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Trump’s bill slashes spending on veterans to boost corporate welfare for the Big Five arms manufacturers and surging AI spying firms like Palantir. Originally published at Antiwar.com. The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7 trillion, mostly in domestic spending, while providing the top 5% of taxpayers […]

The post Trump’s BBB busts the budget to benefit arms makers, AI warlords first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Trump’s BBB busts the budget to benefit arms makers, AI warlords appeared first on The Grayzone.

. It was pouring rain out here on my island today, so a vitamin injection was needed!

A mercenary firm implicated in severe abuses in Gaza has hired a PR firm led by influential former Democrat flacks, including the spokeswoman for Biden’s Pentagon. Meanwhile, a former State Dept spokesman who defended Israel’s crimes is now VP at a Democrat PR firm representing Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Editor’s note: After The Grayzone published a report revealing damning new footage showing mercenaries from the UG Solutions firm firing toward crowds of desperate aid seekers in the southern Gaza Strip, the […]

The post Former Biden, Obama spokespersons cash in on Gaza genocide first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Former Biden, Obama spokespersons cash in on Gaza genocide appeared first on The Grayzone.

City-sized sunblock, states break the subscription loop, abortion limbo resolved, and AI hiring is on trial.

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How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.

The post What to Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood appeared first on The Intercept.

Instrumentalists are right to point out that the meaning of statements involving unobservable entities (like “quark”) is in part related to the implications of such statements for direct observations. But only in part: though it is difficult to say exactly how we give meaning to scientific expressions, it seems plausible that we do it by […]

To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations would asset-strip our brains, but we can take back control A young woman I met recently remarked that it was not so much pure evil that drove her berserk, but rather people, or institutions, with the capacity to do good […]

The post Who needs Marx in 2025? The Guardian, July 2025 appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

ATHENS – Margaret Thatcher famously quipped that the problem with socialists is that, eventually, they run out of other people’s money. But what happens when bankers run out of other people’s money, as seems likely to happen soon? Either we end up with another calamitous financial meltdown or we innovate to serve the public interest […]

The post A Trust Fund for Everyone to Defuse the Stablecoin Time Bomb – Project Syndicate appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Mια συνέντευξη, που δεν θα έδειχνε ποτέ κάποιο από τα κανάλια της ολιγαρχίας, για τα 10 χρόνια από το ιστορικό ΟΧΙ που αναπτέρωσε τους λαούς της Γης. Ο Γραμματέας του ΜέΡΑ25 Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης απαντά για όλα στις ερωτήσεις των: Μαριάννα Πυργιώτη (πολιτική αναλύτρια), Κωνσταντίνου Πουλή (the press project) Γιάννη Κιμπουρόπουλου (Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών)

The post 10 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟ ΟΧΙ: Ο Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης συζητά με Μ. Πυργιώτη, Γ. Κιμπουρόπουλο, Κ. Πουλή appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

On the day the Financial Times published its latest article whitewashing the criminally insane troika’s  (comprising the EU Commission, ECB and IMF) hatchet job on Greece, which has rendered the country a permanently bankrupt colony, Jacobin published this interview (read here, listen here) in which I lay down three basic facts: First, the referendum ten […]

The post Jacobin’s ‘On the Legacy of Greece’s Oxi Referendum: An interview with Yanis Varoufakis’ appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Wired:

Footage tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody appears to have been altered before it was shared with the public—despite being presented as unedited surveillance video—according to a joint investigation by WIRED and multiple independent video forensics experts.

Here’s what the analysis uncovered:

Wired: Footage tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody appears to have been altered before it was shared with the public—despite being presented as unedited surveillance video—according to a joint investigation by WIRED and multiple independent video forensics experts. Here’s what the analysis uncovered: Hidden metadata embedded in the video file revealed that the […]

Grok’s recent antisemitic turn is not an aberration, but part of a pattern of AI chatbots churning out hateful drivel.

The post Grok Is the Latest in a Long Line of Chatbots to Go Full Nazi appeared first on The Intercept.

Abundance Democrats are adding more red tape to fight affordable housing efforts — to the benefit of corporate monopolists limiting new home construction.

Bernie Sanders, Delia Ramirez, Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal, and Rashida Tlaib reacted with outrage to The Intercept's investigation.

The post House Democrat Calls on Kristi Noem To Resign Over ICE Lies appeared first on The Intercept.

Lawmakers spent years rejecting Kerr County’s demands for a disaster warning system.

I doubt any of you will recall, but in 2003 I wrote a long post over at a different place, that NATO was dead. It was useless, much like the Concert of Europe that emerged after the 1848 Revolutions in Europe recast and sought to revise the settlement of 1815, set up by Castlereagh-Metternich and Talleyrand.

So, today it’s official: the US-UK Special Relationship is dead. It’s been moribund for a long time, since after the Iraqi invasion there was a huge groundswell of UK citizens that resented their country being the American poodle. Lip service was paid, but now, no longer. That the Brits have to turned to the French says a lot.

I doubt any of you will recall, but in 2003 I wrote a long post over at a different place, that NATO was dead. It was useless, much like the Concert of Europe that emerged after the 1848 Revolutions in Europe recast and sought to revise the settlement of 1815, set up by Castlereagh-Metternich and […]

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During an interview, Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa shut down rumors that he's returning as the Doctor or that he knows who the next Doctor is.

My doctor sends me to Brooklyn for an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. As instructed, I fast for six hours beforehand. I don’t even brush my teeth, for fear of swallowing toothpaste and screwing up the test. I wear a Covid-era face mask to avoid breathing on anyone. The journey takes me to Boro Park, a […]

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