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Larry Ellison’s Spider Web
Larry Ellison founded Oracle decades ago, and through that became a multi-billionaire. The latest estimate puts his net worth at US$344 billion, after he ramped Oracle stock with an utterly unbelievable deal with OpenAI to get Oracle stock that “AI” premium. Like so many of the new oligarchs that are as much stock pumpers and… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 3 October 2025
Friday, 3 October 2025 — GM Watch RIP Dame Jane Goodall We were sad to hear of the death, at the age of 91, of the primatologist Dame Jane Goodall. She was a pioneer researcher into animal sentience, especially as it related to her beloved chimpanzees, which she observed in their natural habitat. She outraged Continue reading
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Stop Starmer’s dangerous ID cards
Starmer’s desperate rush for ID cards is a recipe for repression. It won’t reduce migration, but it will put our rights at risk. We need to come together and fight back – are you with us? Continue reading
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Israel Is Committing Genocide in the Gaza Strip: The Fortieth Newsletter (2025)
7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation’s data page on Palestinian casualties, regularly updated using figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry and UN agencies, shows that around 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the last two years – 30 out of every 1,000… Continue reading
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US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year
The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” made the case for unity to colonists wanting independence from Great Britain. Thomas Nast exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall; when Tweed attempted to escape justice, he was identified from a Nast cartoon. It… Continue reading
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US Sows Chaos Across Asia as it Aims for China
The United States is escalating its confrontation with China under the guise of “deterring aggression,” while in reality reorienting its global strategy toward maintaining hegemony over Asia through destabilization, political manipulation, and military buildup. Continue reading
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How MI6 Fabricated Iran Nuke Fraud
On September 19th, the UN Security Council voted to reimpose savage economic restrictions on Iran over its nuclear program. European leaders have in recent months repeatedly accused Tehran of refusing to abide by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s terms. A core, repeated claim is the Islamic Republic has collated a uranium stock over 40 times the… Continue reading
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Single Patient Record (and ID cards…)
The Health Secretary has told his friends that the first part of his “Single Patient Record” will be rolled out by the end of the year. We expect this rollout will be a “pilot” of the now-merged Department of Health in England (i.e. DH and the “abolished” NHS England) using government powers to impose decisions… Continue reading
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Watch: “I have survived genocide”
Thursday, 25 September 2025 — The Electronic Intifada 1900 pm Palestine time/ 1900 Amman time / 1600 GMT/ 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 12pm ET / 11am CT / 9 am PT Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian writer, poet and journalist. His vision of a nonviolent mass movement in Gaza to challenge Israel’s Continue reading
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EMPIRE IN DECLINE: US Desperate as China, Russia Show ECONOMIC, MILITARY MIGHT | Danny Haiphong
Global tensions continue to rise, as the Trump Admin supports more endless war, with the U.S. continuing the proxy war against Russia, supporting genocide in Palestine, planning for war against Iran and China, and also apparently plotting regime change in Venezuela and a return to Afghanistan. Continue reading
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The October 2025 issue of ColdType is now online
Thursday, 25 September 2025 — ColdType Read Issue 273 at https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType273Oct2025.pdf and at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype273oct2025?fr=xKAE9_zMzMw —————————- BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype and at www.coldtype.net/reader.html —————————- ColdType Continue reading
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Over a Billion People in the World Suffer from Mental Health Ailments: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
I first heard the word ‘depression’ when I was about sixteen. My mother took me to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India, to be seen by a professional for what I had just considered to be nightmares and difficult afternoons. I was lucky. Today, only 9% of people in… Continue reading
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PAOK Fans protest Maccabi Tel Aviv In UEFA Europa League
Hundreds of PAOK football club supporters and demonstrators marched through central Thessaloniki, Greece, on September 24, waving Palestine’s flags and chanting slogans against a UEFA Europa League match with “Israel’s” Maccabi Tel Aviv. Continue reading
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Global Sumud flotilla boats attacked by Israeli drones
September 24 — As the Israeli government continues unabated its horrific genocide of Palestinians and the destruction of housing and infrastructure in Gaza, in the third attack on the 42-ship Global Sumud flotilla, drones attacked multiple boats in international waters south-west of the Greek island of Crete, this morning September 24, 2025. Continue reading
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Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
Millions of people watch a video of Tel Aviv in smoking ruins after an Iranian attack. Footage from a US bombing of Tehran takes the place of breaking news from a strike that is yet to happen. Look closer, and you see strange image errors and artifacts. The grass beneath the F-35 is eerily green… Continue reading
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Million-strong general strike blocks Italy for Palestine
One million people across Italy, led by grassroots unions, took part in a general strike supporting Palestine and the Global Sumud Flotilla. Continue reading
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From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support
The United States is building up its military assets, sparking fears of another regime change attempt against Venezuela—and this one could be far more deadly than the others. Citing an influx of Venezuelan drugs into the U.S., the Trump administration is rapidly building up its military forces, encircling the South American nation, one which has… Continue reading
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Regime crisis in France: Bayrou falls, now Macron must go!
The ‘Bloquons tout’ mass movement precipitated the fall of French PM François Bayrou with its call to block everything on September 10. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Besieged by Imperialism, United in Defense of the Homeland
Since early August 2025, the US Navy has deployed part of its military apparatus in the Caribbean Sea, claiming to be conducting an anti-drug operation, for which it has mobilized a total of eight warships: the guided missile destroyers USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson; the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima and… Continue reading
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A meeting in Harlem: Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, and the struggle for Palestine
In September 1960, in the heart of Black America, Harlem’s Hotel Theresa became the stage for one of the world’s most monumental encounters. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 