Illiberation
When “liberating” Iran starts with bombing school girls, the rhetoric of freedom is exposed as a lie. Examine instead the West’s history of overthrowing democracy for oil, of enabling Israel’s rogue nukes, and of serving the Epstein Class’s drive to crush the last West Asian nation resisting its financial domination.
To Give A Dam
After decades of colonial resource extraction, Dole Plantation is sticking the public with the cost of fixing its aging Wahiawā dam and ditch system. With big Ag Park dreams, a powerful Hawaiʻi Senator wonders, “how we gon’ pay for dat?”
Poisoning The Well
The U.S. isn’t liberating Venezuela’s oil—it’s poisoning the nation’s future with debt to create a permanent financial slave.
Colonial Admission
The grift that keeps on taking: Ed Blum's Kam Schools lawsuit uses manufactured grievance politics to try to dismantle a real remedy for colonial harm, all in service of white supremacy.
Lei of the Land
An Israeli government-sponsored trip costs us not in dollars, but in principle. It's a cost paid in the devaluation of Aloha. It tells the world that in Hawaiʻi, our most cherished symbol can be weaponized to bless a genocide.
Experts ‘R Us
The State is funding a shady PR campaign using cultural gatekeepers to convince the public that geothermal energy ventures are supported by Native Hawaiians, and even the goddess Pele herself.