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by Peter Blunt / September 20th, 2025
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. How many children in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have been hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words?
And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation.
On the steel torsos of their missiles, adolescent American soldiers scrawl colourful messages in childish handwriting: ‘For Saddam from the Fat Boy Posse’. A building goes down. A marketplace. A home. A girl who loves a boy. A child who only ever wanted to play with his older brother’s marbles (Arundhati Roy, 2004, p. 81).
Arundhati Roy’s heartrending lament of …
Civil war isn’t looming — it’s already live-streaming, orchestrated by oligarchs who feed rage while dismantling sovereignty.
by Mathew Maavak / September 20th, 2025
For years, independent geopolitical observers, including myself, have warned that the West is veering toward civil war or, at minimum, a prolonged paralysis of governance. This conviction has underpinned my decade-long advocacy for a “Greater Eurasian” autarky, based on the premise that a destabilized West poses the biggest threat to humanity in the near future. Even Donald J. Trump’s tariff mania reflects this reality. It is the desperate last card of a fading empire, signaling that “if we are going down, we’re taking the whole planet with us.”
The root causes of the West’s …
By illegally refusing to hold votes on whether or not to halt wars, Speaker Mike Johnson has made himself responsible for those wars and every death, injury, traumatic impact, bit of destruction, degree of global warming, and brutal influence on our culture that stems from those wars.
by David Swanson / September 20th, 2025
It’s a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we’re aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible for the crime of war: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican from the state of total submission to Trump).
War is a crime under numerous laws and treaties, absolutely regardless of who does it. There is no exception for legislatures. But let’s assume that you define all distant murders (such …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 19th, 2025
It was so startlingly obvious that it seemed to snuff out any comment. Lord Peter Mandelson, otherwise known as the sinister Mr Fixit of New Labour from the Blair years, was an intimate of the late convicted paedophile and socially connected financier Jeffrey Epstein. If it was intended as a humorous appointment – Britain’s Epstein-familiar ambassadorial representative to Washington attending the court of an administration with another Epstein-familiar, President Donald Trump – it was not one to last.
It began at the end of last year, when Mandelson, who seemed to specialise in the art of being sacked, was called upon …
by Caitlin Johnstone / September 19th, 2025
Bernie Sanders finally issued a statement acknowledging the indisputable fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after two years of adamantly refusing to do so. The statement begins as follows:
“Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas.
But,”
Dude goes two years refusing to call a genocide a genocide, …
by Chris Wright / September 19th, 2025
In the grim competition between environmental destruction and nuclear war over which one will cause the demise of civilization, the nuclear option gets considerably less media coverage than global warming. This is unfortunate, for nuclear weapons are no less of a threat. In fact, given how many close calls there have been since the 1950s, it’s miraculous that we’re still around to discuss the matter at all. In a global geopolitical environment that continues to see rising tensions between the West and both China and Russia, as well as between India and Pakistan, and between a genocidal nuclear-armed Israel and …
by David Andersson / September 19th, 2025
Hubble Spots Fireworks in Westerlund 2 (Image by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team [STScI/AURA])
Is God not the ultimate human creation?
The gods we inherited were designed for small populations, scattered across the earth, with narrow horizons. They concerned themselves with intimate details—how we ate, dressed, or made love. Each was tied to a specific culture and language—Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit, Chinese—none with a universal vision.
Their sacred texts told us to worship the book itself, rather than nurturing the direct and living experience of connection with the divine. These gods, over time, …
by Yanis Iqbal / September 18th, 2025
The dominant neuroscientific discourse on male porn addiction is underpinned by a moral pedagogy that tacitly assumes a normative sexual baseline: that the brain’s reward circuits, genitalia, and arousal systems were designed by evolution for heterosexual intercourse aimed at reproduction, and that any deviation (such as pornography consumption) constitutes a pathological distortion of this natural purpose. This framing casts porn as a supernormal stimulus that hijacks a reward system supposedly fine-tuned for reproductive sex, generating addiction by overwhelming circuits evolved to motivate biologically adaptive sexual behavior.
It is true that heterosexuality, in its basic reproductive …
by Bo Filter / September 18th, 2025
“Devil-ution,” a function of evolutionary biology explains human unrest much better than notions of deities fighting over the heavens. Religious wars have never relented. Self-anointed demigods have plagued human history, pretending that faith-based blood lines constitute science. However, modern science takes a different tact.
Today, psychologists and psychiatrists bemoan the fact that psychopathic megalomaniacs are destroying civilization and the ecosystems that keep planet earth alive. By definition, psychopaths lack self- control. They make up a large portion of what we call the criminally insane. Psychopaths belong in mental institutions. Instead they are …
by Allen Forrest / September 18th, 2025
Was Louis-Ferdinand Céline a pessimist or a realist on the human condition?
by John Helmer / September 18th, 2025
Chrystia Freeland’s final leap at political power in her 12-year attempt to rule Canada ended yesterday when she fell flat on her face.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose push has proved more kinetic than Freeland’s jump, allowed this to be understood when he offered Freeland the less than face-saving post of reconstructing the Ukraine which her warfighting campaign against Russia has all but destroyed. The cost to Canada of this destruction since the Special Military Operation began in February 2022 has been C$22 billion, including about …
by The SanctionsKill Campaign / September 18th, 2025
The SanctionsKill campaign was formed in 2019 to raise awareness of the human cost of the “sanctions”—actually economic coercive measures—imposed by the United States and its allies on over 40 countries, in which one-third of humanity lives. Our coalition of grassroots activists has exposed the suffering and death caused to populations targeted with these measures, particularly among children, the elderly, and people with health conditions. We also strongly support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement advanced by Palestinian civil society as a legitimate way for grassroots activists around the world to pressure the settler-colonial state of Israel to …
by J.S. O’Keefe / September 18th, 2025
“Let’s continue where we left off yesterday. What’s your name, when and where were you born? Hellllloo!”
“Winston Smith,” the prisoner replies.
The vizier turns to the linguistics professor from the University of Alexandria. “Now you’ve heard it. Whenever we ask him a question, he remains silent or only answers with the same two words, winston and smith.”
The scholar stares into the man’s eyes. “My good fellow, do you realize you might be in serious trouble unless you cooperate?”
“Winston Smith.”
“Sorry,” the linguist tells the vizier, “winston and smith don’t ring a bell. Obviously not Egyptian, that we would understand. Nor Greek, Latin …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 18th, 2025
Yet another blistering addition to the ghoulish accounts of cruelty regarding the ongoing actions of Israel in Gaza made its appearance on September 16. It came in the form of a report by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a lashing publication finding Israel guilty of committing genocide on the Strip. Of the five elements outlined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, Israel was found guilty of four. (The state’s interest in transferring Palestinian children from one group to another is yet to show itself.)
The relevant acts outlined in the report …
The Supplication Mystery
by Dan Lieberman / September 17th, 2025
As the tragedy facing the Palestinians unfolds to an ultimate tragedy, we become aware of the true nature of the catastrophe, exhibiting unique elements that ponder our minds and disrupt our lives.
(1) It is more than genocide.
Can there be anything more than genocide? This is a slow burn; decades of daily horror and anguish, without care of inflicted pain and sorrow, observing helpless humans crumble before the onslaught, children buried alive as parents watch helplessly, extended families of 70 persons erased by calculated missile strikes and surviving children left to cry for the losses throughout their lives. The …
by Allen Forrest / September 17th, 2025
Kirkwashing: Right Sanitizing Charlie Kirk’s Legacy
by Bill Berkowitz / September 17th, 2025
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, right-wing politicians, Christian …
by Edward Curtin / September 17th, 2025
You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
– Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”
They say a stitch in time saves nine. They say it is always good to be prepared. They say Preparation-H is good for hemorrhoids. They say that Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” They say the Girl Scout motto is “Be Prepared.” They say so many things like that that make me feel ashamed for my lack of preparation.
I think I heard one of “they” say that despite some people who …
by John Perry and Francisco Dominguez / September 17th, 2025
The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their neighbors. Further, apparently harmless community meetings are really “a mechanism of social control” where they “feel watched.”
by Binoy Kampmark / September 17th, 2025
These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch. In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology Sydney thought it prudent to throw A$4.8 million at the tax consultants KPMG to design what it calls the Operational Sustainability Initiative (OSI). The linking of these three words alone suggests that something sinister and inhumane is afoot, a program closer to an assassination or disposal program than a sensible readjustment. Indeed, the OSI became the subject…
by Darrell Jackson / September 16th, 2025
Ambitious young people are told that a college degree is necessary to launch a successful career. For me — a “lifer” taking courses from my cell in a state prison — higher education isn’t about job preparation but rediscovering my humanity, about learning to think beyond the bars.
I’m not the first person to discover the power of education while incarcerated, but I feel a responsibility to tell this story, not only to reach other prisoners but for all the people who feel left behind by educational institutions. There have been a lot of obstacles between me and higher education — …
by B.R. Gowani / September 16th, 2025
Priyantha Kumara was a Sri Lankan export manager in a factory in Sialkot, Pakistan who was falsely accused of insulting Islam. He was beaten to death and his body was set on fire on December 3, 2021. IMAGE/Lankan
Muslims should remember three precepts:
Allah is a concept – it cannot be destroyed.
Muhammad is with his Allah*, so is beyond any harm.
Quran is reprintable and can be replaced when haters burn Quran.
*A Quranic scripture with consoling words for bereaving believers at time of death is:
“Indeed, …
by Allen Forrest / September 16th, 2025
What is stringing up the puppets?
by David Klein / September 16th, 2025
At its August 2025 biennial convention in Chicago, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) adopted a powerful resolution, “For a Fighting Anti-Zionist DSA“. The resolution, which the 1200 delegates passed by 56 to 44 percent, has been recognized as a significant step forward for the organization. It makes “organizing in solidarity with the Palestinian cause a priority until Palestine is free” and recognizes the Palestinian people’s right to resistance and self-determination, with Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
The resolution stipulates that candidates for office, seeking national DSA endorsement or a DSA chapter endorsement, …
by E.R. Bills / September 16th, 2025
As I walked into a Fort Worth Post office the other day, I passed a young redneck wearing a patently ignorant t-shirt. Not just ordinarily stupid, run-of-the-mill cretinous or incredibly ignorant. But extraordinarily ignorant—if not full-blown delusional.
The wearer was the usual type. Hair high and tight underneath a straw cowboy hat, a forearm tattoo or three, with at least one rendering of his favorite phallic stand-in … daring a nonexistent mob to “Come and Take It.” He was flaunting his pseudo-badassery for all who were susceptible (or as ill-informed as he).
I …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 16th, 2025
It’s clearer than ever: the Albanese government is continuing its efforts to shut out China in wooing and seducing island states across vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Bilateral security treaties are being pursued as a matter of urgency. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has, for instance, stated that he is open to closer defence ties with Fiji, which “could range from increased interoperability, the sort of training that we are seeing with the Pacific …
by Kim Petersen / September 15th, 2025
I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no new wars.
— Donald Trump, Farewell Address, 20 January 2021
I am the Peace President and only I will prevent WW3!
— Donald J. Trump, Truth Social, 6 September 2024
I think I’m going to get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don’t.
— Donald Trump, Washington Post, 23 September 2019
Seemingly crushing Trump’s aspirations, Cross World News has headlined: “Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Push Rejected.”
It has long been obvious that the self-described “president of …
by Allen Forrest / September 15th, 2025
Where media garbage is disposed.
by Syed Salman Mehdi / September 15th, 2025
Bajaur is among Pakistan’s tribal districts that witnessed the greatest battle in the war on terror. In the days of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Al-Qaeda strongholds, it has seen military operations time and again over almost two decades. The campaigns like Operation Sherdil during 2008–2009 showed some fierce counterinsurgency fighting; Operation Sarbakaf in 2025 highlighted how militancy stayed but in a different form ever since it was nearly defeated. The occurrence of various successful and funded coercive instruments, however, did not automatically dissolve the insurgency in Pajaur, reflecting the difficult situation for the …
by John Helmer / September 15th, 2025
The three questions are:
1. Has any politician in the NATO Coalition of the Willing Warfighters against Russia lied more brazenly to win his domestic election than Mark Carney (not counting Vladimir Zelensky)?
2. Has any politician in the Coalition calculated more mistakenly that spending more on the losing war in Europe would appease and ingratiate President Donald Trump, and relieve his country of Trump’s penalty tariffs?
3. Has any politician in the Coalition benefited more personally and more directly in his bank account from fighting the Russians in the Ukraine and capitulating to Trump (except for Trump himself and European Commission President …