The new revelations about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Noam Chomsky are far more disappointing and loathsome than previously understood.

Chomsky did not simply have some academic connection with Epstein, he was advising this serial abuser on how to deal with accusations and the press. Chomsky reduced these allegations to “hysteria.” He sides with Epstein over his victims. And that is sadly telling.

I met Chomsky at a lecture years ago and I have read his books. And they were very valuable in changing my worldview and understanding of capitalism, propaganda and imperialism. But I am beginning to realize something that I probably buried a long time ago in regard to Chomsky and other academics like him. Mostly white men. The red flags I chose to ignore.

I have noticed that there is a sort of detached comfort among too many academics when it comes to geopolitics. A way of intellectualizing and compartmentalizing suffering and cruelty, so that empathy can be dispatched, but only for those that align with ones worldview. In Chomsky’s case and others, victims of the American empire’s adversaries simply don’t count as much.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, February 2026

Batya Ungar-Sargon used to write about the working class and colonialism. She identified as progressive. But now, she is a columnist at The Free Press, the sham media outlet founded by journalist flunky Bari Weiss, who has since moved on to destroy what was left of CBS News.

Here, she sullies the legacy of Anne Frank and every other victim of the Holocaust by denigrating immigrants.

Of course, Ungar-Sargon is wrong. Jews in Germany and the occupied nations of the Reich were systematically stripped of their citizenship. They were deliberately made stateless.

Furthermore, they were routinely labeled criminals and terrorists. Schools taught children that they were not to be trusted. They were demonized and dehumanized so that they could be easily scapegoated, deported and most often exterminated.

The inability to see the universal lesson of the Holocaust as a denunciation of all human rights violations, atrocities and genocides is the problem of liberal Zionism and its inevitable trajectory toward the far-right and fascism.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, February 2026

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

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

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

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