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Terry Lawrence
Prologue: Free Speech As Corporate Property
Financial corruption, political corruption, censorship, algorithmic censorship, and curtailed free speech are now the geo-political and economic engines of global society. From George W. Bush through to Donald J. Trump, pay-to-play is the “National Trust and Endowment” of the hollowed-out shell of America. We are living in the five days after Thanksgiving moldering carcass of what was once America. Free Speech is a Disney ABC Brand.
Threats to democracy, oligarchy, and oligarchs are interlocking with income inequality, rising cost of living, and economic justice movements. The Trump Homo-Erotic fascination with Global Dictators has surpassed and usurped the now empty and void former ideals Google and Bing label this article “fake news;” ironically, the AI premise that this article is fake news is Google’s and Bing’s AI-driven FAKE NEWS.
Mark Powell
The Billionaire Junta
In 1928, Herbert Hoover inherited a market swollen by illusion, a public intoxicated by speculation, and a Cabinet that mistook its own avarice for intelligence. In 2025, Donald Trump presides over an eerily similar stage-his gilded retinue composed not of engineers and economists but of charlatan technocrats, speculators, and disciples of self-interest.
At his side were Elon Musk, the mercurial impresario of algorithmic fortune; Howard Lutnick, the financial tactician who treats catastrophe as a marketplace; and Russell Vought, the ideological bookkeeper tasked with converting policy into profit. Together, they form the Billionaire Junta-a regime where capital masquerades as patriotism and governance functions as a subsidiary of personal dynastic enterprise.
The resemblance to Hoover’s America is not theatrical coincidence. It is structural déjà vu. Then, as now, speculative wealth masqueraded as national health, propaganda displaced arithmetic, and the President’s cronies amassed fortunes while the nation’s balance sheet smoldered beneath them. The difference is velocity. Hoover’s collapse unfolded over years; Trump’s, if it comes, will occur at the speed of code-a digital implosion rather than a dust-bowl decline.
Rick Foster
The story of Palestine has never been merely a story-it has been an argument over who gets to speak. In the modern newsroom, that struggle unfolds not only in the language of dispatches and headlines, but in the deeper architecture of meaning: what is shown, what is named, and what is omitted. Across Western journalism, the Palestinian narrative has been continuously rewritten to fit frames that favor power, not truth.
As The New Arab observed, even using the word “Palestine” remains prohibited by editorial policies in some international newsrooms (The New Arab, 2024). Such linguistic erasure is not accidental; it is the calculated product of decades of political influence, ideological conditioning, and corporate compliance masquerading as neutrality.
By David Swanson
Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary and missionary who couldn’t tell one continent from another, wisdom from ignorance, or value from waste.
I was born and raised and have mostly lived in the eastern United States, and yet when I hear someone here refer to “how people lived several hundred years ago,” they almost always mean how people lived in Europe several hundred years ago. I see great value in studying European history and that of the whole globe. But I have no particular connection to or heritage from medieval Europe to the exclusion of connection with the people who lived on the same land I do.
by Kaitlin Harper
"The sun turns black, earth sinks in the sea, The hot stars down from heaven are whirled." -- Völuspá (The Prophecy of the Seeress - Norse- A prophetic vision of Ragnarök)
Israel and America have never been more isolated internationally. The Intelligence Agencies of both countries claim to be fighting terrorism.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has described Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as an act that represents “genocide as colonial erasure.
The Military Tech Genocidal Complex(es) of both countries is ensuring that the entire globe will have frequent terrorism attacks for hundreds of years into the future.
poem by: Clever Iconoclast
Cast I this spell
from here to Holy Hell
to ghosts who rumble roads
where witches bode their toads.
[Witches’ Familiars in 17th Century Europe (February 2011 update) – Benjamin Breen]
To henchmen on the lurk
In dungeons steeped in murk
Where culprits wait to hang
Clamped in castle chains of pain.
[Medieval Dungeons]
Damn as Devil of dark divide
To curse the evil that resides
In minds as narrow
as dumb is wide.
Dr. Althea Mentes
I. The Pressure Valve: How Rage Became a Renewable Resource
All empires master the skill of domination, but America industrialized it. Our rulers discovered that rebellion, like oil or lithium, could be extracted, processed, and sold back to the masses as proof of freedom. The genius was not oppression but conversion—converting defiance into data, and protest into profit.
Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #ClimateStrike or #FreeGaza are presented as forces of change but the real winner of the algorithm is the ad business and influencer economy of the platform. Money changes hands, digitally and the world keeps on dying, anyway.
Fred Gransville
Gaza was and is now a laboratory in which the shoulders of business, law, and amorality collide in ways that defy euphemism. To call what occurs “peace” is to embrace an Orwellian fiction; to call it “conflict” is to sanitize state-sanctioned murder. There is no substitute in English for the word genocide. Genocide apologists will grasp at any feeble lexicon—“counterterrorism,” “operations,” “humanitarian intervention”—to sanitize what is a methodical pattern of civilian targeting, systemic displacement, and deprivation of life. Those euphemistic words are deeply offensive and inappropriate.
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
The Nobel Committee has frequently given the peace prize to major war makers, and frequently to do-gooders whose work in a variety of fields has been unrelated to abolishing war. It has also often given the prize to opponents and victims of Western empire. But it has never given the prize to open advocates of war and fascistic government. Trump was never going to be given the prize directly.
Trump is not the right type of warmonger. Nobody could do it with a straight face. Zelensky was saying he’d support Trump for the peace prize if Trump were to send him long-range missiles with which to start World War III. Norway has been worried about what horrible things Trump might do upon failing to be given the prize. Trump has pushed NATO members into unprecedented levels of military spending, while fueling wars in Ukraine and Palestine, supporting Israeli warmaking around Western Asia, murdering the occupants of fishing boats and declaring his right to attack Venezuela, and proclaiming his intention to practice for more wars using U.S. cities as training grounds. The Nobel Committee could not risk having him show up to accept its peace prize and denounce them for having some non-“white” people in the room or for having given the prize to someone he hates.
Cathy Smith
PART 1: Jesus’ Admonitions About Harming Children
Jesus was unequivocal in his condemnation of those who harm children or cause them to sin. Here are all key passages:
Matthew 18:6–7 (NRSV)
“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!”
Jesus does not speak figuratively here. This is one of his most severe warnings, directly linking divine punishment with harming children, especially in their innocence or belief. This text forms a moral anchor point in any ethical reckoning involving child suffering.
Mark 9:42
“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.”