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This piece from Amfang is worth highlighting. The Iranian Revolution was supposed to be a victory for the people. In 1979, millions rose up and toppled the Shah, a U.S.-backed monarch who ruled through secret police, torture, and oil profits. It was a mass revolt. Workers shut down industries. Students marched in the streets. Religious […]
From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA's secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's friends.
The post The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding appeared first on MintPress News.
Americans on the scene who tried to help Palestinians said Israeli authorities detained them — all as settler attackers roamed free.
The post American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained and Deported by Israel appeared first on The Intercept.
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party accused of dodging accountability after removing LGBT+ and Ukraine flags in one of their newly won councils without any formal decision or paper trail
During a visit to Lorraine to promote his West End run in "Born With Teeth," Ncuti Gatwa was sounding like he had moved on from Doctor Who.
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“What do twenty-first-century people have an appetite for? I’m leaving myself out of this. I’m a twentieth-century person, I suspect.”
It’s supposed to be gorgeous out, and we can’t spend such a gorgeous weekend trapped in the house by the bathroom.
It’s supposed to be gross out, and it will be hard enough having our toddler stuck inside all weekend without adding potty training into the mix.
I mean, did you see the news that just came out about Miles Teller? I don’t know how we’re supposed to focus on anything else with that whole situation going on.
We’ve already committed to making this the weekend when we pretend we’re serious about getting her to stop using her pacifier rather than the one when we pretend we’re serious about getting her to use the potty.
We don’t want to.
We want to so badly that not doing it seems like a valuable opportunity to teach ourselves and our toddler about the benefits of self-denial.
One of his cousins is just about finished with potty training, and we need to let her enjoy her moment in the sun for a weekend or six before we swoop in with great potty training news of our own.
My parents are visiting, and we don’t want the stress of potty training to ruin a fun weekend with them.
Outdated NHS pay rules are failing resident doctors
Starvation in Gaza has reached a crisis point. But Albanese’s response has simply been to spout platitudes while continuing to allow the export of weapons components being used in the genocide.
The post Albanese still arming Israel while Gaza starves first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Research on how we perceive the rate of change shows how you can be strategic about goal tracking and boost your motivation
- by André Vaz
Rick Loessberg and Akela Lacy trace the trajectory of America’s unfinished reckoning with policing, from the 1967 Kerner Report to the George Floyd protests to Trump 2.0.
The post Decades of Denial: Policing’s Past Haunts the Present appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Anshi Zachary Smith
We cannot justify waiting a single day more while Israeli forces level Gaza, before finally choosing to act, argues Linsay Taylor
Keir Starmer has signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun newspaper – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor, writes Emma Jones
Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th July 2025 I packed a toothbrush, books and a notepad in a small rucksack, took my laptop from the house and hid it, gave my […]
Alex Rosenberg, professor of philosophy at Duke University and a leading figure in economic methodology, offers a thought-provoking critique of Paul Krugman’s economic philosophy in an article published in 3:AM Magazine. Rosenberg writes: Krugman writes: “So how do you do useful economics? In general, what we really do is combine maximization-and-equilibrium as a first cut […]
Low rating news network, Sky News Australia, has been named by bookies as the odds on favourite to win best comedy at this weekend’s Logie awards for their Federal election night coverage. ”Australia has not seen cutting edge political satire... Read More ›
Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to immigration facilities further blurs the line between military and law enforcement.
The post National Guard Ordered to Do ICE Paperwork at Immigration Facilities in 20 States appeared first on The Intercept.
In late 2008, Dr Peter Harbour, a retired physicist, found out that he’d been listed by the police as a ‘domestic extremist’. Harbour had recently been involved in a campaign to save an Oxford lake. Energy company RWE npower wanted to use the lake for fly ash disposal. The Save Radley Lakes group marched and […]
Democrats said veterans supporting Trump’s Gaza aid effort face legal risks for “what amounts to military operations on behalf of the Israeli government.”
The post Worked Security For GHF in Gaza? Beware of War Crime Charges, Democrats Say. appeared first on The Intercept.
After a secret lobbying effort, Trump’s Justice Department ousted staff and reversed course on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed megamerger.
New technology reveals traces of spiritual journeys through the underground world
The post A Glittering Cave Holds Ancient Stories appeared first on Nautilus.