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 …
A half-century after most of the world labeled Zionism racism, a major Anglosphere party has finally echoed the call. The Greens’ resolution is a significant blow to Tel Aviv, Ottawa, supremacist lobbyists and Elizabeth May.
On Sunday, the Green Party of England and Wales adopted an anti-Zionist resolution. Echoing the 1975 UN General Assembly motion, the Greens’ motion labels Zionism “a form of racism”. It also calls for a “single democratic Palestinian state in …
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has followed the path of past executive tribunes of the American imperium, seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international order of rules and protocols. Spot the international rule and break it.
Neither ally nor adversary has been spared Trump’s scorching petulance. Thuggish language has been forthcoming for Canada just as it was for Venezuela, whose leader, Nicolás Maduro, was abducted, along with his wife, on fantastic charges related to narcotics …
There is something almost admirable about the Canadian government’s ability to respond to an American provocation with precisely the right number of carefully selected adjectives. Washington imposes tariffs. Ottawa expresses deep disappointment. Washington threatens Canadian sovereignty. Ottawa says the relationship is changing. Washington escalates again. Ottawa announces that Canada is entering a new era. Then everyone goes home.
The problem is no longer simply that Canada’s foreign policy is too cautious. It increasingly appears to have no direction at all. Ottawa responds to American provocations with carefully worded statements, measured diplomatic language and assurances. But beneath the polished rhetoric, there is …
I recently read a big stack of books on the decline and elimination of dueling. There were thousands of factors, many of them beyond anyone’s easy control, but key among them was cultural change, was bringing people to find greater humiliation in dueling than in not dueling, greater …
Participation in the Five Eyes requires Canada to spy on Cuba for the US, according to John Bolton. With an annexationist Trump ratcheting up its bid to overthrow that country’s government, it may be time to reevaluate involvement in a Washington-dominated intelligence-sharing alliance.
In Saturday’s Globe and Mail, John Bolton told Robert Fife he was near certain Canada spied on Cuba for Washington. The former US national security …
The trend was already spreading through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defense department has fallen hardest for artificial intelligence at virtually every level of its operations. Even before the Pentagon’s intoxicating pursuit of artificial intelligence was announced, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was already running simulated aerial combat trials between AI agents and seasoned pilots.
In December 2025, the US Department of Defense (DOD) revealed plans for a rapid, extensive release of the generative AI GenAI.mil platform, which uses advanced models intended for over 3 million military personnel, civilian employees, and contractors. Google Cloud’s …
Conclusive evidence is in from new DNA tests: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
To put it more bluntly: The primary author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States raped one of more than 600 people he enslaved, starting when she was a teenager.
Does that seem disrespectful or ahistorical?
First, let’s deal with the often-heard claim that we …
The genocide of the Palestinian people consumes us, and for good reason; it is a nightmare that will keep us awake until it is resolved. The perpetrators of the genocide work at it for 24 hours, seven days a week, covering the globe with a blanket of falsehoods, deceits, and calculated verbal attacks that they hope will disguise the horrors of their actions and smother the truths that reveal them. We realize we must be equally vigilant, and use each moment of energy to de-energize the Zionist inflated rhetoric, each second of breath to breathe life into the movement to …
The Banned Books Week Coalition encourages us to stand up for library staff, students, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers by “Letting Freedom Read”
by Mickey Huff and Steve Macek / October 3rd, 2026
The forty-fourth annual Banned Books Week (BBW) takes place October 4 through 10 this year, but given the significant, sustained efforts to restrict what young people can read, Banned Books Week should likely be observed every week. We are living in a time of increased attacks on the free press, free speech, academic freedom, and the rights to read and know. This year’s BBW theme, “Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read,” reflects these concerns.
Orientation The black sheep of the field of psychology Cross-cultural psychology has been called “the black sheep” of the field. This is because it pokes holes in the more established subjects such as people’s personalities, how people learn and remember and how people reason and emote. Cross-cultural psychology exposes Western interpretations of psychopathology and what kinds of therapy work by showing how these subjects are treated in other cultures. Cross-cultural psychology began in the field of psychological anthropology around the turn of the 20th century. But how well does it explain …
Mark Carney is doubling down on a colonial force in the West Bank with barely a peep from pro-Palestinian forces. In fact, some are supporting a security initiative that highlights the scope of Canadian Zionism and liberal/left naivety towards “aid”.
At the UN last week, the prime minister announced new funds to bolster a security force assisting Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank. As part of a hundred-million-dollar announcement, Canada added $20 million in “aid” for Palestinian security initiatives with Carney noting in an official release, “we will continue to lead in training the Palestinian Authority’s security forces through Operation …
It’s a matter of principles, courage, vision and pulling together - while the militarist world is falling apart...
by H. Peter Langille / October 3rd, 2026
Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
— The Bertrand Russell—Albert Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955
The forecast for what’s ahead is worrisome. The sharp rise in armed conflicts over the past three years is adding to what was already the highest level in over seventy years. Genocides, which should be prevented are supported. A shared climate emergency that jeopardises survival is ignored.
While there is much debate and consternation whether the GOP will retain control of Congress during the mid term election or whether the GOP will survive as a political party, the grim reality is that the Republicans have done little to retain their hold.
Neither the GOP, especially the Senate has gone out of its way to persuade the American public to support the President’s party, the President himself appears indifferent to the outcome of mid terms.
Anyone who has been following Trump’s career knows that to be pure malarkey; while it is true he will find others to …
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) rejects the renewal of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) mandate by the UN Security Council on September 29, 2026, and affirms that Haiti’s sovereignty cannot be renewed away. One year ago, Security Council Resolution 2793, drafted by the United States and Panama, authorized a foreign force of up to 5,500 police and soldiers to replace the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission that also proved ineffective at stemming armed violence. The GSF was to conduct operations to “neutralize, isolate, and deter” armed groups independently or alongside Haitian security forces. A foreign …
Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost
In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year 2026 deficit of $2.1 trillion. Interest on the debt hit a record $1.4 trillion over the last 12 months and now consumes more than any federal program except Social Security and Medicare, eclipsing defense spending for the first time in U.S. history. Paid with borrowed money, …
The most dangerous thing for the sovereignty of a nation is the colonization of the minds of the population by a foreign power. The function of Christianity during the period of European colonization of much of the world was to embed Western culture within the minds of the colonized. Where possible, the indigenous religions were suppressed or forcibly exterminated. At its core, Christianity pushes a Western-supremacist ideology with a white European Christ, a white European God and “civilizing” Western missionaries, together with an acceptance of purgatory for the poor in the present in exchange for redemption in an afterlife….
The recent two-day BRICS summit in Delhi was important because it indicated that even the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – which had earlier attempted to enter into a strategic relationship with the US and Israel – now realises that its future lies in maintaining strategic autonomy.
The objective reality is that the US, EU, NATO, and the G7 (clubs of settler-colonial and ex-colonial powers) are no longer the decisive forces in the world. Instead, the world is moving towards a …
Several years ago, the late Foreign Service Officer, Eugene Bird, led a small delegation, which included me, to visit our congressional Representative, Chris Van Hollen. Gene Bird presented a firm position; he and his vast following intended to back candidates who demonstrated a positive attitude toward the rightful Palestinian demands of relief from Israeli oppression and would work to unseat those who favored apartheid Israel. Van Hollen listened carefully and made no commitments, except remaining committed to the Democratic Party position, which faithfully followed AIPAC.
Will Beijing invade Taiwan? That question explodes every time tensions rise, but this video explains why the usual headline is the wrong starting point.
First, the video answers the question people actually search: is Taiwan a country? After China’s unfinished civil war, two governments still claim the same country: the People’s Republic of China in Beijing and the Republic of China in Taipei. Taipei did not create a new state called Taiwan. Its own constitution claims all of China, including the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan Island. …
The unchaining of a pre-existing malady triggered by the sudden acquisition of great power.
By now, there can scarcely be anyone on the planet who does not realise that Donald Trump suffers from serious psychological problems. The public record of his mental ailments and behavioural idiosyncrasies is voluminous and well-worn (e.g., Blunt, 2025, 2026a, 2026b; Hedges, 2026; Lieberman, 2026).
An important part of the reason for the wide coverage is that, as heads of state go, the amount and variety of his supply of material to work with …
“CNN, MSNOW and Politico back at the White House, hours after judge ordered Trump to lift ban,” read a September 24, 2026 Associated Press headline, published just one week after the administration had barred the three outlets from press briefings. In response to the ban, the White House press pool—a rotating …
