Economist Yanis Varoufakis says we shouldn’t underestimate Trump – he has a plan to shock the global economy, force foreign countries to buy crypto-currency in return for a deal on tariffs, and ultimately pay down debt and keep the US dollar at the centre of the global financial system. But it’s a high risk strategy […]
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April 16th, 2025: Over the weekend I went to the Kingston Symphony New documents show Billy Long’s $130,000 personal debt was suddenly paid off by donors at firms policed by the tax agency he’d lead.
I keep seeing headlines about “food insecurity.” SHUT UP The word is “starvation”. Starvation. You media weasels. Now despite what a lot of people think, starvation isn’t fast, and there were some stores, but those stores have run out. So Israel is deliberately starving something like 1.7 million people, to death. Meanwhile the only nation in the world trying to stop this is Ansar-Allah (the Houthis). And what is America doing? Sponsoring a ground invasion by the “official government” of Yemen. In his mid-nineteenth-century prose poem Crowds, the French symbolist Charles Baudelaire declared that it ‘is not given to everyone to take a bath among the multitude’. More than this, he elaborated in the same poem: [E]njoying the crowd is an art; and he only can make, at the expense of the human race, a lively […] Marco Rubio revoked his green card for antisemitism. His Jewish Israeli friend calls bullshit. The post “How Can I Take Anyone Seriously Talking About Mohsen Being Antisemitic?” appeared first on The Intercept. As he cozies up to Trump and Netanyahu, Sen. John Fetterman brought in less than half his average haul over the last five quarters. The post Fetterman Campaign Bleeds Money appeared first on The Intercept. The planet’s first photosynthesizers dined on green light The post When Earth Was a Pale Green Dot appeared first on Nautilus. Peter Dutton’s hand picked shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has begged his leader to get him off the bench and put him out in to the campaign so he can press some flesh. ”They’re trailing in... Read More ›
Stiglitz, perhaps the most renowned Columbia professor, gave an exclusive interview to The Intercept on academic freedom, deportations of students, and more. The post Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz Denounces Columbia’s Apparent Capitulation to Trump appeared first on The Intercept. El presidente Daniel Noboa parece haber robado las elecciones de Ecuador. Ahora se dispone a consolidar el control de un sistema que ha beneficiado a los cárteles y a las corporaciones multinacionales, incluyendo su empresa familiar, a costa del ciudadano común y corriente. Y a Washington le gusta lo que ve. Vea aquí el video especial de The Grayzone sobre los vínculos bien documentados de las empresas de Noboa con los cárteles transnacionales de la droga. El 13 de abril […] The post El robo electoral de Daniel Noboa consolida el control de cárteles y corporaciones sobre Ecuador first appeared on The Grayzone. The post El robo electoral de Daniel Noboa consolida el control de cárteles y corporaciones sobre Ecuador appeared first on The Grayzone. “Pitt cannot constitutionally put its thumb on one side of the debate by harassing and chilling the pro-Palestinian students.” The post Pitt’s Suspension of Pro-Palestine Student Group Violates First Amendment, Says ACLU Lawsuit appeared first on The Intercept. Meta's CEO was flanked by a cabal of $2,000-an-hour attorneys as he testified in the company's federal antitrust trial yesterday.
Trump fired a watchdog whose office warned about shady tariff exemption deals. Now, those exemptions are being handed out to donors.
The conference followed a weekend of brutal massacres of civilians by the RSF in refugee camps around Darfur
The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, Christian nationalists, and, of course, Donald Trump has staged an oligarchic assault on our democracy. If the nation’s corporate elite once leveraged their relationships within government to enrich themselves, they’ve now cut out the middleman. We’re living in a new Gilded Age, with a proto-fascistic and religiously regressive administration of, by, and for the billionaires. With the wind at their backs, leading elements in the Republican Party have rapidly eschewed euphemisms and political correctness altogether,... Read more | ||
