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The genocide of the Palestinian people consumes us, and for good reason; it is a nightmare that will keep us awake until it is resolved. The perpetrators of the genocide work at it for 24 hours, seven days a week, covering the globe with a blanket of falsehoods, deceits, and calculated verbal attacks that they hope will disguise the horrors of their actions and smother the truths that reveal them. We realize we must be equally vigilant, and use each moment of energy to de-energize the Zionist inflated rhetoric, each second of breath to breathe life into the movement to …

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The black sheep of the field of psychology
Cross-cultural psychology has been called “the black sheep” of the field. This is because it pokes holes in the more established subjects such as people’s personalities, how people learn and remember and how people reason and emote. Cross-cultural psychology exposes Western interpretations of psychopathology and what kinds of therapy work by showing how these subjects are treated in other cultures. Cross-cultural psychology began in the field of psychological anthropology around the turn of the 20th century. But how well does it explain …

Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?

— The Bertrand Russell—Albert Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955

The forecast for what’s ahead is worrisome. The sharp rise in armed conflicts over the past three years is adding to what was already the highest level in over seventy years. Genocides, which should be prevented are supported. A shared climate emergency that jeopardises survival is ignored.

Diverse polls now suggest that people are …

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP)  rejects the renewal of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) mandate by the UN Security Council on September 29, 2026, and affirms that Haiti’s sovereignty cannot be renewed away. One year ago, Security Council Resolution 2793, drafted by the United States and Panama, authorized a foreign force of up to 5,500 police and soldiers to replace the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission that also proved ineffective at stemming armed violence. The GSF was to conduct operations to “neutralize, isolate, and deter” armed groups independently or alongside Haitian security forces. A foreign …

The most dangerous thing for the sovereignty of a nation is the colonization of the minds of the population by a foreign power. The function of Christianity during the period of European colonization of much of the world was to embed Western culture within the minds of the colonized. Where possible, the indigenous religions were suppressed or forcibly exterminated. At its core, Christianity pushes a Western-supremacist ideology with a white European Christ, a white European God and “civilizing” Western missionaries, together with an acceptance of purgatory for the poor in the present in exchange for redemption in an afterlife….

Several years ago, the late Foreign Service Officer, Eugene Bird, led a small delegation, which included me, to visit our congressional Representative, Chris Van Hollen. Gene Bird presented a firm position; he and his vast following intended to back candidates who demonstrated a positive attitude toward the rightful Palestinian demands of relief from Israeli oppression and would work to unseat those who favored apartheid Israel. Van Hollen listened carefully and made no commitments, except remaining committed to the Democratic Party position, which faithfully followed AIPAC.

The congressional …

The unchaining of a pre-existing malady triggered by the sudden acquisition of great power.

By now, there can scarcely be anyone on the planet who does not realise that Donald Trump suffers from serious psychological problems. The public record of his mental ailments and behavioural idiosyncrasies is voluminous and well-worn (e.g., Blunt, 2025, 2026a, 2026b; Hedges, 2026; Lieberman, 2026).

An important part of the reason for the wide coverage is that, as heads of state go, the amount and variety of his supply of material to work with …

“President Trump Travels to MN” by The White House is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

“CNN, MSNOW and Politico back at the White House, hours after judge ordered Trump to lift ban,” read a September 24, 2026 Associated Press headline, published just one week after the administration had barred the three outlets from press briefings. In response to the ban, the White House press pool—a rotating …

There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement and detachment from reality. There were the bullying threats of annihilation and doomsday relish that never eventuate. There were the usual flashed credentials, now long worn, of a Cincinnatus briefly brought from plough to war for the state. “While others have talked, I have acted; while others have spoken of peace, I have made peace.” There were the stock verbal assaults on outsized, …

It’s rare to see these kinds of documents — internal emails and memos from executives at Microsoft and OpenAI candidly discussing how exactly they’re currently stealing labor and killing the internet.

They were forced to release the docs by a massive lawsuit in which the New York Times is accusing them of copyright infringement. And not just any copyright infringement. It’s the largest case of copyright infringement ever. …Like, ever.

If you’re taking this moment to cheer for the New York Times, please put away your pom poms. The Times is …

Nicaragua’s electoral reforms seek to defend popular sovereignty as Washington intensifies its interference in Latin American elections.

Photo: Radio NicaraguaLast week I was at a local neighborhood meeting in the Nicaraguan city of Masaya. More than a hundred people had come to hear a report from a doctor from the local health center and from a teacher at the technical college where the meeting was being held. We learnt about the attention being given to pregnant women (currently 11 pregnancies in the area), the mobile health clinic that would …

It has been more than a year since the European Union (EU), Israel’s number one trade partner, found that Israel is in breach of the human rights clause of the EU–Israel Association Agreement. Despite recent sanctions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements imposed by twelve countries, the EU continues to choose complicity over accountability. As the success of a recent European Citizens’ Initiative demonstrates, the EU’s position has never been more at odds with the views of the European public.
In July, a European Citizens’ Initiative calling for …

“Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.”

— Chief Tecumseh¹“Sleep No Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws,” 1811, in Great Speeches by Native Americans, ed. Bob Blaisdell (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2000)

“When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage. When I neither understood nor welcomed …

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  “Sleep No Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws,” 1811, in Great Speeches by Native Americans, ed. Bob Blaisdell (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2000) ↩︎

When I was a teenager, I used to frequent an overpass near my house. It was over a busy motorway, and it was not uncommon to see white tents underneath me. These white tents, clinical tachrichim, meant only one thing – that somebody had been hit and killed.
I don’t think it’s possible for any living person to fully understand death, but many artists have used their mediums to try to, and amongst those artists are Gene Roddenberry, Dan O’Bannon, and Ronald Shushett. Star Trek and Alien stand as two beacons in the sea of portrayals of death – …

How Oxford University Press allowed a personality‑driven narrative to masquerade as scholarship.

A Special Issue in a scholarly journal is not an ordinary publication. It is a collective, curated statement about a subject of central importance to a field. When the International Studies Association, ISA, and Oxford University Press, OUP, publish a Special Issue devoted to Johan Galtung’s academic and scholarly contributions, the expectations are correspondingly high. One expects rigorous intellectual history, conceptual analysis, and a sober evaluation of one of the indisputable founders of peace and conflict studies. One …