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After less than two years in office, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned. “The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election. I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace,” he said at a press conference this morning. “Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party.” Starmer said he had spoken to the King to inform him of…
Dima Khatib, photograph by Nelson Pereira. Journalistic coverage of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza after October 7, 2023, continues to draw sharp criticism. Syrian-Palestinian journalist Dima Khatib minces no words: “The media actively relayed Israeli propaganda.” “Silence is already complicity. But it was worse. It was active engagement with Israeli propaganda,” said the Managing Director of Digital Projects at Al Jazeera, whose journalistic career spans more than three decades. “And it was an active engagement against journalists themselves,” Dima added. “Not once, not twice, it was repeated. The justification Israel gave for the killings of journalists—obviously false and unacceptable,…
In recent weeks, the misnamed US Department of Justice has indicted twenty-three activists on serious charges related to their organizing against institutional complicity in the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians and the kidnapping of US residents by militarized federal immigration enforcers. The indictments are connected to two different cases, one in Michigan and the other in Minnesota. From my vantage point, it seems fairly clear that the indictments are, among other things, designed to deflect the media and the public attention away from the crimes against humanity being perpetrated by the government and those institutions behind the prosecutions. In fact, these…
The owners of Big Back’s Cajun Kitchen say the officials in College Park, Georgia, have unfairly targeted their restaurant with repeated inspections, citations, and accusations that it is operating an illegal nightclub, even though they say they have the proper permits and licenses. Restaurant owner Shawn Perkins and her business partners believe the actions were prompted by Mayor Pro Tem Joe Carn, a claim the city attorney denies. However, College Park Mayor Bianca Motley Broom publicly supported Perkins, calling the city’s actions harassment and saying elected officials should not use their power to target businesses. Carn did not respond to requests…
Date of sighting: June 5, 2026Location of sighting: Boise, Idaho, USASource: NUFORCThese are cloud orbs, at night they glow when they want to be seen. Often mistaken for angelic beings at night, they glow and flux as a sphere in the sky. I wonder…were they testing the guys reaction to them, recording his behavior, thoughts and more, because these energy entities can read your mind from a long ways away. Scott C. Waring – UFO Sightings DailyEyewitness states: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects, Animals reacted Can’t explain changing colors hovering in…
Fans of Egypt and Belgium at the World Cup. (Screengrab.) What do the World Cup group stage and the Iran War ceasefire deal have in common? Not much at first glance: one is an international sports tournament based on peaceful competition among nations, and the other emerged from a violent cataclysm that has left thousands dead and infrastructure destroyed in a dozen or so nations. But at second glance, both outcomes have lessons for major powers that are used to domination. The first 2026 World Cup match I watched on TV was Brazil-Morocco, which the powerhouse Brazil should have won,…
Most Sunday’s, weather allowing, I set up a mobile comic book shop at local open air markets. I have done it for the good part of a decade, in doing so you make unique friendships with people who you may only see every so many Sundays over the years, you might not even know their names but you know their opinions on things, what books they read, movies they watch and at times the turmoils in their personal life. In being a fixture, you can be both councillor and sound board or, for some kids, an adult for them to…
Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance, over the words we use and the images we project rather than the distribution of power and resources. This is the most visible fault to ordinary people, who can sense when a movement is more exercised about terminology than about whether they can pay for insulin. I want to be careful here, because symbols matter and language has real effects. The mistake is not attending to them; it is letting them substitute for the material struggle that the…
Happy Solstice! Scientist spent 13 years bouncing radar off Europa – here’s what they found. Knife beneath the neck: Unusual burial found at medieval Polish cemetery. Ancient microbes preserved in rapidly thawing Arctic middens are waking up – could they pose a threat to us today? Does the United Kingdom have a blind spot on UFO sightings? Humans will never colonize Mars – and Elon Musk knows it. Related: Elon Musk is full of shit – we’ve reached the endpoint of tech billionaires using science fiction as a marketing tool. UFO enthusiasts were waiting for a sign. https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/ufo-enthusiasts-were-waiting-for-a-sign-they-got-spielberg-s-disclosure-day/ar-AA25XNSF The curious…
If you don’t think the Donald inhabits an alternative universe – just set your mandibles loose to chomp on his most recent missive. According to history’s most gifted practitioner of the Art of the Deal, only one thing really counts with respect to his Paperless Invite for Iran to join yet another round of negotiations: Namely, making good on their pledge to “never, ever” get a nuke, which they never, ever, ever actually had or had even pursued: Trump: “This agreement is about one thing — that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Never ever ever. The rest of…