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It seems that EU leaders have realized that the US can squeeze them, not just with tariffs, but with natural gas supplies. It used to be that Europe got most of its natural gas from Russia, till the pipelines were blown up, probably by the US. Now they pay much more to get shipped LNG […]
The glue, or spirit, that binds certain teams is not mystical – you can cultivate it by changing how you work together
- by Leigh Thompson
The life of Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose illuminates how scientific genius can emerge from the most unexpected quarters
- by Somaditya (Soma) Banerjee
Google Gemini’s real business model isn’t chat. It’s price control.
Sectoral Financial Balances for the UK as a % of GDP, smoothed over a year
The number of people in the UK without work that want it
For more than twenty years between 1980 and 2016, Donald Trump built, looted, and then bankrupted a casino empire — Trump Entertainment Resorts — along Atlantic City’s iconic boardwalk. His casinos stripped punters of hard-earned earnings, wiped out bond holders and stock market investors, and ended as protracted, costly failures, even while it enriched Trump. ‘The money I […]
Note: The following piece contains major spoilers for the final episode of Stranger Things . Stranger Things, Netflix’s critically acclaimed sci-fi/horror/fantasy series, is a love letter to 1980s pop cinema—including Steven Spielberg’s arguably Orientalist -est film. A prequel to Raiders…
True American exceptionalism doesn’t spring from the nation’s statehouses but from its garbage cans. The contemporary US is objectively extraordinary in that virtually anyone, including…
Mossad is taking advantage of deadly riots that rocked Iran this month to solicit spies through a series of social media ads. In one of history’s strangest collaborations, the Israeli intel agency has purchased the ads through an LLC owned by Atlanta-based standup comic Desi Banks. Update: This report and a September 2025 article by journalist Jack Poulson have resulted in the termination of Farsi-language recruitment ads by Israel’s Mossad assassination agency. Google has suspended the company used to purchase […]
The post New Mossad recruitment ads exploit Iran’s unrest with help from US comedian first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post New Mossad recruitment ads exploit Iran’s unrest with help from US comedian appeared first on The Grayzone.
Tidöregeringen har i dagarna enats om att — i enlighet med den gängse offentlighetsprincipen — lägga fram ett lagförslag om full insyn i fristående skolor. Som om detta skulle lösa det grundläggande problemet med friskolorna! Ingalunda. Ett flertal undersökningar har på senare år visat att det system vi har i Sverige med vinstdrivande skolor leder […]
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
Director Peter Hoar ("A Good Man Goes to War," "The Robot Revolution," "Lucky Day") on what he believes the Doctor Who/Disney deal taught us.
The politicians and commentators who mocked those warning about the threat posed by the US President as being "hysterical" need to face up to their own role in the calamity now unfolding, argues Adam Bienkov
Bureaucratic authoritarianism cannot build the party we were promised. Our movement must learn this to advance beyond the failures of broad-front left populism, towards a mass socialist party capable of liberating our class. Such a party cannot be built on personality and platitudes alone, nor can it allow debate over internal structures and party democracy […]
Originally published January 17, 2025.
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1. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving.”
2. “Why would Kim Jong Un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat’? Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend — and maybe someday that will happen!”
3. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
4. “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.”
5. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”
Ride along with New York driving teacher, Shanti, whose potty-mouthed tough-love approach is both amusing and effective
- Directed by Charles Frank
From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’
- by Aeon Video
Economic republicanism shows us how to achieve authentic freedom: citizens require economic as well as political power
- by Sean Irving
Reckoning with the complex history of dignity reveals its fragility and what Hannah Arendt recognised as its conditionality
- by Christa Teston
Staffing problems caused by DOGE resulted in the Defense Information Systems Agency warning of “extreme risk for loss of service” across the military.
The post DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit appeared first on The Intercept.
Following threats to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows federal troops to engage in law enforcement activities, President Trump has ordered the Department of Defense to place two battalions of the US Army’s 11th Airborne Division on alert for potential…