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When the Savages Manage Savagery: 9/11, Permanent War, and the Collapse of the American Century
Max Blumenthal follows the armed networks cultivated through the Afghan jihad into Al Qaeda, 9/11 and the permanent wars Washington claimed would finally destroy the forces its own imperial statecraft had helped bring into being. Continue reading
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US politicians are exploiting their own supporters with meme coin scams
US politicians are promoting crypto rug pull scams, exploiting their own supporters. Trump and his wife Melania launched meme coins. Now Hunter Biden did, too. His Laptop token immediately crashed 99% Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: De-Dollarization Is Necessary to Save The Global Economy | GEH W/ Radhika Desai
Friday, 11 September 2026 — Radhika Desai – Geopolitical Economist Is the world quietly reviving a plan the United States buried eighty years ago? Professor Michael Hudson joins me to revisit Keynes’ original Bretton Woods proposals, built on balance, capital controls, and the principle that bad debts should be written off rather than enforced into… Continue reading
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The Colby Doctrine–Wolfowitz Updated to Stabilize Imperial Decline & Death of the American Republic
For many months now, I’ve watched Dr. Richard Wolff slowly advance his thesis that the Outlaw US Empire in an attempt to halt its decline having realized it cannot fulfill the Wolfowitz Doctrine or the plans laid out in Joint Vision 2010 or Joint Vision 2020 to attain full spectrum dominance of the world—become the… Continue reading
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Why they hate Gary, Indiana
For generations, the rule for Black workers in the United States has been “last hired, first fired.” In the Black city of Gary, Indiana, it’s now “the last place where the lights came back on.” Continue reading
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Strategist Behind Palestine Action Ban is former British Intelligence
The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan. Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: Trump’s Sanctions Are Deepening The Dollar Crisis | GEH w/ Radhika Desai
Hello and welcome to another Geopolitical Economy Hour, the socialist and anti-imperialist conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times. You’re watching Geopolitical Economy Hour, and I’m Radhika Desai, geopolitical economist. Today’s show is one of my fortnightly conversations with Professor Michael Hudson, who you see here. Welcome, Michael. Continue reading
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The salad monopoly behind the parasite
By Aug. 21, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms had sickened 10,930 people in 17 states, hospitalized 454 and killed two. The illnesses began June 14 and continued through Aug. 11. Continue reading
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Detained For 300-Plus Days, Journalist Shot By ICE Could Lose Arm
In December, a United States judge dismissed the case against detained journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias with prejudice, ruling that the U.S. government had deprived Parias of access to counsel prior to his trial. There was no other “remedy.” Continue reading
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The Personal is Geopolitical
The world is undergoing profound change. For many Americans, this change is intense, overwhelming, and confusing. Many don’t recognize it’s happening due to the pro-US hegemony and empire propaganda blitz they’re fed everyday coupled with the economic and social alienation of material reality in the “USA.” Yet it’s still happening. Continue reading
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The West on the Path to World War
The most important question of social systems is what creates order by managing competing interests? In international security, we must therefore ask the question: How do we manage the competing security interests of states? Continue reading
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Anduril: “Hyperscaling” the Worst of America’s Military Industrial Complex
Arms manufacturer “startup” Anduril, headed by billionaire Palmer Luckey, has quickly morphed into a smaller, more efficient version of legacy American arms manufacturers like Raytheon, Lockheed, and Boeing — a new model for efficiently transferring billions of taxpayer dollars into private industry based on fabricated threats and manipulative promises — all ultimately falling far short… Continue reading
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John Stockwell Was One of the Most Important CIA Whistleblowers
John Stockwell, a CIA operative in Africa and Asia who resigned from the Agency in December 1976 and wrote a tell-all memoir, In Search of Enemies (1978), died in June 2026. With Philip Agee, Stockwell was among the most important national security and CIA whistleblowers of the Cold War era. Continue reading
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Washington Continues War on Russia & Iran: Stockpiles Low, Capacity to Harm Still High
The US continues waging war and proxy war against Iran with Iran targeting US-backed Kurdish proxies in what looks like preemptive or spoiling operations in northern Iraq; Continue reading
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Iran’s Military Chokehold Shocks The US-Israeli Alliance -Trump Backs Down Again
Trump promised “maximum pressure.” What he got was maximum resistance. Robert Inlakesh breaks down how Iran’s strategic military capabilities have shattered the illusion of US-Israeli invincibility in West Asia, sending shockwaves through the military-industrial complex and forcing yet another humiliating backdown from Donald Trump. The hypocrisy is staggering: Washington demands disarmament from sovereign nations while… Continue reading
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How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEM
Friday, 31 July 2026 — MintPress News Raytheon sponsors the Girl Scouts of America. BAE Systems is reading your toddlers their favorite fairytale stories. And Lockheed Martin funds children’s math and STEM festivals. This is done with great fanfare, supposedly to empower and inspire children to pursue their passion for science. In reality, though, these… Continue reading
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Africa resists Washington’s ‘digital colonialism’ health deals
Under Washington’s “America First Global Health Strategy,” seven American aid workers entered a U.S. isolation facility in central Kenya in mid-July, defying weeks of local protests and Kenyan High Court orders to halt the work. Continue reading
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McCarthyismn 2.0
A new report from Marco Rubio’s State Department lists dozens of prominent American figures and organizations as part of a Cuban subversion campaign against the United States. Continue reading
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Google’s Digital Dystopia
A newly-published academic study in “New Media and Society” has found that Google is systematically removing bad reviews of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention facilities from its platforms, including Google Maps. Continue reading
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An act of utter weakness. And utter mediocrity
For a long time, the classic 18th-century song “Rule, Britannia!” by English composer Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Scottish poets James Thomson and David Mollett, effectively served as the United Kingdom’s second national anthem. Its refrain, “Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” powerfully captured the essence of the concept of “Mistress of the Seas,” a… Continue reading
