Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. …

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I often hear talk of how depressing it is to learn the truth about what’s really going on in our society and in our world, including in the comments sections of the places my own writings appear. …

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Critics of the US empire have spent months compiling mountains of evidence showing that the empire knowingly provoked the war in Ukraine. Supporters of the US empire have spent months posting dog memes and accusing strangers of being paid by Putin…

Listen to a reading of “In Times Like These”: ❖ In times like these when nuclear warheads are being moved into position, when weapons manufacturers can’t keep up with the demand, when the pundits are making everyone stupid and crazy, when it’s hard to remember Assange’s face but you…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In a new article titled “U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea,” the New York Times reports that the Biden administration now believes Kyiv may need to launch an offensive on the territory that Moscow has considered a part of the…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ If the logic that “there are no innocent Russians” because the Russian people have a moral obligation to overthrow their warmongering government were evenly applied, it would also apply to Americans. …

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I get funny reactions from people who are new to my work, often because I don’t act like the other indie media figures they follow. I’m unrefined and swear a lot. I engage on social media with both followers and critics…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There’s a thread going around on Twitter by Columbia University’s Sophie Fullerton advancing the claim that I have promoted crazy conspiracy theories about child “crisis actors” in Syrian war atrocities. Fullerton has me blocked on Twitter so I can’t respond to…