A New Zealand soldier admits attempted espionage in the country's first spying conviction
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A Presidential Wrecking Ball
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"On January 20th, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office with — at least in his mind — an aura of invincibility. A fully compliant Congress was controlled by Republicans who were, in turn, controlled by him. Conservative justices, three of whom he had appointed, dominated the Supreme Court. The defeated opposition, the Democratic Party, More
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How von der Leyen embraced Israel’s settler movement
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EU boss accepted request to welcome land theft advocate.The Electronic Intifada
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The objects were a part of traditional Mongolian nomadic shrines.Andrew Paul (Popular Science)
The Teamsters’ Non-Strike at UPS
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"Like many people, I woke up early last Tuesday morning to find an excited post in my Facebook news feed from the Teamsters: “At 11th Hour, UPS Bows to Teamsters Strike Threat in 7 States.” It boasted that the union has flexed its muscles and that UPS capitulated: United Parcel Service (UPS) bowed to a credible, coordinated More
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Like many people, I woke up early last Tuesday morning to find an excited post in my Facebook news feed from the Teamsters: “At 11th Hour, UPS Bows toJoe Allen (CounterPunch.org)
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"As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim in July 2025, the air turned toxic. A chlorine gas leak had erupted from the park’s water treatment facility as the building burned, forcing firefighters to pull back. The water treatment facility is
Il est des fins d’empire qui se murmurent, d’autres qui s’annoncent avec fracas. Dans le cas d’Israël, c’est un râle : long, violent, dément, comme celui d’un corps qui refuse l’évidence : sa propre agonie. Car oui, l’État sioniste est en train de mourir. Non pas militairement, mais moralement, historiquement, stratégiquement. Son crédit symbolique est épuisé. Sa façade démocratique est fendue. Sa prétention à la modernité, à la start-up nation de la région, à la Silicon Valley de l’Orient, s’effondre dans les flammes de Gaza et le sang des enfants.
Les jours de cet État sont comptés. Et les signes ne trompent pas.
Quand d’éminents intellectuels juifs occidentaux déclarent avoir «honte d’être juifs», quand d’anciens ministres israéliens dénoncent un génocide en cours, ce n’est pas un simple débat, c’est un basculement du récit. C’est la fin d’un mensonge. C’est la voix des justes, à nouveau, contre l’impunité. C’est, surtout, le début d’une rupture mondiale avec le projet sioniste dans sa version coloniale, militarisée, théocratisée.
Israël croyait pouvoir devenir un hub financier et technologique régional, nourri des capitaux du Golfe, connecté à l’Occident par la fibre, la sécurité et la spéculation, mais la violence qu’il déchaîne aujourd’hui a tué ce rêve dans l’œuf. Aucune économie ne prospère dans un théâtre de guerre. Aucun fonds souverain n’investit durablement là où il pleut des missiles. Aucune «normalisation» ne tient quand l’odeur des charniers remonte aux salons climatisés d’Abu Dhabi.
C’est que la greffe n’a pas pris. Israël n’a jamais été un corps de la région. Il a été une excroissance occidentale greffée au monde arabe, une anomalie géopolitique dont le rejet n’était qu’une question de temps. C’était une faute historique : implanter un peuple, après 3 000 ans d’absence, au cœur d’un tissu millénaire déjà habité. Et c’était une injustice radicale : faire payer aux Palestiniens les crimes de l’Europe, eux qui n’étaient ni nazis, ni complices, ni bourreaux.
Le sionisme d’État n’a pas apporté la paix ni la sécurité. Il a apporté le mur, le blocus, l’apartheid, le ressentiment et, aujourd’hui, le massacre. Contrairement à ce qu’il croyait, ce n’est pas la fragmentation du monde arabe qui lui offrira la survie, car diviser ne suffit pas pour régner. Un pays ne peut exister durablement en méprisant ses voisins, en terrorisant les peuples qui l’entourent et en imaginant être reconnu par ceux qu’il anéantit. C’est vouloir chasser l’obscurité avec un bâton : absurde, vain, désespéré.
Israël a cru que son avenir résidait dans la guerre permanente, dans l’obsession sécuritaire, dans la supériorité technologique. Mais, aujourd’hui, c’est une évidence : ce qu’il vit, ce n’est pas une puissance en action, c’est l’agonie d’un mythe. L’histoire le montre : l’injustice ne paie jamais. Elle reporte, elle accumule ... Puis, un jour, elle frappe à la porte. A l’âme. A la mémoire ... Car tout se paie.
Israël, aujourd’hui, paie l’arrogance de ses fondateurs, l’impunité offerte par l’Occident, l’humiliation infligée au monde arabe. Il paie pour avoir cru que la force brute remplace le droit. Il paie pour avoir fait de l’autre un obstacle et non un voisin. Il paie pour avoir cru que les peuples s’oublient, se soumettent, se résignent.
Mais Israël n’est pas seul à devoir payer. Ceux qui l’ont soutenu, couvé, armé, financé, cautionné devront aussi répondre. L’histoire est une prophétesse sévère, elle punit tous les complices, même ceux qui détournent le regard.
Israël a été un rêve. Pour certains un rêve d’asile, pour d’autres un rêve d’empire. Mais ce rêve est mort, et le réveil sera brutal.
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Asian shares are mixed in quiet trading as traders await cues from the Fed
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The Monsters of the Global Crisis Interregnum
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"The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old is dying, and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum, monsters arise.” The world is going through a civilizational crisis in which the neoliberal capitalist order, although mortally wounded, continues to
the sheer fucking audacity of putting this in the mutual aid hashtags too
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Just a couple years ago this channel could get 30 upvotes on posts that had a reach of 220-250 views.
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Turning Down the Temperature: How Town Halls Can Be Productive Again
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"“I do think it’s my job to be there and I do think that I need to model the behavior that I want our government to model.” Nebraska’s Congressman Mike Flood had just gotten a tongue-lashing from constituents at a town hall meeting, facing tough questions and ultimately chants of “vote him out!” by Democrats More
“I do think it's my job to be there and I do think that I need to model the behavior that I want our government to model.” Nebraska’s Congressman MikeMelinda Burrell (CounterPunch.org)
The Bloodless Logic of Empire
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"Before I get going, let’s get it out of the way: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a clearly illegal and evil and it has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Throughout the conflict, there has been a kind of open secret inside Washington, one that has been reiterated to me by people at the State More
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In The Bad Guys 2 (Pierre Perifel, 2025), based on Aaron Blabey’s best-selling graphic novel series, DreamWorks Animation delivers more than a family-friendly movie; it presents, perhaps unintentionally, a parable ... Read MoreMichael Marder (The Philosophical Salon)
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What Hunt Isn’t Telling You About BRICS
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"A former U.S. ambassador has suggested that U.S. efforts to counter China have prompted the Chinese government to build up BRICS, the group of rising powers that is challenging the U.S.-led world order and drawing heavy criticism from Donald Trump. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum last month, former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, More
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-> Enligt svensk lag har Sverige en skyldighet att agera vid MISSTANKE om ev risk för folkmord kan ske. Busch lyfter bort alla skulder för den rådande situationen & slätar över det som är nödvändigt för en 2-statslösning inget om vad Israel måste göra eller om Israels ansvar & alla försök att motarbeta en 2-statslösning.
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North Carolinians just got Medicaid expansion. Now it’s jeopardized. – The Washington Post – DrWeb's Domain
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Aaron Baptist checks out at the Rural Health Group clinic in Stovall, North Carolina. The clinic relies on Medicaid to serve residents in an area with few health care options. (Matt Ramey / For The…DrWeb's Domain
J'étais passée à côté de ce phénomène de maltraitance de personnes handicapées /. Vulnérables en direct : mediapart.fr/journal/france/15…
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« Star » d’une chaîne de streaming sur la plateforme Kick, Raphaël Graven, connu sous le pseudo « Jean Pormanove », est décédé dans son sommeil, lors d’un tournage diffusé en direct.Mathilde Goanec (Mediapart)
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Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations Is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion
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"If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations. The United Nation is based on international cooperation, as well as on what the UN Charter calls “the equal rights . . . of
In light of Trump's Executive Order to restore Albert Pike's statue in Washington D.C. some food for thought....Cynthia Chung (Through A Glass Darkly)
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NVIDIA RTX 50 cheaper in Europe, not yet in the US NVIDIA has implemented new prices in Europe for the GeForce RTX 50 series. Correction seems to be tied to USD/EUR exchange rates.VideoCardz.com
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The administration is prioritizing allegations that transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages while a backlog of other cases grows.
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Workers leave the Department of Education building during a rain storm in Washington on May 21. (Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post)
The Trump administration has upended civil rights enforcement at K-12 schools and colleges, prioritizing cases that allege transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages, while severe staff cuts have left thousands of other allegations unresolved.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is so short-staffed that some attorneys have as many as 300 cases, making it impossible to devote attention to most of them, current and former employees said.Fewer cases are being closed, and 90 percent ofthose resolved were dismissed, typically without an investigation, up from 80 percent last year,according to data obtained by The Washington Post.
The office has a backlog of about 25,000 unresolved cases, up from about 20,000 when President Donald Trump took office, department officials said.
At the same time, under Trump, the civil rights office has announced investigations of at least 99 schools, often based on news coverage or complaints from conservative groups. As of early August, the administration had launched 27 directed investigations, probes that are opened without an outside complaint, court filings show.
These changes define the new tone and mission in the civil rights office, which is aggressively pursuing Trump’s agenda.In choosing its targets, the administration is not just picking different priorities than its predecessors; it’s flipping the interpretation of civil rights law in the opposite direction.
The Post interviewed 10 current and former employees of the office about the changes and the backlogs. Several spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution.
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Under the Biden administration, the Office for Civil Rights focused on ensuring equal opportunity for students of color. Now, the office has opened several investigations into whether programs aimed at addressing inequities amount to illegal discrimination in favor of those students. Forty-five colleges, for instance, are being investigated for working with the PhD Project,a program that has tried to boost the number of Black, Hispanic and Native American students who earn doctorates in business.
In another example, last year the civil rights office required a New York school district to stop using its “Redskins” mascot, saying the monikermay have created a hostile environment for Native American students. This year, the same office found it is against the law to ban the mascots, calling it an attempt to erase the history of Native American tribes.
End of carouselUnder the Biden administration, the Office for Civil Rights focused on ensuring equal opportunity for students of color. Now, the office has opened several investigations into whether programs aimed at addressing inequities amount to illegal discrimination in favor of those students. Forty-five colleges, for instance, are being investigated for working with the PhD Project,a program that has tried to boost the number of Black, Hispanic and Native American students who earn doctorates in business.
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“Anyone who claims to rely on the best scientific consensus today must report the current death toll in the Gaza genocide as ‘more than 115,000’ violent deaths or ‘more than 460,000’ overall.
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The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban…Adam Rzepka (CounterPunch.org)
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Kurginyan: Trump could not fail to rise to the bait of Epstein Rossa Primavera News from RussiaBill Oliver (Rossa Primavera International News)
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On January 20th, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office with — at least in his mind — an aura of invincibility. A fully compliant Congress wasClarence Lusane (CounterPunch.org)
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The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old isCarmen Navas Reyes (CounterPunch.org)
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Before I get going, let’s get it out of the way: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a clearly illegal and evil and it has cost hundreds of thousands ofDavid S. D’Amato (CounterPunch.org)
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