It is easier go back home than to have constantly to be building a new one. This potential god does away with anything familiar with anything cherished. The gate opening on all possible combinations is far more powerful determinant of life’s destiny than the desperate nostalgia for the loss of oneness in the womb.
Reality is a seedless phenomenon engaged in the task of creating the seed. Once the seed is created, realty will be able to repeat itself in all the singular variations peculiar to the individuals involved in that repetition. …
“It is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in active solidarity with the struggles of people of color. Also essential, particularly in this critical election year, is conscious work among other white people who have been so infected with the ideas of white supremacy that they’ll support a white, corrupt, billionaire-loving fascist before they’ll support a Black, Brown or Indigenous, working-class fighter for justice for all. Breaking more white people away from, or beginning to question, MAGA ideology and practice is very strategic in 2026.”
Given the ‘mainstream’ structural filters that reflexively whitewash the crimes of ‘The Good Guys’ – ‘us’, by doctrinal fiat – we have often wondered how the great and the good of corporate politics and media would react if the US or Israel ever decided to use nuclear weapons. Could they, even then, break out of their lock-step deference to power, reclaim their souls, and say something humanly honest about that ultimate moral abomination? This week, it looked …
Reasonable people wonder if it was a coincidence the escalation (and now fragile ceasefire) of the massively unpopular, senseless, illegal US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran occurred while Congress was away from Capitol Hill for two weeks. Maybe so, but speculation aside, it soon won’t matter, as Congress returns to Washington to resume legislative business Tuesday, April 14.
In the wake of President Trump’s monstrous nuclear threat to obliterate Iran’s civilization, calls for his removal from office are rising, understandably. Doing so via the 25th Amendment, which would require Vice President J.D. Vance and the spineless supine …
In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to enable conflict to continue. War as cosplay and camouflage. Under such fragile conditions, military objectives can still be pursued with a ruthlessness offensive to international law, custom and common sense.
Seeing as Israel was a central, if not the central power in pushing the crime of aggression on February 28 against Iran, wooing with seductive voice and lurid promise a deranged egoist in the White …
Europe should remember the term “Blitzkrieg” well. Translated from German, it means “lightning war.” That is exactly what Hitler called his plan to attack the Soviet Union in 1941. At that time, the mobilized Nazi war machine, having previously crushed France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Greece, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, became hopelessly bogged down in the vast Russian expanse. We all know how that ended.
We are the dust beneath your feet. We are the flowers that never bloom.
— beggars in Bombay1Jonathan Kozol, Letters to a Young Teacher, (Crown, 2007) p. 61
Although bookshelves groan under the weight of tracts about U.S. racism, no one’s writings on the topic are more unsettling than Jonathan Kozol’s. He is among our greatest and most eloquent dissenters. He writes not from studied objectivity but with an impassioned conviction that sears the conscience and haunts the soul. His books, once read, stay with you; his insights, once seen, can never again be unseen. Horrors we once attributed to happenstance …
MOSCOW — Professor Higgins’s question to Colonel Pickering about Eliza Doolittle in the line from the musical, My Fair Lady, (lead image) was: Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
In Moscow, where the course of the Iran war is having a profound impact on military, intelligence, Foreign Ministry, and Kremlin officials, almost nothing can be said in public. Not even the question they are asking each other downwards and sideways, not upwards: Why can’t a Russian be more like an Iranian?
It’s time for us, like the boy in the story, to point out the bare, ugly truth. Trump’s followers need to see him for what he is and realize they are putting their trust in a sham, a fake, a fraud.
The first step, though, requires helping them to realize that no one is perfect, that ALL humans are fallible. Americans, especially, have forgotten a key principle of democracy: no man is divine, and America has no time for hero-worship or kings.
Some of us understand that perfection, while admirable, is not the end goal, and while we recognize that everyone has …
No one knows whether the ceasefire will hold but we do know a few things. First, Trump realized the war could not continue, even though none of his goals had been achieved. The war was both a personal humiliation for Trump and also an abject failure for the U.S. and Israel. It was the U.S., not Iran, that was begging for the ceasefire. And not to be left out, Jeffrey Sachs observes that “Trump exposed himself as a psychopath.”
Second, there is at least the opportunity to prevent this from occurring again as it will be difficult for the U.S. to …
A fragile ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. is unfolding amid deep mistrust, conflicting demands, and ongoing regional violence. Mediation efforts, particularly through Pakistan, have exposed miscommunication and political manipulation on multiple sides. While negotiations begin, both camps appear to be using the pause to regroup militarily. Iran is seen as holding strategic leverage, especially around the Strait of Hormuz, while global powers like China and Russia play complex behind-the-scenes roles. Despite talks, a lasting agreement seems unlikely, with tensions, competing interests, and the risk of escalation still dominating the landscape.
by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares / April 10th, 2026
To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank check to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967.
A two-week ceasefire has partially halted the Israel-US war on Iran. The war accomplished precisely nothing that a competent diplomat could not have achieved in an afternoon. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and it is open again now, but with more Iranian control.
Meanwhile, the chaos continues. Israel is intent on blowing up the ceasefire, as this …
The 13th and 14th centuries Mongol invasions and conquests were some of the most ferocious and deadliest incursions on humankind before the modern world wars. In its assault on Baghdad, the Mongol forces arrowed messages that guaranteed safety to those who had not fought the Mongols or surrendered to them. Resist and face execution. The Israeli military, purposely misnamed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), and self-proclaimed as “the world’s most moral army,” out does the Mongol ferocity —surrender and leave or die. After persuading the terrified inhabitants to leave, Israel’s military forces proceed forward by bombing and dynamiting everything in …
In many ways it is. Blind dogmatic repetition of false, outdated, and capital-centered ideas and views has long been the norm for charter school proponents. Retrogressive ideas took hold long ago.
But reality also vanished long ago for most politicians, the media, the rich, corporate “leaders,” and higher education “leaders.”
Disinformation, lies, bromides, propaganda, and gaslighting, all turbocharged by Artificial Intelligence, have become the norm today. Every time someone hears, sees, or reads something these days they have to ask if it is fake or real.
Naturally, human cognition and relations have taken …
He’s out of ideas, a mind running on empty. Increasingly, he is also short of reason, zapped by geopolitical addling and meddling. Now that US President Donald J. Trump has reached an uneasy understanding with Tehran that a two-week ceasefire should apply to the warring parties (Israel, as usual, has its own elastic interpretation as it continues attacking Lebanon), it is worth considering the warring language he has been using since February 28. Of note is the shrill wording of various ultimata he has directed at Iran.
On April 7, the President seemed to flirt with the notion of …
The ceasefire plan with Iran, if it holds, will get things (somewhat) back to the way they were before Donald Trump took a chainsaw to the world order. (Except of course all the people who were murdered will not come back.) If you hadn’t noticed, this is a theme for Trump.
1. He does something utterly unhinged, insane, chaotic and stupid. 2. He tries to get something he wants — like control of Iran, control of Greenland, or a subservient trade deal from China. 3. He …
by Peter Blunt and Peiman Salehi / April 8th, 2026
Any regimes that need changing, including the U.S., Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.
As The Fat Boy Posse’s latest illegal, depraved, unprovoked, and predictable attack on Iran proceeds with the customary savagery and disregard for civilian life and infrastructure, we have been trying to put ourselves in the position of one of those Muslim Iranians said by the Western media to have been protesting in their …
After the Fossil Age, Future Civilizations Stand on a Thinner Floor
There’s a comforting story that circulates in collapse circles: even if this version of industrial civilization is doomed, the planet will eventually reset. The fossil binge will end, forests will return, the climate will cool, and in a few centuries or millennia new Romes and Han Chinas will rise on a refreshed Earth, running on biomass and clever agriculture instead of oil and gas.
It’s an attractive story, not least because it reframes our crisis as a …
The problem with demagogues is that they invariably fall into infantile practices. The politics of the playground is the politics of hate, violence and betrayal. It’s the politics of finding the useful enemy and bullying the theme till it’s raw. In Hungary’s parliamentary elections set for April 12, the only theme that seems to matter to the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) alliance and Viktor Orbán, the country’s demagogic leader of 16 years, is Ukraine.
Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky have been pictured as symbolic occupiers, intruders and meddlers, intent on bringing in Hungary and the rest of …
The 2026 elections in Bangladesh have ignited considerable debate. While segments of the middle and upper-middle classes lauded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) symbolic triumph over Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI), the election was markedly more complex than a routine political event. It has raised profound questions concerning the evolving political landscape, referred to as a ‘new settlement’, within Bangladesh.
The election underscored a second phase in the nation’s political development: it effectively served as a referendum on proposed constitutional reforms that have the capacity to modify Bangladesh’s fundamental identity and its secular character by revising the principles established after the 1971 Liberation …
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Even though they make up only 8% of schools in the country, crimes, scandals, and arrests take place at a robust tempo in the nation’s privately-operated charter schools.
These non-stop wrongdoings usually include fraud, embezzlement, harassment, and a range of sex crimes.
This is not surprising given the weak accountability, transparency, and background checks that have plagued the crisis-prone charter school sector for more than 30 years.
A small sample of headlines from just this year speaks volumes:
JD Vance on UFOs: “I don’t think they’re aliens; I think they’re demons.”
Anaïs Nin: “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”
We don’t see the world (or the phenomenon) as it is — we see it as we are. High time the exorcists known as clinical mental health workers were dispatched to Vance’s DC residence.
The Vice President, as do an evangelical cadre of top US Air Force brass, warn, UFOs are piloted by inter-dimensional things that go bump in the night. By the evidence, the primary threat to the security of the US homeland: …
It was celebrated with ghoulish delight. On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), an instrument expanding the use of the death penalty for offences of a terrorist nature. The death penalty had previously existed in Israeli law for war crimes but was abolished in 1954 for ordinary crimes in peacetime. Technically, it remained on the books for crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and certain cases of martial law.
The law’s purpose is articulated as establishing the death sentence “for the sake of the struggle …
by Dissident Voice Communications / April 4th, 2026
My day began, as usual, by checking out the Dissident Voice website. But lo and behold, the website was suspended. Egads!
After checking with the hosting site for DV, I was about to be hit by a double whammy.
DV was entrapped by two catch-22s. The hosting service required payment for hosting. I had not been informed because the email requesting payment was sent to the previous editor Angie who had passed away on 2 January 2025. The payment was not a problem, as DV had accumulated a enough money from donations to pay server costs and hire the occasional tech person …
Since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, the US has attacked the Bolivarian Revolution in multiple ways, includingthroughpropaganda that categorize it as “authoritarian,” “unfree,” and “undemocratic.” This US propaganda assault is intended to dictate what should be done in Venezuela, including a return to “democracy,” with “free” and “fair” elections. Emboldened by the US military attack on Jan. 3, and relying on the US propaganda assault, the Venezuelan opposition has launched an aggressive move to seize control of the state by seeking concessions from …
“Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral March 2026 video showing missiles hammering the Israeli city as explosions burst across the night sky. To the casual scroller, it appeared to be a harrowing document of modern conflict. The problem, however, was that the video was a deepfake.
Deepfakes are synthetic media edited or generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to the New York Times, a “cascade of A.I. fakes about war with Iran” have proliferated across social media since the United States (U.S.) and Israel reignited military actions with Iran on …
Every answer carries the next problem inside it, the way a season carries the one that will replace it. We have learned not to be surprised by this.
We were born here, and so we stay. What else is there? The world ends at the television frame, where the evening news flickers and dies each night and we sit in its light a little longer than we need to. Beyond that edge is something we have no name for.
This place made us and we made something of it. We got up before light and we worked and we felt that the …
Almost one year after the 2024 election on a peace platform, the Trump Administration backed itself into an alarming militaristic US-Israeli tag team that is not what the American public voted for. Almost immediately, the newly elected Peace President who continued to lust for the Noble Peace Prize, allowed his country to be drawn into a series of unconstitutional conflicts with the most recent being a severe unprovoked war of aggression against Iran.
Early in Trump’s second term his no-new interventionist war pledge was no longer public policy when he failed to end the war in Ukraine as promised, followed by initiation of …
