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This Jew Does Not Believe In The Promised Land:

Tell me, should I feel guilt due to my anger-engendered desire for the collective butchers of Gaza (and Lebanon and Iran) i.e., Zionist true believers...

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The Writing On Trump’s War Room Wall: Operation Epstein Amnesia

Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools...

05.03.2026 9

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The Rise And Fail Of The Griftocrats

I have been writing for decades that Oprah Winfrey was a more effective force insofar as retailing capitalist propaganda than the Joseph Goebbels’...

25.02.2026 20

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The Crook(s) Of Revelation

There is the banality of evil and the evil of banality Part and parcel of the phenomenology of hyper-authoritarian Christians: The more they claim...

19.02.2026 60

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Human, All Too Inhuman, All Too Inhuman: The Epstein/MAGA World As The Will To Power

The Epstein abominations, to state the obvious, are revealing, in lurid detail, hidden in plain sight, unnerving aspects of human nature; withal, what...

16.02.2026 100

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Fastened To A Dying Animal

A fading empire, like a wounded narcissist facing decline, is a dangerous animal. “…fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather...

05.02.2026 10

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Authoritarians’ Promise Of “Law And Order” Always Translates To Lawlessness At The Top

Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law, deployed by the political class...

20.01.2026 10

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The Toxic Innocence Of Empire

There is an exact and troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s...

16.01.2026 10

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The (Over)Reach Of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza

The Trump administration’s military aggression against the people of Venezuela proves the dictum: US/Western imperialism is gangsterism on an...

06.01.2026 10

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Empathy In Authoritarianism’s Valley Of Dry Bones: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on’

16.03.2025 7

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Capitalism And The Lexicon Of Loneliness: Your Wounds Demand You Speak Your Truth

09.03.2025 10

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Lies Too Big To Fail: The Culture Of Grift

“Everything the State [and the moneyed class that owns it] says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.” At present, according to recent...

06.02.2025 10

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Phil Rockstroh