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Mon, 02/02/2026 - 06:22
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 01, 2026 by Tony Wikrent The Crisis, No. 8 — The empire of exit and the conspiracy against America Mike Brock, Jan 29, 2026 [Notes From The Circus] The Director of National Intelligence stood in the parking lot of the Fulton County Elections Hub while FBI agents loaded boxes onto […]
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Mon, 02/02/2026 - 04:34

Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised source. But a zealously pro-war Guardian reporter is doing her best to legitimize it. The claim of “30,000 killed” during two days of protests and rioting across Iran appears to be based largely on a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating that figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent […]

The post Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Sun, 01/02/2026 - 23:19
Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for folks who missed them, I will be periodically (re)publishing blog posts about some “older” published projects. This post is closely …
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Sun, 01/02/2026 - 22:00

Two years before Trump sent Kilmar Ábrego García to CECOT, the Bukele regime arrested a U.S. citizen for his tattoos. The Biden administration didn’t intervene.

The post An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration appeared first on The Intercept.

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Sun, 01/02/2026 - 20:33
The 2026 Oxfam report, Our Unequal Sweden, issues a damning indictment of the nation’s economic trajectory, systematically dismantling the enduring myth of Swedish egalitarianism. It reveals a society undergoing a profound and deliberate schism, where escalating mass vulnerability exists in parallel with unprecedented wealth consolidation among a tiny elite. The empirical evidence is overwhelming and … … Continue reading
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Sun, 01/02/2026 - 10:54
More Epstein documents have been dumped, and they’re atrocious. It seems like most of the US elite was involved. There are two reasons for this. One is that people who are super-powerful and super-rich feel like ordinary morality and laws don’t apply to them, and rape and torture and pedophilia are, to them, an ultimate […]
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Sun, 01/02/2026 - 06:41
. What yours truly most admires about Ann Pettifor is her ability to cut through economic abstraction with clarity and moral purpose. She identifies what most mainstream economists miss: that finance is not a mere technical side note, but the very arena where power and real-world consequences collide. Her Minsky-Keynes-inspired analysis of the financial system … … Continue reading