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Trump has proven time and again that he has no code of ethics; he only has himself and the lengths he’ll go to protect his ego. Source link

The age of artificial intelligence requires the kind of strategic doctrine and arms control that stabilized the Cold War, writes Niall Ferguson. Right now, we have neither. Source link

Nate Bear Do Not Panic This week the UK revoked the visas of leftist American influencer Hasan Piker and the podcaster Cenk Uygur who were both scheduled to speak at events in Oxford and London. The UK government hasn’t commented on the reason, but it’s obvious it was for their views on Israel. Piker and Uygur are not radical in any true sense of the word. They are both fairly mainstream progressives close to the AOC-wing of the Democrats. Uygur used to be a Republican. They don’t call for revolution, they call for voting and standard social democratic policies. Nothing in…

Democrats haven’t yet learned that their abuses of power can be used against them by their opposition. It’s just a matter of time. Source link

Americans aren’t interested in reinstating a military draft, but that’s not stopping the government from “streamlining” Selective Service registration—for young men’s own good, we’re told. That’s right, the government is automating draft registration, using the excuse that it’s saving registrants from the legal peril inherent in choosing to not register. The real reason, of course, is that fewer men were voluntarily registering, and the government wants to gloss over that mass rejection by potential draftees. One component of the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) “modernizes Selective Service through automatic registration,” boasted Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D–Pa.), who helped…

Edward Curtin Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where old wooden structures had been abandoned years before and lay forlorn. But they drew us to them. Old names on walls, here and there a small plaque telling a little history of places and people long vanished, never to return, for the rest of this town had been modernized and gentrified, as was exemplified by the expensive shops and cars that lined its streets. It seemed as if my…

Photo by Albert Antony These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth column and anything that could risk being seen as ordinary.  The human mind is obsessed by the need for a rounded explanation.  In place of that arises a form of mysticism, even superstition.  What cannot be explained must be otherworldly.  Few better tests for this proposition can be found in the discussion about unidentified objects of aeronautical import. May saw the release of two tranches of records (May 8 and May 22) on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), a…

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Alfred McCoy Tom Dispatch While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global power. As President Donald Trump lurches repeatedly from threats of devastation to promises of peace, it’s becoming increasingly clear that U.S. military might is no longer capable of subduing even a mid-sized power like Iran, much less holding the rest of the world in its thrall. Amid all the drama of air raids, drone strikes, and naval blockades, there are deeper geopolitical forces at play that lend a lasting historical import to…

The modern world is entering one of the most dangerous periods in recent history. Economic wars, rising geopolitical tensions, massive blackouts, water shortages, and collapsing infrastructure are no longer isolated problems, but signs of a growing global crisis. Behind the illusion of technological progress and stability, entire systems are beginning to weaken under pressure, creating a climate of fear, uncertainty, and instability that continues spreading across nations with alarming speed. For decades, modern civilization cultivated the illusion of permanence. Cities expanded endlessly beneath oceans of electric light, financial markets operated every second of the day across interconnected continents, and governments…