 Bob Gaydos: Don't call me 'chief'! Some unsolicited advice: Sometimes a simple "Thank you" suffices. And other newsy stuff. |
DR MAZIN QUMSIYEH: What the Western public is shielded from
Since declaring "ceasefire" in Lebanon and the Gaza ghetto/concentration camp, over 1500 civilians were murdered by the Israeli apartheid regime. In the past three days alone, dozens were murdered including a person with Down syndrome, many children, medics, a journalist. |
Steven Jonas: "Trump-Comey" 2016 Revisited
In brief, this is a re-run of a column published in the week before the 2016 elections in which I speculated that various anti-Clinton activities that then FBI Director James Comey undertook would have the effect of electing Trump as President. I then briefly mention that after the election Comey proceeded with the "Russian interference" investigation begun before the election, which eventually led to the "Mueller Report." |
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DR MAZIN QUMSIYEH: Ongoing Nakba
Our situation in Palestine is very dire indeed. Millions of Palestinians squeezed into shrinking concentration areas, massacred, starved, and deprived of all basic human rights. Zionism, built on notions of privilege and choseness cannot help but spread racism, destruction and ethnic cleansing. There is a process of slow transfer from most of the West Bank to the ghettos otherwise designated area A. |
Peter Barus: Monkey trap
It makes no difference how stale or porous the story is when its half-life has been measured with the precision of a targeted drone operation. Effective propaganda builds on earlier lies that have been focus-grouped to work out what percentage of the public will buy into the next round. |
Parameswara Reddy: Wrestling with the Pig: Pope Leo's Dangerous Pivot from Souls to Sociology
Wrestling with the Pig: Pope Leo's Dangerous Pivot from Souls to Sociology - From the Africa tour to the Trump feud, the American Pope is abandoning traditional neutrality for the "Anxiety Tax" of partisan politics 1  |
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Memory Christina Motsi: Israel United States Khamenei Iran Islam and NATO
Militant and political Islam are the backbone of the Islamic Republic of Iran thus, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and ultra-conservative jurists among them the Supreme National Security Council, Guardian Council and Assembly of Experts, together with Shia proxies, will remain a complex foreign policy chessboard in the Middle East, for a culturally declining West. 1 |
 Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D.: The Iranian Negotiator: A Psychological Analysis of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is often described in the West simply as a former Revolutionary Guard commander, mayor of Tehran, or speaker of parliament. Yet his political trajectory reveals something far more significant about the evolution of power inside the Islamic Republic. This article examines Ghalibaf not as an isolated individual, but as a symbol of Iran's gradual transformation from a revolutionary ideological system. 2 |
DR MAZIN QUMSIYEH: Nakba, Birthday, NORWAY, Marathon
The level of horrors in the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine and Lebanon is truly shocking and well documented by all human rights organizations as well as the UN (rapes, torure, pogroms, ecocide, carpet bombing and erasing mcommunities). |
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Hugh Curran: The Self Destructive Nature of Recent Conflicts
This article concerns Canada and U.S. involvement in various conflicts in the world, especially Iran. It also discusses the Separatist Movement in Alberta and wealth resources in both Alberta and the Donbas region of Ukraine.The article concludes with a brief discussion of the consequences of the escalation trap that leaders seem unable to extract themselves from. 1 |
 Thomas Knapp: AI Regulation: More of the Risk, Less of the Benefit "Whatever can happen," Augustes De Morgan wrote in 1866, "will happen if we make trials enough." To which I must add, if "we" don't make trials enough, someone else will. AI will inevitably be pushed to whatever, if any, limit it has. |
 Pavlo Kuliuk: The Secret History of Make America Great Again Although Republicans and Democrats pursue opposing policies, they are working together toward a common goal. Leftist groups are becoming the enemy whose destruction requires the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats. |
 Mustafa Shouman: The Perception Trade: How AI and Social Media Turn War Rumors into Market Shockwaves. A sharp political-economic analysis of how AI-amplified war narratives, social media signals, and strategic ambiguity can move markets before facts are fully verified""turning perception itself into a tradable force. |
Allen Finkelstein: Supreme Court Babaloney
Recently, with Louisiana Republican Governor Landry's cancellation of state primaries allowing for illegal partisan gerrymandered district maps to replace "illegally" drawn racially gerrymandered maps, it should have been a signal to Democrats that we no longer have a functioning Supreme Court... 1 |
Robert Weiner: Non-Partisan Non-Candidate Issues - Think TV Message for the Midterm Elections
As the midterm elections are fast approaching, there are some critical points on BOTH sides that every American should reflect on. |
 David Swanson: Would You Want Aliens to Meet Neil deGrasse Tyson? Should it bother us how much our official comment-on-aliens guy does to normalize war? Is it overly nostalgic to suggest that I wouldn't have so much minded aliens encountering Carl Sagan when he was that guy? |
Adam Brown: Eighty-One Years On: Why the West Still Can't Accept the Soviet Victory
Analytical article on the dispute over World War II memory in Europe, sparked by the refusal to allow Slovakia's prime minister to overfly certain EU countries en route to Moscow for May 9 commemorations. It examines contrasting narratives of the Eastern Front and D-Day, the politicization of historical memory, alleged double standards, and a broader crisis in European memory politics. |
 Carl Petersen: Trump's Strategic Misfires: A Redistricting Plan Unravels The President's redistricting push sparked a partisan arms race, but shifting coalitions may turn his gains into liabilities. |
 Citizen News Service - CNS: Turning development justice analysis into collective actions Please consider the below article where feminist leaders call for turning analysis into collective actions if we are to deliver on gender equality, development and health related goals and targets. |
 Thomas Knapp: Ted Turner: 24 Hours That Changed The News World Since CNN's launch, "the news" has gone from short daily feeds covering pre-deadline events to 24/7/365 real-time coverage of far more things, in far more detail, by numerous and varied outlets. In theory, that should make the public much better informed than we used to be. |
 Michael Chavers: The SCOTUS Offensive Coordinator: How the Court is Quarterbacking the Project 2025 Purge The heist of the century is happening right now, and the SCOTUS is the offensive coordinator calling the plays. ? In a devastating 6-3 ruling just two days ago, the Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act, running the exact playbook the Heritage Foundation laid out in Project 2025. They're gerrymandering our voices into silence to pave the road for an autocratic takeover-- they think we aren't paying attention |
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Rob Baker: Is Iran the perpetrator of aggression?
Is Iran at fault for this war or is it the victim of criminal aggression by the United States Ruling Class and the deceptively named Israeli Regime? |
 Michael Chavers: You Think Trump Started This Mess? The Rot Was Here Long Before Here's the thing nobody wants to admit: the corruption people blame on one man didn't start with him. It's been baked into the American political machine for decades. Money talks, voters get ignored, and billionaires treat democracy like a clearance sale. This piece breaks down how we got here, why so many people have checked out, and why the rest of us can't afford to. |
 Bob Gaydos: Ok, just the facts, please! With Trump's addiction to lying, his background in television and his love for theater and staged events, creation of conspiracy theories about what happened in Washington was, in my opinion, inevitable. |
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Steven Jonas: Another Revisit to "The Origin of the Self-Destructive Species" Hypothesis
This is yet another re-visit to a column that I have posting periodically for quite some time --- because it continues to be appropriate to do so. The premise is that since our species, homo sapiens, is the only one that, for its survival, depends upon conversion of mater that it finds in its environment, rather than consuming and using matter directly, ownership of the means of conversion holds the key to species survival. |
DR MAZIN QUMSIYEH: Inspiring people
Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek continue to be held in horrible conditions after being kidnapped from ships 1000 km away from Gaza. They are on hunger strike, and held in the notorious torture areas called "Israeli prisons" (torture cells in which 80 Palestinians died in the past three years and many were raped and suffered permanent disabilities). |
 Thomas Knapp: OK, "Gun Control" Had Its Chance -- Here Are The Results "Gun control" had chance after chance after chance to prove it could thwart Cole Tomas Allen's plans. And. It. Didn't. |
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Joel Joseph: Violence Begets Violence
Trump's violence led shooter to aim for him and his administration. ICE violence, bombing fishing boats and Iran cause others to want to shoot the President. |
 Carl Petersen: Shaming the Uncontrollable We've removed physical barriers, but the stigma surrounding neurological disabilities remains a persistent injustice. |
 Bob Gaydos: Trump targets civil rights champion The Southern Poverty Law Center goes after hate groups. Trump hates that because those are his people. His base. 1 |
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