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by Gary Engler / September 10th, 2025
What’s the best way to pass on what you learned from more than a half century of left-wing doing, reading, writing, talking and thinking?
Write a book. This was especially obvious to a retired union-activist-journalist-novelist grandfather. So, I did. Started writing a book tentatively titled Economic Democracy or No Democracy — An Anti Oligarchy Manifesto.
But then I actually listened to my grandchildren and learned they don’t read much. Instead, their pipeline to understanding the world is social media, mostly memes and videos, few of which exceed five minutes of attention span. At first, I argued with them. “You should read. Much more. …
by Stansfield Smith / September 9th, 2025
The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought over 4600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors. The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the endless US-Israeli slaughter of civilians were honored throughout the three days that included over 20 sessions and plenaries, exhibits, including Palestinian cultural performances, a grand vendor fair and art exhibits.
It was made clear that Israel is the US garrison state in the Middle East, out to break the Palestinian people’s …
by J.S. O’Keefe / September 9th, 2025
“This is the deal: I am only an observer here, not wearing a micro-camera or a hidden microphone. The two guards with me are for my protection per departmental ordinance.”
“Got it. Federal government?”
“How could you tell? As I said, only a silent observer. Fly on the wall, as they say.”
“That’s fine, sir. Although I don’t see any reason why you should stay quiet. This isn’t a rehearsal or a conference. It’s a brainstorming, in the truest sense of the word. The discussion will be free-flowing and spontaneous, and it’s expected to be completed in one fell swoop. The objective …
by David Swanson / September 9th, 2025
Restoring the original and non-Orwellian name to the U.S. Department of War ought to have a positive impact on people’s speech and understanding.
Yes, of course, Trump did it in order to celebrate the sadistic malevolence associated with the word “war.” He did it while pursuing horrific wars in Palestine and Ukraine, threatening (and beginning) wars on Venezuela and Iran, and moving massive resources from human and environmental needs into war preparations in the U.S. and its vassal NATO members. He immediately threatened to invade Chicago and show it …
by Ted Glick / September 9th, 2025
How is Trump doing in the polls? Over the last week and a half, averaging polls done by CBS, NBC, The Economist, Reuters/Ipsos and Quinnipiac, he is doing terribly: an average approval rating of 41.6% and a disapproval rating of 55.4%. He is down 14 points.
As significant, however, are the results from the Quinnipiac poll as far as strength of support for Trump. Those polled were asked if they strongly approved, or strongly disapproved. Here the margin widened by a lot: only 28% approve of Trump, compared to 49% disapproving.
I was struck by these numbers when first hearing …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 9th, 2025
Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in. While this should be shunned and punished in international law, a general discomfort of purpose seems to trouble the friends of Israel as the state goes about its business of ruining what vestiges of living might exist in the Gaza Strip. As Israel’s warriors of vengeful virtue go about demolishing one of the last parts of Gaza that has any infrastructure worth mentioning, the usual ceremony of impotent effusion and concern is registered across the networks of the world.
By the …
by Syed Salman Mehdi / September 8th, 2025
The imprisonment of Imran Khan is now a subject occupying the ground and shifting the mood of Pakistan in reaction. With his party symbol taken away and being surrounded by hundreds of other lawsuits, Khan continues to dominate conversations at the market stalls, tea stalls, and social media feeds. For many, he is an icon of resistance against a system long branded as one that silences popular leaders—a picture that awakens echoes of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s fate. His supporters …
A Memoir of Poverty, Rebellion, and Radical Kinship
by Sammy Attoh / September 8th, 2025
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
— James Baldwin
The Film That Stirred the Ashes
It came quietly, like a whisper from the margins. A DVD in the mail—When Did I See You Hungry? by Gerard Thomas Straub, narrated by Martin Sheen. A gift from a friend in South Carolina, sent after reading my essay on poverty. I watched it once. Then again. And then I wept.
The film did not show me anything new. I had seen hunger before—in the eyes of barefoot classmates, in the bellies of children bloated from malnutrition, in …
by Gideon Polya / September 8th, 2025
The eminent, truth-telling and humane Australian web medium Pearls & Irritations has published a responding Letter from me about total sanctions demanded against Apartheid Israel because of hundreds of thousands of Gaza Genocide deaths: Gideon Polya, “MSM under-count indigenous deaths in US wars,” 5 September 2025.
I have been researching and writing about Indigenous deaths in US Alliance wars for over 30 years since discovering the “forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which 6-7 million Indians in British-ruled Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Assam were deliberately starved to death for strategic reasons with …
Reject it all
by Anti Empire Project / September 8th, 2025
[Note: if you didn’t watch me and Nick Estes talking about the Book of Joshua on Red Nation, that discussion and the books therein – the Joshua Generation, Laying Down the Sword, and Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians – might be good to check out before or after reading this one.]
This replaces the Geneva Convention
Human progress is over. We’re in the Book of Joshua genocidal timeline
The history of the next thousand years is being decided in our time. Will the species survive? Should it? We certainly won’t solve …
by Paul Haeder / September 8th, 2025
Note: This article below appears in the Lincoln County Leader, and I am waiting for the same rejoinder that the little county of Lincoln is running each Wednesday before my radio show, Finding Fringe, to appear on the Editorial page of a newspaper over 100 years old:
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any of the staff, programmers, board members and volunteers of KYAQ….
by John Rachel / September 8th, 2025
Listen up, Senator Warmonger.
Listen up, Congressman Forever War.
Hear me out, President China Hater.
Yes you, Vice-President Iran Hater.
And you, Secretary Cuba Hater.
Pay attention, General Russia Hater.
I’m talking to you, Ambassador North Korea Hater.
I think … no, I know … THOU PROTEST TOO MUCH.
You vilify and condemn, you slander and demean too much.
You insult and mock, you intimidate and provoke too much.
You posture and pose, you bully and brag too much.
You threaten and coerce, you beat the war drums too much!
WAY TOO MUCH!
Sure, we have some tough competition out there. Sure, there are …
by Roger D. Harris and Joe Emersberger / September 8th, 2025
President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. He alleged that the skiff came from Venezuela and was loaded with illicit drugs headed to the US.
On social media, he further embellished his story by saying that the crew were members of the Tren de Aragua cartel, which Trump claims is controlled by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump alleges that this cartel is “responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts …
by Peter Blunt / September 6th, 2025
As I was reading Gareth Evans’s recent piece on what a ‘mature’ relationship with China should comprise, I was reminded of the photograph set out below, which was taken in December 1989. It depicts the then foreign ministers, Gareth Evans of Australia and Ali Alatas of Indonesia, on an aeroplane toasting their signing of the Timor Gap Treaty, which divided the vast oil and gas resources discovered in the Timor Sea between the two countries they represented.
National Archives of Australia, A8746 KN19/12/89/69.
The date of the photograph is …
by J.D. Hester / September 6th, 2025
Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is especially true in New York, where Donald Trump seems ready to support almost anyone in an effort to defeat Zohran Mamdani. While Zohran’s opponents include the “Never Trump” Republican Curtis Silwa, the Democratic heir Andrew Cuomo, and the unpopular incumbent Eric Adams, Trump sees all of these candidates as better alternatives. Most obviously, Zohran Mamdani is a committed socialist who will oppose the interests of wealthy businessmen, such as Donald Trump. However, the mainstream media has largely ignored another reason why Trump might desperately want Mamdani to lose: Israel.
Simply put, Zohran Mamdani is a …
by Veterans for Peace / September 6th, 2025
Veterans For Peace unequivocally condemns President Trump’s unlawful deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC. This follows the outrageous deployment of National Guard and U.S. Marines to the streets and parks of Los Angeles in support of ICE terror tactics in a city where as many as one in ten residents are undocumented workers. Even U.S. military veterans have been targeted and deported.
The crime rate in Washington, DC, is at a 30-year low. The claim that an emergency exists requiring military policing is a blatant lie. The use of the U.S. military for domestic policing violates the Posse …
by Kathy Kelly / September 6th, 2025
In his last minutes of freedom before Israeli Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, clad in a medic’s white coat, walked alone toward two Israeli tanks. His captors awaited him amid the rubble of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital. An artist swiftly created a dramatic poster showing Dr. Safiya striding through the ruins of the hospital he directed. The artist, David Solnit, recently updated the poster’s caption. It now reads: Free Dr. Abu Safiya Eight months in prison Dec. 27, 2024 – August 27, 2025.
Dr. Safiya had already endured agonizing losses at the Kamal Adwan hospital. In late October …
Trump’s military spending for the coming fiscal year is $1 trillion and this is all about targeting China in an attempt to stave off U.S. hegemonic decline.
by Gary Olson / September 5th, 2025
“Globally, all available resources are to be focused on a zero-sum increase in U.S. power and on the defeat of China as the newly arising rival.” — John Bellamy Foster, “The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism”
On September 3, China staged a grand gathering of over 20 foreign leaders to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. China’s loss of some 20 million people was second only to the USSR in terms of deaths in WWII. We also need to acknowledge the 30,000 …
Blunting Justice
by Binoy Kampmark / September 5th, 2025
The International Criminal Court bash fest is getting ever more frenetic in Washington and among the law shredding members of the Netanyahu cabinet in Israel. Last month, the Trump administration smacked sanctions on judicial members Kimberly Prost of Canada and Nicolas Guillou of France via Executive Order 14203. Prosecutors also received a chastening, sanctioning experience, including Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji and Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal.
The US Secretary State Marco Rubio, who occupies more administrative posts than he can identify, confirmed the line of his boss, President Donald J. Trump. The ICC was “a national security threat that had been …
by Kim Petersen / September 4th, 2025
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies have come out with the expanded and revised second edition of their book War in Ukraine (OR Books). Defying logic, the subtitle is Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.
A blurb from professor Noam Chomsky calls it: “An invaluable guide.” I agree.
Media analyst Norman Solomon calls the book a “concise primer … historical context with balance and compassion.” Benjamin and Davies are compassionate advocates for peace; this is laudable and undeniable. However, too often information that criticizes all sides in a conflict, more or less equally, …
by Dan Lieberman / September 4th, 2025
Donald John Trump, born June 14, 1946, the 47th president of the United States, has decided to leave his imprint in history by redecorating historical landmarks in the nations capital. After reciting plans for a grand ballroom in the Whitehouse, which will feature Klezmer bands on Wednesday nights and Hora dancing on Sunday evening, also duplicated periodically at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the master decorator has prepared simple renovations for the Oval Office.
The renovation does not attempt to obtain a more pleasing and aesthetic environment. The thrust of the renovation is to clarify power, reveal who controls, …
by Michael Brenner / September 4th, 2025
Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
— John Adams, “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, National Archives.
Victims of great crimes deserve to be memorialized. So, too, those who bravely protected them. Hitler’s genocide indeed is solemnly recognized in prominent votive memorials – in Berlin, in Russia-Babi Yar, in Washington. The heroes and heroines who put themselves at risk to save innocent souls …
Interview of Karim and Peter from Chinese University of Hong Kong
by Paul Haeder / September 4th, 2025
They’ve had skin in the game — the Podcast and Substack game — for four years.
Amazing guests, and unfortunately for us, but fortunately for us, too, they have been covering the genocide in the Jewish State of Raping and Murdering and Starving and Maiming and Poisoning Palestine: Going on TWO goddamned years.
One of their favorite guests, and mine too: Assal Rad, Peter and Karim examine the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the failure of international institutions to respond effectively. The conversation explores how Israeli propaganda has become increasingly ineffective as images of starvation make their …
by J.S. O’Keefe / September 4th, 2025
“This is gonna be exciting, lieutenant, and I bet they don’t teach it in the military academy. The kinda real action you can only learn in the trenches.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Watch now, Wild West in the East. Sergeant Balik’s climbing up the roof and covering the chimney with his coat. As you can tell already, the idea is that the old rickety farmhouse’s gonna be filled up with smoke. Pretty slick, ain’t it?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Now the enemy’s got two choices. If they stay inside, they’re gonna suffocate to death. If they run out of the house, we’re gonna have a turkey shoot.”
“Yes, sir.”
“The …
by J.S. O’Keefe / September 3rd, 2025
“Sir, are you or have you ever been member of the underground terrorist organization known as PAAP?”
“Yes, senator, but PAAP is neither terrorist nor underground. We are a multi-ethnic multi-faith charity group, and most of our activities involve…”
“Yes or no, please. Is that true that PAAP stands for the inflammatory statement – let me read it, these are not my words – Palestinians Are Also People?”
“Yes, senator, but I don’t understand why that…”
“Yes or no, please. Let the record show, your answer was yes, you still insist that Palestinians are also people.”
“Yes, senator, I do.”
“Do you or have you ever …
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / September 3rd, 2025
One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months.
The General Assembly voted, by 124 votes to 14, with 43 abstentions, for a strong resolution that not only “demanded” an end to the occupation within a year, but called on all countries to refrain from trade involving Israeli settlements and from transfers of weapons “where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that they may be used in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”…
by Peter Blunt / September 3rd, 2025
Since resuming residence in the White House a few months ago, it has not been difficult to detect in President Trump’s behaviour traces of his background as a real estate deal maker. Indeed, it could be said that his statements and actions since becoming president demonstrate a clear predisposition to perceive geopolitics predominantly as an arena of opportunity for ‘property development’. ‘Property’ defined in a broad sense to include any high value natural resource, land, or other asset that can be turned into profit.
We argue that the acquisition of such assets by fair means or foul (mainly the latter) and/or …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 3rd, 2025
How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history. Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted killing of tens of thousands of civilians through experimental designs laid the grounds for an arms race that has never dissipated. Once found, the military use of the atom was never abolished or dissipated. As Henry Stimson, US Secretary of War, put it to President Harry Truman in …
Here’s why it matters
by RT / September 2nd, 2025
Xi, Putin and Modi have lead calls in Tianjin for a UN-centered multipolar system, as Eurasian blocs tighten and the EU is sidelined.
The latest gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin looks at first like another summit – handshakes, family portraits, scripted statements. But the meeting on August 31–September 1 is more than diplomatic theater: it is another marker of the end of the unipolar era dominated by the United States, and the rise of a multipolar system centered on Asia, Eurasia, and the Global South.
At the table were Chinese President Xi Jinping, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, …
by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares / September 2nd, 2025
Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes.
Israel, with US complicity, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work. The US Government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its UN veto. Palantir, through “Lavendar,” provides the AI for efficient mass murder. Microsoft, through Azure cloud services, and Google and Amazon through the “Nimbus” initiative, supply core tech infrastructure for the Israeli army.
This marks 21st century …
