Month: January 2026

It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television, Westerns, and the heroic triumphalism of the prattling cowboy. There was […]

This article borrows the structure and plain language of domestic and family violence (DFV) risk assessment as a metaphorical lens for political power. It does not borrow the suffering. Intimate-partner violence is fear, coercion, degradation […]

We are told we live in an economy. This is a lie. We live inside a game – a vast, multi-level simulation where the points are printed out of thin air, the rules are written […]

Bombs Over Caracas: The US Attack on Venezuela and the End of International Law In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the United States bombed Venezuela. Seven explosions tore through Caracas and other major […]

I never imagined I would be writing these words, but here we are: I stand with the people of Venezuela. Not with any particular government or leader, but with a nation that has just been […]

Oxfam Australia Media Release International humanitarian organisations operating in the occupied Palestinian territory warn that Israel’s recent registration measures threaten to halt INGO operations at a time when civilians face acute and widespread humanitarian need, […]

By Dr Evan Jones Caitlin Johnstone’s customary finger on the Zionist pulse is how I was first exposed to the telling presentation by Sarah Hurwitz to the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly on […]

Preface This report examines the documented convergence of three distinct but now mutually reinforcing ideological systems: American Christian Evangelicalism, Neoliberal Capitalism, and Political Zionism. It traces the financial, political, and theological linkages that have transformed […]

There is a peculiar sound Australia makes after a terror attack. It is not grief; grief is human, raw, and unscripted. This is institutional. It is the soft hiss of officialese sliding across the microphone: “no […]

For a country so upset about recognition being afforded peoples under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state recognition business with festive aplomb. Africa’s Somaliland presented itself as a […]

By Walt Zlotow My response to the Chicago Tribune (my local paper) request for readers’ hopes for 2026. America should end senseless bombings in Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Syria and unidentified others that do […]