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[ad_1] Fidel Castro’s revolution began in hope, hardened into authoritarianism and endured as an audacious rebuke to American empire. Steve Wasserman ScheerPost Nearly seventy years ago, Herbert Matthews of The New York Times interviewed a rebel-with-a-cause most people thought was dead. Matthews’ scoop in the tangled jungle of Cuba’s Sierra Maestra proved the man was alive. His name (which in its entirety was but four syllables) would soon come to be known the world over. To his followers, the first two syllables would suffice: “Fi-del.” Castro’s quest to topple Cuba’s strongman, Fulgencio Batista, captured the imagination of millions. Victory,…
[ad_1] For the trade agreement to survive, it must keep China out of North America. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Trump Media & Technology Group—the company owned by President Donald Trump that operates Truth Social—is facing a lawsuit alleging that its plan to monetize access to the social media posts of the president and his closest advisers through its Truth API tool is unconstitutional. Announced in July and rolled out at the start of August, Trump Media describes its API as a data feed that “provides licensed, real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.” It does so at prices ranging from $60,000 to $100,000 per month, according to Trump Media CEO Kevin McGurn. Under the terms of…
[ad_1] Wisconsin won’t be the very first state to get a socialist governor, after all. In Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary, Democrats there narrowly selected David Crowley, a moderate county executive, over the democratic socialist and reformed Thanksgiving-hater Francesca Hong.Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] In a recent interview, President Donald Trump falsely claimed to be the “lowest of the last 10 presidents on inflation,” seemingly based on a chart Trump posted to social media that misleadingly compares price growth over the first 18 months of his second term with total inflation at the end of his predecessors’ full four-year terms. For that comparison to hold, of course, you have to assume inflation will be 0% for the next two and a half years — a highly implausible scenario. A more telling comparison is to look at where inflation stood 18 months into each…
[ad_1] I’ll admit it – I’m shocked and saddened by what happened to poor Francesca Hong on Tuesday night, and I think there has to be accountability for the people who did it to her. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Dan Dinello Informed Comment Compromising the safety of America’s food supply, the consequences of RFK’s disembowelment of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Food Safety Infrastructure can be heard in the groans emanating from thousands of bathrooms across the country. In only eighteen months, Kennedy — along with the corrupt mobster president and his parasitic accomplice Elon Musk — turned a seasonal stomach bug into the worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history. Cyclospora, the foodborne parasite, has infected more than 22,000 Americans so far this summer — about a 95% increase in the typical number of…
[ad_1] Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once asked his YouTube viewers whether Americans could “PLEASE” find another way to celebrate the Fourth of July, in a video promising four reasons “why fireworks suck.”Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] For what feels like a long time now, the big AI companies have been talking about how future versions of their technology could destroy millions of jobs or escape control in ways that pose dire risks to humanity. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Israel can maintain the illusion that overwhelming violence has pacified Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud. But military domination is not real control. On Sept. 4, 2025, in the Palestinian village of Khallet Athaba’ in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian man is treated by the Red Crescent after being injured in an attack by Israeli settlers. (Mediterranean Saving Humans /Wikimedia Commons/ CC0) By Ramzy BaroudZ Network The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus in the Occupied West Bank, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages…