Educators must consider the actual cost of a free program like “No Place for Hate,” whose sponsor conflates antisemitism with anti-Zionism, files civil rights complaints against schools, and promotes Israel propaganda in the classroom. Launched in 1913 to counter antisemitism and discrimination, the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, now resembles a …
Read More »How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism
This is the second article in a series describing the first six years, 2014 – 2020, in the transformation of one of the largest local unions in the United States, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). The transformation continues today under Cecily Myart-Cruz’s presidency. Given the critical impacts that the victories of Trump …
Read More »The Deep State’s Triumph: 2024 and the Erosion of Liberty
“Everyday the future looks a little bit darker.” ― Alan Moore, Watchmen We have become a nation adrift in a sea of government overreach, abuse and corruption. The following is a sobering account of the challenges we faced in 2024, which were marked by the government’s never-ending power grabs and relentless assaults …
Read More »Excess Deaths and Depopulation: Shall We Sit Around in Our Insouciance and Permit This to Happen?
Introductory Note Excess deaths — why is this not discussed in mainstream media? Why is this not top agenda in the Congress or Parliament? The compilation of relevant Global Research articles focussing on several underlying causes of excess deaths was first published by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. Short Excerpts of these articles were …
Read More »US Report Finds Homelessness Soared 18% This Year
‘A Policy Choice.’ “Increased homelessness is the tragic, yet predictable, consequence of underinvesting in the resources and protections that help people find and maintain safe, affordable housing,” said one advocate. The controversial federal system for tracking homelessness in the United States recorded an 18% increase from 2023, breaking the record …
Read More »With Nuland in NED, Get Ready for More Color Revolution Bonanza
On September 13, the Washington DC-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announced that the infamous Victoria Nuland is joining their Board of Directors, “effective immediately”. She had already been on the board in the 2018–2021 timeframe, but as her State Department career came first, it seems she wasn’t as active as is usually …
Read More »What’s Left In Latin American And The Caribbean: Year 2024 In Review
The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power replacing failed neoliberal policies. …
Read More »Martin Luther King’s Last Christmas Sermon
On the pretext of the arrival of Christmas and its coincidence with the war in Ukraine and bloodshed and carnage in the Middle East. The way forward is to look back, to read and study the prescient wisdom of visionary leaders whose own brilliance blinds us to observations made during …
Read More »Proposed Peace Amendment to the United States Constitution.
It is one of the great ironies of history that at the very moment the United States plunges deeper and deeper into war hysteria, that our politicians and government officials are possessed by the demons of complete annihilation and endless expansion, that falsehood and hypocrisy wrap their tentacles around the …
Read More »The “Neo-Monroe” Plan: Trump Threatens to Annex Canada
First Mexico, then Canada. It really looks like Trump is quite seriously bent on increasing tensions with neighbors – just consider this: amid a tariff dispute, US president-elect Donald Trump has been insistently pushing the point that Canada could, or even should, become America’s “51st state.” More recently, Donald Trump posted in X (formerly …
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