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The US is now a rogue state. One example is the conduct of the US Health Secretary who has been working to destroy the scientific basis for health care since his appointment last year but exceeded his own hubris when he told a podcast on February 12, 2026 that “I’m not scared of a germ.…

The world’s second-largest tech company just acquired a military-linked Israeli startup that uses “facial skin micromovements” to anticipate what users will say before they speak. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! Tech giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for a “pre-speech” tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. In the second-biggest deal in its history, Apple paid this money for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website […]

The post Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide appeared first on The Grayzone.

New single, “The Bitter End,” out on February 24th!

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The Fellow Mortals debut al-book (album and book) is now available for pre-order, exclusively at trashcansinatras.com.

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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 15, 2026 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why The Epstein Scandal Is Really A Billionaire Scandal – Barry’s Economics (YouTube) Barry Ferns, Feb 8, 2026 [YouTube] Everyone thinks Jeffrey Epstein was an aberration. The science says he was inevitable. This video breaks down […]

Activists are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.

The post Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals appeared first on The Intercept.

The link between income distribution and aggregate demand is central to post-Keynesian and heterodox economics, yet largely sidelined in mainstream policy debates. The logic is simple: lower-income households have a higher marginal propensity to consume than the wealthy. An extra euro in the hands of a poorer household is mostly spent; in the hands of […]

Pete McTighe has the vibe of being the showrunner-in-waiting for Doctor Who, based on his work over the past decade. Is he the best choice?

~by Sean Paul Kelley The Chinese rail network now carries 23 million passengers a day. Multiply that by 365 and it carries 8.365 billion passengers a year. And does not account for the increase in passengers during major holidays. Now consider these two facts. First, India’s rail network carries 23 million passengers a day also. […]

Currency Collapse is Codswallop. Why the Currency Crisis Crew have it backwards, yet again.

~by Sean Paul Kelley So, Marku asks: But aren’t most of those contracts never expecting to take physical delivery? Just gambling, er excuse me, investment hedging? Or is the problem that given that Comex price is under the real, that all those contracts *want* to be exercised in delivery so they can arbitrage to China […]

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California sues ghost gunmakers, Colorado protects family health care, Virginia cuts the cord on ICE, and Oregon races toward affordability.

In The Book of Why, Judea Pearl puts forward several compelling reasons why the now so popular causal graph-theoretic approach is to be preferred over more traditional regression-based explanatory models. One reason is that causal graphs are non-parametric and therefore do not need to assume, for example, additivity and/or the absence of interaction effects — […]

An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower.

By invoking Franklin D. Roosevelt’s warning about economic hardship and fascism, AOC is arguing that working-class populism isn’t just good policy — it’s democracy’s last line of defense.

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POTUS Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission is tearing itself apart in a fight about zionism. The leading dissident, Carrie Prejean Boller, the 2009 Miss California USA is a right-wing Catholic who picked a fight with zionists at a meeting of the Commission. Here’s how NBC describes the dust-up: A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission […]

The disclosures revealed the case was built entirely on an op-ed Rümeysa Öztürk co-wrote, a chilling attack on free speech.

The post Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student appeared first on The Intercept.

Today’s High Court decision that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is disproportionate and unlawful is a welcome victory for the whole Palestine movement. It is also a humiliating defeat for a Labour government marked by authoritarianism and repeated attacks on civil liberties. Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary when the ban was introduced, […]