Voices

• From the History of Israeli−Palestinian Conflict: The First Palestinian Intifada against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and its Political Consequences
  Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic The meaning of intifada The Arabic word intifada means “shaking off” but in the political language as a term, it means “uprising”. More precisely, this term refers to the two Palestinian uprisings on both territories of the…
• How to Avoid Reporting That a University Is Lying About Police Violence
  University of Virginia President Jim Ryan exiting Pavilion VI is confronted by students protesting his decision to break up an anti-war demonstration, Thursday, May 9, 2024. By David Swanson I’m old enough to remember a video of a New York Times…
• Plastic Pollution Mortality Facts: It is in Your Veins, Causing Cancer, Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Death
  by Tracy Turner Plastic has been in use for over a century. It was first created in the mid-19th century, with the invention of celluloid in 1869, and it is considered the first actual plastic. The widespread commercial production of plastics began in…
• How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza
  Employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli air strike on their vehicles in the central Gaza Strip. (Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via Getty Images) JAMES BAMFORD Because it isn’t so much the bombs that kill but the list that puts…
• Hidden Story About Reality In Kosovo: Who Was Suppressing Whom?
  Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic Southern Serbia’s autonomous province of Kosovo and Metochia (KosMet) has been subject to a gradual, but permanent change in its demographic content during the time of Titoslavia (Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945−1991). Three…
• NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons, Energy, and Risk
  By David Swanson Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that NATO members will assist another member if attacked by “taking action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” But the UN Charter does not say anywhere that warmaking…
• Israel and Unit 8200: The Powerhouse of Intelligence
  By Tracy Turner The Legacy of Unit 8200 - When browsing Yandex Images, looking for artistic renderings of Zionism, it is expected to see either an Octopus strangling the Earth or an Octopus strangling the Rotunda Dome in Washington, D.C. The legacy of…
• Does Every Person in Israel Deserve to Die?
  David Swanson I fervently hope, dear reader, that you do not agree that every person in Israel deserves to die. But I know some of you do, and I hope to suggest a better way of looking at it. I know that you’re even more unlikely to agree with me that…
• What is critical global geopolitics?
  From the very pan-global perspective, the best-known geopolitical thesis is of the British Mackinder – “Heartland Thesis”. According to the thesis, the Asian “Heartland” is a pivotal area of global geopolitics. Who controls this area provides a chief…
• Asymmetric Warfare
  Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). There are, historically, several types of warfare as conventional warfare, civil war, lightning…