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After initially suggesting the cable published by The Intercept was inauthentic, Pakistani officials now claim it doesn’t reveal a conspiracy.
The post Pakistan Confirms Secret Diplomatic Cable Showing U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan appeared first on The Intercept.
Western media has dismissed evidence of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine by citing President Zelensky’s Jewish heritage. But new footage published by Zelensky shows the leader openly collaborating with a fascist ideologue who once pledged to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led Untermenschen.” Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky has uploaded a video to his Telegram channel showing him holding court with one of the most notorious neo-Nazis in modern Ukrainian history: Azov Battalion founder Andriy Biletsky. […]
The post Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi first appeared on The Grayzone.
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Overstating the power of algorithmic systems only serves to benefit the tech companies behind them.
The post AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are. appeared first on The Intercept.
The Band – A device your physical therapist wants you to use to increase joint flexibility.
Pink Floyd – A nickname for your rosacea.
Deep Purple – The color of your spider veins.
Blur – Your twenties and thirties.
The Smiths – What you call the three couples you socialize with whose names you can’t remember.
The Who – How you respond when someone uses their correct name.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – One of several spicy foods your gastroenterologist recommends you avoid.
Chuck Berry – One of the many cuts of meat your cardiologist says you should eat less; a fruit your endocrinologist says you should eat more.
Tool – Something you can’t find.
Alice Cooper – What you named your daughter; what she named her son.
Led Zeppelin – One of the many kinds of aircraft you refuse to fly in.
Van Halen – How you get a cab because you can’t remember your Uber login.
Kit Klarenburg delves into the brutality meted out during the tenure of former President Jair Bolsonar by Brazil's infamous Rural Indigenous Guard—an undercover, lethal elite police force clandestinely established by the CIA.
The post Bolsonaro’s Butchery: CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil’s Indigenous Genocide appeared first on MintPress News.
Jeffrey Yang’s latest book is Line and Light, a title that rhymes in a way with the title of his second collection, Vanishing-Line. Line and Light, his fourth full-length work, is sprawling, vast, like a city of poetry. It’s composed of five sections, all of them serial in form or spirit. The first and most ambitious, “Langkasuka,” spans sixty-three sections and a third of the book. It grows out of visits the poet took a decade ago to Kuala Lumpur, and takes its name from an ancient, creative utopia of a kingdom—one that disappeared, possibly because of self-induced catastrophe. No one knows. But the possibilities haunt the poem, and the poem’s poetics are all about haunting: about history and the pulse of the living individual, about the relationship between memory and the present, memory and the enduring song. Yang begins his poem with this couplet which, I think, beautifully stands in for the poetics he’s worked out of his entire career:
I open my eyes to forget
I close my eyes to remember
The Pentagon claims “no correlation” between U.S. training and coups, but research suggests the opposite could be true.
The post Niger Junta Appoints U.S.-Trained Military Officers to Key Jobs appeared first on The Intercept.