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The White House Tesla Sales Event: Legal and Ethical Analysis of the March 11, 2025, Scandal
Fred Gransville
There was something unusual on the White House driveway on March 11, 2025. Elon Musk was selling Tesla vehicles in collaboration with Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States. From conducting business at the White House to allowing the unprecedented mixing of private business and the Presidential administration, all is questionable and has grave legal, ethical, and historical consequences. Mixing the White House with business presents a glaring deviation from the previously set standards of government and has brought an assortment of legal problems and ethical crises.
Cancerville USA: The Government-Corporate-Military Carcinogenic Complex
By Tracy Turner
The United States of America, a nation more times than not hailed as a beacon of progress and advancement, has a dark underbelly. Beneath its veneer of prosperity lies a poisonous landscape, where the wedded interests of government and corporate powers have created an environment pockmarked by cancer clusters, ecological destruction, and human suffering. This essay chronicles the ghastly record of this cancer-causing complex, presenting the worst records of military contamination by state, with on-the-ground accounts of cancer clusters in dozens of cities and states.
Fear is a Blessing in Our Time of Western Complicity: Part 1
By Mark Aurelius
70% of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza are women and children
This essay contains controversial statements that could alarm people who are not tolerant of contentious assertions or questions, such as regarding religious beliefs, and how religious belief spills over into political conflict. However, questioning religious sensitivities is not something a sensible person would readily do and share, except for the fact that we, peoples of this planet, are in danger on multiple fronts. It is not any purpose herein to offend readers, but rather to hopefully create awareness, because without truer awareness there is little hope for our survival.
Broadly speaking, in some critical ways, we live in a unique time, even while we retain our old human conditions and habits.
Modernity’s critical issues include population growth and demand on finite resources, fast paced technological innovation, such as military warfare, speed and sophistication of computing power, industrialization and robotics, and artificial intelligence.
The Trump-Musk Project 2025: A Comparison of Hoover and Mellon's 1929 Policies and the Threats to U.S. Infrastructure
Tracy Turner
The economic whirlwind sweeping the United States during the presidency of Donald Trump in 2025, and further exacerbated by Elon Musk's business antics, has a disturbing similarity to the initial years of the Great Depression. The economic philosophy that Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon promoted in 1929 resulted in a catastrophic economic collapse, and now, with Trump and Musk, there are ominous indications of making the same mistakes all over again.
Hamas, Palestine, and Israel
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Hamas, or according to its full name, “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is a Palestinian political-national organization with a military wing of a conservative Islamic nature and orientation. Its purpose is to resist the Israeli occupation, maintain resistance, and fight for the creation of an independent Palestinian state. It was officially established on December 10th, 1987, with the Gaza City at the Gaza Strip headquarters. What is Gaza? Gaza can define either a strip of Palestinian-controlled land sandwiched between Israel and Egypt or can be used to designate a city of the same name within the so-called “strip”. The Gaza City is the largest in the disputed Palestinian Territories. It lies along the Mediterranean Sea coast in the Gaza Strip. The Arabic word hamās itself means “bravery”, “zeal”, or/and “strength”. The political ideology of the organization is multifaceted: Islamism, anti-Zionism, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic nationalism, but above all Palestinian nationalism. It is important to stress that Hamas’s religion (as of all Muslim Palestinians) is Sunni Islam, not Shiia Islam, and, therefore, the organization does not enjoy direct support from Shiia Iran (like Shiia Hezbollah in South Lebanon does).
How Trump's 2025 Presidency Mirrors the 1929 Economic Great Depression Crisis: An Analysis into History's Parallels
Robert David
William McKinley: The Mastermind of American Flourishing
The 25th President William McKinley had his term neglected because his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, is often regarded to be the more influential president. Regardless of this fact, the McKinley’s administration (1897-1901) laid down the groundwork for American dominance as a global superpower during his term.
His policies, especially with the Dingley Tariff of 1897, were proof of his vision. He raised tariffs, in attempt to protect American businesses. While many would argue that it only made things worse, it did provide some temporary relief to the economy after the Panic of 1893, which was arguably the most devastating recession in the country’s history before McKinley’s policies.
Nikola Tesla: The Man Who Dreamed of a Better World
by Tracy Turner
Nikola Tesla was not just an inventor. Tesla was a visionary whose inventions and ideas transcended the limits of space and time, shaping our modern world in ways that most people might not even be aware of.
Born on July 10, 1856, in the Croatian village of Smiljan, Tesla’s early life was marked by gifted intellectual energy, the type of genius that would define him for the rest of his life. Tesla's fame as an inventor, engineer, and physicist earned him recognition. Still, his accomplishments were set against the r of his resistance with government and corporate interests determined to thwart his vision reality.
Corporate powerhouses and the government were threatened by Tesla’s vision of free energy as open and accessible. Instead of celebrating him, people who could benefit from proprietary rigid frameworks sabotaged him. Full of speculation, myths, and legends, Tesla’s life is a testament to the reality of living in a world where innovation often meets oppression. However, one cannot deny the inspiration that his triumphs bring, showcasing how genius and innovation can surpass the deepest-seated forces of the status quo.
The Five Excuses for Genocide
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
On Monday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. I asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He was not a legal witness; I could not order him not to change the subject. Still, he provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which I think can be broken up into five types.
1. Others have done it.
The U.S. killed Native Americans, he pointed out. The U.S. starved Germans and Japanese. Israel labels half the people it kills as Hamas, and a ratio of 1 proper person killed to 1 improper person killed is well within the norms of recent wars and massacres.
The Shiny Object Syndrome: A Rebuttal to Modern Feminism and American Women's Spiritual Stagnation
Terry Lawrence
The women's movement, born in high hopes, has devolved in the past sixty years. What started as a struggle for parity-equal pay, equal opportunity, and equal respect-has disintegrated into an existence of a material, self-centered, and spiritually empty society. Modern feminism, which at one time promised freedom for women, has degenerated into a mere shadow of what it once was.
Today, it is more concerned with finding external validation, mass consumerism, and status than with the higher and greater ideals of spiritual and emotional growth. Not only did this revolution halt the personal development of numerous women, but it also created social disintegration, broken families, and a growing isolation for children, women, and men. The term "shiny object syndrome," the slang name for the popularity of surface distraction, is the most accurate description of the shortcomings of modern feminism. Girls just want to have funds.
The Estrogen Echo Chamber and the Toxic Masculinity Myth: A Rebuttal with a Wink and a Nod
Terry Lawrence
In the hysterical atmosphere of modern opinion, in which concepts are tossed about as freely as baubles and trinkets, few have been so overblown or so weakly defended as the so-called "theory" of "toxic masculinity." A phrase applied with all the zeal of a sideshow barker; this is the weapon of choice of a particular style of a feminist commentator who, under the false cover of scholarly examination, peddles a line whose condescension is rivaled only by its corrosive purpose.
To hear these voices, one would believe that masculinity is a toxic social illness pathology to be diagnosed, unraveled, and deconstructed. Let us not be fooled, though, by their rhetorical trickery. We have no fundamental critique of male action here but a heavy-handed exercise in misandry dressed up in the guise of social justice.
