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An Open Letter to Members of the US Congress: The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it.
by Jeffrey Sachs / September 24th, 2026
Dear Members of Congress,
In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the UN, Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and drive Iran “into hell with no chance of survival.”
He posed it as his personal choice. The fact that the American people are dead set against Trump’s war means nothing. And as for the voters, he added that he gives “absolutely no credence” to the coming midterm elections in deciding on his actions and on Iran’s fate.
Nothing binds this President. He is …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 24th, 2026
It’s become the disease of affluence: How do wealthy countries limit, restrict or totally bar migrants (whether they arrive through regular channels or otherwise) who are seen as ills to be shunned rather than solutions to be treasured? A country like Australia would be a shadow of itself without its migrants, either of the long stay variety or those of shorter duration who come in and do the indispensable, from offering medical services to fruit picking and filling the “hospo” (hospitality) sector. But the malady of affluence has afflicted the Canberra establishment, much of it due to the jittery demagoguery …
Media treatment of leftist Latina leaders in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Mexico
by Roger D. Harris and John Perry / September 23rd, 2026
(L to R) Rosario Murillo, Claudia Sheinbaum, Delcy Rodriguez
Women who attain political power are often judged by the US-aligned corporate press not simply by what they do but by how politically acceptable they are. This is evident in the strikingly different media treatment of three Latin American leaders, all lifelong leftists, raising the question of how relations with the US shape media judgments of political legitimacy.
Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez
The Guardian’s profile of Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez acknowledges that she is a “pragmatic, witty and intelligent workaholic” who worked her way …
by Renee Parsons / September 23rd, 2026
It is with some frustration to realize that details of the Ukraine-Russia war remain anonymous to many members of the House of Representatives; especially those who have a Committee responsibility to be fully aware and informed on foreign policy details.
It is not that those details are obscure or complicated since Russia’ s Special Military Operation began in February, 2022. It is, however, required that each elected Representative is required to have an open mind, an independent thought process as well as a willingness to accept reality.
To date, too many Members of the House have willfully abandoned their Constitutional responsibilities …
by Yves Engler / September 23rd, 2026
The hypocrisy is stunning. Those who link Judaism to Zionism are outraged a politician said Jews have “failed to do our part to stop an ongoing genocide committed in our name.”
On Sunday NDP leader Avi Lewis posted, “Tonight Yom Kippur begins, the most sombre moment of the Jewish calendar. It’s a time of atonement — a time to grieve those who have been lost, a time to acknowledge and take responsibility for …
by Eros Salvatore / September 23rd, 2026
“I’d like to publish your book on Gaza refugees,” my new publisher began. “You only need to change one thing: You can’t use the word genocide. There is no genocide. They’re just war crimes. Otherwise, you have a great book.”
Then he told me he was Jewish.
I thought I had done everything right. I met this publisher at the AWP 2023 Writer’s Conference and Bookfair (the nation’s largest marketplace for independent literary presses) and had kept in touch with him over email in hopes that he might be interested in publishing one of my books someday. His publishing …
by Ajamu Baraka / September 23rd, 2026
On July 16, 2026, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened a gathering of United States government officials, congressional representatives, and governmental officials from 65 nations at the State Department. Informally called the “Antifa summit,” the topic that brought everyone together was the supposed resurgence of “left” political terrorism.
Secretary Rubio declared that U.S. counterterrorism doctrine has “had a blind spot—a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a …
by Allen Forrest / September 23rd, 2026
When will peace break out in the world?
by Eva Garcia / September 23rd, 2026
Venezuelan children returned to classes this September – alongside millions around the globe.
Caracas authorities estimate over six million youngsters grudgingly squeezed into their tight-fitting uniforms, shook off stitched-up backpacks and dug out their dog-eared textbooks after the summer break.
But what awaited them when they trudged down to the country’s 27,000 schools with a tempered mix of trepidation, excitation and maybe even loathing rippling through their heads? Had authorities painted or repaired their classrooms, had they supplied new backpacks and classroom equipment, what delights might the school meals …
by Steve Macek / September 22nd, 2026
On September 8, historian Lonnie G. Bunch III announced that he was resigning as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, a federal government-created educational nonprofit and trust, which manages eighteen museums including the National Museum of American History (NMAH), the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Since taking over as head of the Smithsonian in 2019, Bunch, the founding director of the NMAAHC, has supported efforts to include the stories of people of color, women, and other disempowered groups in the Institution’s presentation of US history, championing and fundraising for …
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / September 22nd, 2026
The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack on Yemen’s Ansar Allah forces was about to begin when President Trump abruptly reversed course.
For two weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had been pleading with Trump to intervene as Ansar Allah (Houthi) forces swept through Saudi-backed forces’ positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. Trump initially resisted, but after another urgent call from the Saudi crown prince, he …
by Shawgi Tell / September 22nd, 2026
Charter schools have been around for roughly 35 years. The first charter school in the country, City Academy High School, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1992.
Data from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools shows that 4,690 charter schools closed between 1998 and 2022; that is, nearly 4,700 charter schools have closed in 24 years. The real number of closures is likely higher. The same source says about 8,100 charter schools are operating today.
The Network for Public Education (NPE) points out that “more than one in four charter schools close by the five-year mark. By year 10, …
by Peter Blunt / September 22nd, 2026
As the 2026 midterm elections approach, the usual stakes of a congressional referendum are eclipsed by the fact that – unless something is done soon to prevent it – the Trump presidency is about to be skewered by its own mismanagement of domestic and foreign affairs. This much even President Trump will be acutely aware of.
Already in serious trouble according to the polls – approval ratings are at 36% to 38% – to arrest and turn around its self-inflicted rapid fall from grace, the Trump administration will need to …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 22nd, 2026
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made digital safety, especially regarding children, a mooring of his premiership. Politically, he is so invested in it as to have become a salesman of sorts. In September last year, when paying a visit to the UN General Assembly High-level week in New York, he hosted an event at a room overlooking the East River. A motley crew were in attendance to hear from grieving families whose children had taken their lives after sustained online bullying. Leaders from Greece, Fiji, Tonga and Malta …
by Yves Engler / September 21st, 2026
No matter how many Palestinians, Lebanese or Iranians Israel kills some lefties will work with genocidal Jewish supremacist lobby organizations.
On September 22, University of Manitoba Professor Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair are scheduled to speak on their new book Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism in a virtual forum organized by the Montreal Holocaust Museum. MHM openly backs genocide in Gaza and its main benefactor is the sponsor of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA).
Israeli flags hang at MHM events and last month the museum put …
by Kim Petersen / September 20th, 2026
The article, “Alex Ovechkin claims he’s ‘not in politics’. His pro-Putin video says the opposite,” starts with an assertion — “When Russian launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022,” — an assertion because the writer, Colin Horgan, did not provide any evidence or rationale of Russia launching an invasion, which Russia contends was a special military operation to protect the people of Donbass from military attacks launched from western Ukraine.
In the subheading, Horgan says because Ovechkin appeared in an ad for the political party United Russia that “it’s …
China Officially Stands for World Peace Yet Cooperates with U.S. War-Making, Part 3
by Ron Ridenour / September 20th, 2026
China produces 70% of the world’s sex dolls used to replace human sex and love. Source: cbc.ca.
I am conscious of being alienated. Feeling, knowing we have no real control over our lives, or over what happens around us throughout the world. Many of us who look honestly inside feel isolated, estranged from people, society, ourselves. Hopelessly living limply with depression.
Che Guevara on alienation: “In capitalist society individuals are controlled by a pitiless law usually beyond their comprehension. The alienated human specimen is tied to society as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: …
by Binoy Kampmark / September 19th, 2026
Ale house readings, spiritual zest, and the inevitable crapulous effect: a pub, the public house, the inn, the tavern, that home that functions between your actual home and the funeral rites that lie ahead, a space where so much living is done, the indifferent years passing in unnoticed flow. “There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern,” the garrulous lexicographer Samuel Johnson is documented as saying in March, 1776. “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by …
by Yves Engler / September 19th, 2026
Is it criminal to call on the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate registered charities violating the Income Tax Act? That seems to be the position of Unapologetically Jewish.
On Wednesday, Matthew Taub of Unapologetically Jewish held a press conference on Parliament Hill to attack grassroots activist group Just Peace Advocates (JPA). The opening line in their release says they are “calling on the CRA and RCMP to examine” JPA and Taub repeatedly suggested the anti-genocide group has engaged in some criminality. Taub said that he’d reached out to both the RCMP and …
by Richard M. Balzano / September 19th, 2026
Calla Walsh, Jackson Hinkle and Christopher Helali have been accused of disinformation and propaganda. They are nontraditional journalists, certainly. They do not spend their days interviewing retired generals for mainstream outlets about why this week’s bombing campaign is regrettable but necessary, and they don’t wait until truth commissions to be on the right side of history. Instead, they travel to countries the United States considers enemies, talk to people Americans are told to hate and fear, and report perspectives that rarely penetrate our Western media echo chamber. The trio were among …
Peace can be promoted not only through texts, as usual here, but also through art. It does not indicate a trend change, just see it as a bonus.
by Jan Oberg / September 19th, 2026
This post is a bit different from what you usually get from TFF. It does not indicate a trend change, just an added perspective, a bonus post: We believe that peace can be promoted in many, different ways, including art. And this poster is an invitation to you.
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I am a peace and future researcher. But many may not know my ‘second’ life as an art photographer. In the first, I have formal professional degrees and titles; in the second, I have none of that, but 75 years …
by Renee Parsons / September 19th, 2026
As the mid term election approaches, the question remains whether President Trump has sufficient Presidential demeanor or strength of character to pull enough votes to save either GOP House of Congress from a Democratic sweep.
After almost two years in office and having presided over a GOP split between loyalists and Constitutionalists, Trump’s Zionist streak is undeniable as he fails to resonate with an America First campaign message he abandoned in deference to Israel.
Whether the Trump base returns to the GOP fold after its mid term convention or if Trump restores his Executive Constitutional authority, election results may be less informative …
The Synthetic Mind: Humanity’s First Engineered Mirror, Part 10
by Sammy Attoh / September 19th, 2026
In an age where machines speak louder than conscience, where algorithms drown out intuition, and where synthetic narratives overshadow truth, humanity faces a quiet crisis: the disappearance of the inner voice.
The inner voice is not a metaphor. It is the core of human sovereignty — the place where conscience lives, where wisdom whispers, where truth emerges, where identity stabilizes, where meaning takes root.
Technology has not destroyed the inner voice. It has buried it under noise. But buried does not mean dead.
by Allen Forrest / September 19th, 2026
Doomscrolling is the constant exposure to distressing, negative information. The American Brain Foundation warns that doomscrolling can negatively impact the brain and body.
John Rachel has been writing books on how the populations of USA can take back democracy and how to defund the Military Monster Machine
by Paul Haeder / September 18th, 2026
by Reports on China / September 18th, 2026
Western mainstream media frames China as the aggressor militarizing every frontier. The hard record on outer space tells a different story. This week the United States officially confirmed, for the first time, that it has deployed operational offensive weapons into Earth’s orbit. U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink described “on-orbit space control weapons” capable of defending against adversary action.
That disclosure, tied to architectures such as Golden Dome, opens a new theater of potential war. Satellites that carry communications, weather data, and navigation sit in the same domain as combat …
China Officially Stands for World Peace Yet Cooperates with U.S. War-Making, Part 2
by Ron Ridenour / September 18th, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to China’s President Xi Jinping after talks at the Gimhae Air Base in South Korea on October 30, 2025.
Source: forbes.com
China invests in U.S./Israel Wars and supported Pol Pot’s Genocide and South African Apartheid
Che Guevara’s revolutionary humanist perspective led him to
reject any notion that included using capitalist tools or fetishes. The pipe dream that socialism can be achieved with the help of the dull instruments left to us by capitalism (the …
by Robert Jensen / September 18th, 2026
[This essay is adapted from This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning.]
In the nearly universal search for meaning, four questions seem inescapable.
Is there a God, understood as a divine force, entity, or being that created the universe and has the power to direct events in it? Are we spiritual beings, with spirituality understood as a nonphysical plane of existence in which the concept of a soul is intelligible? Does capital-N Nature—a belief that the larger living world has an intelligence beyond any organism, …
by John Perry / September 17th, 2026
After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump – Colombia, Ecuador and Peru – and was asked about US policy towards Cuba and Nicaragua, and what he would do “to finally bring those dictatorships to an end.” Accusing left-wing governments of “destroying” their countries and bringing “misery” to their citizens, and in some cases of posing a security threat to the United States, …
A retired Army colonel flew in from Hawaii to make sure Trump’s arch doesn’t go up quietly
by Jonathan Capehart / September 17th, 2026
Protesters on Memorial Circle against President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch there on Sept. 14. (Photo: Jonathan Capehart)
On the Virginia side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge sits a large grassy circle that slings traffic back into Washington or up to Arlington National Cemetery. On most maps it isn’t even labeled. But it has a name — Memorial Circle —and it is where President Trump wants to erect another one of his vanity projects: a monstrous 250-foot arch called the United States Triumphal Arch …
