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Flurry of articles and broadcasts now discusses looming threat of fascism, although in-depth historical understanding of Mussolini and Hitler is often inadequate; Nazi enabling act of March 1933 set up dictatorship by allowing Hitler to rule by decree and approve treaties without parliament (Reichstag) and to violate the Weimar constitution; MAGA saboteurs in House Traitorville [...]

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war James Fenimore Cooper: Selections on peace and war ==== James Fenimore CooperPrecaution: A Novel “There sat, in the parliament of this realm, when I was a member, a General Denbigh,” said Mr. Benfield, with his usual deliberation; “he was […]

Ode To An Icon An Unauthorized “Forward”  from the BrianWilsonWrites substack Brian Wilson Nov 30, 2023 My initial attempt can be found below. The reason it’s not up here at the beginning is, for an Ode, I wandered into the weeds of history in an effort to provide a background of appreciation, the motive for […]
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Originally posted at TomDispatch. One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. While the appalling scope, destructiveness, and duration of the fighting in Gaza may outstrip previous episodes, this … Continue reading "America’s War for the Greater Middle East (Continued)"

There is a reason why Palestinians are keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay for their freedom. It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if the price of doing so is the death of over … Continue reading "Dying to Be Free: Releasing Palestinian Captives Is Not a Numbers Game"

“The official narrative of egyptology is nonsense, the pyramids were built in a very different manner and scientific evidence exists that the Sphinx is much older. The Jewish exodus was led by Akhenaton, Carter found the scrolls that prove that and are now hidden in the Vatican and in Cambridge. Akhenaton also started monotheism. The … Continue reading →

The Crazy Covid Copulation Exemption By James Bovard   December 7, 2023   Government, Policy, Public Health   4 minute read SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL Covid lockdowns spurred an endless cornucopia of official hypocrisy. Top politicians brazenly violated the restrictions they inflicted on everyone else. But perhaps the most absurd aspect of the pandemic […]
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Day of judgment, God is calling On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging mercy for their sins Satan laughing spreads his wings Oh lord, yeah! ~ Black Sabbath Lyrics In 1992, comedian George Carlin noted that after the Cold War politicians in Washington were always declaring war on things at home, “We got a … Continue reading "President Biden’s War Pigs"

It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave. Now Israeli whistleblowers have provided details of how these crimes against humanity are being carried out – … Continue reading "How Israel Uses an AI Genocide Program To Obliterate Gaza"

This article was originally published by The Nation. Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both governments, and how activists should approach it all. At the time, Cold War hostility was rampant. … Continue reading "How the US Has Darkened the Nuclear Cloud Over Humanity"