Pressure is building from the US for a Plaza Accord 2.0 as part of the US President’s attempts to ‘improve’ the US trade situation. I use the term ‘improve’ cautiously because the US President seems think that making it more difficult and expensive for US consumers and businesses to access imports from abroad is a…
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I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a century or two. That distant prospect is producing lots of advocacy for policies to increase birth rates right now. One of the big claims is that a smaller population will […]
Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. The files show the Committee boasting of a “90% + success rate” in enforcing the official British line on any controversial story – or disappearing reports entirely. A new trove of documents obtained by The Grayzone through freedom of information (FOI) requests provide unprecedented insight into Britain’s little-known military and intelligence censorship board. The contents lay bare how the […]
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Irrelevant cross bencher, Barnaby Joyce, has called a press conference and told the two reporters present about how livid he was to not be invited to the Prime Minister’s bucks party. ”I can understand not making the cut to the... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 30, 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] Legal Experts […]
Check out character posters and more for Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies and Peter McTighe's The War Between the Land and the Sea.
Ergodicity often hides behind a veil of mathematical complexity, yet at its core, it offers a profoundly simple and insightful lens through which to view and understand probability and time. At its heart, it challenges us to distinguish between two distinct types of averages: the ensemble average and the time average. To grasp this distinction, let […]
. America needs Robert Reich’s unflinching clarity. He diagnoses Trumpian fascism not as politics, but as a contagion: a cult of personality, the eroding trust in elections and a free press, and the strategic use of scapegoats and violent rhetoric. His voice is a vaccine against complacency, and the nation needs this civic defence now […]
How free speech is being weaponized, why the Internet is falling apart, and more from The Lever this week.
A look at how the BBC's Doctor Who spinoff miniseries, The War Between the Land and the Sea, and Torchwood: Children of Earth connect.
. Statler and Waldorf, the definitive hecklers, made watching The Muppet Show an enduring delight through their brutal honesty and brilliantly bickering chemistry.
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
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Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the Honduran economy unless the country elects the oligarch-run National Party. Now, he’s even pardoned the last party member to rule the country, who was convicted in 2024 of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the US. On November 28, US President Donald Trump Trump declared he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years in a New York prison in 2024 for his role in […]
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After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call.
The post Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance appeared first on The Intercept.
. Confirms — again — what we already knew: Trump is a reckless, untruthful, outrageous, incompetent and undignified buffoon!
The latest The Whoniverse Show offers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea.
is ironic in a number of ways. https://t.co/qJssreVR98 pic.twitter.com/rAxGPLZXqp — Deeda Weeda aka DMAN 🇵🇸 (@DeemTheDreem) November 27, 2025 As Sun Tzu pointed out about two and a half millenia ago, you should always treat traitors well. Never really trust them, but treat them well, because if people know you don’t, they won’t betray. (And […]
Love and gene disruption in a Vermont aging cave
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Your Party is a rare opening in British politics: the chance to put democracy and socialism where they belong, at the centre of public life. For us in Democratic Socialists, this is about a lot more than a new logo or a fresh electoral brand. We believe that Your Party must build a society where […]