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[ad_1] In a recent interview, veteran journalist Katie Couric asked California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, whether being “so ridiculously good-looking” made it harder for him to be taken seriously. For podcaster and former Comedy Central host Adam Carolla, that exchange captured much of what’s wrong with media and politics today. In a March conversation with Nick Gillespie, Carolla talks about how legacy media traded skepticism for access and how California’s dysfunction makes everything more expensive and time consuming. Q: Let’s start by talking about Katie Couric. Why did that interview set you off?…

[ad_1] Ellen Brown Part 1 of this “Abundance Paradigm” series discussed predictions that artificial intelligence and robotics will in the relatively near future produce an economy of extraordinary abundance – one in which most labor is automated. The contention of Elon Musk is that this development will require some form of government-issued “Universal High Income” (UHI) to provide the consumer demand necessary to keep the economy functioning in a world where machines do most of the work.  Based on those projections, I argued that if a UHI were to become necessary, it could not realistically be financed through taxes…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Alexander Hatley – CC BY 2.0 On Wednesday, the Washington Post ran a short piece with the headline, “Musk’s SpaceX Discloses Massive Losses Ahead of Expected Record-Breaking IPO.” The first sentence told readers: SpaceX, the rocket company led by Elon Musk set to debut on the stock market in coming weeks, has recorded $13 billion worth of losses since the beginning of 2023, according to a financial filing made public Wednesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Later in the article, we learn that the implied market capitalization, based on the SpaceX IPO, is $1 trillion. Maybe…

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[ad_1] Pope Leo's Encyclical on AI Is Right To Put Humanity First [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Max Blumenthal The Grayzone A mastermind of Trump’s hardline Latin American policies, Mauricio Claver-Carone no longer serves in the administration. But according to well-placed sources, he’s “picking who can operate” in Venezuela, controlling access to the government, and creating conflicts of interest. Speaking with reporters on May 21, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez was on her way to New Delhi to discuss energy issues, and that he would be in India as well. “This is an important trip, I’m glad we’re able to do it,” Rubio chirped after explaining the trio…

[ad_1] Oriana points through her living room window at the bombing site where President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were abducted, January 2026. Photograph by Celina della Croce. In mid-January, a young Venezuelan mother named Oriana invited me into her home in Ciudad Tiuna, a government-built housing project with thousands of apartments and roughly 20,000 residents. With her five- and twelve- year-old sons in the other room, she pointed through the window at the charred earth where the United States military had abducted President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores two weeks earlier. A few buildings down,…

[ad_1] Image by Wikipedia. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump surveyed his top military brass on the prospect of making war in Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine urged caution, presciently predicting that a ramped-up campaign against Iran could lead its leaders to close the Strait of Hormuz. However, Pete Hegseth, Trump’s self-styled “Secretary of War,” jumped at the prospect of such a conflict. “Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up,” Trump recently recalled at a press event. “And you said, ‘Let’s do it, because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.’” Americans join…

[ad_1] A Colorado jury awarded former New Jersey investment manager Robert Dial $24 million after finding that a police detective wrongfully arrested him in connection with a 2022 shooting involving Dial’s son. According to the lawsuit, Detective Shannon Brukbacher of the Parker Police Department was upset that Dial hired a lawyer for his son, and she repeatedly pressed him for information, even though Dial was in another state and had told his son to cooperate with police. Brukbacher later accused Dial of helping hide a gun, even though officers found it immediately at the scene, and prosecutors dropped the charges…

[ad_1] Americans have been fed a comforting fairy tale about Islamic terrorism. Radical jihadists attack the West simply because they despise freedom, democracy, and the American way of life. This narrative flatters domestic audiences while conveniently obscuring a far more troubling reality. For decades, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel have armed, financed, tolerated, and tapped into Sunni Islamist extremists as geopolitical tools to destabilize rivals. The evidence spans multiple theaters and rests on declassified documents, congressional investigations, and credible investigative journalism. The most thoroughly documented case is Operation Cyclone, the CIA program to arm and finance the…