July 2026
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BREAKING PEPE EXPOSES: Iran’s Secret Memo Lands in Riyadh-Iran Is ‘Ready for War’
A confidential Iranian memo — hand-carried to Riyadh by Pakistan’s Mohsin Naqvi — and one word that decides what happens next: “provoked.” Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson, and Zulfiqar Ali with what a source at the negotiating table shared just one hour before recording. Continue reading
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The Earthquake in Venezuela and the Politics of Disaster: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2026)
Venezuela is rebuilding amid an information war that obscures the effects of sanctions, frozen assets, and decades of US economic warfare – and turns human suffering into another pretext to discredit the Bolivarian process. Continue reading
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One last authoritarian flourish from Starmer
New legislation being rushed through Parliament could criminalise British journalists for simply engaging with certain state-backed groups. The National Security (State Threats) Bill, currently in its final stages, would grant the Home Secretary powers to designate any state-backed organisation as a threat if it is judged prejudicial to the UK’s “safety and interests”. Continue reading
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Economic Rent Extraction
In the 1800s, economists such as Ricardo (see Principles of Political Economy & Taxation) and George (see Progress and Poverty) identified economic rent-seeking, the earning of excess profits from the ownership of land and natural resources, to be a very major problem for any economy. These profits were not from a productive activity but rather… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report July 1, 2026
Wednesday, 1 July 2026 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Report July 4th Special Issue The Editors “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” – Frederick Douglass 1852 speech Continue reading
The New Dark Age 