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[ad_1] Mainstream reporting on Silicon Valley’s billionaire boys club tends to cut those would-be masters of the universe far too much slack. Thankfully, there are still sharp critics of the tech broligarchy who challenge PR lies and obfuscations reiterated by lazier writers. Three books on the AI Industrial Complex published in recent years which successfully take […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Ben…
[ad_1] Some held white carnations. Others wore white Tyvek suits. Several hundred waded through feces-filled moats to cluster at Ridglan’s gates and plead with authorities. Their goal? To remove ~2000 beagles from wire cages stacked in the windowless sheds of Ridglan Farms– a puppy mill 25 miles southwest of Madison, WI that breeds thousands of beagles […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. [ad_2]…
[ad_1] The administration is not popular. After being elected on a platform of avoiding unnecessary wars, President Donald Trump and the GOP made the decision to risk a global recession and a potential Democratic sweep in the midterms by starting a war in the Middle East. Predictably, the Republicans are now the electoral underdogs and need to do some hard thinking about the future of the party and its policies. One potential coalition, which would be healthy for both the party and the country, would be between social conservatives and antiwar voters. Both of these groups played a significant role…
[ad_1] A world of trouble is dawning for Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky. And not just because they are losing the war, which they are. Despite pro-Ukraine governments and media in Western countries overplaying Russia’s losses in troops and underplaying its gains in territory, the reality on the ground is becoming increasingly hopeless for the eastern European country. Russia’s gains are not spectacular, but they are steady. They are slowly absorbing Donbas. The Russian advance is stretching the front line ever further. With Ukraine’s serious manpower shortage, that is making their defensive lines ever more porous and vulnerable. The…
[ad_1] On Monday, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and the manufacturing policy director Pete Navarro held a joint press conference to provide an update on their antitrust investigation of the Big Four meatpackers, which combined control more than 85 percent of the U.S. beef processing market. This investigation began with President Donald Trump’s November request, in which he accused the packers of “driving up the price of Beef through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation.” Blanche said his department has reviewed more than 3 million documents and contacted hundreds of ranchers, cattlemen, producers and processors…
[ad_1] “Iran’s nuclear program was obliterated” is a bold claim to make under oath, especially when the same testimony implies Iran’s ambitions remain. We sit down with Jim Webb to pull apart the contradictions, the messaging, and the strategy vacuum that shows up when leaders sell total victory while hinting we may need the next round of strikes. We get into the details most coverage skips: what uranium enrichment levels do and don’t mean, how the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty shapes the argument, and how the U.S. exit from the JCPOA changed Iran’s incentives. From there, we stress-test the scare stories…
[ad_1] Thanks to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, there isn’t going to be enough fertilizer for everyone in 2026. What is available is going to be gobbled up by the wealthy countries because they have the most money. Of course higher fertilizer costs will ultimately be passed along to consumers, and so we will all be paying much higher prices for food in the months ahead. But in the poorest nations on the entire planet, a lack of fertilizer could mean the difference between life and death. A dramatic reduction in the amount of fertilizer that farmers use…
[ad_1] About a month ago, a woman in Egypt was harassed on a public bus (she will go unnamed to protect what privacy and dignity she still has left). She recorded the man who was targeting her, and when she confronted him, he responded not with shame but with escalation: he mocked her appearance, called her trash, and insulted her by saying she looked like a nonbeliever. When the video went viral, the public response was revealing. Before many people asked what had happened to her, they wanted to know something else: Was she Christian or Muslim?If she were Christian, the…
[ad_1] At the Bitcoin 2026 Conference, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel outlined a shift in the U.S. government’s approach to digital assets like Bitcoin. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel used a Bitcoin 2026 Conference panel to signal a shift in how the U.S. government approaches digital assets, stressing support for developers and a focus on crime rather than code. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, moderating the virtual discussion, opened by asking Blanche and Patel for their Bitcoin origin stories. Blanche said his son pushed him toward Bitcoin and called him a “clown and idiot”…
[ad_1] The latest local elections confirmed what opinion polls had been suggesting for a good while: the collapse of the Labour Party and the extraordinary unpopularity of its leader, Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Up and down the country, from urban to rural, metropolitan to suburban, or Celtic to Saxon, the British people turned their backs on the Labour Party less than two years after it won a landslide victory at the last general election. Reform UK will be able to claim a victory – though perhaps less dominant than they hoped – the Conservative Party continued to suffer losses throughout…