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The dangerous depravity of Tom Homan
Trump’s “border czar” has spent the past several years promoting racist conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists. His mass deportation agenda is one of the Administration’s top priorities.
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Open source vs. closed doors: How China’s DeepSeek beat U.S. AI monopolies
China’s DeepSeek AI has just dropped a bombshell in the tech world.
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Trump says ‘clean out that whole thing’ as part of his plan for Gaza
The U.S. president suggests that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza.
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‘Conspiracy Theory’ is now fact: Greater Israel has arrived
Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’—the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God.
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The ocean surface is warming four times faster than in the 1980s
Ocean temperatures were rising at a rate of 0.06 °C per decade, whereas now they are increasing by 0.27 °C every ten years.
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Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East editor exposed as CIA, Mossad collaborator
A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.
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Sixties flashback: A Complete Unknown film review
The Bob Dylan biopic is finely acted and captures the aspects of the musician impressively, but not the full political power of the songs, finds Jonathan Maunders.
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Nazi billionaires: Fascism in the Elon Musk family tree
It’s not a secret that Elon Musk embraces fascist and reactionary political movements.
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DeepSeek’s geopolitical impacts
China’s technological progress is far more vulnerable to a more “friendly” US. rather than a more “hostile” one.
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Trump: Fast and furious
If anyone still doubts that the United States is the center of an empire, the show put on by the New York tycoon dispels all doubts.
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Environment: Accelerating towards a collision with the climate
Human societies are setting themselves on a collision course with climate-induced catastrophes. Lithium-ion batteries will soon be facing competition. How to deal with x and the conflicts it creates?
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Around 242 million children missed school last year because of the climate emergency, says UN
UNICEF said the world’s schools and education systems were “largely ill equipped” to deal with the effects of extreme weather.
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Trump’s billionaire cabinet represents the top 0.0001%
The collective net worth of Trump’s top appointees is reportedly estimated to exceed $460 billion, including Elon Musk’s $400 billion net worth.
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New realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
The ceasefire is publicized as a demonstration of Trump’s and U.S. leverage with respect to Israel when it actively seeks results rather than merely wants to make a rhetorical impression, but there is more to this ceasefire that is immediately apparent.
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The Ayacucho Commune: Fisherfolk and their cooperative practices (Part II)
Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.
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‘Banality of evil’: Artist turns Gaza settler dream into disturbing installation
Gil Mualem-Doron’s fake ads for villas in Gaza are actually based on a real Israeli estate agent advertising property on Gaza’s beachfront.
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Israel tightens its grip on Jenin and the wider West Bank
Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.
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Did Trump ‘fix’ TikTok? Users report censorship after outage
When the platform came back online, U.S. users were greeted with a message crediting its return to Trump: “As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!”
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The oligarchs’ picnic–what’s on the menu when Trump’s oligarchs negotiate with Putin’s oligarchs
Today we are at roughly the same point, but oligarchs think in commercial terms, not social or ethical ones. For the oligarchs, the point on both sides is that the sanctions war over the past three years has created the largest gap between true asset value and trade value which exists in the global market today–this is the gap between the pre-war bankable value of Russian commodities, resources, and corporate assets and their discounted price under sanctions.
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From export-led to consumption-led growth?
A CHORUS of “establishment” voices, from consultancy firms to the financial press, has been demanding a boost to domestic consumption as a means of reviving the flagging growth rate of the Indian economy. The latest to join this chorus is the Reserve Bank of India which in its latest Bulletin has asked for a boost to consumption to “rekindle the animal spirits” of the “entrepreneurs” in the economy.