EDITOR—Garland Nixon and the inestimable Joti Brar, a leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CP-GB), clarify in a few minutes, in plain language, who really rules our lives. Forget about the party and election circus. Or what the President is up to in the White House. That’s NOT where power really resides in capitalist society. Instead, a huge machinery of distraction —the media, entertainment (films and sports), phony politicians, etc.—hides the actual ruling class [the billionaires and financial blocs who make all the big decisions behind closed doors, in practical anonymity and without any accountability, acting in fact as a dictatorship), while the charade of bourgeois democracy plays on for the masses…
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EDITOR—Garland Nixon examines the profound ideological underpinnings and contradictions animating the American empire’s two most dangerous crises in recent times, Israel, a country supposedly born of its fear and hatred for Nazism, and the Ukraine, a nation whose NATO-supported regime professes Nazism openly in many of its key institutions, including admiration for the Zionist state brutal “Nazi” way of dealing with the Palestinian captive nation and its own population.
SIMPLICIUS End of 2023 Roundup – Update on the War’s Technological Progress
A Masterful Analysis of the Changing Ways of War as Ukraine Forces Innovation on All Sides40 Mins readSIMPLICIUS—Suffering from standard artillery shell hunger, Ukraine has asymmetrically invested into small, cheap drone production—and it’s paying off for them, as Russia is struggling to develop a consistent counter against them. Sure, Russia itself outproduces Ukraine in raw FPVs, but the issue is, since it’s Russia that is now on the offensive, the situation favors Ukraine. Russian forces have to go out in the open to attack, creating a target-rich environment for the AFU. The Ukrainians on the other hand are all bunkered up and no longer assault, so despite having a positive FPV ratio, Russia doesn’t have as many easy or open targets to hit.
EDITOR—When your entire existence is justified by a lie you have to keep updating it, says author Miko Peled about Israel’s biblical claim to Palestine
The Genocidal Bombing of Gaza Into Rubble Indicts Israel’s U.S. Patron’s Corporate World Hegemony
JAY JANSON—Global corporate capitalism led by the hegemonic state, the United States, is a fundamentally immoral and irrational system. In capitalism, both states and corporations are designed to maximize short-term power and profits for the super-wealthy corporate elite.

