When people talk about Karl Marx, they immediately think about The Communist Manifesto and equate Marx with communism.
For his anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist stance, Marx is demonized as an enemy by default in the West ever since.
Few in the West have any idea about Marx’s actual economic thoughts, like with so many other things they are taught to hate without understanding by the propaganda machine.
In reality, Marx’s thoughts are profoundly relevant and prescient for today’s world when we look back at them with 150 years of hindsight.
There was no public demand that led to the U.S. military announcing that it would publicly execute someone on livestreamed video (a list of advertisers, if any, during the broadcast has not been released — add your guesses below). No polling favored it. No fashion for being like Saudi Arabia was afloat. Outside of Supreme Court Justices, a return to the 18th century is generally not in vogue. So why do it? I can guess at a few contributing factors.
The mainstream corporate media — always a mere two to three years behind every story — is finally coming to terms with (some of) the reality of the October 7, 2023, attack. It is suddenly acceptable for the liberal corporate pro-Israel outlets to say Netanyahu obviously knew October 7th was going to happen.
It’s been three whole years since the attack. For three whole years, many of us in the endlessly maligned and suppressed independent media world have been shouting from the hills that Israel’s ruling …
Ranbir Kaleka (India), Conference of Birds and Beasts, 2010.
At a moment of war and genocide, when words such as Gaza and Sudan have become tragedies, it is easy to ask whether the United Nations (UN) has outlived its usefulness or can be reformed. But the better question is: reform what, and for whom?
The UN Charter (1945) promises that states must settle disputes peacefully, refrain from the threat or use of force, and cooperate on common problems. Powerful states’ violations are a reason to defend and enforce the UN Charter, …
Ten years ago I had lunch with a man who vehemently insisted that Vladimir Putin was the satanic leader of an evil country and Hilary Clinton was a great American who should be President. This was two years after the U.S. government under Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, Victoria Nuland, and the CIA had engineered a coup d’état in Ukraine as part of their proxy war against Russia, bringing Ukraine’s neo-Nazis into greater power. When Russia protested this coup on its western border, Washington mocked such concerns. Every time for decades …
They are a trying lot, spruiking their overvalued, loss-making firms, sowing discord and fear, and then seeking state collaboration that will serve to implicate all the parties concerned should things sour. And what will the rest of us get? Hardly the promised land. But the United Nations, for the first time in history, became a centre stage for the propagandists from Artificial Intelligence firms during the September deliberations, diplomats hanging off the banal declarations from such figures as Sam Altman, the CEO from OpenAI, and Dario Amodei, his equivalent from Anthropic. …
For Spencer Weston, who introduced me to the real, authentic Freddie Freeloader
by Greg Godels / October 10th, 2026
I’ve never been comfortable in crowds.
I did most of my early serious musical explorations alone, carefully removing the shrink wrap from a newly arrived album, placing the album on our family console, and listening intently as new, challenging sounds swept over me.
I was lucky because, while I seldom went to concerts, I happened to go to three very different, but historic musical events that affected me very deeply: John Coltrane’s performance at the first and only 1965 Downbeat Jazz Festival in Chicago, Woodstock …
The Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to Navi Pillay who is not, like last year’s laureate, pleading for the world’s largest military to attack her country. Nor is she, in the manner of various past laureates, waging war. Nor is she, like various past recipients, an admirable humanitarian working in a field unrelated to war. In fact, Navi Pillay has long been recognized as advancing the cause of peace. In 2025 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize …
The World Health Organization declared that the Covid emergency ended in mid-2023. Since then, the 500 Standard and Poor’s companies (the benchmarks of US capitalism) have enjoyed a steady and significant increase in earnings growth. This remarkable growth persisted quarter after quarter, culminating in “more than 440 S&P 500 companies reporting second-quarter earnings so far [and] 86% have beaten analysts’ estimates, according to FactSet data” as reported in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ further adds: “Companies are reporting earnings that are around 29% higher than those estimates, on track …
Hockey Night in Canada’s Elliotte Friedman is a genocidal Jewish supremacist. The middling commentator’s rise highlights Zionist power in NHL circles.
On Wednesday Friedman posted a Jewish Federations of Canada-United Israel Appeal statement on “Israel Stories: The Fallen Canadians of October 7th”. It commemorated eight Jewish Canadians killed three years ago while ignoring a hundred thousand, including Canadians, slaughtered in Gaza.
On X Friedman still has the genocide justifying #BringThemHome hash tag atop his account. Amidst horrific Israeli violence in July 2025, the Sportsnet commentator met the …
Here is what Aljazeera told the world on — October 7, 2026 — while the Western world and its media largely kept silent.
We see it as our duty to help spread these facts about the overkill in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel. And remember that the conflict did not start there and then as many will have us believe.
It’s painful reading. Let us send our gratitude to the 300 journalists and media people who lost their lives doing their job. Someone did not want …
Dropsite Newsis reporting that a classified CIA report warns that Israel is at a high risk of civil war and state collapse. Many factors have come together to create a perfect storm crashing down on the apartheid state. (Apparently, committing long-term genocide really takes a toll.)
Some of the problems they’re facing include:
A completely corrupt political establishment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying desperately to hang on to power because he knows losing the October 27th election could mean prison time.
Soaring military spending. …
The Synthetic Mind: Humanity’s First Engineered Mirror
by Sammy Attoh / October 8th, 2026
“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 …
“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 …
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:
*****
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
“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 …
