Author: nick

[ad_1] “Universal Basic Capital” is a much-needed solution to the continued advancement of artificial intelligence technology’s consistent advancement. Universal basic income (UBI) was a popular topic years ago, especially as AI gained a foothold in the economy, beginning to replace human workers; however, the newer UBC concept is now gaining traction. According to a report by The Atlantic, the idea has been endorsed by figures as ideologically diverse as Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newsom, Steve Bannon, Sam Altman, and even Donald Trump. In both cases, UBI and UBC are policies that would give every single human a baseline salary, whether they contribute to…

[ad_1] House for sale, Morgantown, Indiana. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I happened to look at the Case-Shiller house price index, and I was struck by something that seems to be getting very little attention. It’s falling. This is noteworthy because it seems the folks screaming about the need for zoning reform haven’t noticed. As readers may recall, a couple of weeks ago I had a little fun with New York Times columnist Binyamin Appelbaum (who is generally very insightful) because he thought he found the secret to curing the housing problem. The remedy was in Vancouver, British Columbia, where an…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Quintin Soloviev – CC BY 4.0 The World Cup is a photographic image of the world, but it is overexposed. It is blurred though the filters of nationalist propaganda and individual heroics. At play are all the features of geopolitics: power games, big money, troubles with AI, competition at all costs, threats, animosities, and mistrust, to name just a few. Consider, for instance, the Olympic Games. In the Olympic Games, the rules are clear. No kind of demonstration or political, religious, or racial propaganda is permitted at any Olympic sites, venues, or areas. Individuals, organizations, and nations…

[ad_1] Melbourne, Florida, Police officer William Markle has resigned after body camera video showed him and other officers mistakenly tackling and handcuffing a 15-year-old boy, leaving him with a broken arm. Police were searching for a runaway described as a white male in black clothes, but the teen they tackled was black, wearing a white shirt and jeans. Officers chased and forced him to the ground before realizing within minutes that he was not the person they were looking for. The teen suffered a broken arm during the arrest, and the officer who helped restrain him resigned about two weeks…

[ad_1] File photo of Max Blumenthal. Photo Credit: Ben Norton, Wikipedia Commons The seizure of Max Blumenthal’s phones shows how the war on Iran and the border-security state can turn foreign conflict into domestic repression. Max Blumenthal returned from a reporting trip to Iran and left Washington Dulles International Airport without the two phones that contained much of his working life. According to a federal filing submitted on his behalf, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers questioned him about his journalism, funding, and travel plans and seized the devices after he declined to provide their passcodes. The Committee to Protect…

[ad_1] Crude photoshop work done by Nathaniel St. Clair. Image Sources: Screenshot from The Big Lebowski. Photograph of Zuckerberg by Xavier Lejeune. Photograph of Bezos by Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz. Photograph of Musk from Office of Speaker Mike Johnson. Life is strange. If you’d told me fifteen years ago that, as part of covering DC politics, I’d be reading books about space, I’d have told you to take a hike. But when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, he set a chain of events in motion. I remember the day the Washington Post’s sale was announced. It was August…

[ad_1] Elon demanding a ‘historically accurate’ Odyssey is like a child demanding a historically accurate Smurfs movie. Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared. Seems like artists such as myself, are joining the line of ancient bygone careers, like sin-eating. The witch of Great Paxton: When superstition turned to persecution. Model scout for Jeffrey Epstein found dead at his home near Paris. Welcome to Paris, where everyone hates AI.  AARO releases 2025 UAP report months after statutory deadline, citing 319 new cases and expanded satellite analysis. Trump orders the repeal…

[ad_1] Since the end of the Cold War, Somalia has been a textbook case of the perils of foreign meddling. Once a pawn in superpower rivalry, it descended into state collapse, warlordism, and radical insurgency. Successive U.S. administrations, driven by shifting strategic obsessions—from anti-communism to counterterrorism—have repeatedly intervened, each time exacerbating the very problems they claimed to solve. The result? A fractured state, persistent extremism, and record U.S. bombings under the second Trump administration, which is on pace to shatter its own previously set record for strikes in a single year. Far from stabilizing the Horn of Africa, Washington’s actions…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Socialism is more favorably viewed these days, especially by younger people. What is socialism? Nobody knows. There is no official definition of socialism. Diverse ideas, institutions, and several nations have been considered socialist. Whatever variety, socialism needs to confront the world of today. It must relate to our most urgent problems, not merely those of the 1820s (many still with us) when the term first appeared from critics of society. Even so, we can learn from history: ideas, experiments, and efforts to create socialist nations. Here are some thoughts, not a complete manifesto, from…

[ad_1] Article Metrics0CrossRef Citations Climate change amplifies natural disasters, posing an existential threat to our society. However, a digital storm is raging on right-wing extremist Telegram channels where climate disinformation works to delegitimize scientific consensus. Investigating the factors that amplify climate disinformation is as critical to combating it as understanding natural disasters and their drivers. We find that climate disinformation is consistently amplified through unregulated platforms and conspiracist sources. Strikingly, a substantial portion of this amplification reflects coordinated behavior, suggesting both an opportunistic nature and the potential involvement of actors seeking to control climate narratives.  By André SobralDepartment of Media Studies, University of Virginia, USA David…