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There has been no Congressional declaration of war against Iran, minimal consultation with Congress, and no coherent rationale submitted.  What justifications have been given are contradictory. Last week, Defense Secretary Pate Hegseth said he wouldn’t speculate about what “we will or will not do” in the war, adding however: “This is not a so-called ‘regime change war’, but the regime sure did change.”  This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Rubio said the war was launched in support of Israel; then... Читать дальше...

On January 23rd, I ignored a factually incorrect State Department warning about chavista motorcycle gangs “kidnapping Americans” and flew into the airport in La Guaira, Venezuela, for a 30 day reporting assignment for TeleSur. The first thing I saw stepping into the airport was a “wanted” sign for US-backed 2024 presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, who fled the country that September after being charged with falsification of public documents, instigation to disobey the law, conspiracy and... Читать дальше...

Amid the so-called “ceasefire,” as imperial grifters and disaster capitalists jockey to remake Gaza in their image and in accordance with their own interests, the genocide has not abated. In its current phase, while the killing continues daily, its defining feature is the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction More

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Hektoria Glacier (Antarctica) retreated 8 kilometers (5 miles) in only two months; one-half of the structure collapsing in record time. This is the fastest glacier collapse ever, and the message to the world is very clear: Global Warming looks like it’s ahead of schedule. (Antarctica Just Saw the Fastest Glacier Collapse Ever Recorded, ScienceDaily d/d More

On Saturday, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated military assault on Iran under the banner of Operation Epic Fury. The operation, involving large-scale air and missile strikes across multiple Iranian targets, marked another significant escalation since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. Critics have since renamed the campaign “Operation More

The onset of “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran was accompanied by a promise to keep America safe from a rising Iranian nuclear threat. President Trump announced “major combat operations,” claiming that nuclear talks with Iran had failed after just days, and that “our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.” More

So Donald Trump finally did it: he started a major war on Iran at the behest of the Israel lobby. Already U.S. bases in the Gulf states have gone up in flames, with confirmation from Bahrain that every building in the U.S. navy fifth fleet (near Manama) has been destroyed, U.S. servicemen are dead, the More

If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has just taken place. The US government is backtracking—if not altogether retreating—from the trade war and broader escalation it launched against China. Unlike the hyped language and repeated threats by President Donald Trump More

In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understand what’s gone on. This has been a weaponization of government.” Despite his conviction, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge with More

In the Spring of 2022, I spent the last nights of Ramadan and Eid al-Adha in Havana, Cuba. I made it to Mezquita Abdallah, the only mosque in the whole country, before the sun went down — I’d missed the Eid prayer entirely, but I was able to sit around a table and talk with More

On December 2, 2025, the first public reports emerged about the impending launch of “Operation Metro Surge,” a deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to target undocumented Somalis in Minneapolis. Five weeks later, on January 7, 2026, ICE thug Jonathan Ross fired three shots that killed American citizen Renee Good as she More

Warehouses are for storing goods. ICE wants to use them to store people. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramps up arrests, the Trump administration is seeking to spend $38 billion to expand its detention capacity to 92,600 people, according to agency documents. At least 73,000 people — a record high — are already being More

The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents tens of thousands of Royal Mail employees across the UK, was enjoying hands-on leadership from its General Secretary Dave Ward. Sitting forward in the same chair occupied during our two previous conversations—the one beneath the framed blue Chelsea football shirt and photo of supportive colleagues—he cut to the More

Israel and the United States have launched a war of aggression against Iran that has spread across the Persian Gulf and beyond, with Israel also attacking Lebanon and invading with ground troops. The brutal assassination of Iran’s supreme Shia religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, along with his wife, daughter and granddaughter set the stage for the More

“Who the fuck does he think he is? Who’s the fucking superpower here?” –Bill Clinton, 1996 upon meeting Benjamin Mileikowsky (Netanyahu) for the first time. “It would be fine if they took it all”  –Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel during an interview with Tucker Carlson, February 2026. The bombs have started dropping and Netanyahu More

U.S. foreign aid is a Tyrant Entitlement Program. Phony piety has long been one of America’s top political exports.  President Barack Obama, in a 2015 speech to the African Union, the organization of the African heads of state,  derided nations that institute “democracy in name, but not in substance.”  But Obama’s finger wagging could not More

…control oil … control nations. – Attributed to Henry Kissinger, 1970s The future of our security -and our planet- is held hostage to our dependence on foreign oil and gas. – Barack Obama, 2008 The US–an informal empire of global reach–since the end of War World II has gone to war directly or indirectly, overtly More

On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again — a warning written nearly two centuries ago by Simón Bolívar in 1829: “The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For many Venezuelans, that line no longer feels like history. It feels like More

Working people — and the state and local governments that represent them — are being pushed to the brink by deep federal cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Those cuts didn’t happen in a vacuum. They were deliberately paired with a trillion-dollar tax giveaway to the wealthiest CEOs, leaving states and localities to scramble for the funds More

The smoldering wreckage of an American F-15 fighter jet in the Kuwaiti desert offers a grim, physical testament to the escalating costs of President Donald Trump’s latest Middle Eastern venture. Just 48 hours into Operation Epic Fury, the loss of advanced American hardware—and the precarious safety of its pilots—signals that the air campaign against Iran is not the More

The United States of America was founded on the lofty principles of freedom, equality and liberty for certain classes of white men.  After two centuries and a half, it has “evolved” from the noble rhetoric of its third president, Thomas Jefferson, to the vile, racist and imperialist diatribe of its 47th office holder, Donald J. Trump.  More

Last year, John Deere announced plans to go 100 percent robotic by 2030. That’s right: in just four more years, the world’s largest tractor manufacturer plans to replace every corn and soybean farmer with robots. Farmers won’t own the machines, of course. Right now they can’t even repair a machine because the software is only licensed to them. (And with More

“‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” —Jeremiah 6:13–14 The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces. War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises. They have fused. This did not happen overnight. Every modern president has stretched the limits of war-making power. Some have shredded those limits More

Before heading toward Skopje and my flight to Cyprus, I visited the two Orthodox monasteries for which Peja (as Peć) is famous—the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć and nearby (about 20 km) the Visoki Dečani Monastery, both r [ . . . ]