An investigation reveals how the influential Dutch group GAMAAN uses flawed polling methods and collaborates with U.S.-funded organizations pushing regime change—while distorting Western perceptions of Iran.
The post GAMAAN: The Polling Op That’s Gaslighting the West About Iran appeared first on MintPress News.
Alan MacLeod discusses his explosive new investigations into how Google has become a key Israeli ally in war propaganda, data surveillance, and economic support—spending billions to boost Tel Aviv’s image and infrastructure amid its genocidal campaign in Gaza.
The post Alan MacLeod on Israeli Propaganda and Google’s Complicity in Genocide appeared first on MintPress News.
My husband and I gaze at each other while we brush our teeth, savoring these final moments together before we go our separate ways.
I kiss him goodnight and do a series of somersaults to the other side of the bed. I’m wearing a red slip to make sure this is how he pictures me during our time apart. He hates to see me go, but he loves the sight of my barely covered derriere tumbling away.
Once I reach my side of the mattress, I change into the plaid flannel onesie with closed feet and a butt flap that my husband thinks I donated to Goodwill last spring. Then I practice capoeira to release the last bits of energy from the day before hitting the hay. Without his contacts in, my husband mistakes me for an L.L. Bean fleece blanket fluttering gracefully in the breeze from the AC vent.
Meanwhile, my life partner tosses, turns, and loudly attempts to learn Mandarin on Duolingo. None of these activities requires me to relocate to the couch, which is good, because we no longer have a couch. There’s no room for any furniture in our apartment except the bed.
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Reading a chapter a day of War and Peace shows how a manageable, regular habit can build into a much bigger accomplishment
- by Freya Howarth
Inspired by 6,000-year-old rock art in Norway, I decided to create a new carving closer to home
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What happens when we backpedal on basic science
The post The Dangers of Hot Air appeared first on Nautilus.
Coral decimating crown-of-thorns starfish are increasingly descending on reefs in the Pacific—so divers are fighting back
The post Stabbing Starfish to Save the Reefs appeared first on Nautilus.
After Trump was reelected, his son took stakes in several drone companies. They’re now raising ethics concerns.
The post Donald Trump Jr.’s Drone Ventures Could Make a Killing — Thanks to Dad’s Big Beautiful Budget appeared first on The Intercept.
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In my commissioned research activities, which are separate from the basic academic research that occupies most of my time, I come across interesting situations which bear on the way monetary systems operate and the type of constraints faced by different levels of government. In Australia, we have three levels of government: Federal (currency issuer), State…
Angertainment channel, Sky News Australia, has urged the Coalition to ignore the results of the last election and instead listen to the stations viewers, all 6 of them, and ditch the plan to heads towards net zero. ”The Coalition needs... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 27, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] A […]
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory […]
Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they run. This means that for a large, established tech company the product or service it offers does not matter all that much anymore. It needs to be just barely good enough to keep people using it. The easiest way to do this is some form of a monopoly. Monopoly is the business model of Silicon Valley, and they are not even shy about that. Billionaires come for your molars, the feds backtrack on the Epstein files, and more from The Lever this week.
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