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Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir will visit Iran Monday to continue peace talks, the Iranian foreign ministry said Sunday. In June, Pakistan helped broker a framework U.S.–Iran agreement—the memorandum of understanding (MOU)—that quickly fell apart but still offers a possible off-ramp from the war. A Pakistani government source told Reuters that Munir planned to discuss recent threats of economic warfare by President Donald Trump, among other issues. “He will discuss peace under Islamabad’s MOU, Trump’s warning, and the situation after the Pakistan-Turkey-Saudi Arab Agreement and Houthi issues with Iranian leaders,” the source said. Subscribe Today Get daily emails…

Kit Klarenberg Substack Over the past two decades, hardline Ukrainian ultranationalists have waged an ever-escalating war on history at home and abroad, with dramatic, world-changing consequences. In the country itself, a highly repressive legal apparatus is increasingly enforcing dangerously skewed narratives of Kiev’s near and distant past, with excessive criminal penalties even for those who unwittingly fall foul of the law. A brazenly politicised battle, it has become turbocharged since the Ukraine proxy conflict’s eruption. Despite widespread opposition, Kiev’s aggressive ultranationalist offensive on history is only intensifying. These are the grave findings of an extraordinary paper by Ukrainian academic Georgiy Kasianov, “To…

Stephen A. Smith, the highly regarded basketball analyst, apologized to Kyrie Irving for criticizing him during the pandemic for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. “Kyrie Irving, no matter what we think, may have been more right than we have given him credit for, and unquestionably was more vilified than he deserved. And ladies and gentlemen, it starts with me,” Smith said. On July 30, after watching Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith broke from his vacation to record an apology video to basketball star Kyrie Irving. Like…

The Battle of the Populists: MAGA vs. the DSA Source link

Austin Sarat ScheerPost At the start of his second term, President Trump opened fire on some of America’s most prestigious universities. His administration cut off or threatened to cut off millions of dollars in federal funding unless they agreed to unprecedented levels of federal oversight of their operations.  To accomplish this purpose, the administration highlighted the problem of campus antisemitism and pointed to the way they handled protests in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack in Israel. Working together, the Justice Department and the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services charged that Brown University, Columbia…

On June 21, Colombians narrowly elected the right-wing lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella to the presidency over the leftist candidate Iván Cepeda. Since 2023, right-wingers have won 11 of the past 13 elections in Latin America. De la Espriella’s victory comes as a jewel in the crown for the Trump administration and its so-called “Donroe Doctrine.” Sadly, the track record of recent conservative governments in the Americas—with the exception of El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele—has been disappointing at best and catastrophic at worst.  In its current form, the Latin American right seems determined to act as little more than a foil…

A DSA Leader Going Viral for All the Wrong Reasons Source link

Wolfgang Bronner, Black Agenda Report. North Nashville’s Reckoning. Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a century of land dispossession dressed up as economic development. Within Nashville, Tennessee, there has been a rapid implementation of numerous technological tools and digital infrastructure. This transformation has turned the city into a hub for the growing tech economy. This new technology ranges from license plate readers to SkyWatch towers to facial recognition and to phone-hacking. The list keeps expanding. In…

Did you hear what Sam Altman – the ChatGPT geek – recently said? It sounded like something out of a science fiction movie. And it signals the AI hype machine has officially hit maximum velocity. Last week, on the Relentless podcast, Altman remarked, “We are now, like, in the singularity.” He didn’t say we’re approaching it. He didn’t say it’s coming by 2030. He said we are in it right now. He pointed to a recent incident where an autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI’s latest models broke out of its sandbox and hacked into datasets at Hugging Face to score higher on a cybersecurity…

Image by James Baltz. Think “revolution…” and Iowa does not spring to mind– a stolid, land-locked, agricultural titan, deeply red, where hogs outnumber voters nearly eight to one. But tariffs have tanked Iowa’s economy. Intensive farming has depleted half of its rich topsoil. 48 million hogs spew 107 million tons of manure annually– mostly untreated– […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post…