One common feature of western empire propaganda is that we are always given reasons for the empire’s violence, while the violence of those who resist the empire tends to be framed as happening for no reason at all. We’ve all been fed reasons for the US-Israeli war…
“All warfare is based on deception.” — Sun Tzu The greatest illusion is not on the battlefield, but in the room where borrowed power mistakes itself for command. Part of why Trump launched this war was obvious from the start: war floods the screen and buries the Epstein Files under…
If we scrape away the hype and the humbug, this is the corporate economy in a nutshell. Sorry about the bluntness, but alas, there’s no way to sugarcoat calling Ultra-Processed Life what it really is.We’re all sheep to be sheared, living commodities. As consumers, the goal is to extract as much…
Fox News host Mark Levin and US-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard are both pushing for their respective governments to use nuclear weapons against Iran. Levin and Pollard are connected through Levin’s stepson, David Milstein, who the New York Times revealed in Nov 2025 held a “friendly” secret…
Greet the almighty return of Pirates of the Caribbean, now upgraded to Pirates of the Persian Gulf. The spectacular collapse of the Islamabad dictates – Barbaria came to dictate, never to negotiate – was followed by a psychological operation of coercion on steroids: Jesus! (literally, as he…
Dismantle the American Empire. There are several less than flattering names for the American Empire that describe it quite well – The Hollow Empire, The Empire of Lies, Globohomo, The Zionist Global Empire among them. Whatever name one wants to dub it, it is an empire that…
Anti-tech backlash will be a major issue in the coming years. When the city council of Festus, Missouri, voted to approve a data center deal last month, the lawmakers unwittingly signed their own eviction notices. Voters last week ousted all four incumbents on the ballot due to their…
Why are older American women so left-wing? Police carried 80-year-old Lynn McFarland out of the Tennessee Senate gallery when the golden age gadfly refused to stop protesting a bill authorizing local school boards to charge tuition of “undocumented” students or deny them enrollment altogether. “Sitting in the…
It seems likely that the negotiations will not produce an agreement. The temporary cessation of hostilities across West Asia very much hangs in the balance. Originally, there was to be a cessation of military actions across “all fronts” including Lebanon — that being one of…
In another example of the president’s errant shift in views and policies, he recently endorsed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for reelection. Ten years ago, Trump called Graham “one of the worst representatives of any representative in the United States.” “Senator Lindsey Graham is doing a fantastic job,”…
