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On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again — a warning written nearly two centuries ago by Simón Bolívar in 1829:

“The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”

For many Venezuelans, that line no longer feels like history. It feels like the present.

The January 3 U.S. military operation that seized President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores marked a dramatic escalation in a conflict that Venezuelans describe not as sudden but as cumulative — the culmination of decades …

There is a physics rule that changes everything about how we think about secrets. It goes like this: you cannot observe a quantum system without disturbing it. Not because our instruments are clumsy. Not because we haven’t built good enough technology yet. Because the universe, at its most fundamental level, does not allow it.

This sounds like an obscure footnote in a physics textbook. It is not. It is the foundation of a communications revolution that is quietly unfolding right now, one that promises to make certain kinds of messages …

The so-called progressive political and media elites have cynically normalized the assassination of Iran’s leader, dressing up regime change as a moral necessity while denying Iranians the right to self-determination. In doing so, they expose a racist double standard that humanizes Israeli victims, dehumanizes Iranian lives, and buries the very principles of freedom, dignity and international law they claim to defend.

Just imagine the uproar if Iran had killed more than 150 Israeli schoolgirls.

The ritual is immutable:

1) condemn the Iranian “regime” and more or less explicitly welcome the “death” (above all, never say “assassination”) of Ali Khamenei;

2) having thus provided justification …

Below is a commentary for the newspaper I have been publishing my “long-form” commentaries in on a monthly basis, and that newspaper, the Newport News Times, now the Lincoln County Leader, is on the proverbial chopping block.

Here, these people who are buying up what they call “struggling newspapers,” including the Leader:

Country Media, Inc., an Oregon-based company, has acquired numerous, often struggling, local …

If you have your “Reasons For Bombing Iran & Assassinating Their Leader” bingo card out right now, it should almost be full. At various times Donald Trump has said that the US is raining hellfire down on the Iranian people because:

We need to stop their nuclear program. (Trump said he already blew it to smithereens last summer but apparently it’s back and stronger than ever!)
The Ayatollah didn’t treat his people well. (So bombing those same people is the answer. Besides, if the US bombs every leader who …

Rembrandt’s depiction of the biblical account of King Belshazzar seeing a hand writing the words “mene, mene, tekel, upharsin” on a wall.

Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools and private residences, slaughtering all who happen to be on the premises. The tactic, rather than demoralizing civilian populations, galvanizes contempt and the will to resist a foreign aggressor.

Think about it. …

When the Israeli lobbying group UN Watch spread disinformation about Francesca Albanese, they were trying to silence her condemnations of the true “common enemy of humanity”—the illegal system of oppressive, corporate-media-military and surveillance forces shaping a brutal new world order, and now bombing Iran.

Francesca Albanese has evoked the ire of Israeli officials, the US government, and Western countries that have failed to stop, and continued to support, Israel’s genocide in Gaza. They are mad at her for doing her job and excelling at it. When she accepted the position as United Nations …

The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we keep hearing about how awful Russia’s war against Ukraine is, with its shattering of international law and its dismissiveness of the provisions of the United Nations Charter, the Israeli-US attack on Iran has been given the seal of approval by America’s client states and supporters. Countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Canada, for instance, were clear in endorsing a UN General Assembly resolution on February 24 supporting Ukraine in the face of …

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. …

What on Earth Are We Doing? The Madness of Mining the Cosmos While Poisoning Our Only Home
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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …