The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas had weaponized sexual violence on October 7. It was written by the paper’s pro-Israel Jerusalem-based reporter, Isabel Kershner. Nicholas Kristof’sNew York Times Op-ed piece titled The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians, published on May 11, was based on documentation and grueling victim testimonies of rapes that Palestinianshaveexperienced at the hands of Israeli security forces. Brutal and sadistic acts of sexual torture are described in a piece …
If the US empire were truly evil and nefarious, you might assume they would avoid attacking and imprisoning those who help starving people or house the homeless or give medical care to the needy. They would do their most despicably evil deeds behind closed doors, in the shadows, while publicly claiming to help the needy, the hungry, the less fortunate.
You would be wrong.
Our US imperial rulers are not smart enough to cover their true intentions. At no point …
When I wrote an open letter to you a half year ago, I urged Germany to pursue diplomacy with Russia rather than the normalization of war. Six months later, the situation in Europe is dramatically worse. Europe and Russia are slipping into open war. And in that drift, Chancellor, your responsibility is singular. No European leader — not in Paris, not in Warsaw, not in Rome — holds the position that Germany holds, or has the power that you personally hold, to interrupt this catastrophe. Will you try for peace?
You yourself, with Prime Minister Meloni and President Macron, called …
After WW2 many Germans claimed “they didn’t know”. Australians are aware daily of remorseless mass killing of ethnically Semitic Arabs and culturally Semitic Muslims by Zionist-perverted America and US-backed Apartheid Israel. However, Zionist-perverted Western media hugely under-report the killing. Thus, in the Gaza Genocide, Gazan deaths from violence and deprivation totalled 875,000 in 2 years (The Lancet) but the BBC reports “75,000”.
Kym Staton’s film The Trust Fall: Julian Assange reports “3 million Iraqi dead” in the 2003-2011 Iraqi Genocide, but the BBC reports “460,000” and the ABC reported “tens of thousands”.
Although they are “public schools” on paper, in reality charter schools are private businesses that siphon billions of dollars a year from traditional public schools. These traditional public schools educate about 88% of the nation’s youth and are typically under-funded and vilified by the rich and their political and media representatives.
Over the last 30+ years, numerous court cases, thousands of news articles, and hundreds of scholarly papers and books have shown that charter schools also regularly oppose public accountability and transparency. Not surprisingly, the charter school sector is constantly plagued …
Tucker Carlson’s recent video on Rep. Thomas Massie’s defeat provided an excellent analysis of the country’s optimism at the time of Donald Trump’s election in 2024. Carlson included an assessment of Trump’s transition with alarming foreign policy shifts that most Americans had not voted for.
Carlson went on to question an eerie premonition on Trump’s transformation that was perhaps already on the agenda with the sudden appearance of Miriam Adelson at an early morning Church service on Inauguration Day.
I can relate to Tucker’s disappointment, echoing my own alienation that our newly elected President not only …
Every society reveals its true character in the way it treats its children. A nation may boast of power, wealth, or technological brilliance, but if its young grow up in fear, hunger, or neglect, its moral foundation is already compromised. A global order that pours trillions into weapons while millions of children lack food, shelter, or safety is not simply misguided — it is ethically disfigured. (Readers should confirm political information with trusted sources.)
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $916 billion on its military in 2023 — more than the next ten countries …
How a Kurdish experiment in radical equality, now largely dismantled, provides the model for humanity's future
by Daniel Pinchbeck / May 28th, 2026
Abdullah Öcalan
Among the many horrors unleashed by the current regime in the U.S., little has been written about its impacts on the extraordinary social and political experiment that was underway in Eastern Syria, in the area of Rojova. Even though Rojova has been essentially dismantled due to Trump’s policies in the region, I think more of us need to understand what they attempted, as it could provide a model for the future, once the authoritarian project has …
When the establishment journalism of Nicholas Kristof of that most establishment of papers, the New York Times, draws the ire of a foreign regime, and an unnaturally allied foreign regime at that, a pulse might be detected in the moribund state that is the Fourth Estate. In his piece alleging a campaign of sexual violence against Palestinians by Israel’s security apparatus, he shines some blistering light on practices long suspected and discussed. It begins a proposition that, “Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemn rape.”
When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026 commencement declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered boos that escalated when she spoke of “living in a time of profound change.” Gloria Caulfield, an aloof real estate executive, paused and looked around confused, asking, “Whoop, what happened?” She seemingly did not realize the graduating students were booing her techno-utopian position on AI, a fact made clear seconds later when she drew cheers for saying, …
Imagine living in a world where a country could commit a false flag, use it to completely destroy an entire country, bring down their government, kill millions of innocent people, and sink the survivors into gut-wrenching poverty — and then when the truth about the false flag finally comes out, no one cares.
Man, that would suck to live in that world.
Well, we live there right now.
Thanks to a recent lawsuit, we finally have the admission of a cover-up by the OPCW related to the false flag …
Professor Richard Falk has been a TFF Associate for all the 40 years, TFF has existed. A dear friend, too. And now at soon 96, a world-leading brilliant thinker, a clear voice for law, peace, justice, decency and ethics.
He is interviewed by Pascal Lottaz, who is a TFF Board member and operates one of the finest peace-oriented channels: Neutrality Studies on YouTube and Rumble.
If one examines the government’s record on transparency, what is the obvious conclusion one would draw on the government releasing the Epstein files and UFO files?
The war on Iran is the 21st century ‘Ten days that shook the world’. That was John Reed’s account of the 1917 Russia revolution, the secular utopian experiment that defined world politics for the entire century, terrifying world elites, at the same time, defeating German fascism, and liberating the colonial world, from Africa to Asia.
The imperialists finally defeated communism, but its goals – security and peace for the masses – remain unfulfilled. They are the goals of Islam, which took the communists’ torch, holding it higher than atheism ever could. Supersonically high. …
On May 23, in Poulsbo, WA, hundreds of people joined several dozen pacifist Buddhist monks from the Japanese based Nipponzan Myohoji religious order to install a Peace Pagoda immediately adjacent to the Kitsap Bangor U.S. naval base. An estimated 1,700 Trident nuclear weapons housed at the base have an annihilatory capacity unimaginably more terrible than the destruction and suffering the U.S. inflicted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.
The foundational mission of the …
Polly on Twitter asks, “Is there a pejorative term for military like what pig is for cops?”
Dear Polly,
No, but there should be. We need to start stigmatizing that shit.
It is not okay to be a stormtrooper for the Western Empire. It is not honorable. It is not worthy of respect. If you are a Westerner who is considering joining the military, you should choose a different career path instead.
Don’t thank soldiers for their “service”. Don’t play along with the lie that your nation’s soldiers fight for your rights or your freedom. It only encourages more …
On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the two sides are still very far apart, on nuclear enrichment, on control of the Strait of Hormuz, on peace in Palestine and Lebanon, and on lifting US sanctions, paying war reparations, and Iran’s $100 billion in frozen assets.
Iran’s conditions for a peace agreement are necessarily uncompromising, in response to the US record of using negotiations as cover for sneak attacks, and the charade of …
by Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris / May 25th, 2026
In response to recent developments in Venezuela under imperialist siege, international solidarity activists should adopt a stance that does not inadvertently reinforce Washington’s drive for domination. Our central responsibility is not to adjudicate every tactical decision made under siege conditions, but to oppose the imperialist aggression that creates those conditions.
The overwhelming structure of US hybrid warfare against Venezuela remains intact, continuing to suffocate the country’s economic recovery and undermine its sovereignty. Washington continues to exert decisive pressure over the country’s principal source of national revenue, the oil sector. It uses sanctions, financial coercion, and domination of global banking systems, as …
Revealing a steely yet erratic contempt for the law, the US Department of Justice is again showing how it has become the spear carrier for kooky ideas and vengeful projects. No leader seems safe from indictment if President Donald Trump’s personal interests are involved. It need not matter if the legal foundations are shoddy to the point of sheer absurdity – the more absurd, the more likely the paperwork will be filed.
The May 20 unsealing of a superseding indictment by the DOJ against Raúl Castro bulks that pile. As brother to the late Fidel Castro and Cuban President from …
It has been a sorry though predictable exercise. When he lived up (or down) to expectations of atrocious conduct befitting the proud bigot that he is, Israel’s Minister for National Security had to be seen as aberrant, the man who strayed, if only slightly. The conduct in question involved Itamar Ben-Gvir’s posting of footage on social media mocking the fate of activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla who had made a failed humanitarian effort to break the blockade of Gaza. The activists, seized in international waters by Israeli forces off the coast of Cyprus, had been blindfolded, their …
For many people in the US, the heart of Americanism was the Founding Fathers’ Enlightenment: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
But long before the Enlightenment American roots were in the Old Testament expressed through Puritanism and Judaism. Both the Puritan and Judaic traditions appear to be liberal and the opposite of totalitarianism. Bruce Lerro’s article describes how the Old Testament can be the foundation for a liberal totalitarianism we have had since the end of World War II.
There are ages when humanity loses the ability to imagine a world beyond its own comfort, and ours is one of them. We have mastered technology, expanded economies, and built systems of astonishing complexity, yet we struggle to imagine justice, compassion, or shared dignity. Our crisis is not a lack of intelligence. It is a collapse of moral imagination.
We can design machines that learn, but we cannot imagine societies that care. We can map the human genome, but we cannot envision a world where every child eats. We can send rockets to Mars, but we cannot imagine peace on earth. …
The author of the op-ed “Sexual violence is used as a tool of war” assumes Nicholas Kristof’s claim that Hamas raped women on their October 7, 2023 breakout from Gaza actually happened: a claim which investigators including Max Blumenthal found long ago to be not only without foundation but used intentionally to generate genocidal Jewish vengeance. While I assume that the author Denise Handlarski was well-meaning in accusing both Israel and the Palestinians, as many feel compelled to do, equating them mischaracterizes both the power differential and the extent of criminality.
People would be outraged if the crimes of Jews in …
War has become perpetual, enemies are re-invented and our daily lives are inextricably tied up in an oil-soaked economy. These films urge viewers to consider our personal and collective roles in addressing the costs of conflict, especially as these wars continue around us.
These are stories of resilience — by listening, we learn from our history without losing hope that humankind can find a more peaceful and tolerant way of life.
The Boys Who Said NO! is the first documentary film to profile the young men and women who actively …
There’s something broken in America. Our economy is broken. Our politics are broken. Even our relationships with each other feel broken. That’s because the most powerful people in the world want it that way. The biggest divide in this country is not left vs. right. It’s top vs. bottom. Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other instead of looking up at them. The people at the top work so hard to keep us angry and divided because our unity is a threat to their wealth and power. So their cable news networks and their social media algorithms tear …
On a nice spring afternoon, April 26, 2026, “King” Charles III was invited by President Trump to address a joint session of the United Stares Congress in Washington, DC. The little brick house that I co-own with the bank sits, as the crow would fly, just 8 miles away. His sudden whirlwind tour included numerous meetings, with Trump, industry leaders, military brass, corporate media, Republican and Democrat politicians, and assorted royal-obsessed glitterati. A few minutes were also spent interacting with a some common folks. Certainly not the first …
