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Breaking this cynical cycle requires getting honest about Biden and Harris’s roles in this blood-soaked charade.

The post The U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Just Buying More Time for Israel’s Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.

Chuck D has made a full transition from “Fight the Power” to “work with the power.” MintPress News explores this new venture that fuses together YouTube, popular musicians, and the U.S. national security state.

The post From Fight the Power to Work for It: Chuck D, Public Enemy and How the CIA Neutralized Rap appeared first on MintPress News.

A Missouri prosecutor was set to argue that Marcellus Williams had been wrongly convicted. New evidence that prosecutors had mishandled the murder weapon got in the way.

The post A Prosecutor Admits His Office’s Incompetence Cut Off an Innocent Man’s Path to Exoneration appeared first on The Intercept.

One of the most important insights I heard from the commentary last night came from Chris Hayes on MSNBC. He pointed out that while the campaign is leaning heavily on Walz’s biography as a small town teacher, coach, soldier and family amn, all of which is true, it’s important to remember that Walz also spent 12 years in DC as a congressman and has been a very successful Governor of a big state. Walz is a great politician — an astute, experienced public official who knows how to communicate effectively and enact an agenda. If something should happen he would make a great president. This choice speaks very well of Harris’s political judgement but it’s also speaks well of her seriousness of purpose.

According to Keynes, financial crises are a recurring feature of our economy and are linked to its fundamental financial instability: It is of the nature of organised investment markets, under the influence of purchasers largely ignorant of what they are buying and of speculators who are more concerned with forecasting the next shift of market […]

“With great power comes zero responsibility.”

“I’d rather endure a radioactive spider bite than a mediocre writer’s diatribe.”

“I’m not a hero. I’m a high-functioning alcoholic with a typewriter.”

“Never trust a person wearing green. Green is the color of goblins, envy, and the well-manicured lawns of people who never shut up about their goddamn flowerbeds.”

“I’m your friendly neighborhood despiser.”

“It’s not about the pen. It’s what you do with the pen that defines you, a dullard with ink.”

“We all wear masks. Some are figurative, others are made of cheap cosmetics and smudge in the heat.”

“I’ve stopped reading what the newspapers have to say about me. None of it is true. Except for the parts that are.”

“Everyone also has a part of themselves they would hide if they had an ounce of dignity.”

“One thing people love more than a writer is to see a writer fail so miserably that after they compose, they decompose.”

He’s projecting again: Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that his Democratic opponent in the presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin just days before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Trump said in a speech in North Carolina: “Remember when Biden sent Kamala to Europe to stop the war in Ukraine. She met with Putin, and then three days later, he attacked. How did she do? Do you think she did a good job? She met with Putin to tell him, ‘Don’t do it.’ And three days later, he attacked; that’s when the attack started. Did you know that, General?” (Retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg was at the North Carolina event.) Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Harris has never met with Putin. In reality, she met with US allies, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Munich Security Conference in the days before Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Putin was not at the conference. “Frankly speaking, I cannot recall a single contact between President Putin and Mrs.

The juvenile arrest records are sealed by law — but police regularly disclose them to prosecutors and even right-wing media.

The post The NYPD Is Illegally Leaking Sealed Records About Children to Tabloids appeared first on The Intercept.

The single donor has also backed an anti-vaxxer, pro-Brexit candidates and the Conservatives

Leaked documents reveal how Israeli officials sought legal loopholes to avoid FARA registration while pushing anti-constitutional legislation in the U.S.

The post Israel’s Secret Scheme to Skirt US Laws and Influence American Politics appeared first on MintPress News.

Why are peaceful protesters getting longer sentences than violent rioters? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  14th August 2024 A functioning society depends on equality before the law. If crimes are not treated equally and dispassionately by the justice system, we lose trust in democracy and each other. But as sentences begin to be […]

José García Oliva has created a digital Latin American Protest Archive, showing a powerful history of carnivalesque defiance from which future generations can build worker strength and dignity. A Venezuelan artist based in London, Oliva’s multidisciplinary practice delves into diasporic identity, migrant labour and cultural heritage. The online archive serves as a repository for UK […]

Ed Swales suggested Hunting groups face "horrendous problems" and that some animal rights groups qualify as "extremists" and should be on the "watch list of MI5"

by Brian Czech

Steady State Herald readers are familiar with the theory that money originates from an agricultural surplus that frees hands for the division of labor—and thenceforth the exchanging of money. This trophic theory of money (TTOM) helps us understand not only the historical origins of money, such as in Mesopotamia (the “Cradle of Cash”), but also the annual origins of “warranted money” in the grain belts of the world.

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