Voices

• By Tracy Turner I. Prologue: The Age of Filtered Perception We were promised a digital renaissance. We got a velvet dystopia. Once marketed as the Gutenberg presses of the 21st century, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Bing now function as an Unholy…
• Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović War Crimes and War Criminals After WWII, there was a growing number of significant non-state actors in international relations (IR), like the United Nations (UN) or various specialist agencies connected to it. Nevertheless,…
• Bridget Vira Sanders Despite its moral framing as a protector of life and family, the Catholic Church has long played a central — and arguably detrimental — role in promoting population growth in the Global South. Under the steely moral gaze of Pope…
• By David Swanson, World BEYOND War People sometimes get away with a certain kind of evil action precisely because most of us have a hard time imagining the levels of cruelty or cynicism involved. Rahm Emanuel, booster of militarization in Japan as U.S.…
• google uses their ad program to exert monetary pressure on websites in order to restrict their content and ultimately their freedom of speech. It isn't about telling people how to construct bombs or pornography, it isn't about any of the shocking and…
• Tracy Turner The College of Cardinals elected Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025, as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a record since he was the first-born American pontiff. His election, which was international news, was not only…
• By Mark Aurelius "Fate is the hand of the gods." Sophocles "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King "We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance." Benjamin…
• Tracy Turner We are living in a time when the distinction between the true and the false has receded into the distance. Truth is not found—it is made. It is the age of synthetic reality, a masterfully crafted simulacrum in which government dominance,…
• Paul Craig Roberts The foreign policy of the United States is in the hands of the least capable, most uninformed, and most reckless morons the American education system has yet produced, and their successors, if any, will be worse. American aggression…
• by Janet Campbell Image via Pexels In the ever-evolving landscape of leadership, remaining static is not an option. Community leaders are the pulse of neighborhoods, towns, and cities, often acting as the bridge between diverse populations and policy,…