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by Dissident Voice Communications / April 4th, 2026
My day began, as usual, by checking out the Dissident Voice website. But lo and behold, the website was suspended. Egads!
After checking with the hosting site for DV, I was about to be hit by a double whammy.
DV was entrapped by two catch-22s. The hosting service required payment for hosting. I had not been informed because the email requesting payment was sent to the previous editor Angie who had passed away on 2 January 2025. The payment was not a problem, as DV had accumulated a enough money from donations to pay server costs and hire the occasional tech person …
An Aide-Memoir for Muslim Asylum Seekers
by Peter Blunt and Peiman Salehi / April 8th, 2026
Any regimes that need changing, including the U.S., Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.
— Arundhati Roy, 2026
As The Fat Boy Posse’s latest illegal, depraved, unprovoked, and predictable attack on Iran proceeds with the customary savagery and disregard for civilian life and infrastructure, we have been trying to put ourselves in the position of one of those Muslim Iranians said by the Western media to have been protesting in their …
by Michael Lee Longenecker / April 8th, 2026
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After the Fossil Age, Future Civilizations Stand on a Thinner Floor
There’s a comforting story that circulates in collapse circles: even if this version of industrial civilization is doomed, the planet will eventually reset. The fossil binge will end, forests will return, the climate will cool, and in a few centuries or millennia new Romes and Han Chinas will rise on a refreshed Earth, running on biomass and clever agriculture instead of oil and gas.
It’s an attractive story, not least because it reframes our crisis as a …
by Binoy Kampmark / April 8th, 2026
The problem with demagogues is that they invariably fall into infantile practices. The politics of the playground is the politics of hate, violence and betrayal. It’s the politics of finding the useful enemy and bullying the theme till it’s raw. In Hungary’s parliamentary elections set for April 12, the only theme that seems to matter to the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) alliance and Viktor Orbán, the country’s demagogic leader of 16 years, is Ukraine.
Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky have been pictured as symbolic occupiers, intruders and meddlers, intent on bringing in Hungary and the rest of …
by Jeffrey Sachs / April 7th, 2026
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
Here is Donald Trump’s Easter message to the world:
Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Donald Trump and his partner in war …
by Shawgi Tell / April 7th, 2026
Even though they make up only 8% of schools in the country, crimes, scandals, and arrests take place at a robust tempo in the nation’s privately-operated charter schools.
These non-stop wrongdoings usually include fraud, embezzlement, harassment, and a range of sex crimes.
This is not surprising given the weak accountability, transparency, and background checks that have plagued the crisis-prone charter school sector for more than 30 years.
A small sample of headlines from just this year speaks volumes:
by Phil Rockstroh / April 4th, 2026
JD Vance on UFOs: “I don’t think they’re aliens; I think they’re demons.”
Anaïs Nin: “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”
We don’t see the world (or the phenomenon) as it is — we see it as we are. High time the exorcists known as clinical mental health workers were dispatched to Vance’s DC residence.
The Vice President, as do an evangelical cadre of top US Air Force brass, warn, UFOs are piloted by inter-dimensional things that go bump in the night. By the evidence, the primary threat to the security of the US homeland: …
by Binoy Kampmark / April 4th, 2026
It was celebrated with ghoulish delight. On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), an instrument expanding the use of the death penalty for offences of a terrorist nature. The death penalty had previously existed in Israeli law for war crimes but was abolished in 1954 for ordinary crimes in peacetime. Technically, it remained on the books for crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and certain cases of martial law.
The law’s purpose is articulated as establishing the death sentence “for the sake of the struggle …
Costly and Depleting
by Binoy Kampmark / March 14th, 2026
The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its air force and navy destroyed, its missile capabilities blunted, is now drawing the clumsy colossus of American power into the Middle East with embarrassing effect. The Middle East, where US President Donald Trump promised the “forever wars” would end, promises an end to his beginning.
The ledger of losses keeps rising with giddying pace. The US casualty list, for now, remains manageably low, but the military purse is being raided with manic relish. Operation Epic …
by Gary Olson / March 14th, 2026
In a major escalation of the war, Trump wrote on Truth Social last night that he ordered the US Central Command to conduct a bombing raid that “obliterated every MILITARY target on Iran’s crown jewel.” He said that “For reasons of decency, I have NOT chosen to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the island, however, should Iran, or anyone else do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Straights of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider.” He described …
by Visualizing Palestine / March 14th, 2026
When Israeli forces bombed Iran in June 2025, German Chancellor Merz praised them for doing “the dirty work for all of us.” His statement exposes the roots of Europe’s military, economic, and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide and regional aggression. To sustain their “business as usual” policy toward Israel, European governments are criminalizing Palestine solidarity. Our latest visual with The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) depicts this architecture of repression, which we must understand as we build the architecture of solidarity.
This visual builds on …
by Michael K. Smith / March 14th, 2026
If America attacks … Iranians will unite, forgetting their differences with their government, and they will fiercely and tenaciously defend their country.
— Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate1
The only thing truly epic about the current U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is the chasm between the facts on the ground and the media spectacle put forth by President Trump and his fawning aides.
Folly is the best term to capture the reality of a president who until very recently presented himself as uniquely qualified to bring peace to the world via his “Art of …
by John Perry / March 14th, 2026
Ten years ago, Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), a company planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous Lenca community.
Hired killers were tracking her movements. An attempt to assassinate her on 5 February 2016 was aborted. On 1 March, Cáceres said goodbye to her youngest daughter, who was returning to college. ‘This country is fucked,’ she said, ‘but if anything happens to me, …
Millions of parents and at-risk young people facing a draft would, like Margery Taylor Greene, be shouting, “Over my dead body!!!!”
by Dave Lindorff / March 13th, 2026
Driving home from my coffee at the local food co-op in a suburb just north of Philadelphia, I passed by the gas station at the local 7-ll store. Now owned by a Japanese company, 7-11 is one of the largest gas chains in the US.
I found myself thinking how back in the early years of this century, when Venezuela was headed by the hugely popular radical leftist President Hugo Chavez, a brash and charismatic former junior officer in the Venezuelan Army who was elected and re-elected four times to …
“One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it — it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
by Edward Curtin / March 13th, 2026
Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. A nod to “how terrible” and on with the war is a common response for those who even know about it, not just because of moral indifference, but because of the acceleration of digital news reporting that disappears today before it has become tomorrow. The …
by Faramarz Farbod / March 13th, 2026
DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod, who teaches Political Science at Moravian University, is the guest on Berks Community TV’s “Centering on Peace” program. In this episode titled “Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran,” Farbod traces the origins of the current war from the beginnings of the 20th Century to today. The host is John Hoskyns-Abrahall. The program was recorded on March 9 and aired on March 10.
by Michael Lee Longenecker / March 13th, 2026
Not so long ago, the Iran war could still be treated as a “shock” to the system—a sudden, violent anomaly that spooked traders, sent a few charts vertical, then, we were told, would be absorbed. Oil would spike and settle. Gasoline would lurch higher and then ease. Fertilizer prices would jump and “normalize.” Shipping would reroute. The machine would shudder, spit smoke, and then grind on.
By mid‑March, that story already sounds tired. The Strait of Hormuz is not just “at risk”; it is …
by Binoy Kampmark / March 13th, 2026
The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic position at relatively low cost.
— Alex Mills, The Atlantic Council, March 12, 2026
With each day of glorified actions against Iran, with each cloudy press session claiming supreme success through sheer force, the Trump administration is struggling to keep up appearances. Through an approach of existential attrition, the clerical regime in Tehran is now causing shocks and tingles in the global market, …
by Biljana Vankovska / March 12th, 2026
You may know that in Macedonia the academic disciplines of international relations, geopolitics, and international security were introduced long after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Everything started from scratch, and I would say that these fields are still in their infancy. With rare exceptions. In global terms, we are Lilliputians. Our academic community is small, our resources limited, and our institutional infrastructure fragile. Yet when I watch television debates where journalists and self-appointed “analysts” confidently discuss grand strategy, nuclear deterrence, or great-power rivalry, I cannot remain indifferent. After all, there exists an entire Institute for Security, Defense and Peace. There are …
Interviewing T.P. Wilkinson and Robert Merrill
by Jeff J. Brown / March 12th, 2026
Jeff J. Brown: Thomas, knowing your erudite expertise on Christianity, I have a question for you:
When did Jews get control of the Vatican?
I know it was at least in 1942, when the Jewish psychopath Rothschild clan created the City of London Vatican Bank.
T.P. Wilkinson: I will check on your query before I give you an answer. However, I think it must have been around the Reformation because the Calvinists are traditionally strong Old Testament followers. There is a theory that Calvin (as opposed to Luther) was crypto-Jewish.
One should consider that both Waldensers and the radical Christians of Southern France (Albigensians/ …
by Renee Parsons / March 12th, 2026
President Trump’s recent attempt to reassure the American public how the war against Iran was going relied on the President’s assertion that the US is winning the war. Relying on the lame claim, the President said “I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” as well as telling Axios that “Any time I want it to end, it will end.”
Speaking from his Doral Florida golf club, the President added that “If they do anything bad, that would be the end of Iran and you’d never hear the name again,” leaving open speculation that the US was prepared …
In addition to the widening of the war on Iran to the whole Middle East and beyond, this conflict risks deliberate use of nuclear weapons.
by Kim Petersen / March 12th, 2026
President Trump has been on quite a roll.
Since just the beginning of the year, he has kidnapped the Venezuela president, threatened to invade Greenland and Colombia, and has in just the last week dragged the U.S.—and seemingly much of the Middle East—into a new war by joining with Israel to attack Iran, something that even the biggest hawks among recent U.S. presidents have managed to avoid. That’s on top of bombing seven countries in 2025.
The 2024 campaign promises of a peace president who will end the forever wars have evaporated, only to be replaced by unrestrained use of military force …
by J.S. O’Keefe / March 12th, 2026
You notice your pulse first. It normally moves quietly, on time, somewhere below your notice. Now it presses forward, beats harder; it has something to say.
The pulse is yours. It doesn’t belong to the drunk guards outside your cell, bent over a rough wooden table, slapping down cards in the dim light. They’re cursing over Aces and Kings, and getting rivered out.
Thunder breaks in the distance. Storm’s coming. You draw a breath. In that small space, something settles.
You win.
The kind of victory that happens quietly. A dream you went after has finally found ground. It lives in you now. It …
Or, 21st Century Common Sense Part 5
by Ted Glick / March 12th, 2026
In Part One of this planned series of articles, I wrote about the historical timeliness of a ‘third force’ strategy. I said, “This isn’t something pulled out of the air, or someone’s lofty dreams. It is grounded in historical experience in the United States over the last 60 or so years.”
A progressive “third force,” one that is both activist and electoral, that does day-do-day community, workplace and school organizing, that brings together those who see themselves as independents, …
A New Cuban-American Movement
by Kim Petersen / March 12th, 2026
“Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall meetings during Cuba’s constitutional convention process of 2018. But I immediately thought, of course, of any Nochebuena celebration at my dad’s house, just a few hundred miles north. Siblings, cousins, babies, abuelas, family, and friends of all ages and political opinions gathered around a brilliant feast. Between the devouring of lechón, yuca, plátanos, and flan, a flurry of back and forth between English and Spanish. Everyone hugging, praying, laughing, and occasionally …
The consequence of not facing consequences
by Phil Rockstroh / March 12th, 2026
Athens Is Burning! The School of Athens and the Fire in the Borgo, Salvador Dali
US hegemony is being dispatched to the landfill of history. Empires collapse, sometimes, slowly; …
Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy
by Media Lens / March 12th, 2026
Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK, with Laura Kuenssberg
On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK:
‘Since we last spoke, your government has killed thousands of its own people in the streets who had the courage to stand up to protest against the suffering that they have been experiencing at the hands of the regime. Thousands of people were …
by Kim Petersen / March 11th, 2026
In late 2020, Beijing did the unthinkable: it attacked its own champions. Trillions in market value vanished, the world’s largest IPO was halted, and entire industries were banned overnight. Western investors called it “economic suicide,” but they were looking at stock prices while China was looking at its society. This episode explains why the “Golden Goose” had to be caged and how China is pivoting from consumer apps to the “Hard Tech” of the future….
by B.R. Gowani / March 11th, 2026
US President Donald Trump’s photo is set on fire during a demonstration in front of the American consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 1, 2026 IMAGE/asin Akgul/AFP/Middle East Eye
US-Israel attack Iran
On February 27, 2026, talking with a friend, I mentioned that the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, asked embassy staff to leave Israel. Also, the Reuters report on February 24 stating that Iran will buy Chinese-made CM-302 anti-ship cruise missiles pointed toward an Israel-pushed-US probable strike on Iran that weekend. His response was: Iranians …
All Wars are Wars Against Children and Motherhood
by Paul Haeder / March 11th, 2026
One day, March 8, International Women’s Day just doesn’t do justice for most girls on planet earth in the global south who will not reach womanhood.
Example:
The Israeli-American strike on a school that killed at least 180 children, most of them girls aged between 7 and 12, on the first day of the illegal war on Iran was deliberate.
The Shajereh Tayyebeh (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province of Iran, near …
