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By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout “Maersk facilitated the transport of bullets Israel used to snipe Palestinian children in the head,” said one activist. On June 8, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask off Maersk Campaign published a report with Oxfam Denmark demonstrating that Maersk has continued to ship weapons to Israel amid its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, despite claiming otherwise. The shipments include “parts for bullets, bombs, mortars and projectile bodies” which have been “central” to weapons used by Israel to slaughter civilians in Gaza and now Lebanon, the report states. In 2025, Danish…

When the article arrived in my inbox, I felt something I hadn’t felt in a long time — a frisson, that particular French shiver that sits somewhere between excitement and dread. Jeff Bezos had just announced that AGI had effectively shown up, and that he intended to harness it through his new venture, Prometheus, to produce what he was calling AGE: artificial general engineering. The pitch was expansive: a technology capable of designing everything from rocket ships to pharmaceutical compounds, opening up entire categories of human problem-solving that had previously been bottlenecked by the sheer limitation of human engineering capacity.…

When the state is so big and intrusive that people need its permission to do everything from building a house to merging businesses, it’s easy for the lines to blur between conversations in which government officials merely voice preferences and those in which they twist arms to get their way. That creates room for partisans to defend “jawboning”—government bullying of private parties to do what officials won’t or can’t do themselves—as nothing more than casual chats. The best way to handle jawboning is to strip government of power so it has little coercive leverage, and we should always work to…

Adryan Corcione Prism In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Smalls worked at an Amazon warehouse in the Staten Island borough of New York City. With no social distancing required and no personal protective equipment provided, Smalls’ co-workers began getting sick with COVID. In response, he organized a workplace walkout, protesting their unsafe conditions. Despite his record as a high-performing employee, he was fired for organizing, which only fueled his efforts.  In May 2020, Smalls co-founded the Congress of Essential Workers, which later became the Amazon Labor Union. Smalls helped lead the drive for a…

Story at-a-glance A 72-hour break from cellphones triggered increased cravings in study participants; brain scans showed heightened activity in reward centers when shown phone images Cellphones stimulate your brain’s pleasure center similarly to other rewards, creating dopamine hits that lead to dependency Your brain’s attention center becomes increasingly focused on phones, making it difficult to concentrate on other tasks without feeling pulled back to check devices Regular phone breaks help manage cellphone dependence; strategies like setting phone-free times during meals or before bed reduce cravings Excessive phone use negatively impacts focus, sleep, and mood, creating addiction-like patterns that interfere with…

By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout Iran’s soccer team is “the most oppressed” of the teams participating in the World Cup, said the team’s head coach. Members of Iran’s national soccer team expressed frustration about their treatment after they were told the team needed to leave Los Angeles immediately after playing their opening World Cup game against New Zealand on Monday night.  After a 2-2 draw in their opening game with New Zealand Monday night, Iran’s team was forced to fly back to Mexico rather than remain in Los Angeles and do a recovery session…

Jose Andre, founder of World Kitchen Central. Photo: US State Department. The international community’s approach to conflict resolution has undergone a profound and dangerous structural shift, moving away from the pursuit of political settlements toward the permanent administration of crisis. This transition is vividly apparent in Rafah, where the newly established National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) has begun overseeing a reconstruction process stripped of any path toward genuine sovereignty or political renewal. What is being built instead is a sprawling, technocratic bureaucracy designed to manage human suffering indefinitely, transforming a site of active geopolitical dispossession into a…

ScheerPost Staff As Elon Musk crossed the trillion-dollar threshold following SpaceX’s historic public offering, millions of Americans received a very different economic message: their paychecks are buying less. The juxtaposition could hardly be more stark. On the same week that Musk became the first person in history to accumulate a trillion-dollar fortune, new economic data showed inflation-adjusted wages declining and many workers losing ground to rising energy costs and persistent inflation. While Wall Street celebrated a new age of technological wealth, ordinary Americans continued to struggle with housing costs, healthcare expenses, retirement insecurity, and fears that artificial intelligence may…

Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss According to reports, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and formally end the fighting between the two countries was signed on Monday.  It is important to clarify that, regardless of White House statements, this is not a peace deal. It is an agreement to end the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz and a commitment to stop fighting for 60 days while an agreement is reached, hopefully. The negotiation period can be extended if both parties agree. Still, it is a important agreement that indicates a end…