on Twitter asks, “Is there a pejorative term for military like what pig is for cops?”
Dear Polly,
No, but there should be. We need to start stigmatizing that shit.
It is not okay to be a stormtrooper for the Western Empire. It is not honorable. It is not worthy of respect. If you are a Westerner who is considering joining the military, you should choose a different career path instead.
Don’t thank soldiers for their “service”. Don’t play along with the lie that your nation’s soldiers fight for your rights or your freedom. It only encourages more …

In response to recent developments in Venezuela under imperialist siege, international solidarity activists should adopt a stance that does not inadvertently reinforce Washington’s drive for domination. Our central responsibility is not to adjudicate every tactical decision made under siege conditions, but to oppose the imperialist aggression that creates those conditions.

The overwhelming structure of US hybrid warfare against Venezuela remains intact, continuing to suffocate the country’s economic recovery and undermine its sovereignty. Washington continues to exert decisive pressure over the country’s principal source of national revenue, the oil sector. It uses sanctions, financial coercion, and domination of global banking systems, as …

Will the government really release the entirety of the UFO files?