The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization. The mantra of never again is a joke. The understanding that when we have the capacity to halt genocide and we do not, we are culpable, does not apply to us. Genocide is public policy Israeli forces kill… Read More Chris Hedges: The Last Days of Gaza
NB: This is what the US did repeatedly to the rest of the world, remember? Whether led by Republican or Democratic Presidents. Now the land of hope and glory is self-destructing. Remember Joe BIden’s 30 billion dollars of arms aid to Israel and the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed with American bombs. Trump is… Read More Donald Trump’s Cultural Revolution
The UK’s strategic defence review risks normalising nuclear warfare. Don’t believe the PR hype: these weapons are immoral, irrational and catastrophic Simon Tisdall Plans by Keir Starmer’s government to modernise and potentially expand Britain’s nuclear weapons arsenal, unveiled in the 2025 strategic defence review (SDR), seriously undermine international non-proliferation efforts. They will fuel a global nuclear… Read More Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race and is bringing us closer to armageddon
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur. Undercover filming has revealed the existence… Read More International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
The faintest of all human passions is the love of truth: A. E. Housman (1859-1936) By Gideon Levy in Haaretz, May 29, 2025 Germany has betrayed the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. A country that saw its highest task as not to forget has forgotten. A country that told itself that it would… Read More GERMANY’S HOLOCAUST BETRAYAL
Wong accused of conspiracy in move rights groups condemn as ‘outrageous’ attempt to keep influential dissident imprisoned Helen Davidson in Taipei Jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been hit with further national security charges, a move rights groups said showed the Hong Kong government was trying to keep dissidents behind bars for as long as possible. Wong, a well-known… Read More Jailed Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong hit with new charges
NB: There was never any global vision; only a global projection of personal ambition. Performance art at its best. ‘When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later,… Read More Vishwaguru needs a new global vision
Whittaker Chambers tried to warn us Paul Baumann I recently read Sam Tanenhaus’s excellent new biography of William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative hero who, as the subtitle of the book acknowledges, was the voice and guiding light of the political “revolution that changed America.” The impressive, talented, and endlessly combative group of editors Buckley initially gathered… Read More From Ayn Rand to Donald Trump
NB: Most of what this author writes is rational and humane. The violent attacks on Jewish Americans simply for being Jews is a horrible crime. The concepts of collective guilt and the inter-generational transfer of guilt are poisonous doctrines. Antisemitism is one of these, and began as a Christian form of bigotry. Its roots lie… Read More You can oppose Israel’s policies without killing Jewish people
NB: An important interview about an important book. DS Documents unearthed by Robert Parry and reported in an article entitled When Israel/Neocons Favoured Iran show that Israel’s Likud government of Menachem Begin became an important source of covert arms supplies to Iran after Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, with the profits being invested in Jewish… Read More The People First: Rohini Hensman on Democracy, Resistance, and the Global Left
After the truth-shower 