The Base Heather Stroud
Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism Sean Carleton and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Eds)
Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People Charles Derber
The Political Economy of Dissent Peter Blunt
Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You–and How to Stop It Garrison Lovely
What I Saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022: Diary of an International Observer Benoit Paré
At the Lost and Found: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope Edward Curtin
Class War, Then and Now: Essays toward a New Left Chris Wright
America's Hijacked Peace Dividend: Long Overdue and Immediately Payable John Rachel
Mind Abuse: Media Violence and Its Threat to Democracy Rose Dyson
The Synthetic Mind: Humanity’s First Engineered Mirror
“In Loving Memory of Mr. Jay — Mentor, Witness, Friend. Two Lives, One Friendship. A Legacy of Kindness, Faith & Love. Forever in Our Hearts.”
There comes a moment in every civilization when it must decide whether to continue as it is — or remember what it once was. Humanity now stands at such a threshold: a point where the human being, long overshadowed by machines, markets, empires, and distractions, must either be restored or lost.
This final chapter is not about technology. It is not about AI. It is …
The Queen of the Hop
“You can talk about your Julie and your Peggy Sue
You can keep your Miss Molly and your Mary Lou
When it comes to the Chicken or doin’ the Bop
I got a gal they call the Queen of the Hop”
When I started out on my socialist path 57 years ago, I had high expectations about the kind of people socialists were. I read about the anarchists in Spain and how joyful they were. You can see this in many of the pictures of …
A reactionary wave is sweeping Latin America. Since the elections of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in July 2024 and Uruguay’s Yamandú Orsi in November 2024, all seven of the subsequent direct presidential contests have gone to the right.
The Maduro election is widely assumed by the US-aligned corporate press to have been stolen, although a recently declassified CIA report found no election manipulation. More relevant has been Washington’s role in tipping elections to the right in Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Costa Rica. Most blatant …
October 7, 2023: The Day that Changed "our" World
Rare rare rare, that a local rag, weekly, would run my piece. Three years of the current iteration of genocide. Of course, those of us who have been railing against the death machines — war profiteers, economic hitmen, ag-chemical-mining-oil thugs, the Kosher Nostra, the endless pipeline of infantilized and McDonaldized crap imbuing everything about Western Culture — knew this Orwellian day was on the horizon.
Here, the piece, unadulturated:
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Deaf ears. Media malpractice. A public hoodwinked by the machinations of the Jewish State of Israel’s lobby that make runaway slave catchers’ attack dogs seem like poodles.
It …
Canada’s ties to Duvalier corruption should inform public reaction to Ottawa’s gang suppression force in Haiti.
Last week Radio Canada’s flagship investigative program Enquête revealed that provincial Liberal Party candidate Michel Leblanc was the main beneficiary of an $800,000 payment made to his lawyer father by a former finance minister during the Jean-Claude Duvalier dictatorship. In “Des fonds liés à la dictature de Duvalier aboutissent à Chambly”, the public broadcaster traced funds former minister Frantz Merceron probably stole, to a Caisse Desjardins trust account set up for Leblanc.
This is one of several examples of Canadians/institutions implicated in Duvalierist …
The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost
Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a new digital currency. But who gets the interest, and who will make the loans?
For several years, “the death of the dollar” has been a persistent headline, with compelling data to back it up. The dollar’s share of global foreign exchange reserves has slipped from …
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on 7 October 2026: “Three years on from the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which killed around 1,200 people and resulted in 251 being taken hostage… More than 74,000 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed”. Corrections:
(1) The International Law-permitted but disastrous “attacks” by illegally-subjugated people came from the 6 million Occupied Palestinian Subjects of Apartheid Israel, specifically from among the 2.4 million Gazan Subjects imprisoned in the blockaded and bombed Gaza Concentration Camp. In 2020 the under-5 infant deaths totalled 512 (Israel proper) and 2,743 (Occupied Palestinians). Israel was made aware of the …
I just saw The Burial, the 2023 film based on real events and people. The main actors, Tommy Lee Jones and Jaimie Foxx, represent Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe, a funeral home owner, and Willie Gary, his leading lawyer, who sued Ramon Loewen, a funeral owner shark with hundreds of, what he called, death businesses, played by Bill Camp.
It blew my mind. I identified with the main character, O’Keefe. Hencame from a white family of funeral home owners, mainly based in Biloxi, Mississippi where I had been an Airman at the Keesler Air Force base, in 1957, which I will come to …
Today’s date, 10/7, will remain in the public narrative in much the same way that we no longer need to explain what 9/11 means. Both are associated with human casualties, not only those resulting directly from the attacks that took place on those days, but also from what happened before and after them. Neither date represents an accidental tragedy; both were the consequence of social and political developments unfolding over a much longer period.
In that sense, the backdrop to 10/7 is the much longer history of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That act was the product of decades of occupation of …
War is Hell, Energy is Business
Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, and Gaza appear to be separate crises, each with its own history and its own official Washington explanation. Viewed against the global energy economy, however, they begin to look considerably less distinct, as oil fields, gas reserves, pipelines, refineries, shipping lanes, sanctions, and competition for customers repeatedly intersect with American foreign policy. The countries and circumstances vary, but control over hydrocarbons and the markets through which they flow remains remarkably constant. Study the global energy economy if you want to understand American foreign policy.
After murdering fishermen accused of smuggling drugs in boats that could not …
We live closer in time to the T. Rex than the T. Rex lived to the Stegosaurus.
Certain facts you see online make you immediately think, “Eh, that’s bullshit. Fake news. Stupid lying memes.” …And then sometimes you find out they’re true. Like that T. Rex fact.
You might have seen the meme going around that Iranians pay pennies per gallon for gasoline. It’s actually true (but not for the reason you might think). Meanwhile, the oil-company-with-an-army called the United States touts exorbitant gas prices that are …
An oft-repeated threat throughout 20th and 21st Centuries: Trump repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran "back to the Stone Ages," promising a "complete demolition" of civilian infrastructure.
Listen here, my Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge on KYAQ FM 91.7. This will air Oct. 21. but you get it now, DV readers!!!
After bicycling around the USA for three years, George Walter Chyz moved to …
“Every few generations, there comes a leader who bends the arc of history. Historians will write that about Bernie Sanders.”
— Ro Khanna
Yesterday I happened to catch a brief clip of Ro Khanna speaking in California, introducing Bernie Sanders. Khanna spoke about a “new progressive era” in the United States and explicitly named Bernie Sanders as someone who was essential for that vision to be realized because of the inspiration and leadership he has provided for tens of millions of us over the last ten years. Sanders is currently traveling throughout California …
The evacuation of a dozen B-1B bombers of the US Air Force from the RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire is another instalment in the latest rippling of the Iran war that began as a pre-emptive, illegal assault by the US and Israel on the Islamic Republic in late February. This, arguably, came in two parts, the first scripted with the detention and arrest of five men on September 27 in the vicinity of the base on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act and suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act. (Another was arrested on October 1.) All were British …
Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labor leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labor Party conference in Liverpool:
‘All Together Now. That’s my rallying call to the country today. When we pull as one, there is nothing we can’t do.
‘Today we draw a line on a decade of division. We stop doomscrolling on posts running Britain down. And we put the country on a new path.’
Burnham continued:
‘Britain with belief again. People with hope again.’
It was notable that he used …
A half-century after most of the world labeled Zionism racism, a major Anglosphere party has finally echoed the call. The Greens’ resolution is a significant blow to Tel Aviv, Ottawa, supremacist lobbyists and Elizabeth May.
On Sunday, the Green Party of England and Wales adopted an anti-Zionist resolution. Echoing the 1975 UN General Assembly motion, the Greens’ motion labels Zionism “a form of racism”. It also calls for a “single democratic Palestinian state in …
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has followed the path of past executive tribunes of the American imperium, seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international order of rules and protocols. Spot the international rule and break it.
Neither ally nor adversary has been spared Trump’s scorching petulance. Thuggish language has been forthcoming for Canada just as it was for Venezuela, whose leader, Nicolás Maduro, was abducted, along with his wife, on fantastic charges related to narcotics …
There is something almost admirable about the Canadian government’s ability to respond to an American provocation with precisely the right number of carefully selected adjectives. Washington imposes tariffs. Ottawa expresses deep disappointment. Washington threatens Canadian sovereignty. Ottawa says the relationship is changing. Washington escalates again. Ottawa announces that Canada is entering a new era. Then everyone goes home.
The problem is no longer simply that Canada’s foreign policy is too cautious. It increasingly appears to have no direction at all. Ottawa responds to American provocations with carefully worded statements, measured diplomatic language and assurances. But beneath the polished rhetoric, there is …
Remarks in Baltimore on October 3, 2026, at an event with War Is Still A Lie
Thank you to Ronda Cooperstein and the local chapter of World BEYOND War for setting up this event.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJtdn_0O0Go
I recently read a big stack of books on the decline and elimination of dueling. There were thousands of factors, many of them beyond anyone’s easy control, but key among them was cultural change, was bringing people to find greater humiliation in dueling than in not dueling, greater …
Participation in the Five Eyes requires Canada to spy on Cuba for the US, according to John Bolton. With an annexationist Trump ratcheting up its bid to overthrow that country’s government, it may be time to reevaluate involvement in a Washington-dominated intelligence-sharing alliance.
In Saturday’s Globe and Mail, John Bolton told Robert Fife he was near certain Canada spied on Cuba for Washington. The former US national security …
The trend was already spreading through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defense department has fallen hardest for artificial intelligence at virtually every level of its operations. Even before the Pentagon’s intoxicating pursuit of artificial intelligence was announced, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was already running simulated aerial combat trials between AI agents and seasoned pilots.
In December 2025, the US Department of Defense (DOD) revealed plans for a rapid, extensive release of the generative AI GenAI.mil platform, which uses advanced models intended for over 3 million military personnel, civilian employees, and contractors. Google Cloud’s …
[This essay is adapted from my 2005 book, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege.]
Conclusive evidence is in from new DNA tests: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
To put it more bluntly: The primary author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States raped one of more than 600 people he enslaved, starting when she was a teenager.
Does that seem disrespectful or ahistorical?
First, let’s deal with the often-heard claim that we …
Fight or Flight – The Way of the Jews
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 …
The Banned Books Week Coalition encourages us to stand up for library staff, students, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers by “Letting Freedom Read”
The forty-fourth annual Banned Books Week (BBW) takes place October 4 through 10 this year, but given the significant, sustained efforts to restrict what young people can read, Banned Books Week should likely be observed every week. We are living in a time of increased attacks on the free press, free speech, academic freedom, and the rights to read and know. This year’s BBW theme, “Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read,” reflects these concerns.
A …
Genuflecting to Transnational Capitalism
Orientation
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 …
Mark Carney is doubling down on a colonial force in the West Bank with barely a peep from pro-Palestinian forces. In fact, some are supporting a security initiative that highlights the scope of Canadian Zionism and liberal/left naivety towards “aid”.
At the UN last week, the prime minister announced new funds to bolster a security force assisting Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank. As part of a hundred-million-dollar announcement, Canada added $20 million in “aid” for Palestinian security initiatives with Carney noting in an official release, “we will continue to lead in training the Palestinian Authority’s security forces through Operation …
It’s a matter of principles, courage, vision and pulling together - while the militarist world is falling apart...
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 …
While there is much debate and consternation whether the GOP will retain control of Congress during the mid term election or whether the GOP will survive as a political party, the grim reality is that the Republicans have done little to retain their hold.
Neither the GOP, especially the Senate has gone out of its way to persuade the American public to support the President’s party, the President himself appears indifferent to the outcome of mid terms.
Anyone who has been following Trump’s career knows that to be pure malarkey; while it is true he will find others to …
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 …
