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President Donald Trump disputed the reported terms of a U.S.–Iran deal Friday— one day after cancelling planned strikes and declaring discussions had been “brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved”—as the conflict entered its 105th day. On Friday morning, as rumors circulated on social media of a U.S.–Iran deal seemingly favorable to Tehran, Trump signaled frustration with the Islamic Republic in a post on Truth Social. The president wrote,  The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing. What they said, including their…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When we were fighting the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment or austerity programs in the 1980s and 1990s, many of us thought that we were up against a strategy that had been formulated mainly as a response to the social democratic compromise with capital in the Global North and to state-led developmentalist initiatives in the Global South. Of course, we knew that the intellectual inspiration for neoliberalism came from nineteenth-century classical free-market-oriented economics. What few of us realized at the time was that the neoliberal counterrevolution that took off in the late 1970s had…

Following Israel’s attack this week on Beirut’s southern suburbs that sparked a new round of conflict between Israel and Iran, President Donald Trump suggested that Syria could get involved in taking action against Hezbollah. “I’d like to see a more surgical attack on Hezbollah,” Trump told Meet the Press when asked whether he had reservations concerning recent Israeli actions in Lebanon. “We can help them with that, or we can recommend Syria. Syria is doing a very good job of cleaning up their act. They have a very good leader… and he would love to help.” This is not the…

Rising artificial intelligence demand has led to a nationwide construction boom of power-hungry data centers in recent years, driving concern about rising utility costs. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., recently called for raising taxes on companies building data centers and said they’ve increased electricity bills for Americans. “If you live near one of these large data centers, your electricity bills over the last five years have gone up by as much as 267%,” Warren said in a June 5 X post. Warren used that same figure in a December 2025 letter she and other senators sent to tech firms when announcing…

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The Great Israeli Real Estate Event website allowed London attendees to register interest in illegal Israeli settlement earlier this week for the event on Sunday, Dania Akkad reports. Bridge and tunnel on Highway 60, leading from Jerusalem to the illegal Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion in the occupied West Bank, 2004. (Justin McIntosh/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0) By Dania AkkadDeclassified UK The U.K. government is under mounting pressure to ban an event that has advertised the sale of illegally occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank. The private, invitation-only Great Israeli Real Estate Event is scheduled to be held in London…

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are building the same thing: a holding company glued together by AI. Source link

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President Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, to serve as director of national intelligence (DNI). Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Trump announced the pick on social media as Congress pressed him to name a permanent successor to outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation last month. Democrats and Republicans alike were displeased with Trump’s choice to name Bill Pulte, current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director of the office,…

Photograph by Matteo Nardone In late May 2026, Rome Pride organizers delivered a clear and courageous message: there will be no platform for complicity with genocide. Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQ+ organization, Keshet Italia, was barred from marching with its own float in the upcoming June 20 parade. The reason was straightforward and principled—Keshet refused to endorse Rome Pride’s political manifesto, which explicitly condemns Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and demands a clear break from the Zionist state’s policies of occupation, apartheid, and extermination. This decision has triggered predictable outrage from Zionist quarters, who immediately cried antisemitism. But the real issue…