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The Fall of Tesla: Musk's Monopoly, Trump's Politicking, and a Growing Rebellion
Chris Spencer
While America grapples with the growing financial hegemony of tech billionaires and corporations' unfettered monopolization of power, the fascist-spectacular rise of Elon Musk and his electric vehicle and space empire, Tesla, has come under rigorous examination. The fickle volatility of Tesla stocks, particularly the calamitous drop of 91% from their peaks in the 2024 election rally (Saul, 2025), has sparked a domino chain of protests, financial volatility, and outrage from the public. Elon Musk's close identification with erstwhile President Donald Trump, who is striving to trash the American government using his (Musk’s) Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), signals an unsettling new trajectory for American democracy-albeit one that is just as readily prone to descending into a corporate-dominated dystopia.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Foreign Military Bases and Forces
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
I know, I know, foreign military bases are spreading like a disease, and governments are openly mocking the rule of law.
But it’s hard to aim without a target. So, I’ve drafted a target.
This is a quick initial draft of something that, if it ever comes to be, will no doubt be improved and worsened by many voices. Please start that process, especially the improving part, by adding comments here
Cable News in 2025: The Rise of Fear-Based Entertainment on FOX, CNN, and MSNBC
Fred Gransville
CIA's Favorite Truth-Diversion Network: Take a Guess?
Spoiler alert: Some of this is satire.
Ah, 2025. It was the year when cable news giants learned the art of turning every small political faux pas into a huge existential disaster and ignoring the real tribulations of the commoner. The time when the 'Verbal Bureaucrats' moved from conveying pertinent information to entertaining the masses with a mix of melodrama, speculative ideologies, and the occasional pop culture reference. Step right up to the cable news circus, where stakes are low, rewards plentiful, and truth the first casualty. Fear sells ad space-Fox: Where Reality Takes a Backseat to Ratings.
CNN (Cattle News Network): The Machine That Cries False Alarms
In 2025, CNN is that friend who texted you ‘We need to talk’ in a way that guaranteed you’ll waste an entire hour talking about nothing more than the weather. CNN has mastered the ability to create urgency and every of its reports seems to be ‘breaking news’. For instance, the Great Butter Crisis of 2025 or the earth-shattering story of a lawmaker who was once seen in the public with mismatched socks. CNN ensures to give it wall-to-wall coverage whether the viewer is interested or not. CNN: Turning Panic Into Profits Since 1980.
The US Needs To Apologize to Russia
Reidar Kaarboe
Hva Mener Partiene
In connection with the war in Ukraine, the USA owes several apologies to the Russians. Once they are given, it will be pretty clear who should do what with whom to achieve lasting peace, even though the war in Ukraine wasn't started on Donald Trump’s watch.
● The US must apologize for breaking an explicit promise not to expand NATO eastward. If the Russians had broken their promise not to deploy missiles in Cuba, it would have been a major scandal in the West. Now, no one in the West cares about the USA’s broken promise.
● The US must apologize for failing to respect a "red line" and the "existential threat" that Russia perceived with NATO expansion, just as the USA perceived it when the Russians sailed toward Cuba with missiles. The USA said that if the Russians did not turn back, there would be war, and the Russians turned back. The Russians said that if NATO did not stop its expansion eastward, there would be war. And there was war.
● The US must apologize for "investing" 5 billion dollars in regime change, which led to the overthrow of a democratically elected government. If the Russians had done something similar in a country, resulting in war for the USA, there would have been an uproar in the West. Now, no one talks about it.
Purist Holocaust Advocacy and Denial of Other Genocides: A Case Study of the Holodomor and Armenian Genocides
Robert David
The Holocaust, the systematic murder of some six million Jews by Nazi Germany in World War II, occupies a singular and unprecedented position in global memory and historical debate. Its dominant position in Genocide discussions has generated an irrefutable story of victimization and hardship.
But more sinister is a trend among some groups that adhere to the exclusive focus on Holocaust memory: denying or downplaying other genocides, namely the Holodomor and the Armenian Genocide. While the actions of Nazi Germany are undoubtedly heinous, this essay argues that Holocaust purists ignore or deny the genocide of Armenians and Poles, Czechs and Ukrainians, despite clear historical fact confirming the designation of all as genocides.
Columbia University’s Nazi Tradition
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
According to Columbia Magazine , published by Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development, but ultimately named for a brutal imperialist mercenary, in 1933 while Nazis in Germany were burning books by Jews, Columbia’s president — and future Nobel Peace Prize recipient — Nicholas Murray Butler “welcomed Hans Luther, the German ambassador to the United States, to Morningside Heights, insisting that he be accorded ‘the greatest courtesy and respect.'” Columbia’s Daily Spectator newspaper “denounced what it saw as Butler’s courtship of the German government and its universities.”
Butler — “a longtime admirer of Benito Mussolini” — mocked protests of his relations with Nazi Germany. In 1934, Butler “fired Jerome Klein . . . a promising young member of the fine arts faculty, for signing an appeal against the Luther invitation; and he expelled Robert Burke, a Columbia College student, for participating in a 1936 mock book burning and anti-Nazi picket on campus.”
Is Putin Being Boxed In by Trump and Zelensky
Paul Craig Roberts
Trump and Zelensky have agreed on a cease fire, a pause in the conflict. How does this benefit Russia?
It doesn’t. The Ukrainian military is collapsing on all fronts. 86% of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk has been retaken, and the remaining Ukrainian forces are surrounded. What remains of the Ukrainian military is retreating from the few kilometers of Russian territory still occupied in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions that have been reincorporated into Russia. A cease fire is the last thing Russia needs when Russia is on the verge of total victory.
Russia should be imposing surrender terms on Zelensky, Trump, and Europe. Russia has won the conflict. Why agree to a negotiation? The victor dictates the surrender terms. If Russia’s surrender terms are not accepted, Russia should proceed with the conquest of the entirety of Ukraine and reincorporate Ukraine into Russia where it historically belongs. It was Washington taking advantage of the Soviet collapse that cut out Ukraine from its historic multi-century home as part of Russia.
The United States Chupacabra Society: The Ugly Reality of Greedy Americans
Tracy Turner
Life in Post-Ignorance America
Few of the monsters of contemporary legend inspire as much terror and interest as the Chupacabra, a creature of legend said to suck the blood from its victims, leaving them a dried-up husk. However, were this monster stripped of myth and placed in the unforgiving urban jungles of contemporary America; one would discover that the Chupacabra is anything but mythical.
It is a real animal, its teeth deep in the jugular of a nation that had previously prided itself on being capable of inventing, fighting, and superior to all else on the grounds of morality.
America, as it currently exists, is a Chupacabra nation—a thug society, narcissistic society, sociopathic society of thugs, in which mafia-ism is disguised as government and greed is virtuous. As the rest of the world steers into an era of technological magic and environmental stewardship, America staggers on, bloated on its decadences, once-great drivers of betterment coughing along on fumes of self-deception.
The Decay of Modern Christianity: Scandals, Schisms and the Rise of Socioeconomic Stratification
Cathy Smith
Rise of Charlatanism and Heretics
The modern Western Church is embroiled in a complex matrix of corruption, scandal, and disillusionment. With widespread discrediting of its moral leadership and spiritual guidance, the Church has witnessed a steep loss of trust from scandals implicating high-profile pastors and televangelists. These men, the moral guides they were supposed to be for their flocks, have instead become the living embodiment of betrayal, dishonesty, and greed. This scandal has caused splits within the Church, further adding to the decline in attendance and abandonment of once-thriving congregations.
Here we explore the sleazy realities of these scandals, the socioeconomic splits that plague modern churches, and how these have de-Christianized our world-without ever ceasing to point toward a central, abiding reality: the religiosity of the early Church, a one marked by fire and infilling Holy Spirit, has been eclipsed by materialism and a counterfeit vision of "God's love."
Syria's Alawites' Suffering Violence and Paranoia of the Christian Community Being Next
Chris Spencer
Early 2025 saw Syria's fragile post-Assad situation degenerate into a brutal cycle of sectarian violence that rang through the country. The slaughter of over 1,300 Alawites, a Shia minority that had been intricately associated with the overthrown government of Bashar al-Assad, rocked the country to its core, leaving it in ruins. The brutal assaults, which were centered in Latakia and Tartus on the coast, were launched by Islamist militias loyal to the new regime headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, a veteran al-Qaeda member. Although the Alawites were the prime target of these assaults, Syria's Christian population looked on in horror as the massacre was unfolding, wondering if they would be the next.
