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The full, bloody arc of 250 years of U.S. history’s contradictions is foundational, not accidental. Domestically, the United States was built by brutalizing and extracting from colonized and enslaved communities. From the Middle Passage to the plantation, from the massacre of Indigenous nations to the convict leasing system, from Jim Crow to mass incarceration, from redlining to Flint’s poisoned water, the U.S. has never known a peace not purchased by Black, Brown, and Indigenous flesh. Internationally, the same logic applies. The country that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; that carpet-bombed Southeast Asia; that trained death squads throughout the …

Cornelia Gipson is trying to understand the hold that whiteness has on white people.

“I grew up black in Mississippi, and from the time I was 4, I knew I was black and what that meant,” she said. “How do white people come to understand they’re white? When did you first realize what it meant to be white?”

Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?”

Already unpopular with kind and decent people, Trump may have — with that comment — tanked his popularity with every weapons company public relations hack on Earth. Their most deeply held pretense has always been that military spending isn’t needed for wars but rather to prevent wars.

Of course, Trump promised not to start any wars and to end existing ones easily and …

When the DNC finally released its 192-page “autopsy” of what went wrong in the disastrous 2024 election that propelled Donald Trump back into the White House, it was a poorly written document full of typos that offered few if any insights. As Michael Arria noted in “It’s the Genocide Stupid,” the report contained “virtually no analysis of the Democratic policies that might have helped propel Trump to another victory. If one were compiling such a list, support for the Gaza genocide would presumably be near the top, but the issue is not mentioned once in the massive report.”

The Biden, then Harris campaigns …

Palestine is less an exception to academic freedom than it is a pretext for erasing the norm altogether, as part of an authoritarian assault on the autonomy of higher education and on the very idea of racial and gender equity.”

— Discriminating Against Dissent: the Weaponization of Civil Rights Law to Repress Campus Speech on Palestine, Middle East Studies Association and the American Association of University Professors

In 2023 and 2024, students at over 500 U.S. universities participated in historic protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In response to this highly visible wave of …

David J. Rush, 49, a senior CIA executive was arrested on May 19, a day after FBI agents searched his home in suburban Washington, DC. Charges were filed against Rush in Federal Court on May 20.
On May 27, a week after the court filings, the FBI and the CIA released a joint statement “explaining” the raid and arrest. The local DC media and the national media circulated the story on May 27 and 28. The interim week gave the CIA plenty of opportunity to carefully construct a credible account.

Nonetheless, what emerged was wildly bizarre.

First, this …

The United States kidnapped Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in January 2026 on now-crumbling allegations that he headed the fictional “Cartel of the Suns.” Washington framed Maduro as a narco-terrorist kingpin to justify what was effectively an act of war disguised as law enforcement, but prosecutors are now quietly backing away from the bolder claims used to rationalize his abduction. The irony, of course, is that the United States has spent decades enabling narcotrafficking in the name of democracy.
For 40+ years Washington waged its unsuccessful War on Drugs alongside its oft-illegal Cold War pursuits. In the American hierarchy of foreign-policy …

“Trump stock trades fuel accusations of corruption and profiting off presidency.”

The FIFA Men’s World Cup of 2026 was always going to offer visitors and spectators something different. Shared between three countries – Mexico, Canada and the United States – the latter of the three was set to be the designated font of mischief and disruptive mayhem. Add to this the rapacity of the world footballing body on ticket pricing, and we have a tournament foundering even before the first ball is kicked.

Of nagging concern are the various travel impediments that have been impressed upon ticket holders. Previous tournaments have seen FIFA mint arrangements with host countries granting exemptions …

The power that could emerge from our coming together. The pooling of our efforts and our resources, through the interweaving of ropes, long and strong enough to allow us to hold together in the face of the challenges of our time. This is what we call Mujawara. A revolutionary neighbouring that we have already begun to weave from all these territories, these places, and popular powers born of our struggles.

And to inaugurate it, and to begin weaving this neighbouring that crosses borders, we …

Despite all of their reporting dripping with imperial propaganda, the New York Times can be useful at times. For example, if they start reporting that something needs to be done about [fill in country here], then it generally alerts us all that the US oligarchy/CIA/lizard billionaires have been working towards coup’ing [country] for months already.

So who/what is the Times now telling us we need to do something about?

Mexico.

We – the murderous, blood-thirty …

What about the abuse that people opposed to wearing a mask or getting jabbed without evidence of efficacy of prophylaxis.

If the Iran war drags on much longer and becomes costlier for taxpayers, it’s possible the two major political parties might be so desperate and smart enough to try returning to the colorful citizens’ bond drives of World War I and II that helped pay a large part of the costs. And the public felt that both the President and Congress heard their views.
Now, most ordinary Americans from 1917 even up to today do not understand what a bond is—federal, corporate, or municipal. But they certainly do if told that any bond is an IOU …

The occupation doesn’t want Palestinians to have any sort of normality: no sports or teams to begin with. In the past, the occupation entity would target any sports event or Palestinian sporting participants when they saw we were making a name for ourselves. The occupation entity also split the league in Palestine into two leagues, which is very unusual across the world – usually, there’s only one league in each nation.

IN LOVING MEMORIES OF PROFESSOR MR. JAY- MY MENTOR

Message: I hope you find meaning in this closing reflection — a hard, honest meditation meant to steady your steps on the long journey back to clarity, conscience, and the deeper work of being human.

There are moments in history when humanity must stop, look at itself, and admit the truth: we have lost our way. We have built systems that reward arrogance, not wisdom; noise, not clarity; power, not justice. We have mistaken progress for purpose and technology for transformation. We have forgotten …