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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced an imminent increase in economic pressure on Iran in a Sunday op-ed for the Financial Times.  “At dawn begins an economic D-Day — the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary,” Bessent wrote, echoing the language of a Wednesday social media post from President Donald Trump. The op-ed did not disclose the concrete measures, which the secretary will unveil at a Monday press conference, but suggested that new punitive policies will be implemented against countries that continue economic dealings with Iran.  “Those who sever Iran’s remaining financial and commercial connectivity will reinvigorate their…

President Trump is deploying his Cabinet not only across the country to promote his agenda in an election year but also across social media algorithms. An early adopter of TikTok, the president created his own campaign account in 2024, and the White House made its first official account last year. Now the administration is ramping up its social media presence. Nearly every Cabinet-level agency created its own verified TikTok account and launched them on the same night in July. The White House created an additional TikTok account simply titled “Cabinet” to collate all the secretaries’ content in one place. “The…

 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. The US intervention to prop up the yen is not just about Japan, but about a crisis in the dollar system. Washington doesn’t want countries selling Treasury securities, as yields rise and global dedollarization grows. The US government quietly bailed out Japan this August. The US Treasury intervened in the foreign exchange market to prop up Japan’s currency, the yen. It was the first time that Washington had done this since 1998, when much of East and Southeast Asia was facing a deep financial crisis. This incident is symptomatic of a new, slow-motion crisis that is unfolding…

It should be clear by now that drone technology has crossed a technological threshold where they are cheap and efficient enough to have widespread use. They have transformed modern warfare. They are commonly used in surveillance. Over 75% of recent action films use drone footage, which has reduced the cost of aerial footage by about 90%. And now it seems that drone delivery services are poised to expand considerably. What has caused this advance in technology? Part of it is advances in battery tech, which allows for greater range with lighter batteries, but that is not the whole picture. AI…

The Genetic Kill Switch Introduction We are living through the final act of a planned global genocide. According to my research findings, Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci are not adversaries — they are tag-team partners in a depopulation agenda that uses a binary weapon to trigger a genetic meltdown of the human race. (I’ll explain more below…) The first component of this weapon is the spike protein contamination from mRNA injections, which Fauci orchestrated through gain-of-function bioweapons research at the Wuhan lab and laundered into so-called vaccines via Operation Warp Speed (pushed by Trump). The second component is nuclear war,…

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News Desk, The Cradle. Pledges ‘Dollar For Dollar’ Tariffs. US tariffs of 50 percent on some Canadian goods have begun, as US-Canadian trade relations worsen since Trump’s return The US has imposed a 50 percent tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, after last-minute trade talks between Washington and Ottawa fell apart late on 21 August. The two sides had been close to a deal earlier this week, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney congratulating negotiators on making “significant progress” in the trade talks. According to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, the US was offering Canada the “best treatment” of any…

Bill BuppertBill Buppert is the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and a contributor over time to various liberty endeavors. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and contractor tours after retirement on occasion and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits around the world. He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me. View all posts Source link

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By Erica R. Meiners This article was originally published by Truthout The historical record shows that the glossy language of “reform” contributes to the normalization of prisons and jails. In 2027, the doors of the largest state-funded infrastructure project in Indiana’s history will open. Already a winner of a “green” award for design sustainability, this public facility in the state’s northeastern corner includes 18,000 square feet of classroom space. But this is not a community center or a free public college — it is the new 4,200-bed Northwest Indiana Correctional Facility for men. In the words of the Indiana…