February 20, 2024

Frank McCulley

20 Feb 2026 — 1 min read

This week saw the inaugural meeting of the "Trump Board of Peace". We are told that they will not only bring peace to Gaza, but that they will solve conflicts all around the globe. How will they bring about world peace? By launching vast armies to smash the evildoers. We are currently witnessing this in Iran. This, we are told, will reestablish a reign of peace and goodwill on earth.

But as Richard Wright told us 75 years ago, this "peace" is really just the right to exploit others without interference. The goal of all this is to give the United States and a few of the puppet states that perpetuate this sham access to minerals, oil, and other natural resources without any pesky interference from other countries around the world.

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It is great to see more and more union-affliated candidates running for office all around the country, but in my mind this is only a stopgap measure. I have always been extremely pro-union, but only in the context of a world run by out of control capitalists. I have always

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Of course there is only despair on the ground in Gaza. Their land is in ruins, their homes have been destroyed, and Palestinians in the West Bank are having their land stolen from them. They also have the historical memory of promises made and promises broken. As Emily Dickinson once

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With the striking down of the Trump tariffs we are told that "Chaos may come next". What? I agree with Isabel Allende. "To judge by what I saw around me, the world was [already] pure chaos".

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