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Text originally published August 17, 2026.

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MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — I am standing in Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls, Maine. In front of me, within a radius of a few feet, are three rectangular granite headstones that read “HEDGES,” “BLAIR” and “PRINCE.”

Before me lie the remains of my parents, gr...

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Text originally published July 22, 2026.

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The State Department’s 100-page report on Cuba’s “campaign of subversion against the United States,” along with Donald Trump’s assertion that “Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure,” lays the groundwork for dictatorship.

Elections will be sabotaged i...

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Text originally published June 8, 2026.

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NEWARK, N.J. — The worst is not the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private contractors, wielding baseball bats and batons, who flood the parking lot at the end of their shifts and unleash on protesters outside the gates the sadism practiced on...

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Text originally published June 1, 2026.

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MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and government to force the ruling class to create systems of justice and equality — albeit ones where capitalists retain significant power.

The National Coor...

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Text originally published May 28, 2026.

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The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are ushering in a new world order. This order is one where voices of reason and stability emanate not from...

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Text originally published May 14, 2026.

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America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of our adversaries, a catastrophic failure to understand the limits of imperial po...

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Text originally published May 8, 2026.

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Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by a parasitic ruling class. Democratic institutions seize up. The citizenry is immiserated, weal...

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Text originally published April 20, 2026.

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During the two years I spent writing “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,” I encountered numerous mini-Trumps. These self-proclaimed pastors — very few had any formal religious training — preyed on the despair of their congregants. They were surrounded by sycophants and could no...

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Text originally published January 19, 2026.

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NEW YORK: “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” like all great pieces of art, takes a straightforward story — the battle to save the life of a 6-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, trapped in a car in Gaza surrounded by murdered family members — and elevates it to an arche...

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Text originally published January 19, 2026.

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The war on Iran and the obliteration of Gaza is the beginning. Welcome to the new world order. The age of technologically-advanced barbarism. There are no rules for the strong, only for the weak. Oppose the strong, refuse to bow to its capricious demands...

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Text originally published January 19, 2026.

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Donald Trump’s threat to cancel the midterm elections is not a feign. He attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election and said he would not accept the outcome of the 2024 election if he lost. He ruminates about defying the Constitution to serve a...

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Text originally published February 8, 2026.

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I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs. They live in narcissistic and hedonistic bubbles that cater to their self-worship and moral depravity. But I do expect a lot from intellectuals such as...

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Text originally published January 8, 2026.

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All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past gl...

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Text originally published January 3, 2026.

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The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not...

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Text originally published December 15, 2025.

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First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own milita...

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Text originally published November 10, 2025.

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BROOKLYN, N.Y — Lola Mozes’ childhood came to an end in the fall of 1939 at a small bridge in Poland. She wa...

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Text originally published November 10, 2025.

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El Presidente Trump is cast in the mold of all tinpot Latin American despots who terrorize their populations, surround themselves wi...

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Text originally published October 3, 2025.

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I was scheduled to give a talk at the National Press Club of Australia on October 20 called “The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists.” It was to foc...

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Text originally published September 18, 2025.

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Trump’s designation of the amorphous group antifa, which has no formal organization or structure, as a terrorist organization permits the...

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Text originally published September 10, 2025.

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Nearly all Holocaust scholars, who see in any criticism of Israel a betrayal of the Holocaust, have refused to condemn the...

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Text originally published September 11, 2025.

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk presages a new, deadly stage in the disintegration of a fractious and highly polarized United States...

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Text originally published July 28, 2025.

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I testified at the New Jersey state capital in Trenton last week against Bill A3558, which would adopt the International Holocaust...

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Text originally published July 26, 2025.

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Israelis do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse...

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Text originally published July 9, 2025.

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When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and...

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Text originally published July 12, 2025.

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The refusal by the Trump administration to release the files and videos amassed during investigations into the activities of the pedophile...

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Text originally published June 19, 2025

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There are few differences between the lies told to ignite the war with Iraq and the lies told to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of our intelligence agencies and international bodies are, as they were during the calls to invade Iraq, airily dismissed for hallucinations.

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Text originally published May 26, 2025

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War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The warmongers who ordered the strikes by U.S. bombers on Iranian nuclear sites have no more of a plan for what comes next in Iran than they had in Afghanistan, Iraq, Liby...

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Text originally published May 26, 2025

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The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations and retreated into echo chambers where fact and fiction were indistinguishable.<...

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Text originally published May 26, 2025

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This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets. They...

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Text originally published May 26, 2025

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Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland. It is a v...

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Text originally published May 26, 2025

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The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antisemitism,” laid the groundwork for their own demise. Columbia and Princeton, where I have taught, and Harvard, which I attended, are not incubators of hatred towards Jews. The New York Times, where I worked for...

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Text originally published March 11, 2025

I Stink Therefore I Am - by Mr. Fish

The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia Univ...

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Text Originally posted Mar. 22, 2025

This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and...

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Text Originally posted Feb. 18, 2025

One Mind - by Mr. Fish

The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations or the end of ma...

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Kiss the Ring - by Mr. Fish

Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. You can...

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Text Originally published Feb. 07, 2025

And Then the World Blew Up - by Mr. Fish

The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. These self-inflicted wounds, characteristic of all late empires, will cripple...

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Text originally published Feb. 01, 2025

Explore Gaza - by Mr. Fish

Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is...

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Text originally published Jan. 12, 2025

A Final Toast - by Mr. Fish

The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedly warned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have. The failures in...

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Text originally filed January 16, 2025

Piece Plan - by Mr. Fish

Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Is...