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Potential pension chief Daniel Aronowitz wants to give retirement fund managers a free pass for price-gouging workers and bungling their savings — and his company stands to profit from it.
President Donald Trump's demands on Egypt could plunge the country into economic ruin—and, if he has his way, into a war with Yemen.
The post Trump’s Suez Power Play Threatens to Drag Egypt Into War and Collapse Its Economy appeared first on MintPress News.
According to an explosive Dutch media report, a former Bellingcat researcher who led investigations into the MH17 disaster and child abuse turns out to have been a sex abuser of children – including his own daughter. He killed himself after being sentenced to prison. A prominent former Bellingcat reporter committed suicide after being convicted for sexually abusing his daughter in March 2022, according to a new report by independent Dutch journalist Eric Van De Beek. Operating behind the pseudonym “Daniel […]
The post Ex-Bellingcat operative dies after child rape conviction first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Ex-Bellingcat operative dies after child rape conviction appeared first on The Grayzone.
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Dear President Trump and [RELEVANT MINIONS]
I’m just writing from [UKRAINE / GAZA / THE HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS] to say, once and for all, thank you for all you’ve done for us.
A conversation with artist Yiran Jia.
The post A Sci-fi Artist Who Draws From Real Life appeared first on Nautilus.
With his new executive order on policing, Trump just wants to make sure he’s the one holding the lead.
The post Cops Are Already Unleashed. Trump Is Telling Them to Run Wild. appeared first on The Intercept.
I recently delivered a full-day in-person workshop at CHRA’s National Congress on Housing and Homelessness, held in Saskatoon. The workshop was titled “The intersection of housing and homelessness.” All course material is now available here (free of charge):https://nickfalvo.ca/courses/
The U.S. government is keeping American casualty numbers for the undeclared war on Yemen secret. This is not normal.
The post The Trump Administration Is Hiding American Casualties of War appeared first on The Intercept.
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa will serve as the Eurovision spokesperson offering the results of the UK’s National Jury during the grand final.
Despite distain for many of Trump's policies, Independent voters still don't think the Democrats are the answer
Labour's embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher
“That question, ‘Who am I?,’ or, more acutely,
‘Who the hell am I?,’ is the basis of everything.”
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I am racing the rain in the back of a London cab with Mr. Delroy Lindo. I was advised by a well-traveled friend to trust only this as a means of conveyance—the pug-nosed solidity of the classic black taxi, the encyclopedic patter of drivers versed in every alleyway and heath. We jounce over cobblestones, heading out of St. Pancras station toward the Young Vic theater on the South Bank. Mr. Lindo has agreed to answer what questions he can in the little time we have.
Doctor Who Season 2 "Lucky Day" director Peter Hoar discusses Ruby's return, working on the UNIT set, the episode's "big bad," and more.
For a certain kind of commentator – even, maddeningly, many on the Left – there was something repetitive, even yawn-inducing about mention of the ‘left behind’ and ‘Red Wall voters’ in the late 2010s and early 2020s. It’s always useful to deconstruct such media clichés, of course. But for far too many people, scepticism about […]
The big 4-0. It was supposed to be a moment of reflection. A time to consider what the next chapter of life will hold.
But that morning of my fortieth birthday, something was different.
I awoke to a sharp, unsettling sensation, as though something in the universe had shifted and my very DNA had been altered. The low, almost imperceptible hum of a Fender Rhodes electric piano reverberated through my bones. The room was the same, but something felt… wrong. Almost…sinister.
I grabbed my phone, half-conscious, still trying to shake off sleep, when I saw it. The screen lit up like a portal to something foreign yet familiar. A doorway into a world of adult-oriented rock.
It was Steely Dan. Their entire discography. Every album, every track, downloaded without my consent. As if it had materialized overnight, as if it had come for me.
“I’m not a Steely Dan fan,” I said to my reflection in the mirror. “I’m a 2000s indie kid. I like the Strokes, and… some more recent bands I can’t name at the moment. I’m not some middle-aged dad.” Granted, I literally am forty and have kids, but you know what I mean.
Telling voters that the Reform leader is right, but they shouldn't vote for him anyway, is no more likely to work for Labour than it has for the Conservatives, argues Adam Bienkov
How the US helped Nayib Bukele turn El Salvador into the world’s largest prison state and why Donald Trump sees him as a model.
The post Nayib Bukele: The Dark Side of the “World’s Coolest Dictator” appeared first on MintPress News.
A president took a stand on taxes. It radicalized the Republican Party.