Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and… Read More America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover
Fascist movements have always understood aesthetics as pedagogy—as a way of training people to feel power before they are allowed to think about it. It would be easy to dismiss (Trump) as a narcissistic clown. That would be a mistake. He is a demagogue who despises democracy, targets people of color, revels in violence, and… Read More Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back Matching Fascist Politics
NB: Not for decades has there been an honest and statesmanlike speech by a political leader. This one is one such, and is an exposure of the gruesome hypocrisy of those who claim to lead the world, not least our very own self-proclaimed vishwagurus and performance artists. The English poet A. E. Housman (1859-1936) remarked… Read More Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada / कनाडा के PM ने खोल दी सबकी पोल, पश्चिम के देशों को ही लताड़ा, दुनिया भर में है चर्चा
Listen to the single “wake up” by Llunr: https://music.empi.re/wakeupllunr Lyrics:Wake up it’s a long night darlingWake up it’s the brightest skyNo love it’s a dark night darlingHold on to me for dear life Wake up where where do we go to?Wake up fire fire in your eyeOh love we will try to come and save… Read More Children of Gaza: Wake up it’s a long night darling
Lessons from the first year of Donald Trump’s second term The West’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal razing of Gaza and the impunity with which an allegedly isolationist Trump abducted Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, expropriated its oil, bombed Iran, and threatened to annex Greenland and Canada has, it’s fair to say, made international law a disreputable… Read More Moment of reckoning
Since independence, the Republic of Congo has been suffering from ethnic strife, armed rebellions and military interventions by neighbouring countries. The presence of valuable minerals has added fuel to the strife which has taken millions of lives. Can peace ever come to this troubled nation? D.J. Ravindran The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly… Read More Congo: A Tragedy in Many Parts Over Many Decades
Behind today’s headlines is a history of imperial outrage—including a Philadelphia contract man who wreaked havoc in early 20th century Venezuela and helped oust a president. Greg Grandin Before Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez, there was Cipriano Castro. Before Donald Trump, there was Theodore Roosevelt. And before petroleum, there was asphalt pitch. The following excerpt… Read More Tar Wars
NB: The Iranian theocracy is a brutal tyranny; and all those who stood up for the Palestinian people should support the long struggle of the people of Iran for democracy and freedom. Left wing acrtivists may recall that this regime has been punishing and executing leftists for decades. DS With fear, surveillance and brute force… Read More With thousands dead, the Iranian regime may survive these protests – but not in its current form
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity… The good news is that the US is a large, diverse, energetic country, filled with people who do not like to be bullied and coerced, who still possess significant degrees… Read More Homeland Empire
Center for Human Rights in Iran January 9, 2026—The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) expresses grave and urgent concern for the protesters in Iran, who are under deadly fire from Islamic Republic security forces amid a nationwide internet blackout. CHRI has received credible first-hand reports of hospitals packed with injured protesters in areas… Read More State Massacre of Protesters is Underway in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
After the truth-shower 