How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas

Cynthia Chung “Anyone who doubts that this nation building and police activity has not become real and very effective right here in the United States need only visit the area around Fort Bragg to find one of these early paramilitary CIA-oriented specialist, General Tolson, sending his American soldiers out into the countryside with nation-building programs…

How Israel Weaponizes the Holocaust to Justify Killing Palestinians

Rania Khalek was joined by Tony Greenstein, a longstanding Jewish anti-Zionist, Marxist and anti-fascist activist from the UK and author of the book “Zionism During the Holocaust.” Harpal-Brar-Zionism: A Racist, Anti-Semitic and Reactionary Tool of Imperialism Israel’s Holocaust Trauma is a Myth Zionism and Anti-Semitism: The Real Resistance

Birth of the Perpetual War Machine

Cynthia Chung “Anyone who doubts that this nation building and police activity has not become real and very effective right here in the United States need only visit the area around Fort Bragg to find one of these early paramilitary CIA-oriented specialist, General Tolson, sending his American soldiers out into the countryside with nation-building programs…

AI Countergovernance

Blair Attard-FrostIn the last year, the rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion has led to countless public discussions about the ethics and regulation of AI. There have also been revelations of significant harms caused by those systems. The development of ChatGPT  and many other AI systems is deeply entwined with exploitative labour…

Project Nimbus: Google’s AI Tools Serving Israel’s Police State

Google has terminated the employment of 28 individuals who participated in a 10-hour sit-in protest on Tuesday against Project Nimbus, a collaboration between Google and Amazon aimed at providing cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli government and military during the ongoing Gaza war. Earlier in March, a cloud engineer was let go after…

Confinement: Analysis of a Mass Obedience Pilot Experiment

Juan Manuel Olarieta In September last year two French sociologists, Nicolas Mariot and Theo Boulakia, published a book entitled «L’Attestation»  on the confinement imposed during the pandemic in several countries. In addition, on Wednesday Mariot gave an interview to the journal of the CNRS, the French equivalent of the French National Research Council (*), a…

‘Never Again!’ Means for ‘Everyone Everywhere!’ My ‘Universal Human Rights’ Speech Germany Banned

Yanis Varoufakis On Saturday, the German authorities shut down a pro-Palestinian three-day event in the capital Berlin, ‘Palestine Conference 2024’,  where the speech was scheduled to be delivered and barred some guest speakers from entering the country. Authorities said they were concerned over potential “antisemitic” remarks and “glorified violence.” Here is the speech that I could not deliver…

Lula and Petro: “Tell Me Who You Are With and I Will Tell You Who You Are”

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein I do not write this article with joy. Rather, I do it with pain, but when forms are not kept, things must be said by their name. The Presidents Lula and Petro decided to become part of the group of corifeos that, led by the United States and the European Union, attack…

Nuke Gaza, Get it Over Quick, Advises US Representative Tim Walberg, Evangelical Zionist

Steven Sahiounie Republican’s ‘nuke Gaza’ comment ‘a clear call to genocide’ The Jews are closely associated with the word holocaust. The word is culturally attached to the Jewish people, recalling a terrible genocide in Europe in the WW2 era which killed millions. It wasn’t the first genocide of modern times, that was committed on the…

Dominican Republic’s Neofascist Paramilitaries Double Down on Right-Wing Repression

Amarilys Estrella In 2021, Ana María Belique, a Black Dominican woman of Haitian descent, published the bilingual children’s book La muñeca de Dieula, Poupe Dieula. New expressions of ultranationalist violence censoring Black women and migrants harken back to the Trujillo dictatorship. Anyone deemed a threat to Dominican values is a potential target. Could you please…

Venezuela’s Battle Against Fascism: Past and Present

Misión Verdad 22-year old Orlando Figuera, a supermarket worker, being lynched and burnt alive by extreme-right guarimba thugs in Venezuela on May 20, 2017. He passed away few weeks later. Fascism in Venezuela has several sources of origin. One of them was the activity of Nazi groups in Venezuela, sponsored by the German embassy in…

Venezuelan Government Presents Anti-Fascism Law, Calls for Global Action to Protect Humanity

Andreína Chávez Alava The new anti-fascism legislation bans political organizations that promote fascist ideals and activities. (X/@Asamblea_Ven) The Venezuelan parliament also passed a law for the Essequibo defense amidst alleged new threats from the CIA and US Southern Command. Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN) has passed an anti-fascism bill to combat hate crimes and violence used…

The Gaza Method

Tarik Cyril Amar The West’s evolving blueprint for controlling a poly-crisis world by mass-murdering and subjugating the poor, the rebellious, and those deemed “superfluous.” When Israel started its latest and ongoing round of genocide-with-ethnic-cleansing against the Palestinians (and then, of course, every crime against humanity and war crime in the book, all the books), I…

The Mechanism: The Rules Based Order Descends into Savagery

Pepe Escobar The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats tho’ unseen amongst us, -visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower.- Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening,-…

Policing and Palestine

Erik Jacobson For many people, the security guard’s infamous actions during Aaron Bushnell’s protest in front of the Israeli embassy illustrated the stark division between the police and those who fight against multiple forms of state-sponsored violence. While Aaron was sacrificing his life to call attention to the ongoing oppression of Palestinians, the guard’s first…

Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics Theory Predicted Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza

The New Black Nationalist Network “The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories serves as a laboratory for a number of techniques of control, surveillance, and separation that are today proliferating to other places on the planet. We are increasingly faced with the question of what to do with those who’s very existence does not seem to…

Lebanon’s Christians and the War in Gaza

Bilal Nour Al-Deen Wary of Hezbollah’s domestic motives in backing Palestine, Lebanon’s Christians are hesitant to align with their resistance. But their political apathy may ultimately cost them demographically by advancing Israel’s goal to flood regional states with Palestinian refugees. Ever since 8 October, when Hezbollah rallied militarily to support the Palestinian resistance in Gaza…

Guernica Staff Resign After “Genocide Apologia” Essay Normalizing Zionism

Malak Silmi Several Guernica staff, including at least five editors, announced their resignation from the magazine days after an essay normalizing Zionism and the ongoing genocide in Gaza was published in the literary magazine’s March issue. A number of writers, including at least two Palestinians, withdrew poetry or essays slated to be published in the magazine. The published…