by Olibro Webmaster | Mar 5, 2026
Reeking of Imperial Hubris Seizing upon what they consider to be a generational opportunity, with Iran’s theocratic dictatorship shaken by the January people’s uprising, Trump and Netanyahu launched a “prolonged” attack from the air on February 28. While the attacks... by Olibro Webmaster | Jan 19, 2026
The last two weeks have seen the most massive and pervasive challenge from the Iranian people to the theocratic dictatorship since the 2009 Green Movement that brought millions onto the streets. In its efforts at repression, the theocratic regime has enacted its... 
by Olibro Webmaster | Jan 4, 2026
For those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.) Nixon soon launched a brutal “Christmas” bombing... 
by Olibro Webmaster | Dec 28, 2025
Two years before his 1879–82 notebooks on communal social forms around the world, Marx begins to see an uprising in Russia as the most likely starting point for a wider European revolution. For example, in remarks on the Russo-Turkish War (the “oriental crisis”) in a... 
by Olibro Webmaster | Nov 23, 2025
After two years, the guns are silent, at least for the most part. Long-suffering Palestinians are heading back to their hometowns and villages in Gaza, and the remaining Israeli hostages and some Palestinian prisoners (actually, hostages too) are being released....