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[ad_1] News Desk, The Cradle. Dollar phase-out and domestic self-sufficiency. The Iranian supreme leader advocates domestic manufacturing as a solution for economic resilience amid Washington’s economic strangulation campaign. In a statement issued on 29 August, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian committed to the economic and political course laid out by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, placing inflation, employment, and reducing the country’s reliance on the US dollar at the center of the country’s agenda. Pezeshkian’s statement came in response to Khamenei’s Government Week message, which emphasized investing in domestic production and markets under national control. He highlighted the Leader’s confidence in the government as its…

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[ad_1] Gloria Guillo, Tortilla con Sal. How a Shared Global Technology Supply Chain Serves Transnational Elites Against Workers Everywhere. The story sold to populations is that the United States, China, Russia, and Iran are locked in geopolitical rivalry, each building separate military-industrial systems to confront the others. That narrative conceals the deeper structure. The weapons carry national markings. The technological base that makes them possible does not. Semiconductors, sensors, power electronics, microcontrollers, RF components, machine tools, and industrial equipment move through the same global commercial networks. Components pass through distributors, brokers, front companies, and third countries before they appear in…

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[ad_1] Date of sighting: August 26, 2026 8:52pmLocation of sighting: Blakely, Pennsylvania, USASource: NUFORC #200502This glowing object looks like a plasmoid orb, glowing and as it moves its orb shape shifts a bit into an oval shape. Thats how I knew it was a plasmoid orb…a sentient entity. The object actually frightens the woman as she begins to watch and the object stops, not moving for a bit then shoots away and seems to be following the power lines. The dog is trying to pull the woman away, as if it was sensing something it was afraid of and wanted…

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[ad_1] Erin Rode, LA Progressive. Tenant advocates say Ratio Utility Billing Systems function like hidden rent increases. By shifting unpredictable building costs onto renters. In Alicia Yu’s first post-college apartment, a studio in Burbank, monthly utility costs were calculated through a process she’d never heard of. Her landlord had hired a third-party service to determine her share of the building’s utility costs using a formula unrelated to her actual usage — a system that critics say can leave tenants with wildly unpredictable bills. Her bills, calculated using what’s called a Ratio Utility Billing System, or RUBS for short, were initially…

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[ad_1] The ghost of Upton Sinclair. Rob Warzyniak, People’s World. When The Jungle was published in 1906, writer and journalist Upton Sinclair hoped his novel would advance socialism by exposing the plight of the wage slave, dangerous working conditions, and the general hopelessness that undermined the working class’s struggle. Sinclair exposed the Chicago meatpacking industry and the workers who struggled within it, giving a voice to the voiceless while also exposing the corruption of those in positions of power.  The struggle of an immigrant family from Lithuania drives the plot, and Sinclair touches on working-class poverty, lack of social support, and poor…

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[ad_1] Alexandra Martinez Prism A federal judge has temporarily blocked Florida International University (FIU) from enforcing its blanket ban on expressive activities inside university buildings. The ruling favored students who challenged disciplinary action stemming from a silent protest against the university’s agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The preliminary injunction, issued Aug. 24, comes 12 days after the student-led group ICEBreakers filed a lawsuit challenging FIU’s policy and the university’s decision to discipline seven students who wore shirts reading “ICE OFF FIU” during a campus event featuring FIU President Jeanette Nuñez. “Formally, the ruling prevents FIU from enforcing its policy against only members of ICEBreakers,…

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