Japan is gripped by an unprecedented political crisis that has been entirely obscured in the media around the globe. On July 24, the day after the Upper House elections, all the morning newspapers in Japan featured headlines screaming out that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had been pressured by his party,...
The U.S. Claims To Be Embarked on a Global Crusade Against Authoritarianism While It Supports Authoritarian Regimes Like the One in Kenya In mid-April 2025, President Donald Trump offered support for the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, which is led by the National Police Service of Kenya. Financed largely by...
Listen to the Mockingbird. Let early birds catch worms, but Mockingbirds sing catchy ear worms. Tone-deaf historians and criminologists continue to neglect music and thereby ignore an important soundtrack to events. Even if our frustration has now reached a boiling point as we long for information that makes sense, dubbing...
After October 7, Marwan Barghouti called on Palestinian factions to rise up to fight the oppressive Israeli occupation. According to Al Jazeera, “this call to action spread like wildfire” and resulted in Marwan being sent to solitary confinement. As Palestinian life hangs in the balance, calls for his release have...
Over the two-decade U.S.-NATO military occupation of Afghanistan, the U.S. and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building digital databases of the Afghan people that were used for surveillance and political repression. According to a September 2021 article by Associated Press technology reporter Frank Bajak, which was based...
Militarized ICE and Homeland Security raids targeted farms in California’s Central Coast on July 10th, with 200 farm workers ending up arrested, some being critically injured and one tragically losing his life...
How Ukraine’s illegitimate leadership passes laws in violation of national and international law The failure of diplomatic attempts to reach peace agreements in Ukraine amid increased military support from the United States and the European Union has led to a major reshuffle in the government. The large-scale political maneuvering is taking...
In mid-July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a trove of documents that, she said, showed evidence that Obama administration intelligence officials “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork” for investigation into alleged Russian election meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign and Russia’s alleged support for Donald...
From Tahiti to New Zealand to New Caledonia to Palau, the U.S. and France unleashed a reign of terror against the Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific movement in 1985. The Pacific Islands have often been depicted as idyllic in Western fiction, paintings and movies. But there is another side to “paradise,”...
There was a time when American clergy were the nation’s conscience. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many abolitionist Protestant ministers were leaders in the movement to end slavery. Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1746-1801) was among the many outstanding voices in the Abolition Movement.  Since World War I, few members...