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Mon, 07/07/2025 - 17:16

Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation. On July 2, the Associated Press released an exposé containing short videos which appeared to show American mercenaries associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opening fire on aid-seekers in Gaza during an incident in southern Gaza this May. The footage was […]

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Mon, 07/07/2025 - 07:32

“I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation’s governors to discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests taking place nationwide in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman. He was urging the governors to call in the National Guard in response to BLM protests in their states. Otherwise, he threatened he would do so himself. “You have to dominate,” he told them, while labeling the protesters “terrorists.” Otherwise, he claimed, “they are going to run over you.” Later that morning, Trump left the White House... Read more

Source: Lessons UnLearned appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

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Sun, 06/07/2025 - 19:30

I am excited that Richard Fontana and I have announced the relaunch of copyleft-next.

The copyleft-next project seeks to create a copyleft license for the next generation that is designed in public, by the community, using standard processes for FOSS development.

If this interests you, please join the mailing list and follow the project on the fediverse (on its Mastodon instance).

I also wanted to note that as part of this launch, I moved my personal fediverse presence from floss.social to bkuhn@copyleft.org.

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Sun, 06/07/2025 - 00:55
In science, courage is to follow the motto of enlightenment and Kant’s dictum — Sapere Aude!  To use your own understanding, having the ​courage to think for yourself and question ‘received opinion,’ authority or orthodoxy. In our daily lives, courage is a capability to confront fear, as when in front of the powerful and mighty, not […]
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Sat, 05/07/2025 - 20:43

Hello, I am Yanis Varoufakis with a message from me and DiEM25, today, the 5th of July 2025, exactly 10 years after the Greek people voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to say a big, beautiful NO. A NO to the Big Business and Big Finance who, through their centre right and centre left political representatives, […]

The post Ten years after the majestic, globally significant, yet betrayed NO Referendum of the Greek people – a personal message appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

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Sat, 05/07/2025 - 18:27
Die Koalition gefährdet mit ihrem Haushalt die finanzielle Stabilität, sagt der Wirtschaftsprofessor Lars Feld, der Christian Lindner beraten hat. Jens Südekum, der Berater von Lars Klingbeil, entgegnet: Deutschland muss ins Risiko gehen. ZEIT: Das Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel hat errechnet, dass die Schuldenquote bis zum Jahr 2040 auf bis zu 118 Prozent des Brutto-inlandsprodukts […]