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The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon be ushering in an economy of unprecedented abundance, and examined the resource and energy constraints that could limit that voluminous growth. If machines eventually replace most of the workforce, society may need some form of Universal High Income (UHI), as Elon Musk and others have suggested, simply to keep purchasing power aligned with productive capacity. In a world where goods and services can be produced in abundance, the challenge may no longer be creating …

Britain boasts stewardship of a centuries-old accretive system of justice built on the principles of balanced rights, an independent judiciary and, most importantly, the right to trial by jury.

Yet England and Wales have the highest prison population per capita in Western Europe, and 60% of prisons are overcrowded.

Could this be because the safeguards are being systematically dismantled before our eyes to eliminate the fundamental civil liberties that it has taken centuries to acquire?

The surge in brazenly oppressive treatment of ordinary citizens who oppose British complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has shone a light on the extent to which the …

What should we make of the latest pause in the US/Israeli war against Iran?

I realize that for readers of this journal, others who do not take at face value what they are told by the mainstream media, the increasing number who do not believe anything that the US government and its President say, and everyone in Iran, this is a rhetorical question of such crashingly obvious proportions that it is barely worth asking.

But it is important nevertheless to remind ourselves of the extensive grounds upon which such a conclusion rests and on that basis to speculate briefly about what is …

“At midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do”
– Bob Dylan “Desolation Row.”

Perhaps you have noticed – if you have any idea who I am or give a damn – that I have slowed down my political analyses of our current situation. It’s gotten tiresome, with little changing despite all the spilled ink.

What I am going to say is not uplifting, so you can rip up this letter now if you want encouragement. The people whom I thought I knew never changed. They continue to believe the false premises that keep …

It might come as no surprise that the US Congress, which has proven to be a favorite friend of Israel, decided to legally formalize Israel’s widespread military participation within the US Government without public hearings or a public debate; what may be surprising is the depth of compliance to hand over a wide range of classified and covert information to a foreign government including its military industrial complex and its intelligence industry; the effect of which may ultimately eliminate the Constitutional status of the US as a sovereign and independent government.

Since the Federal legislature has seen corruption by a foreign …

The realization that you have an incurable autoimmune disease is not only unsettling, it changes everything. If there is an effective treatment that suppresses the symptoms, you can learn to live with it, provided that you can afford the treatment, which is fantastically expensive, and you must take the injections every two weeks for the remainder of your life. If you cannot afford the treatment, you are in serious trouble.

Events of this kind are unexpected, but they can happen to anyone, anywhere, and at any time. They tell you that there will be unrelenting turbulence for the remainder of …

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 …