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On Revolutionary Cynicism, by Kevin DeAnna

26 October 2026 at 04:20
In Brazil, a stolen election is justified in the name of “democracy.” Illegals are imported in the name of “compassion.” The justifications for immigration depend on the country, but the imperative for more migrants never changes. To survive in this movement, you need a certain cynicism and self-awareness, because morality is a weapon. But that...

Trump's War Overreach May Be the Straw That Breaks the Back of the West’s Financialised Architecture, by Alastair Crooke

26 October 2026 at 04:10
From the streets of Paris to the Strait of Hormuz, Western liberal economies are caught in a trap of their own making Almost everywhere there is a deepening sense that the western Liberal economic project is on the verge of collapsing in very fundamental ways — most obviously, this has been on display on the...

Trump Talks Peace While the CIA Is Fueling the War in Ukraine, by Larry C. Johnson

27 October 2026 at 04:00
I spent enough years at the Central Intelligence Agency that I learned how to read the press stories that the agency’s friends place for it. Shane Harris’s new profile of CIA Director John Ratcliffe in The Atlantic, published October 23, is one of those stories. It is written to make Ratcliffe look like the sober...

On Google Killing 400,000 Trees to Build Data Centers In Finland, by Caitlin Johnstone

26 October 2026 at 04:00
That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project is such a perfect microcosm of what capitalism is doing to our world. Recent mass media headlines are saying the tech giant “illegally” cut down “250,000” trees, but both claims paint an inaccurate picture of what actually happened....
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