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by Binoy Kampmark / June 13th, 2026
The fourth estate has taken leave of its senses again, not that much is left for the exercise of those frail faculties. But commentary on Elon Musk’s transformation from multibillionaire tech prat into a trillionaire tosser because of magical accounting and the bubble of company valuation was reverenced rather than critiqued. Starry-eyed commentary from financial analysts swooned over the prospect of further investments after SpaceX made its public offering on June 12; the rhetoric of intergalactic travel and extra-terrestrial based data centres was lapped up. (Easy to revel in what is …
by Robin Andersen / June 12th, 2026
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 …
by Allen Forrest / June 12th, 2026
A cat’s meow: why tolerate humans?
by Visualizing Palestine / June 12th, 2026
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 …
Talking with a friend of the show, Kai Huschke, about the Rights of Nature on Finding Fringe
by Paul Haeder / June 12th, 2026
by Greg Godels / June 12th, 2026
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 …
by Shawgi Tell / June 12th, 2026
Charter school “boards” and “commissions” exist in numerous states. They usually consist of unelected individuals who are major promoters of school privatization. These private persons tend to be appointed by state leaders with significant political and economic power.
The main purpose of such capital-centered entities is to trample on democratic governance arrangements (e.g. elected school boards, elected state legislators, State Boards of Education) in order to rapidly impose pay-the-rich schemes on everyone. There is nothing democratic or pro-social about charter school “boards” and “commissions.”
The seven-member Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board (MCSAB) …
by Richard M. Balzano / June 11th, 2026
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 …
by Peter Blunt / June 11th, 2026
As with so much of what we know about how the world works, we have Chomsky to thank for drawing our attention to the relevance to the new imperialism of St Augustine’s account of the exchange between Alexander the Great and a captive pirate.
In St. Augustine’s story, Alexander asks the pirate “how he dares molest or infest the seas.”
The pirate’s ‘elegant and excellent’ reply was: “How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an Emperor.”…
by Allen Forrest / June 11th, 2026
by Weston Bailey / June 11th, 2026
On June 3, 2026, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced the agreement with Kyiv on expanding political rights of ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine. According to Magyar, the issue, which has been urgent for many years and has strained relations between the two countries, can be resolved in the near future after more than a decade of unsuccessful attempts of the previous government.
However, this became possible not due to the outstanding negotiating skills of the new Hungarian …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 11th, 2026
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 …
“Greater Israel” Prevails?
by Renee Parsons / June 11th, 2026
As reported in an earlier essay about the successful War Power vote on Iran, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) offered Resolution HR 84 “Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from Lebanon” on June 4. That Resolution was defeated in an appalling 324-92 vote with ten Republican House Members Not Voting.
Further details reveal 206 Republicans and 117 Democrats united in an unusual bipartisan vote to defeat Tlaib’s Resolution which would remove US armed forces from assisting Israel in its invasion in Lebanon.
One GOP House Member voted in favor of Tlaib’s …
by subMedia / June 10th, 2026
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 …
The scheme would work only if Israel could destroy all evidence of its own guilt. USS Liberty June 8 1967
by Paul Haeder / June 10th, 2026
NOTE: I was part of the racket. The academic racket, though I was a freeway flyer, precarious, adjunct, road scholar, who fought like hell against exploitation of adjunct faculty, who fought like hell for students to be free and critical thinking students (not customers) and who fought like hell give some micro-shade of radical thinking and radical action in the midst of those Upton Sinclair folk — It’s difficult to get a man or woman to know or see the truth when he or she depend on not knowing the truth for their pieces of eight, their mortgage, rent, utility …
by Lee Camp / June 10th, 2026
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 …
Here you have the essential arguments that people who cannot or will not think freely never mention
by Jan Oberg / June 10th, 2026
Nuclear weapons are undemocratic, useless, criminal, terrorist, and unethical – they cannot serve deterrence without being used, and their development steals the resources that should be used to solve real problems and secure humanity’s better future.
Global nuclear weapons spending reached an unprecedented 119 billion USD in 2025, according to the latest analysis by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). This represents a 19 per cent increase over the previous year and continues a five‑year trend of accelerating investment in nuclear arsenals. In total, …
by Allen Forrest / June 10th, 2026
What about the abuse that people opposed to wearing a mask or getting jabbed without evidence of efficacy of prophylaxis.
The Best Test for the American Public’s View on any War is not the Polls, but Bond Sales and These Would also Pay Bond Expenses for the Two Major Parties.
by Barbara G. Ellis / June 9th, 2026
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 …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 9th, 2026
Waxworks have nothing to say, but when incarnated in the form of former Fox News anchor and, at a pinch, “personality”, Pete Hegseth proves to be a marvel of sheer stupidity. It’s not that one cannot be provocative on matters of discomfort, teasing the political consciousness and prodding the sensitive. Immigration, and what makes it up, is a point of energetic disquiet in Europe, and a figure insisting on raising it is bound to add a spoke to the news cycle. But to do so in the fashion of the US Secretary of War, as he likes to be known as, …
by Black Alliance for Peace / June 8th, 2026
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.
by Allen Forrest / June 8th, 2026
The Final Message
by Sammy Attoh / June 8th, 2026
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 …
by Binoy Kampmark / June 6th, 2026
Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country indifferent, even scoffing, about the need for an inquiry into its merits. Unsurprisingly, both the US and UK inquiries have found much to merit the project – Australian taxpayer money has sluiced and soothed the submarine industrial base of both countries – but have also expressed concern about their respective production rates of nuclear-powered submarines.
While the first pillar of the agreement promises, with mighty emptiness, that the Royal Australia Navy will receive three Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines …
by Harvey Herring / June 6th, 2026
The breach of the stock exchange executive’s Outlook account, the use of localized phishing lures to deploy the Atlas RAT to compromise mobile devices, large-scale Chinese APT attacks on mobile networks, which allowed intruders to infiltrate the infrastructure of more than 50 providers and government agencies in 42 countries, and other similar news about attacks by hostile states have become a daily norm in Western media.
There is no doubt that digital security is an urgent problem in today’s world, where smartphones and other gadgets have become necessary tools for carrying out lots of actions. However, one shouldn’t fall for the …
by Renee Parsons / June 6th, 2026
On the evening of June 3, the legislative chambers of the US House of Representatives, normally a relatively reserved buzz of activity, began by maintaining the Ukraine war machine and ended with an eruption into what became a fierce display of political disagreement, partisan strife and personal insult.
The House began with consideration of three different House Resolutions related to foreign policy regarding Ukraine, Iran and Lebanon.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) offered Resolution 518 in support of the Ukraine Support Act to authorize HR 2913 which would provide additional $8 billion in support for Ukraine for a total US …
I am surrounded by people who look at their navels, who are old(-er) and taking account of their lives, who would rather write of the whip-poor-will dying on their cedar deck than Gaza
by Paul Haeder / June 6th, 2026
So, I proposed a piece for this Literary Journal I have been a part of for years, a decade or more. I’m in it with my poetry, reviews, creative non-fiction, fiction, more.
I’m troubled by the people around me, those in academia, the arts, or literary …
by J.S. O’Keefe / June 6th, 2026
The field ahead looked worked over, flattened in patches like multitudes had crossed it for centuries. Brown grass under frost.
Men standing in lines. Faces too close to each other, shoulders almost touching. I didn’t recognize any of the faces.
A colonel moved down the line. Everyone stiffened when he passed, so that’s what he must’ve been. Or major. Maybe brigadier general. He stopped beside me; my boots settled deeper in the mud. Training. Reflex.
An order came. The body moved before I caught up to it. Rifle raised. Words said, worn smooth from too many times. Mouth working through short sentences that …
Crime Doesn't Pay, but US Government Grants Do
by Roger D. Harris and Kelly Nelson / June 6th, 2026
InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political motivation. This fact-impoverished rush to judgment reflects a more general bias of the US-aligned corporate press, which seeks to demonize Nicaragua and its Sandinista political leadership.
The focus of the thinktank’s article is the death of Roberto Samcam, a former Nicaraguan army officer, exiled in Costa Rica. He was assassinated by gunmen in his home in a …
