It has become a cliché that award ceremonies serve the award givers more than the laureates.
Admittedly, there are many worthy laureates who genuinely care to make sure the prize recipients get merit Recognition, and who could make good use of research and development’s financing.
Nonetheless, it is manifest that most...
Beneath the aircraft-carrier ceremony celebrating a “new golden age” in U.S.-Japan relations, ongoing toxic discharges from the Yokosuka naval base reveal a grimmer alliance—one built on secrecy, contamination and a surrender of environmental sovereignty.
When President Donald Trump strode onto the flight deck of the USS George Washington at Yokosuka,...
At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too”—signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent...
He who was born, was born / He who wasn’t born, won’t be born / Get out the way of the bullet train or else you might get torn.—“He Who Was Born, Was Born” by MC G3
Will There Be “Peace, Liberty, And Justice” With Whatever Comes After Brazil?
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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has appointed a big-time China hawk to its Board of Directors
On November 4, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—a CIA offshoot that finances dissident media and political organizations in countries targeted by the U.S. for regime change—announced the appointment of John...
Some aspects of life are so well known that they are accepted as a given. One of those commonly accepted facts of life is corporate leadership.
Corporate leaders instruct their teams of managers to create a specific atmosphere at the workplace, and this can influence the attitudes of all employees within the company; from...
The CIA has been implicated in many of the murkiest incidents of the latter half of the 20th century. From the Kennedy assassination and Project MK-ULTRA, to what Wikipedia dubs the “alleged” Operation Mockingbird, a clandestine program which recruited prominent American journalists into a CIA propaganda network funded by...
Shifting Power and Strategic Autonomy
In global politics, perception shapes power, but China’s current strategy suggests more than perception management.
Its refusal to yield to U.S. tariff pressure marks a deliberate assertion of strategic autonomy. When Washington initiated steep tariffs under the Trump administration, many countries...
One of the ugly features of the U.S. Army genocide directed against Native Americans in the 19th century was the systematic slaughter of the buffalo.
Native Americans drew their livelihood from the buffalo by hunting them and using their skins for clothes and other life necessities.
They worshipped them in spiritual...
Newly declassified files show President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was monitored for years by James Angleton, the CIA’s infamous veteran counterintelligence chief, right up until the President’s death.
In this context, freshly released FBI documents indicating Oswald was removed from Bureau...
