Voices

• Posting & Updates Will Be Less Regular Than Usual
  Dear readers, for various reasons, we are not able to work on the site as much as we would like to. Unfortunately, there are some health issues. Content will be posted, but this slower regimen may last for a while. Sorry for this! – editor2…
• Understanding America's irrational [fatal] love affair with Israel
  America-China Watcher Israel now is more of a burden than an asset to the US. But the US can't get rid of it. A most peculiar scenario has unfolded in geopolitics. The ongoing conflict in the Middle East, involving Israel and the US, has diverted the US…
• The Point of No Return
  Dmitry Medvedev (Дмитрий Медведев) Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev — about the causes of the current geopolitical…
• Suddenly, Genocide Is On The Table
  M.J. Rosenberg [Originally posted here on 08/21/14] The following piece by journalist David Sheen, a Canadian living in Israel since 1999 appears in Religious Dispatches, a blog published by the Annenberg School of Journalism at University of Southern…
• Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates Demand USG Military Involvement in Ukraine
  Kurt Nimmo [01/13/23] The latest demand by neocons that Russia must be wiped off the map is locked up behind a paywall at the CIA’s favorite newspaper, The Washington Post. In order to read what former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former…
• Tragic News Predawn
  Linh Dinh [Bar Baraban in Kiev on 2/18/16] Luckier than many, I look forward to each day, so getting up is my favorite activity. Often leaving my dwelling before the sun rises, I soak in all activities with elation and gratitude. In Vietnam, this means…
• Poison Spiders at the Center of the Web
  James Howard Kunstler “The same people accusing Trump voters of subverting democracy are the ones who cheated in every election since the 1960s, lied to get us into half a dozen stupid wars, created Covid in a lab, and then covered that up. You are free…
• Canada must support ICJ ruling on Israel’s genocide
  Yves Engler South Africa recently requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) make an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention. Canadians should support this non-violent bid to curtail the apartheid…
• The Perpetual War on Free Speech
  Donald Jeffries The Founding Fathers made the Constitution palatable by including a Bill of Rights. Without the First 10 Amendments, the Constitution is just what its early critics, including Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, said it was; a dangerous…
• Zionism and Israel
  Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic Zionism — The term Zionism is derived from the word Zion that in the Hebrew language and cultural-historical tradition of the Jews refers to the citadel (acropolis) of the city of Jerusalem as well as to the Kingdom of…