Democracy & Governance
The Trump administration recently announced a series of sanctions intended to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC) “brick by brick.” Let’s be clear: These sanctions are not meant to protect U.S. citizens…
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Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts , a consulting and training firm focused on helping organizations adopt AI through employee engagement and practical workflow redesign. He is a…
Economics
The current economic and politial crises in the West are the result of rampant neo-liberalism Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower…
Austerity
The Empirical Case Against the Euro Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. A post-Keynesian, he criticizes neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. Cross-posted from…
EU politics
Built to fight foreign interference, Europe’s security apparatus is now turning on its own people. Muslims and critics of Israel are first in line. Hüseyin Doğru is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker based in…
Austerity
The evolution of ECB monetary policy from the 2000s to now, and the effect that has played on bond yields over this time period. Ciaran McKenna is a research associate for Resilient Economics Think Tank in Scotland, as…
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AJ Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Itera, which developed the first-of-its-kind ‘fluid’ circuit board to make electronics physically programmable. Chips and software have been programmable for decades, but the…
Americas
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Two US State Department officials, Darren Beattie and Ricardo Pita, led efforts to restore the right-wing Bolsonaro family to power in Brazil, according to ten current and former US officials. They pushed for sanctions…
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Americans are set to vote on November 3 in midterm elections that will determine control of Congress for the last two years of President Donald Trump’s term. Democrats aim to gain four seats to secure a majority in the…
Global development
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Concrete sprawl in Yaoundé has devastated the city’s trees and parks, so volunteers are stepping up, shrub by shrub A little piece of paradise is buried under the asphalt that is now lined with parked cars. The romantic…
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Serbia is having parliamentary elections on Sunday, focusing on the potential change in leadership from longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic to a popular student movement seeking accountability. Aleksandar Vucic, leading the…
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Vincent Cobée is a global industrial executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience, most of it spent in the highly demanding automotive industry, where he built a successful track record leading large-scale…
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Lisa Spelman is CEO of Cornelis , where she leads the company’s efforts to advance high-performance networking for AI and HPC infrastructure. She brings more than 20 years of experience across AI, cloud, enterprise…
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French police have been captured on video standing back to allow neo-nazi thugs to attack students and trade unionists protesting against the Macron government’s war on education and public services. The footage shows…
Democracy & Governance
The Pentagon’s self-described “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth recently announced a plan to live stream the execution by firing squad of former Army Major Nidal Hasan, a wheelchair-bound veteran convicted of a mass…
Europe
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Relations between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have recently worsened, marked by mutual criticism. Trump has been critical of US involvement in Ukraine since he took office in…
Economy
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North Cyprus is one of the Mediterranean’s most distinctive destinations, yet much of its tourism potential remains untapped. Girne’s (Kyrenia) historic harbour, the coastline where the Girne Mountains meet the sea, its…
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Sometimes it takes a bold thesis to get closer to the truth: The U.S. is actually drawing closer to Russia in order to still have a foothold in the Middle East, which it will soon lose. Europe is left behind and will…
Eurasia
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Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal is forcing Central Asia to confront a dangerous question: when a river crosses borders, who gets to decide who drinks first? Firing a missile is not a prerequisite for disturbing a country’s…
Larry C. Johnson
Good news from the Persian Gulf: the war is going so well that the sea itself has joined the fight. While Washington’s experts debate missile counts and the price of oil (around $115 for Brent on Friday, in case anyone…
By: Pham Phan Long The controversy over how dangerous artificial intelligence may be – and how soon the danger might arrive – is fascinating, not simply because experts reach very different conclusions, but because they…
Myanmar
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Kim Aris tells the Guardian chance to speak with detained Nobel laureate was ‘public relations’ move from military leaders Myanmar’s former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be in good physical and mental…
Eurasia
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The proposal to construct a railway and cargo tunnel beneath the Bering Strait, connecting Russia’s Chukotka region with Alaska, recovers an old ambition to physically unite Eurasia and North America. In October 2025…
Analysis
The Jewish Voice for Liberation group (JVL) has condemned the government’s nakedly pro-Israel ‘report’ on supposed antisemitism in schools – as a misleading vehicle for Zionist propaganda. Unfit and biased root and…
Behind The Headlines
Iran’s Army has revealed a new drone that carries a warhead twice the weight of the previous generation, as Tehran threatens a war without limits in retaliation for US-Israeli military operations – MintPress News’ Robert…
Screenshot of the online advertisement from the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy The GOP nominee for Governor in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, provoked widespread condemnation this week as a result of an online campaign ad starring…
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French president Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to quell the outraged protest of the French people is failing. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in defiance of Macron’s protest ban , which he has combined with an effort…
Technology
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Two years ago, every argument about AI was about quality. The machines hallucinated court cases, absorbed biases from their training data, misspelled words in their own images, drew hands with six fingers, and couldn’t…
Middle East & Africa
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Chinese think tanks and strategic and intelligence circles, such as the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), view the upcoming 26th Israeli…
Non classé
We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent media outlets from around the world, join together to condemn the unprecedented attack on press freedom in Egypt following the referral of Egyptian…
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Professor Jason Arday , the Cambridge academic hounded to death by UK ‘mainstream’ media after allegations by white supremacist Nathan Cofnas , has been cleared of plagiarism. Again. Racist Israel-supporter Cofnas, whose…
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The Israel lobby is at it again. The Israel-supporting council in Barnet, long an epicentre of the antisemitism scam, has approved a motion declaring anti-Zionism to be antisemitism. The motion targets the Green party’s…
Global development
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Innovators and business leaders are driving progress across the continent-wide, but the ‘visibility gap’ prevents the rest of the world from truly seeing it Thirty years ago, shortly after South Africa emerged from…
Larry C. Johnson
Ruwais Refinery Good news, everyone. The war is over, at least in the United Arab Emirates. That is the only conclusion you could draw from this month’s headlines. On October 14, Bloomberg reported the International…
Israel-elections
Israelis head to the polls on October 27 in a vote that will cast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing and religious allies against a motley crew of opposition parties. At the moment, neither side is…
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After weeks of endless smears as the ‘mainstream’ media, politicians and Israel lobbyists try to make the antisemitism scam they used against Jeremy Corbyn stick to Polanski and the Greens – the Greens have risen in the…
Global Risk-Reward Monitor
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Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany resists as France’s debt troubles threaten contagion Diego Faßnacht reports that France’s rising…
Israel-Palestine
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The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it…
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The University of Oxford has agreed to let the university’s far-right Reform UK group use its Harris Lecture Theatre for an evening with white supremacist Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas is the racist eugenicist whose comments…
Europe
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Analytical readings from Chinese think tanks and strategic circles, such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) indicate that the European Parliament’s…
South Africa
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My husband, Paddy Donnelly, who has died aged 70, was a South African who moved in the early 1980s to London. There he worked for the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF), which funded the legal…
Economics
A 40 year campaign to make you believe that monopolies are just an aspect of nature has led us to believe that you can’t do anything about them. This is total nonsense and all we have to do is remember. Robin McAlpine is…
Austerity
France’s current economic crisis is the crisis of neo-liberalism Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The recent high school and student…
Activism
There is no floor to what the modern Republican Party will turn into a political attack. On Oct. 19, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign released an ad featuring the mother of his opponent, Dr. Amy…
Geopolitics
If you read one thing today, make sure it is this Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Cross-posted from Parsi’ Substack In a stunning piece…
Aid
8 November 1996 Graca Machel (left), former Minister of Education of Mozambique and the Secretary-General's appointed Expert on the Impact of Armed Conflict of Children, presents her report titled "The United Nations…
Analog Bits
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The future of intelligent computing depends on silicon that delivers more performance within tighter power and thermal limits. Combining TSMC’s advanced process technology with Analog Bits’ analog and mixed-signal…
Africa
In 1816 , a group of white people in the U.S. created the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States (later simply the American Colonization Society), aimed at resolving the “problem”…