Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I don’t desire a future for humanity like the ones imagined by our culturally designated future-imaginers. I don’t want humans living in Elon Musk Mars colonies or Jeff Bezos space cylinders . I don’t want us to fly out into the stars, to disappear ...

A Washington DC-area Anomaly 6 firm is marketing illegal spy tech that can scrape an individual’s most sensitive personal data by tracking their smartphone. The British Ministry of Defence and GCHQ are potential buyers. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal how a smartphone tracking tech...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Michael Parenti has said that “Poor countries are not ‘under-developed’, they are over-exploited.” The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations, which is sill...

What Israel’s generals are really worried about is how little will change when two ultra-nationalist, religious settlers like Ben Gvir and Smotrich are put in charge of the occupation.

Power Couple – by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The Congressional decision to  prohibit  railroad workers from going on strike and  force  them to accept a contract that meets  few  of their demands is part of the class war that has defined American politics f...

I’ve been doing a lot of oil painting lately. Here are some of the ones I like: ❖ Julian Assange. ❖ Terence McKenna. ❖ Assange again. I enjoy painting eyes. ❖ My husband Tim. ❖ Lightbulbs. ❖ The grandfather from the documentary About Love. ❖ _____________ _______...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ One of the most under-discussed topics in the world right now is how governments have been incrementally pacing the public toward accepting the use of police robots that kill people. The city of San Francisco has voted to legalize the use of killbots ...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Every year around my birthday I’ve been tapping out an explanation of where I stand and what I’m trying to accomplish in this humble little slice of the digital universe here. As a crowdfunded writer it seems important to be fully transparent about w...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ NATO has  doubled down on its determination to eventually add Ukraine to its membership, renewing its 2008 commitment to that goal in a meeting between the foreign ministers of the alliance in Bucharest, Romania this past Tuesday. Antiwar’s Dave DeCa...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago in the publication of the Chelsea Manning leaks to call for the Biden administ...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Facts: There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government. The US empire’s propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas. Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in t...

Blaming migration on “repressive dictatorships” allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact they are impoverishing them. This article was originally published on November 23, 2022 by COHA. Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking f...

I have a new book out called Lao Sue And Other Poems , available in paperback or on PDF/ebook .   ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Crazy They’ll make you poor, then shame you for being poor, then push you into a job that keeps you poor at a billionaire megacorporation. They’ll make you c...

It is hard to overstate how manic, primal and unhinged is the reaction of corporate media employees to the mere prospect that new Twitter owner Elon Musk may restore a modicum of greater free speech to that platform. It was easy to predict — back when Musk was merely to...

First test-run episode of SYSTEM UPDATE, Nov. 16, 2022 Last week we announced our plans to air a nightly test-run show for two weeks on Locals of our new, soon-to-debut, live nightly news program, SYSTEM UPDATE. As we explained, until we are ready to launch and then pr...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I will never get used to living in a world where our rulers will openly imprison a journalist for telling the truth and then self-righteously pontificate about the need to stop authoritarian regimes from persecuting journalists. Just today US State De...

Asked who his allies against racism are, the Jewish comedian was flummoxed. That’s because he’s thrown his lot in with the racists.

On November 15, as 90 Russian cruise missiles struck at Ukraine’s energy network, a companion US-UK propaganda blitz blamed the Russian missiles for the deaths of two workers on a farm in Poland. This was a big deal. Poland is a member of Nato and Article 5 of Nato’s treaty reads : ...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Associated Press journalist who reported a US intelligence official’s false claim that Russia had launched missiles at Poland last week has been fired . As we discussed previously , AP’s anonymously sourced report  which said “ A senior U.S. i...

The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation by Germany of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.