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The Noble Global Majority: Valorizing the Vibrantly Virtuous Over the Vapidly Villainous, by Tobias Langdon

10 October 2026 at 05:00
It couldn’t be simpler: I rule the world and everyone else must obey me. How do I know this? Well, consider the undeniable fact that you are a single individual. The world’s population is therefore divided into two groups: you, numbering one, and those who are not you, numbering more than eight billion. Obviously, I’m...

October 7, Not September 11, Was the Real "New Pearl Harbor", by Kevin Barrett

10 October 2026 at 05:00
Introduction: During the first few months after the heroic 10/7/2023 breakout from the Gaza concentration camp, I resisted claims that Israel had stood down its defenses. No Israeli leader, I thought, would be stupid enough want this to happen. Al-Aqsa Storm had put Palestine back on the international map—and put Israel in an impossible position:...

The Empire Runs Out of Oil, by Michael Hudson

9 October 2026 at 05:10
[00:00:02] Brandon Weichert: And we are back. I am Brandon Weichert, co-host of the Mario Nawfal program. Check out the YouTube page, like, subscribe, follow there, click the little bell—that’ll let you know whenever we post new videos. I am joined now by Professor Michael Hudson. He’s a Wall Street economist, and I love it,...

They're Setting Up AI Surveillance to "De-Radicalize" Classrooms In Gaza, by Caitlin Johnstone

9 October 2026 at 05:20
A US-based nonprofit is planning to use AI surveillance to check for “hateful” speech about Israel inside classrooms in the genocide-ravaged Gaza Strip. The Associated Press reports: AP reports that the founder of Gaza Children Village, Dr David Hasan, seeks the “de-radicalization” of Gaza and has removed from his curriculum any language that “encou

The Other Hormuz Shocks: LNG and Helium. Economic Effects of the Persian Gulf Cutoff, from First-Order to Tertiary, by Larry C. Johnson

9 October 2026 at 05:10
Introduction This is a follow-up to my previous piece on the economic effects of the Persian Gulf sulfur and urea cutoff. In that piece I argued that the public conversation about the Strait of Hormuz has fixated on crude oil and ignored the other commodities the Gulf supplies: LNG, urea, sulfur and helium. Having covered...

What Is the Death Penalty for?, by Ted Rall

9 October 2026 at 05:00
Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the staggering incompetence of Tennessee's would-be prison executioners, who have repeatedly failed to kill Christa Pike for a murder she committed 30 years ago, and by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's shocking announcement that the military plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood...
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