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Kaweh Kerami, Durham University and Kambaiz Rafi, University of Central Asia The Conversation Five years on from seizing power in Kabul on August 15 2021 and consolidating its hold through the whole of Afghanistan, the Taliban claims to have ended the country’s decades-long war and achieved security. International troops have withdrawn and the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has collapsed. Daily security incidents, such as suicide attacks and roadside bombs that were mostly carried out by the Taliban in their two-decades-long insurgency, have since decreased. Conflict indicators such as those gathered by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) – a widely used metric for assessing whether a…
8/16/1933: President Roosevelt adopts the Code of Fair Competition for the Governance of the Petroleum Industry. The Supreme Court declared those codes unconstitutional in Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935). President Franklin D. RooseveltThe post Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933 appeared first on Reason.com. Source link
I joined Finnerty on NEWSMAX to warn that 6G will not simply deliver faster internet—it will dramatically intensify EMF exposure while enabling AI brain chips and advanced surveillance systems. While 5G networks operate across frequencies ranging from approximately 0.6 to 48 GHz, 6G networks are expected to extend into terahertz (THz) frequencies. Under laboratory conditions, THz radiation has already been shown in human-derived cells and tissues to induce: DNA damage and DNA-damage signaling Genomic instability Impaired neural stem-cell proliferation Disrupted cell-cycle activity Altered gene expression Mitochondrial dysfunction Inflammation Apoptosis and cell death One study found that THz exposure caused DNA damage, impaired proliferation, and apoptosis in human…
With the western world’s attention having turned almost completely away from Occupied Palestine this summer, Israeli armed forces and settler shock troops have surged ahead in Gaza and the West Bank with an especially potent cocktail of genocide and apartheid. Hani al-Masri, director of the Palestinian Center for Strategic Studies, told Mondoweiss in late July […] 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. Source link
Ward Churchill in 2006, before he was fired from the University of Colorado. Thomas Boyd/Zuma Ward Churchill died last week at the age of 79. The following is an interview I conducted with Ward in 2014, nine years after he was the talk of Fox News and the target of a concerted campaign to remove him from his teaching post at the University of Colorado. He was no longer living in Colorado in 2014, but he was still defending himself and his scholarship. I caught up with Churchill to see why we hadn’t heard much from him and whether the…
Last fall, on September 16, 2025, Devion Canty was forced to withdraw from Texas State University, just two weeks into his first semester in college. Canty had attended a protest at a campus “memorial” for Charlie Kirk, head of the white supremacist group Turning Point USA, who had been assassinated days earlier (Kirk was shot in the neck by a sniper while giving a public talk). Someone caught Canty on video falling to the ground as if shot in the neck, in a theatrical imitation of Kirk’s assassination. Texas Governor Greg Abbott shared the video on social media in the…
Dory Funk Jr.—pro wrestling champion, trainer, and international icon—died earlier this month at 85. Although less famous here, perhaps, than some of his colleagues, Funk’s life provided an object lesson in the power of sport and spectacle to win hearts around the world. And for those who knew him personally, as I did, the news of his passing landed with the sudden finality of one of his famous spinning toe holds. He was the last of a breed that understood how to make another man look like a million bucks without diminishing himself—never flashy, never loud, only precise, relentless, and…
One might think that a severely alcoholic Stalinist could never be a good writer, let alone a fine novelist, but the case of Patrick Hamilton refutes this commonsensical opinion. His novel of an English boarding house during the war, The Slaves of Solitude, published in 1947, is a beautifully observed and completely non-ideological study of the character of the residents of just such an establishment. If one had to guess the political opinions of its author on the basis of the book alone, one might even suspect him of having been a libertarian. There is a passage that I found…
On August 7, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in the holy city of Mecca to sign a new trilateral defense pact. The birth of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is a significant geopolitical event. It brings together into a security alliance three of the largest and most influential countries in the Middle East. Turkey has the second-largest army in NATO. Pakistan is the only Muslim nation to possess a nuclear arsenal. And Saudi Arabia is a leading oil producer with near-limitless wealth. Though the full text of…
Can Marxism offer a framework for understanding artificial intelligence (AI) and the tech bros behind it? This is not to suggest that Marxism is a viable economic system or a practical alternative to capitalism. It’s not. But Karl Marx was a heterodox economist before he became an ideologue, and some of his ideas are powerful tools for understanding economics, even if his overall program was a failure. Let’s use some of those tools to understand the rise of AI oligarchs and the future of AI. We begin with Marx’s main idea: the abolition of private property. How do tech bros…