Empathy is NOT in Hillary Clinton’s Vocabulary

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It’s stunning to see ghouls like Hillary Clinton resurface to pontificate about empathy.

This is the same person who defended a rightwing coup in Honduras in 2009 and legitimized its government. Since then, Honduras has seen a dramatic increase in violence against activists, journalists, and the LGBTQ community.

This is the same person who profited from a shady and weak charity project in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake via her and her husband’s Clinton Foundation. And who opposed minimum wage for Haitian workers.

This is the same person who was a primary architect of the U.S.-led NATO intervention in Libya in 2011, laughing about the murder of its leader. A military assault which plunged the country into misery and chaos and made it the biggest hub of the modern-day slave trade in the world.

This is the same person who recently claimed that young people’s opposition to the genocide in Gaza was due to social media “propaganda” from China and “made-up” videos. Who argued against a ceasefire, even as tens of thousands of civilians, including tens of thousands of children, were being systematically massacred by Israel. And who continues to support military aid to Israel and has refused to acknowledge that it is committing genocide, despite the vast majority of genocide scholars saying that it is.

Hillary Clinton’s legacy is forever stained with the blood of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of civilians, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Honduras to Haiti to Libya to Gaza and beyond. That she, of all people, dares to preach about empathy is not merely ironic, it is obscene.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

One More Step Toward a Full-Fledged Police State

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On Wednesday, the FBI raided the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, Georgia. It was carried out because of unsubstantiated claims by Trump of widespread fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia. These claims were repeatedly rejected by the courts. But facts do not count under this regime.

With Trump’s ratings tanking and the regime under increasing condemnation for its brutality at home and belligerent recklessness abroad, the regime is feeling the pinch. They know they only have a small window of opportunity to carry out their plans.

And with a Supreme Court which rubberstamps virtually every executive action and a weak and ineffectual opposition in the Democratic Party, which seems more concern with optics and in posting memes, the regime understands it still has its hands on the levers of power.

What is clear is that this is one more step in the solidification of the United States as a full-fledged police state. Elections, which are more about show in a country where money dictates policy, are still important, especially on the local level.

But when an authoritarian and openly fascist government casts widespread doubt on the legitimacy of the voting process and intimidates minorities and anyone they deem a threat, the impact on democratic integrity is nothing less than catastrophic.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

Bread and Circuses, Without the Bread

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Since the US-Israeli takeover of TikTok, there have been endless complaints about censorship, banned content and banned content creators. Some are saying the platform isn’t even allowing viewers to type in the letters “ICE.” Others have said that the word “Israel” pops up in any search, regardless of the topic. And any search for the word “Epstein” apparently may get your profile flagged for violating “community guidelines.” It has been hemorrhaging members who are going to the new UpScrolled as an alternative.

This all began when billionaires and American politicians were wringing their hands over the influence it was having regarding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Unsurprisingly, all of them claimed it was because of Chinese censorship, date collection and surveillance. But everyone, except the feckless, understood the real reason.

After ardent Zionist and billionaire, Larry Ellison, bought the company via his corporation Oracle, everything changed. The new CEO of TikTok, Adam Presser, boasted about banning the word “Zionist” as a form of hate speech unless it was used in the context of being a “proud Zionist.” If the content criticized the political ideology, it would be considered a “dirty word” and be censored. Anti-Zionists, which include an enormous swath of Jews, are not welcome any more.

Larry Ellison, sixth richest person in the world and close friend of wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, has made significant donations to the IDF as it commits heinous crimes against Palestinian civilians, including children. His company Oracle is an enormous, AI-generated surveillance technology giant.

Ellison, himself, has said he would welcome a “1984-style” surveillance state where AI analyzes video feeds to track, record, and influence citizen behavior. The billionaire claimed “citizens will be on their best behavior” because they are constantly being recorded and reported. Larry Ellison and others claimed that they were afraid of “Chinese surveillance,” even as Oracle had ties to Chinese resellers who have provided surveillance technology to Chinese police.

What all of this means is rather simple and banal. Elites like Ellison understood that these social media platforms were sharing real content about the atrocities Israel was committing. For the first time in human history, a genocide became widely seen and livestreamed by the victims.

The new TikTok is shadowbanning and silencing critics of Israel and the political ideology of Zionism. But it is part of a larger project of social control in the United States. Larry Ellison financed his son David Ellison’s acquisition of Paramount Global (the parent company of CBS).

They then appointed journalist flunky Bari Weiss as the Editor-in-Chief of CBS News. Weiss, known for her crusade against woke windmills of the mind, has also peddled in genocide apologetics and denial from her virtually inconsequential platform The Free Press.

Since taking over CBS, Weiss has been busy making the once respected news organization into a facsimile of Fox News for old centrists. Her first big event was an interview with Charlie Kirk’s widow and grifter extraordinaire, Erika Kirk. It had some of the lowest viewership in the networks history.

What we are witnessing in the United States is the complete decay of its communications and journalism institutions. From CBS to TikTok to MGM Studios, the aim is in controlling the dialogue and manufacturing opinions and consent within the accepted framework.

MGM, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is most notoriously known for its recent bankrolling of the documentary “Melania,” which follows the first lady around for a few weeks as she does practically nothing but exist and wear lampshade-sized hats.

Regardless of how much money billionaire elites spend, what they are managing is nothing more than the death spiral of American society. The rapid unraveling of an empire, now headed by a dying, narcissistic, rapist who is terrorizing Black, Brown, Indigenous, women, queer and immigrant communities and occupying American cities as he rattles his saber at allies and adversaries abroad. Meanwhile, Americans struggle to make ends meet, terrified of medical bankruptcy and choosing between rent and food.

This is Bread and Circuses, but without the bread.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

We Will Never Forget Hind Rajab

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Two years ago today, five year old Hind Rajab was murdered by the Israeli military as she phoned emergency services for help, bleeding and surrounded by the bodies of her family in a car. An ambulance was sent to save her. It was bombed by an Israeli airstrike as it approached her. The paramedics were incinerated.

Hind was shot 355 times by IDF soldiers.

In the months following this coldblooded murder of a child, her family and the medical professionals sent to help her, Western media repeatedly referred to Hind as a “young woman.” Many news sites ignored her story completely.

But we will never forget Hind. We will never forget what Israel did to her and to tens of thousands of children like her. Tens of thousands of children who were buried under the rubble of their homes, shelters or schools, deliberately starved, or who succumbed to disease from tainted water or malnutrition. We will never let them erase her life or any of the others who have died or who continue to suffer in this genocide.

Rest in peace, Hind. You will always live on in our hearts.

*artwork by Shepard Fairey, Instagram account: obeygiant

Step Aside, Eva Braun

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As Melania Trump’s “documentary” flops, it is worth looking into the people and corporations behind this monumental waste of film.

Director Brett Ratner, whose last name seems astonishingly synonymous with his character, has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. Elliot Page said Ratner sexually harassed him and outed him when he was only 18 years old, prior to Page coming out as a trans man.

Ratner, who identifies as a proud Zionist, immigrated to Israel in October 2023, just as the country was beginning its genocidal campaign in Gaza. He sits on the board of directors of Tel Aviv University’s School of Film and Television. And he is good friends with wanted war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, who personally invited him to his speech at the United Nations.

In addition to this, the film was financed by billionaire, Jeff Bezos who owns Amazon and MGM. He actually spent $75 million on this snuff film for good taste. But several other major broadcast corporations competed for the honour too. Disney and Paramount Studios tried to buy the rights.

Regardless of billionaire suck-ups and their willingness to humiliate themselves for cash, most of the crew requested that their names be left out of the credits. In fact, many privately hope that the film flops.

In the meantime, Melania will likely go down with other notable nobodies in fascist history. Step aside, Eva Braun.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

How the State Justifies Violence by Smearing its Victims

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Fascist bootlickers are foaming at the mouth because Alex Pretti was allegedly filmed spitting in the direction of ICE and kicking out the taillight of one of their unmarked, kidnapping vans in the days or hours before he was executed by them in cold blood. And this is supposed to make us think he deserved being brutalized and murdered.

It goes something like this: Did you ever do porn? Been drunk in public? Smoke cannabis? Have sex with multiple partners? Shoot up heroin? Tell a dirty joke? Shoplift from a department store? Attend a strip show? Wear a seductive outfit? Throw a piece of trash on the street? Have an unpaid speeding ticket? See! You weren’t a saint! You had it coming!

This is how the state manufactures an excuse for its violence. How it justifies its actions by smearing its victims. How it sets up the idea that if a victim did something either illegal or that is deemed immoral by some people, they deserved what was done to them. George Floyd, Sandra Bland, Virginia Giuffre, Renee Good. Now it is Alex Pretti’s turn.

This kind of postmortem slander isn’t anything new. Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, women, queer people and immigrants have all been demonized following their brutalization. Palestinians have gone through this for over 80 years. In fact, all colonized, marginalized, occupied, besieged or oppressed people are very familiar with this type of reputational litmus test.

Alex Pretti wasn’t a saint. He was a human being. But even if he was a criminal, he did not deserve what was done to him. And that is the point.

What is astonishing in this case is that fascists truly think we care that Pretti spat on them and vandalized their vehicle. On the contrary, those things only make him even more of a hero.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

None of this Started with Trump

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Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez was an eight-year-old migrant girl who died in U.S. Border Patrol custody in May 2023. Despite having a chronic heart condition and rare blood disorder, U.S. Border Patrol medical staff refused to see her.

The CPB medical staff knew of the little girl’s serious health condition. But the nurse practitioner denied at least three requests from the girl’s mother for an ambulance. The day before she died, she developed a 40.5C fever. On the ninth day of her internment, she had a seizure and died.

This happened in 2023 under the Biden administration. Under a system which has always been racist and cruel. Under an arrangement of rationalized brutality that most Democrats have supported, albeit with a few tweaks that are more about optics than operation. And they are still supporting it by continuing to fund it and by refusing to abolish ICE.

Without a doubt, the Trump regime relishes in sadism. It is openly fascist and now no one is safe. Whiteness will no longer act as a buffer. An openly fascist regime isn’t interested in PR or optics. It is only interested in expanding an environment of terror and fear.

America has been on this trajectory for decades. Only its terror has been mostly reserved for racialized communities within the US and the Global South outside its borders. The most recent and egregious example of the latter is the Biden administration’s support and funding of the genocide in Gaza. One which Trump has gladly continued.

Unless white American liberals see the big picture, the unflattering one that shows the 250+ year American project for what it is, nothing will change. Absolutely nothing.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

The Holocaust Taught Us that No Human Being is Illegal

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It is utterly loathsome to see this kind of dehumanization and Holocaust denial from anyone. But from a rabbi?

Anne Frank and millions of Jews, Roma and other ethnic or religious groups were rendered stateless for the very purpose of deporting them to death camps. Anne violated the law by hiding from authorities in a secret annex concealed in their father’s office building. She was not in the Netherlands legally because the Nazis changed the laws.

Laws do not equate morality. They do not equate ethics. They represent control and power. Sometimes they are good. Often they are reprehensible.

The Holocaust was perpetrated by a regime that stripped millions of their citizenship, even in the nations that it invaded and occupied. This regime created laws that reinforced this otherizing and demonization in order to seize their property and annihilate them. And without passports or other documents, these people were trapped, unable to flee to other countries.

This is no different than what the Trump regime is doing (and other administrations, both Democrat and Republican, have done). They are dehumanizing people based on their colour, or accent, or immigration status. They are rendering them stateless for easy internment in their concentration camps. For easy disposal.

But this is the moral bankruptcy at the heart of Zionism. A political ideology which relies on ahistorical myths and supremacy, and which cannot recognize these simple facts because doing so unravels their narrative. And thus, it makes the only choice it has left, which is to support fascism.

If the Holocaust taught us anything, it is that papers and passports are all temporary and arbitrary based on who holds power. It taught us that no human being is illegal. And no excuse made by a ruthless and brutal regime will change those immutable facts.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

Dear Americans, China is Not Your Adversary

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Americans have been living in denial for decades. So many of them honestly believe that they live in the greatest country on earth. This, despite having no universal healthcare, few protections for workers, little time off, low wages, crumbling infrastructure, antiquated transportation and vast economic inequality.

They often like to portray China as either a backwater or as an existential threat. Most of this comes from the millions of Americans who have never once left their own state, let alone country.

But if they opened their eyes and stopped believing the propaganda, they would see a stark reality. The American Empire is in steep decline. It has been for decades. And during this time, China has risen.

Today, China is rapidly building modern cities with stunning architecture and efficient transportation. It is leading the world in technology and engineering. Its vast landmass is crisscrossed by high speed trains, enabling people to get from one side to the other in mere hours.

No other imperial state on the planet compares with China. Not Russia. Not the United States.

This is not to say there aren’t serious human rights concerns. There are. And it not to say there isn’t poverty in China. There is. But the country has been able to lift 800 million people out of poverty in a record short time. It has a huge middle class who work, study and travel.

Meanwhile, America slides further behind. And this is partly due to its arrogance and willful ignorance.

Most Americans have not yet fully realized that China is not their adversary. Their own ruling class is.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

The Holocaust Taught Us That No Human Being is Illegal

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It is utterly loathsome to see this kind of dehumanization and Holocaust denial from anyone. But from a rabbi?

Anne Frank and millions of Jews, Roma and other ethnic or religious groups were rendered stateless for the very purpose of deporting them to death camps. Anne violated the law by hiding from authorities in a secret annex concealed in their father’s office building. She was not in the Netherlands legally because the Nazis changed the laws.

Laws do not equate morality. They do not equate ethics. They represent control and power. Sometimes they are good. Often they are reprehensible.

The Holocaust was perpetrated by a regime that stripped millions of their citizenship, even in the nations that it invaded and occupied. This regime created laws that reinforced this otherizing and demonization in order to seize their property and annihilate them. And without passports or other documents, these people were trapped, unable to flee to other countries.

This is no different than what the Trump regime is doing (and other administrations, both Democrat and Republican, have done). They are dehumanizing people based on their colour, or accent, or immigration status. They are rendering them stateless for easy internment in their concentration camps. For easy disposal.

But this is the moral bankruptcy at the heart of Zionism. A political ideology which relies on ahistorical myths and supremacy, and which cannot recognize these simple facts because doing so unravels their narrative. And thus, it makes the only choice it has left, which is to support fascism.

If the Holocaust taught us anything, it is that papers and passports are all temporary and arbitrary based on who holds power. It taught us that no human being is illegal. And no excuse made by a ruthless and brutal regime will change those immutable facts.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026