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Drones, Murder and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the Cases of Reyaad Khan and Abdul Raqib Amin
Drones, Murder and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the Cases of Reyaad Khan and Abdul Raqib Amin Photo by Debra Sweet | CC BY 2.0 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is 70 this year. But you wouldn’t know it from the impact it’s had on human lives. For example, Donald […]
Life, the Sea and Big Oil
Life, the Sea and Big Oil Photo by Glenn Beltz | CC BY 2.0 “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat […]
The Simulation of Democracy
The Simulation of Democracy One of the most complicated and frustrating aspects of operating a global capitalist empire is maintaining the fiction that it doesn’t exist. Virtually every action you take has to be carefully recontextualized or otherwise spun for public consumption. Every time you want to bomb or invade some country to further your […]
Yes, Virginia, There is a Deep State
Yes, Virginia, There is a Deep State Since the “Russiagate” probe began, US president Donald Trump and his supporters have used lots of bandwidth raging against what they refer to as the “Deep State.” Does the Deep State exist? If so, what is it, and are its forces arrayed specifically against Donald Trump and his […]
What’s Wrong With the United States?
What’s Wrong With the United States? Photo source jqpubliq | CC BY 2.0 Despite the myth perpetrated by United States spokespersons, the country is not, and never has been, a beacon of peace and freedom, the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’, or a democracy that is the envy of the […]
Don’t Call It an Explosion: Gaseous Ignition Events with Radioactive Waste
Don’t Call It an Explosion: Gaseous Ignition Events with Radioactive Waste Photo by Iwan Gabovitch | CC BY 2.0 Last month’s explosive news from the safe, reliable nuclear deterrence folks is that at least four barrels of military radioactive waste either burst or exploded somewhere inside the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), near Idaho Falls, April […]
Venezuela on the Eve of Presidential Elections: The US Empire Isn’t Sitting by Idly
Venezuela on the Eve of Presidential Elections: The US Empire Isn’t Sitting by Idly Photo by Joka Madruga | CC BY 2.0 “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to […]
Argentina’s Peso Crisis, Capital Flows and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets
Argentina’s Peso Crisis, Capital Flows and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets On May 4, the Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, the country’s central bank, raised policy interest rates to a whopping 40 percent to stem the rapid depreciation of the national currency, the peso. The surprise rate increase was the third in a week […]
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials Harken! A Trump appointee agrees that climate change is not a hoax. Granted, that is unimaginable, but it is the real thing. An ongoing climate crisis in America’s Southwest brings this rare specimen into the limelight. The climate crisis star of the year is Brenda Burman, commissioner of The Bureau […]
Modernity’s Long Twilight
Modernity’s Long Twilight Photo source wongaboo | CC BY 2.0 While Marx expected the industrial proletariat to spearhead the socialist revolution, it is now left to those who resist the burning of the last of the planet’s fossil fuel – which continues to engorge the hyper-capitalism of the early twenty-first century – to usher us […]
Trump’s Decision on Iran Deal Spells Disaster for the Middle East
Trump’s Decision on Iran Deal Spells Disaster for the Middle East Photo by The U.S. Army | CC BY 2.0 President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the deal with Iran creates, unnecessarily, a new source of tension in a region besieged by conflicts. Given the level of legal troubles that President Trump is […]
The U.S. Just Declared War on Iran
The U.S. Just Declared War on Iran Against all common sense, moral considerations and international law, U.S. President Donald Trump tonight decided to place the United States outside the international so-called community and isolate itself, not Iran. He withdrew the United States from what is one of the most important negotiated peace-oriented agreements that have […]
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway Photo source StateofIsrael | CC BY 2.0 by Addy Cameron-Huff | CC BY 2.0 Iran has an exaggerated reputation in the Middle East for Machiavellian cunning and an ability to outmanoeuvre its enemies. Britain used to be regarded in the […]
“Creating Wealth” Through Debt: the West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
“Creating Wealth” Through Debt: the West’s Finance-Capitalist Road Photo source David Shankbone | CC BY 2.0 Volumes II and III of Marx’s Capital describe how debt grows exponentially, burdening the economy with carrying charges. This overhead is subjecting today’s Western finance-capitalist economies to austerity, shrinking living standards and capital investment while increasing their cost of living […]
