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John Stuart Mill long ago warned that when we are so certain of the truth of an idea that we reject discussion, the idea—even if it is true—“will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.”

After nearly seven decades on Earth, I can see that at various times I gave in to that temptation. As I age, I hope I’m getting better at recognizing that most everything is debatable. But in those decades, I’ve often been too cocky. …

Ethiopian rebel fighters have joined into a united front against the UAE proxy Abiy Ahmed regime hanging on to power in Ethiopia. The three largest, most powerful rebel armies, from the Amhara FANO Army, the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Front/Army (OLF/A) are now carrying out coordinated fighting against the regime under the overall leadership of the head of the Amhara FANO Army led by Zemene Kassie.

With over 85% of Ethiopia now in the hands of the rebels and all attempts by the regime to launch counter …

It’s one small electrified debilitation™ glove for a man, and one giant leap for mankind.

Finally, ICE answers the question we’ve all been asking for decades: When will the federal government have a task force that can drop a person to the ground, leaving them writhing in excruciating pain, by barely touching them? The answer is — that bold new day™ is here now!

You might say, “That sounds wrong or gross or inhumane or unethical or perhaps all four at once.” And ICE’s answer to you is: Yes!

ICE has spent …

When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough would be done to stop it.

I bring this up because Trump wants Congress to put 77.66% of federal discretionary spending into wars, and the vast majority, if not every single member, of Congress has not even once said so. Likewise virtually every media outlet. The same goes for each political party, the governors, the state legislators, the talk show hosts, and most …

The world is better off for Carney walking away from the Trump trade negotiations. But we must demand far more from Ottawa in terms of distancing the country from Washington’s economic and military bullying.

Mark Carney was right to walk away from economic negotiations with the Trump administration. The US’ ever-growing list of demands, including controlling Canada’s ability to sign accords with other countries, reflects Washington’s bid to dominate in service of massive corporate interests. In other words, Trump is employing a sort of ‘Donroe Doctrine’ light towards Canada.

If Carney would have …

An August 20, 2026, article in The Kathmandu Post, “Time to introduce charter schools in Nepal?” claims that “After decades of politicisation and neglect, Nepal’s public education system needs radical systemic and structural reforms.”

Enter privately-operated charter schools, which are performance-based contracts between the government and unelected private persons.

This narrative is the typical worn-out narrative used to introduce school privatization schemes at home and abroad. Today, charter schools, or schools that mimic charter schools, exist in Canada, the U.K., Sweden, New Zealand, and several other countries. They all follow similar patterns.

As …

Wildfire smoke billows over the Atlantic coast near Lacanau, France, in July. Photo by climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf.
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made barely a dent in news headlines.

Last year, a team of experts from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the University of Exeter published a report, ‘Planetary Solvency – …

I still find myself fuming at the way ostensibly well-informed individuals can stand right in the heart of the empire denouncing its targets, as we saw in the open letter that a group of left-wing Western individuals addressed “to Iran’s political prisoners,” framing Iran as a “source of oppression” equal to the US and its allies.

It’s crazy this even needs to be said, but if you are a Westerner, your ONLY job is to oppose the abuses of the Western empire. Not Iran. Not China. Not Russia, Cuba, or North Korea.

If you live in the US or one of its …

The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions, depleted stocks of goodwill and, it would seem, a disruption in resupplying warships operating in the Middle East, have become dents in a struggling war machine.

This month, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, lengthily stationed in the Arabian Sea, caught the attention of naval observers with reports of mental distress and sheer desperation on the part of members of the 5,000-strong crew of sailors and Marines. Personnel had endured a nine-month deployment – a record – having made only one stop in Guam …

Naftali Tamir (former Israeli Ambassador to Australia) stated (2006): “Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia. We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don’t have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not – we are basically the white race.”¹Charlotte Hallé, “Envoy to Australia to explain ‘yellow skin’ remarks,” Haaretz, 16 October 2006.,²“Naftali Tamir,” Grokipedia.,³“Zionist quotes re racism and Palestinian Genocide.”

Now in 2026  the present Israeli ambassador, Hillel Newman, has refused to apologize for the IDF murder of Australian Zomi Frankcom and her 6 aid …

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  Charlotte Hallé, “Envoy to Australia to explain ‘yellow skin’ remarks,” Haaretz, 16 October 2006. ↩︎
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  “Naftali Tamir,” Grokipedia. ↩︎
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  “Zionist quotes re racism and Palestinian Genocide.” ↩︎

Rosa Luxemburg in the Swiss Alps. Integral, armed neutrality is a quintessentially left concept.

(Original article here in German)

Armed neutrality means consistently renouncing war as a primitive, backward instrument of foreign policy. It represents progress away from war and toward peace.

For 170 years, Switzerland has had no enemies—either in the region or worldwide, and certainly no military enemies. During that time, it has neither waged a war nor had to endure one. This stands in stark contrast to every other European state. We on the Swiss …

What explains rampant American consumerism? Flashback to December 2006 when then president George W Bush exhorted Americans: “I encourage you all to go shopping more.”

Being a resident in Gaza has proved lethal not merely for civilians eking out a wretched existence. Mortality rates among journalists, medical staff, and aid workers have been egregiously high since Israel’s military opened its account after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. (In truth, Israel’s account regarding striking, bombing and embargoing this little strip of territory has been open for decades.) The regularity of killings, largely at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), negatives the claim that there isn’t a policy or approach in place that forgoes the rigours of international humanitarian law in favour of …