By Nick Turse / TomDispatch Earlier this month, President Donald Trump threatened to unleash the armed forces on more American cities during a rambling address to top military brass. He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called upon to take a primary role at a time when… Read More On the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule
the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … no longer exists: Hannah Arendt NB: The author asks: If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live… Read More A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, joins host Chris Hedges to detail the dwindling academic freedom in American universities and society at large as Donald Trump’s grip on free speech tightens. Khalidi notes that while the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is an old tactic to stifle academic scrutiny of Israel,… Read More Chris Hedges and Rashid Khalidi: Inside America’s Academic Gulags
NB: I respect this writer and this film maker for speaking the truth as far as their resources allow. The term community of crime is something terrifying because it reflects the truth about the fragility of human consience; and the power that ideologies possess to pervert the conscience into its opposite; to literally create communities… Read More Two years after the massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise / ‘If 1948 was a war of Independence, the current war could be the one that ends Israel’
Itamar Katzir From his home in New York City, Peter Beinart watched in amazement as hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets during the first “day of disruption” in August. Peter Beinart – “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” | The Daily Show The 54-year-old Jewish American journalist and commentator… Read More Peter Beinart: ‘What Israel Is Doing in the Name of the Jewish People Is a Desecration’
The truth never dies, but is made to live like a beggar: Yiddish proverb People all seek to know what they do not know yet / they ought rather seek to know what they know already : Zhuang Zhou (369-286 BC) What you run away from, runs after you: Roumanian proverb Raoul Wootliff There is a moment in 1948:… Read More October 7 War: Remember, Remember Not
The RSS’ intellectual stagnation and myth-based narratives risk alienating it from India’s knowledge-driven society Bharat Bhushan One hundred years ago, on Vijayadashami Day, September 27, 1925, the men who gathered at the residence of Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in Nagpur could have hardly imagined how powerful the organisation they were founding would become. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a… Read More RSS’ success also has seeds of destruction
They do not hide their vision for America. They plan to make the legal system subservient to dogma. They hate the “secular humanist” society based on science and reason. They dream of making the Ten Commandments the basis of the legal system… Power in the age of Trump is based on blind personal loyalty… Lies… Read More Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on America
NB: A very instructive book on Soviet history is named The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939; by, J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov (1999). I think the current period of American history will be known as the implosion of the USA. All the engineered coups, from Iran to Vietnam to… Read More Self-shafting America
Things were already bad. They’re about to get worse Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’ By David Austin Walsh September 11, 2025 The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday was both morally repugnant and an absolute political catastrophe. Kirk was one of the most influential and… Read More Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Catastrophe for Higher Ed / Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
After the truth-shower 