In the annals of policy, strategy and budgeting, the AUKUS pact comprising Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be seen as one of the most mindless, absurd projects of tiny, poorly furnished minds. Not for those in the UK and US, with both receiving Croesus-rich dollops of Australian cash for stuttering submarine programs. Not for flabby think tankers who repeatedly run out bills on the advisory circuit lauding the importance of costly boats and the China threat. It will be down to Australian government officials, elected and appointed, who seek the imaginary assurance of nuclear-powered submarines that …
…your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
Orientation The rise and fall of Promethean Europe
From the 15th through the 19th century the various countries in Europe were both loved and feared around the world. Scholars like Patricia Crone, Jared Diamond, John A. Hall, C.R Hallpike and William McNeill wrote books about what made Europe different from other parts of the world. Eric Jones wrote a great book called The European Miracle. I’ve written two books on the subject, Forging Promethean Psychology in 2017 and Lucifer’s Labyrinth in 2019. But the 20th century told a very sad story about …
Allied to the struggle to prevent the genocide of the Palestinian people are other issues ─ struggles by a brave and intrepid segment of the Jewish community to prevent emasculation of Reform Judaism and its humanistic content, to deter a remnant of orthodox Judaism from reducing Judaism to the reading of ancient scriptures, and to reverse having Jews connected and solidified by a tribal concept, where Israel is the commanding epicenter of a chauvinistic tribe. Ethical Judaism, which shaped Western Jews, has lessened, and the Judaism that rabbinical Jews brought to fruition in Mesopotamia and guided world Jewry is subdued …
No study has ever shown that military spending outperforms civilian investment. European leaders promoting a war economy are deeply irresponsible.
by Jan Oberg / July 4th, 2026
AI-generated illustration from Magnific
In Part 1 it was demonstrated that military spending delivers lower economic returns than civilian investment, that modern central‑bank and IMF analyses confirm this, that military capital is negative capital, and that opportunity costs drain talent and innovation from civilian sectors.
Part 2 now turns to the structural political economy behind Europe’s militarisation — and the absence of any serious economic analysis of its consequences. 5. The monopsony problem: weapons are produced for one buyer…
In the Middle East and beyond, we are witnessing a strategic defeat of the US empire at the hands of Iran. This must be distinguished from a military defeat. A major power shift is underway in that region. The US had no intention of honoring the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), and it is moving more military hardware and additional manpower into the region, most likely toward the Strait of Hormuz. The MoU was nothing more than a ruse to buy time for rearmament.
The strait, currently under the joint control of …
Words can function as prisons and windows. They can cage meaning and suffocate understanding. They can also reveal concepts which breathtaking clarity. “Monoculture”, a recent word running through the podcast-press corps stable down under, is very much of the prison variety, one planted by that most mini-syllabic of politicians, Pauline Hanson. Unlike her conservative opponents in the Liberal and National parties (her One Nation Party proudly proclaims to be more right wing), she continues to show why she is not on the endangered species list.
In her June speech before journalism’s version of a monoculture, Australia’s National Press Club, …
Part 1: Europe’s Rearmament Myth: The Economics They Never Mention
by Jan Oberg / July 3rd, 2026
AI-generated illustration from Magnific No study has ever shown that military spending outperforms civilian investment.
What Europe’s leaders say about rearmament and the economy
“Europe must build a strong defence industrial base — it will create jobs and drive innovation.”
— Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (2024)
“Investing in defence is investing in Europe’s economic future.”
— Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market (2023)
“Rearmament is an opportunity for European industry and for growth.”
— Emmanuel Macron, President of France (2022)
“The €100 billion special fund will strengthen Germany’s economy and technological base.”
— …
"There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour." -- Frederick Douglass
After watching a recent House debate on HR 108 attempting to adopt a War Powers Resolution on behalf of Lebanon, it might not be difficult to comprehend how relatively inexperienced ‘socialist’ candidates continue to defeat incumbent House Members including the most recent ‘upset’ in Colorado.
Even before the recent election, the House of Representatives, once referred to by the country’s founders as the “People’s House” because its frequent two year election cycle ostensibly brings elected officials closer to their constituents, has been largely transformed into an apathetic, Constitutionally anemic identity as if a ‘for sale’ piece of real …
Wow, U.S. social media is suffering a pandemic of nationalism just in time for a celebration of a declaration of the crimes and abuses of King George, a laundry list of horrors that pale beside the accomplishments of any recent U.S. president — the quaint abuses of his royal highness of the blue piss who in reality was more progressive and less tyrannical than your average 21st century prime minister, but who was preventing the expansion of the ethnic …
The Technological Race That Could Be More Important Than AI
by Cyrus Janssen / July 2nd, 2026
There is a technology that will become ubiquitous in everyday life and completely transform our world, our technological capabilities, and the way information is transferred. And no, it’s not artificial intelligence. It’s actually 6G technology.
You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking AI will be the defining technology that affects your life over the next few years. It dominates the news and, frankly, has become the foundation of much of the American economy. But despite all the hype, we’re never given a clear answer as to what AGI will actually look …
Institutions do not invent harm; they inherit it. What begins in households eventually becomes the logic of nations. The emotional habits learned in private rooms — silence, avoidance, domination, fear — are scaled into public systems that shape millions of lives.
Institutions rarely recognize themselves as violent. They believe they are maintaining order, enforcing standards, or protecting the public. But systems, like families, can normalize harm so thoroughly that it becomes invisible to those who administer it. Bureaucratic Violence
Modern institutions often inflict harm through routine. A form not processed. A medication not approved. A border not opened. A complaint not investigated. The …
There’s shocking new video footage from inside Israel’s police command room as they decided to slaughter their own people on October 7th, 2023. The video was initially aired by Israel’s Channel 12, translated by B.M. on X, and also reported by Justin K.P. Click play here to watch it —
In the video, one senior officer says:
“Right now, I would bomb the entire Gaza border with artillery, hit them with …
As the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress continues to ramp up rhetoric of “China is our enemy,” 2026 is the 30th year that the United States has organized the largest naval war practice in the world, called Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). For 37 days from June 24 through July 31, the RIMPAC war “games” will be held in the waters off the state of Hawaii.
This year 31 countries have sent naval, air and land military forces to Hawaii for RIMPAC.
A city councillor in Brantford, Ontario is at the center of a kerfuffle over his stance on land acknowledgments. In most jurisdictions in Canada it is common to begin many functions by acknowledging that the location is or historically was a territory of a First People or Peoples. This acknowledgment addresses the historic wrong of dispossession, an admission that the land, to the extent that land can be rightfully owned, belonged to the inhabitants that the ocean-crossing Europeans encountered.
Following several years of colonialism, a state called Canada was established usurping multiple Indigenous nations.
The colonialists and their progeny entrenched European-derived government …
I am not and never have been an economist, so I cannot claim any technical expertise regarding the topic of this essay. But I can smell (and spot) a rat.
Anyway, I knew that something must be afoot when I read that President Trump has been threatening repeatedly to visit Fort Knox to see for himself and ‘audit’ the gold that allegedly is held there. No doubt, to touch and feel it, to luxuriate and ensconce himself in it. You can picture the scenes. Allen Forrest or Ben Garrison would have a field day!
Federal judge Grants Katie Phang’s motion for preliminary injunction, ordering Todd Blanche to produce on or before July 2nd specific unredacted documents from the Epstein Files, including FBI notes from 4 interviews of a woman who alleges she was sexually and physically abused by Felon Trump when she was just 13 years old. Katie walks through the details of the damning court order and explains what’s next.
We need a revolution, and tearing down capitalism and bringing to the fore, Biophilia
by Paul Haeder / July 1st, 2026
Edward O. Wilson: The American biologist popularized the concept in his 1984 book, Biophilia. He expanded it into the “biophilia hypothesis,” suggesting that this deep-seated affiliation with nature has a genetic basis tied to early human survival.
On my Finding Fringe radio hour, Jan 25, Nate Lattanzio was jazzed, on point, and a virtual motor mouth. At age 29, he’s worked through many jobs, worked for a school district, advised on youth in the K12 system, and now he is with Youth …
The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino rather than a priestly haven of solemn judgment. It’s the justice of the punt, the throw of the dice, not the fairness of judicial deliberation, that prevails. That, at least, has been the prevailing view of Richard Ingrams, a co-founder of Britain’s rapier satirical publication Private Eye.
Since the decision by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to ban Palestine Action in 2025, some 3,000 people have been arrested for doing such unthreatening things as holding placards with the following words: …
— First Chief Justice of the United States John Jay
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
As we contemplate the majesty of our 250 years as a democratic republic, with our glorious president recently threatening to murder his negotiating counterparts on their way back to Iran, an ancient civilization he threatened to exterminate to the last man, woman, and child, let us pause to consider that perhaps the “Miracle in Philadelphia,” as we modestly call the pact that barely holds us together, was something …
NOTE: This article was written before the huge earthquakes in Venezuela on June 24, 2026.
“Venezuela has become a happy country,” spouted Donald Trump again this month in his latest flex about the “miracle” his administration has brought on the Latin American nation by putting “his people” in charge.
As usual, that was it from the orange man: just flex clout, then move on. No evidence, no figures, no context, just the same cringe Twitter hyperbole on loop since January 3 – until the algorithms cement it in history as …
There is nothing more common than to confound the terms of the American Revolution with those of the late American war. The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.” 1787, Benjamin Rush
— the beginning of the book, Citizen Tom Paine, by Howard Fast, 1943
The writings below are primarily from a column I published on July 5, 2020. It was a review of the book, Citizen Tom Paine. I am writing this updated version of it again now …
by Dissident Voice Communications / June 30th, 2026
Dan Kovalik is an activist/author/lawyer and outspoken of U.S. intervention in the Middle East and Latin America. He has written books about US intervention in Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Kovalik has recently been serving as the U.S. lawyer for Colombian president Gustavo Petro, whose actions against Israel’s genocide in Gaza have been rewarded by sanctions from the Trump administration.
Dan Kovalik was detained today by anti-terrorism police in England, which has been particularly aggressive against anti-genocide activists.
The obsession, one verging on pathological, with political parties is producing its share of symptoms. These include, amongst others, cynicism, a general loathing by the electorate, a suspicion about a lack of independence among its parliamentary members, and the feeling that these machine types cannot be trusted and estranged. The independent representative is an antidote to this, a breath of the crispest, freshest air. Why, then, form a party of independents, thereby ceasing to be independent and forfeiting your very strength?
Well-meaning and well-intended, Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender, two formidable independent parliamentarians known in Australian politics as the “teals”, have …
