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

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

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:...
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The Empire Runs Out of Oil, by Michael Hudson

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

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

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...
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What Is the Death Penalty for?, by Ted Rall

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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