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In the Time of the Open Secret: Palestine and the Fundamental Choice of Our Era
“Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the division of all territories of the globe among the […]
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Stagflation: Stagnation, Inflation, and Beyond
Since my prediction in April of 2007 of an impending economic crash, I’ve vowed not to risk my unblemished record with any further predictions. But a simple thing that I learned from the run-up to that catastrophe was when the “little people” — the “every man and every-woman” — found their way into stock market […]
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In the Age of Trump, Americans Don’t Need a Halloween Hell House to Experience Horror
Halloween Hell Houses, or Judgement Houses, are basically a relic from the fire-and-brimstone days of the Moral Majority and other Christian evangelical enterprises. These days, however, Americans do not need a church-sponsored haunted house to experience horror and damnation. The gates of hell—orchestrated by the Trump administration—are swinging open, and operating in big city neighborhoods across the country. In the […]
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Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres
Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards artificial intelligence, more are set for construction. When one considers that, in 2021 […]
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Trump, Nuclear Weapons, and the NNSA
Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, not for preserving life so much as ending it at a fiery, radiated terminus. If it’s not possible to totally […]
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Blood in the Water: Profit over the People of Timor-Leste
Contrary to popular belief, it turns out that sharks have an undeserved reputation for indiscriminate lethal attacks on people whose blood they detect in the water. In fact, sharks much prefer their customary aquatic prey, can tell the difference between that blood type category and others, and will therefore usually spurn edible humans that might […]
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They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
Your rulers want you to depend on machines to do your thinking for you. They want you relying on AI to do your reasoning, researching, analysis, and writing. They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others. They can control the machines, […]
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Teasing the Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Announcement on Nuclear Testing
Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced separation of the states that are permitted to have nuclear weapons and those that do not – sits that rumpled, crumpled creature called the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons […]
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Canadian hypocrisy taints Anand’s condemnation of violence in Sudan
On Tuesday, foreign affairs minister Anita Anand condemned atrocities reportedly committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in western Sudan. She failed to mention a Canadian company’s involvement or Canada’s historical support for violence in the northeast African country. The Canadian-owned Streit Group has provided armored vehicles to the RSF. Long based in southern Ontario, […]
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“The Middle East Has Oil; China Has Rare Earths.” — Deng Xiaoping
“Control over rare earth elements … is a central determinant of geopolitical power and industrial sovereignty in the 21st century.” — —Dr. Kalim Siddiqui[1] As part of US-China trade talks, we are hearing a great deal about China’s near-total domination over rare earth elements, or REES. Beijing controls extraction, refining, and the global supply chains […]
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