» The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
04/24/24 14:08 from Dissident Voice
It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set o...

» Nicaragua: The Good Shepherd
04/24/24 04:53 from Dissident Voice
Yesterday I attended mass. Instead of a priest, the mass was celebrated by Nicaraguan children – 10 fourth and fifth grade students. The kids led the congregation in prayers, passing of the peace, read the gospel and shared a homily. The...

» Warring Against Encryption: Australia is Coming for Your Communications
04/24/24 02:52 from Dissident Voice
On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to remove material within 24 hours depicting what her office declared t...

» Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
04/24/24 02:35 from Dissident Voice
“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics. Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show ai...

» Last Nation Standing ─ Iran
04/23/24 22:05 from Dissident Voice
By not responding to decades of Israel’s provocations with an attack on Israeli soil, Iran displayed patience. The Islamic Republic rulers realized the provocations were becoming harsher, more damaging, and without stopping; it was time ...

» Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
04/23/24 13:58 from Dissident Voice
The flotilla waits to sail from Istanbul.   Photo credit: Medea Benjamin The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were...

» Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners and Violent Content
04/23/24 00:40 from Dissident Voice
The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy.  While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his wrecking ball antics at the platform formerly known as Twitter, not to mention his highly developed sense of sociopat...

» The Empire Owns Us
04/22/24 18:59 from Dissident Voice
In today’s America there is no need for a contract for millions of my fellow working stiffs. With many states like mine (Florida) having “Right to work laws,” unions are few and far between. Duh, like not even 10% of pr...

» Israel Faces Its Detractors
04/22/24 16:49 from Dissident Voice
The Israel that many admired through a myopic lens has been brought into improved focus, a ruthless state that has similar characteristics to the Nazi state — virulent nationalist, irredentist, militarist, racist, repressive in occupied ...

» Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick
04/21/24 18:01 from Dissident Voice
“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity, independently transient of geopolitical skirmishes?” Wanning Sun from the University of Tec...

» US Reimposes Illegal and Inhumane Oil Sanctions on Venezuela
04/20/24 18:33 from Dissident Voice
A minute after midnight on April 18, the US reimposed coercive economic measures designed to cripple Venezuela’s oil industry. Later that day, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a new sanctions bill on Nicaragua. Meanwhil...

» The Myth of the Marshall Plan and US Imperialism
04/20/24 18:24 from Dissident Voice
One of the signal events of the post-World War II era– an event that helped shape the subsequent course of US imperialism– was the implementation of the European Recovery Act of 1948, the so-called Marshall Plan. Not only was...

» Private Security Firm Attacks the Sihlalangenkani Occupation in Umhlali
04/20/24 14:51 from Dissident Voice
On 7 April the notorious private security firm IPSS, with support from the SAPS, launched an attack on the Sihlalangenkani Occupation in Umhlali, on the North Coast. The occupation is affiliated to our movement. The attack was unlawful a...

» Disintegration and Choice
04/20/24 12:55 from Dissident Voice
With regular maintenance stuff lasts longer, but eventually, in spite of every effort, things break down: the washing machine stops washing, the car won’t start, the mobile phone refuses to connect to the internet. Socio-economic-politic...

» Herbert Marcuse: New Left Revival?
04/19/24 20:37 from Dissident Voice
World events serve as a stage of constant search for how best to construct and maintain society, which is an underlying theme of some decades ago found in the works of Herbert Marcuse, 1898–1979, German-American philosopher of prominent ...

» The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend!
04/19/24 01:03 from Dissident Voice
The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was adamant.  Not only will Australians be paying a bill up to and above A$368 billion for nuclear p...

» The Immense Hunger
04/19/24 00:31 from Dissident Voice
Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live.  Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance.  All across the world people are starving because the powerful and wealthy create econom...

» The Two-state Solution Lives Only in the Delusions and Cynicism of Western Politicians and Diplomats
04/18/24 17:45 from Dissident Voice
My wife is currently cancer free, but her chemotherapy caused her to gain a lot of weight, which she wants to lose. She says that she doesn’t have the will and self-discipline to change her diet or start an exercise routine. Instea...

» Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution
04/18/24 17:32 from Dissident Voice
Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought Police would get him just the same … the arrests invariably happened at night … In the vast majority of c...

» The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point
04/17/24 21:20 from Dissident Voice
The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Out of the fog of these wars, a clear anti-imperialist focus is emerging. Giving peace a chance has never been ...