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by Dan Lieberman / May 13th, 2026
The concepts that shaped the minds that eagerly approve of the genocide, buried in the Old Testament and in the history of independent Jewish governing, are targets for extinction, Zionist behavior today includes a messianic endeavor that complements the original political Zionism and aligns with behavior of Jews in ancient history. This is a significant change that demands revelation. Theodore Herzl’s incipient Zionism, promoted by secular Jews, brought havoc to the Middle East; the messianic attachment is creating havoc to the entire world.
No longer are Jews and their religion veiled from criticism; the protective shield of anti-Semitism has been lifted …
by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares / May 13th, 2026
The war against Iran that the United States and Israel launched on February 28, 2026, will likely end in an American retreat. The United States cannot continue the war without producing disastrous consequences. A renewed escalation would likely lead to the destruction of the region’s oil, gas, and desalination infrastructure, causing a prolonged global catastrophe. Iran can credibly impose costs that the United States cannot bear and that the world should not suffer.
The US-Israel war plan was a decapitation strike, sold to President Donald Trump by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and …
Keep Public Resources In Public Hands
by Shawgi Tell / May 12th, 2026
The public-private distinction is one of the most crucial distinctions to have emerged in society over the past few centuries.
Each realm has distinct legal, economic, political, and cultural dimensions. For example, many spaces, activities, and lived experiences inhabit the private sphere (e.g., the home) while many others occupy the public sphere (e.g., broad social public debate).
Importantly, the public and private spheres should not be confounded or blurred, as so often happens. Each sphere has its own aims, structures, and functions. Public and private are actually antonyms.
A major problem today is that both concepts are routinely trivialized, distorted, or blurred by …
by Nolan Higdon / May 12th, 2026
“If any schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a settlement. You have till the end of the day by 12 May 2026 before everything is leaked. Instructure still has until EOD 12 May 2026 to contact us,” warned the hacking group ShinyHunters on May 7, 2026.
Days earlier, a catastrophic cyberattack struck the Canvas learning management system (LMS), operated by Instructure. The scale is staggering: nearly 8,000 schools were affected worldwide, compromising the data of 275 million individuals. Data …
by David Edwards / May 12th, 2026
Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000)
Inevitably, it seems, great power comes with great hubris. For a brief, glorious moment, brick walls appear as doorways, and everything seems possible. Nemesis lies in wait.
Having taken just six weeks and one day to conquer all of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in 1940, Hitler said of his plans to invade the Soviet Union the …
by Binoy Kampmark / May 12th, 2026
They make you do it – they, in this case, being the folly-fouled leaders of educational institutions – because it’s all in the name of organizational efficiency, productivity, and purpose. Engage what is often erroneously called a Learning Management System (LMS), submitting personal details, papers, and assessments into its maw. Instructors and academics are also required to generate intellectual profiles for subjects and courses, leaving students with the false impression that what is not on the platform cannot possibly exist. Should you be a conscientious objector to this hungry, data-gobbling system, you are ostracised, condemned as a pencil-loving Luddite.
On April …
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / May 11th, 2026
British antiwar protesters during the Suez crisis September 12, 1956. Photo: Socialist Worker archive
Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shift in the economic tides but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind …
by Peter Blunt / May 11th, 2026
In a recent article, Caitlin Johnstone condemns and bemoans Western popular disregard for the mass murders carried out in their names by the governments they elect.
Most readers of this journal would agree with her assertion that the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the US et al. in the last half century or so certainly constitute one of the world’s most pressing (and pronounced) problems.
Johnstone argues that these brazen crimes are much more important and urgent than the domestic policy issues (health, education, housing, and so on) that most ordinary citizens are preoccupied with.
Yet, perversely, despite the glaring categorical disparities, …
by Binoy Kampmark / May 11th, 2026
Being very much the all-American figure that he was, Ted Turner’s passing was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotted descriptions: the philanthropist, the conservationist, the yachtsman, the sporting proprietor, and the twenty-four-hour news pioneer. “He thought big and lived large,” observed Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan with irritating triteness. “He was the original,” added former CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, barely an improvement. “He made us all strive for his vision of a better world.” No doubt the hagiographers will be kept busy with words of statuary on various aspects of his life in due course.
One contribution …
As US President Trump arrives in Beijing, two different understandings of power and world order meet again
by Gordon Dumoulin / May 11th, 2026
In 1405, the admiral Zheng He sailed from China with one of the largest fleets the world had ever seen.
Over the next three decades, the Ming treasure fleets crossed Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and the East African coast. They carried silk, porcelain, medicines, imperial gifts, diplomats, astronomers, translators, and soldiers. Ports opened to them voluntarily. Local rulers entered tributary relations with the Ming dynasty. Some sent emissaries back to Beijing. Others received titles, seals, trade access, and recognition from the imperial court.
And then the fleets left.
No colonies remained behind them. No permanent military occupation followed. No East African coast became …
by John Helmer / May 10th, 2026
MOSCOW — Once upon a time, in 2019, President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia and Israel make “a true common family; I can say this without exaggeration. Almost 2 million Russian speakers live in Israel. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking country…Without any exaggeration, I can say with pride that probably there has never been such a high level of relations between Russia and Israel, if, of course, we don’t go back to the very first months or maybe the first couple of years of …
Part one of a two-part article that compares the relation of earlier and contemporary populations with the Jewish community, and examines Zionist genocidal behavior with behavior of Jews in ancient history.
by Dan Lieberman / May 9th, 2026
Close attachment of segments of the worldwide Jewish community to the genocidal behavior of Israel divides the followers of Judaism. From this division, it is expected many Jews will leave the religion, others will fight to establish a religion with anti-Zionist credentials, and some will propose a revised Reform Judaism that promotes humanism, openness, and obedience to the religion’s moral codes, rather than inhumanity, orthodoxy, and a lip service to the Ten Commandments.
In retaliation to the cruel, morally corrupt, and criminal behavior exhibited by the Zionists and their followers, a Jewish person on the Quora discussion website offered a disturbing …
Or, 21st Century Common Sense, #10 and Conclusion
by Ted Glick / May 9th, 2026
It is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA by destructive corporate power, or even to be committed to hard work for the next eight and a half [now 6] months here in the USA to defeat the billionaire-supporting, would-be dictator Donald Trump. Our problems are too deep to accept this essential next step as the ultimate goal. Short-term, essential goal yes, but looking at things historically, it can only be the first major step in a fundamental, revolutionary process that over time not just saves the …
by Bullfrog Films / May 9th, 2026
A stunning, unassuming documentary about one of the most urgent, and most invisible forms of extractivism.
— Ilka Kressner, Assoc. Prof. of Hispanic Studies, Chair of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University at Albany-SUNY
In Mexico’s heartland, the community of La Cantera is mourning the deaths of three girls from leukemia, all in the span of a year. Elia, the local kindergarten teacher, and Nely, a mother who nearly lost her newborn, form MAYOYE, a group of women seeking an investigation. They’re met with resistance from government officials denying an underlying …
by Gideon Polya / May 9th, 2026
Big Brother in Orwell’s 1984: “and ignorance is strength” and “2 plus 2 does not equal 4” as now realized in US- and Zionist-perverted Australia:
(1) Australia was involved in all post-WW2 US Asian wars (40 million Asian deaths from violence and deprivation) and supported the 9/11-enabled and Zionist-promoted devastation of 7 Muslim countries (as set out in the Pentagon Plan revealed by anti-racist Jewish presidential candidate and top US general Wesley Clark in Winning Modern Wars; the post-9/11 War on Muslims was associated with 30 million Muslim deaths). …
The Small Communities That Keep Humanity Alive
by Sammy Attoh / May 9th, 2026
There are moments in history when nations falter, when institutions lose their moral center, when leaders mistake ambition for wisdom. Yet humanity has never endured because of empires. It has endured because of small communities — the quiet circles of people who choose compassion over convenience, presence over performance, and responsibility over applause. They do not appear in headlines. They do not command armies or draft policies. They do not seek recognition. Yet they form the hidden architecture of human survival. They are the places where dignity is restored, where conscience is protected, where the soul remembers what it means …
by Black Alliance for Peace / May 9th, 2026
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns the imperialist-backed terrorist and separatist attacks against the Transition Government of Mali on April 25, 2026. This was a major attack that terrorized the population in several towns, resulting in casualties, among whom the minister of defense, General Sadio Camara, his wife, and grandchildren were killed. The Black Alliance for Peace offers our condolences to the family and comrades in the Malian transition government, as well as the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
Consistent with our principles, BAP stands in unity with all anti-imperialist fighting …
by Paul Haeder / May 9th, 2026
Land use — rural, neighborhood, transportation, scenic by-ways, tribal, parks and bikes, new urbanism, smart growth wise use, conciliatory, radical, historic neighborhoods . . .
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
LISTEN HERE, at DV, ahead of the …
by Sammy Attoh / May 8th, 2026
Human beings often search for meaning in distant philosophies, institutions, or ideologies, but the truth is far more immediate: what confronts us, what resists us, and what shapes our condition is what ultimately defines us. And nothing shapes the human condition more profoundly than the woman who brings humanity into existence. She is not a symbol to be admired from a distance, nor an accessory to the historical record. She is the creator of the species, the first architect of human survival, and the most exploited force in every civilization that …
Wreaking Havoc Because It Feels Like It
by Lee Camp / May 8th, 2026
Imagine there was a new country filled with people who had far more information/knowledge than any of our own citizens have — including our super-smart leaders and rulers. They knew every military strategy and plan ever attempted. These people never slept, ate, rested, or got distracted. They worked 24/7. They never even paused to scratch their nether regions. In fact, they had no nether regions.
They also had no morals or ethics or qualms about harming others. They possessed no care for humanity or the environment or a sustainable future. …
Militarism Normalized in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific
by John Perry and Roger D. Harris / May 8th, 2026
Artisanal fishers collective, La Guaira, Venezuela
A US military strike on May 4 killed two mariners in an alleged “narco boat” campaign which now has a cumulative death toll of at least 188. The pace of extrajudicial executions is ramping up, according to The Guardian. But why?
The serial murders could be, as the Trump administration claims, a genuine counter-narcotics operation. Or Mr. Trump and company may be conducting a demonstration exercise of executive power. Alternatively, the “kinetic strikes” may reflect more domestic concerns or perhaps foreign policy issues. Another possibility …
by Gideon Polya / May 8th, 2026
8 May is the 100th birthday of Biosphere champion David Attenborough and also the 81st anniversary of VE Day (victory over genocidal Nazi Germany). It’s germane to consider the present and adumbrated destruction of species and of humans.
Famed scientist Stephen Hawking succinctly stated (2018): “We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change”.
However in the last 2.5 years an out-of-control nuclear power Apartheid Israel (90 nuclear weapons) has bombed 6 countries (Qatar, Yemen, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria …
by Robert Jensen / May 7th, 2026
When I was invited to write a chapter on men in feminism for a scholarly book, I told the editors that I would have to include discussion of my writing on the radical feminist critiques of pornography and transgender ideology, which are controversial subjects in academic feminism. They assured me that wouldn’t be a problem, but I submitted a draft early because I’ve had editors reject such writing at the last minute. Their response did not surprise me: “The editorial team has met and decided the article does not fit with our mission for the book.”
Rather than abandon the project, …
by Don Fitz / May 7th, 2026
An assault on Cuba needs excuses for hating it. But given that any exchanges between the US and Cuba has been blocked out of the news for decades, it’s a bit difficult for a lot of folks to figure out why they are supposed to hate it and starve the people there. Let’s look through the eyes of those who promote an attack to find the real reasons.
Going back to Cuba’s 1959 revolution we can see that it occurred during the cold war anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era which permeated …
by Michael K. Smith / May 7th, 2026
I do believe I’ll be . . . having the honor of taking Cuba.
— Donald Trump
Donald Trump tightened already suffocating sanctions on Cuba on May 1, at the same time as he made renewed threats to “take” the island as soon as he finishes committing the greatest foreign policy blunder in U.S. history in Iran. The new measure to heap further unmerited suffering on Cubans was justified on the laughable pretext that their government poses an extraordinary national security threat to the United States, which, if it were true, would constitute an equally extraordinary confession of military impotence on the …
The Young Man from Karachi and the $60 Billion Deal
by Syed Salman Mehdi / May 6th, 2026
Pakistan raised a world-class mind. Silicon Valley cashed the cheque.
In the spring of 2026, a deal came out of California that stopped people mid-scroll. On April 21, SpaceX announced it had secured the right to buy Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion before the year was out. If SpaceX changes its mind, it still hands over $10 billion as a collaboration fee. Either way, the founders of Cursor walk away rich. One of those founders is Sualeh Asif, 26 years old, …
by Binoy Kampmark / May 6th, 2026
They have become adept flouters of international law. When doing so, they justify such violations with streaky, anaemic interpretations of self-defence and security. The Global Sumud Flotilla’s encore effort to break the Gaza blockade, which has been in place with varying forms of severity since 2007, did have one meritorious claim. After vanishing under a news cycle saturated with the Iran War, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and a global energy crisis, the unpardonably miserable plight of Gazans did make a return to the media stage.
The state of catastrophic misery for those on the Gaza Strip is …
by Lee Camp / May 6th, 2026
Image courtesy the Freedom Flotilla Coalition
Did you hear the news? No, probably not. It’s not news anymore. The ongoing genocide in Gaza doesn’t count as newsworthy for Western media. Apparently there are a lot more interesting, important, and titillating stories than a US-funded and armed genocide.
A quick Google search shows zero mainstream western outlets covering Gaza recently other than articles about the Gaza aid flotilla that was just terrorized and intercepted by Israel 1,000km from Israel. Meaning, the actual genocide is no longer a story.
Yet, …
by Black Alliance for Peace / May 5th, 2026
The U.S. Presidential Executive Order, “Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy,” signed on May 1, 2026, International Workers’ Day, marks both an escalation of existing policy and a qualitative shift toward total economic warfare, deploying starvation as an instrument of statecraft. The timing of this escalation is not incidental. Issued amid renewed U.S. rhetoric around exerting control over Cuba, the EO signals an effort to consolidate that control in a moment of deepening crisis for U.S. imperialism.
By broadening sanctions to target any entity or …
by Binoy Kampmark / May 5th, 2026
Scribblers, scribes, authors, and publishers – all of these are facing ever-worsening conditions in pursuing their work in battling the goons of secrecy and impunity. The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index has rotten news on that score. For the first time since the index came into being, RSF states that “over half of the world’s countries now fall into the ‘difficult’ or ‘very serious’ categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the Index has never been so low.”
In reaching its scores on press freedom, RSF uses …