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GOP strategy and POTUS Trump’s behavior are spiraling in parallel as the 2026 midterms come to a close.

Does the Lula victory in Brazil, despite heavy-handed Trump, Meta and no doubt CIA meddling, signal that Trump is now officially a lame duck?

As the backlash to social austerity and war grows, new military toys are deployed to streets of Europe.

Two landmark reports have been published this year on not only the “what” and “why” of the degrowth imperative, but the “how.”

Nosebleed tanker rates have led to lower premiums and even discounts for US and African oil shipments.

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Libera, Amore Mio is film about radical politics and living one's beliefs.

The hidden role of reinsurance in rising consumer prices.

The record spending in Michigan to thwart Abdul El-Sayed's Senate bid is proof of the depth of fear of left wing messaging and policies.

Europe's subservience to the US, particularly in energy, is self-destructive yet also deeply embedded.

No bad news today, but the links below are good for several long coffee breaks over the coming weekend.

India's "cockroach" party continues to gain influence as it identifies and combats shortcomings in democratic practice.

A defence expert cited by the Times said he could not recall a deployment to the region “that ever came close to 600, except for contingencies like invasions or natural disasters.”

Banks worry that AI agents are going rogue inside customer accounts.

Neoliberalism, or more accurately, the inequality it was designed to create, has generated major backlash.

Health insurance cost in the US continue to rise to the sky.

Today's Iran war news: Markets go wobbly as the date for loudly-signaled US/Israel attacks on Iran nears.

Species loss ought to be a topic of paramount importance.

Before following the various US/Western hegemony-defending conflicts became a large task when done properly, we’d occasionally quiz readers on the condition of their economy, meaning personal, local and industry indicators.

The media landscape continues to shift as Netflix purges its executive class while Larry Ellison borrows big dollars to backstop his son's Skydance media empire.

Democrats have an opportunity to take real action on AI data centers to protect people and the environment.

Today's Iran war news: Pressures grow as Iran takes a harder posture, Israel vows infrastructure destruction, and Turkiye may back the Saudis

I visited the Fountain of Youth several times as a child.

Why do some people always need new goods, even when the ones they have are just fine?

Modern military institutions continue to invest enormous resources in tanks, crewed aircraft, aircraft carriers, and missile defense systems even as technological change challenges their strategic utility.

The media is speaking with almost one voice to enforce the neoliberal order: ordinary citizens must submit to the needs of the investor class.

Today's Iran war news: Iran and the US poke at each other as futile talks continue and Trump loudly contemplates big, self-defeating strikes.

Did The Canary just go down in history as one of the first media organisations in the collective West, if not the first, to be dispatched by debanking?

A Senate health reform blueprint targets insurers, PBMs, and administrative abuses while leaving nosebleed hospital prices largely untouched.

As disaster looms in the November mid-term elections, the Trump regime is riven with internal dissent and ugly scandal.

A voter rebellion is underway, with write-in candidate Abigail Field having a real shot at winning the Suffolk County clerk race.

Egypt delays its vote on defending Saudi Arabia, the Saudis lose helicopter in Najran, and the IRGC says a third tanker hit a mine in Hormuz.

The political class remains steadfast in support of neoliberalism and war.

The shrinking and eventual loss of all of these glaciers will affect ecosystems across the West, as well as waterways humans and wildlife rely on.

The UN is a dead man walking, yet BRICS members unrealistically hope for reform.

Those resources include the world's largest deposits of lithium, huge deposits of oil and gas, rare earth minerals, gold and silver, and the world's largest freshwater reservoir.

POTUS Trump seems to have TACO'd again, delaying any renewed attacks on Iran until after the US midterm elections while Ansar Allah hit Saudi airports and oil facilities and took most of the key Yemeni highland city of Taiz, and explosions rang out in the…

Worker-managed firms not only reduce inequality but are in the main very efficient.

U.S. interference and right-wing gains across Latin America have eroded democratic legitimacy, calling into question elections elsewhere.

Democratic participation requires more than voting rights, including material security, practical knowledge, social belonging, and agency.

OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman have put together a string of incredibly no good, terrible, horrible news cycles in recent weeks, and yet investors are pouring tens of billions more into the money pit even as safety researchers exit the company, the US Sena…