Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Israeli Security Chief Ben Gvir’s Murder Spree against Palestinian Civilians- “30 to 40 Every...

In a podcast interview with former hostage Ron Braslavski, Ben-Gvir said targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night.
The west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Noclip (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!
A South Korean armored vehicle crosses a bridge built by US and South Korean engineers during the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise. Photo: U.S. Army 2ID by Spc. Cheyenne Mayer (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Is Donald Trump Good for the Korean Peninsula?

North Korea ultimately prefers the predictability of Russia and China to the unreliability of the United States.
The Malecón seawall in Havana, Cuba. Photo: RenaatPeeters / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Danger of De-contextualized Reporting: A Case Study of Mainstream Media’s Cuba Coverage

NPR's interview with Arturo Sandoval described Cubans as desperate and hopeless without mentioning the 67-year embargo, the terrorism designation or the oil blockade behind it.
A large crowd of Lula supporters filling the esplanade in Brasilia

Brazil’s Election: Lula, Bolsonaro, and the Battle for the Future

Lula is 80 and seeking a fourth term against Flávio Bolsonaro, whose father is in prison for plotting a coup. The first round is October 4, and the result will set the direction for Latin America.
Abdul El-Sayed talking with voters at a campaign meet-and-greet

“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
A Renaissance fresco of the biblical flood with the ark afloat

‘My religion’s better than yours’ – so there!

To fix all truths on realms invisible Strikes skeptics as inadmissible.
The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Crowds of anti-war protesters filling a London street on 15 February 2003

Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine

The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.
Plastic pellets, known as nurdles, scattered through sand and beach wrack. Photo: Estevoaei / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Help Diane Wilson’s Texas clean water triumphs go national: this protest model fits all

A shrimp-boat captain with a high school education won a $50 million settlement against Formosa Plastics. The blueprint she built is being packaged for anyone else facing a polluter.