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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
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Un-American by Choice: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Revolution Liberal Memory Could Not Bury
Bill V. Mullen tears W.E.B. Du Bois away from the respectable American mythology that embalmed a communist revolutionary as a harmless prophet of racial reconciliation. His recovery reveals the color line as a world system binding slavery, colonial plunder, imperial war and capitalist exploitation—and restores the diasporic international that organized resistance across those fronts. Yet… Continue reading
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How ICE deportation quotas can put a parasite in the food supply
The parasite driving this summer’s massive foodborne illness outbreak has a unique quirk: it cannot spread directly from person to person. Continue reading
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Why ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Before sunrise on July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo stepped out of his Houston home, patted his dog goodbye, got into his work van and drove off to pick up his crew. He had made some version of that trip for 35 years, building houses across Houston, including the one his family lives in. Continue reading
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250 Years of G*nocide: The US Empire At Late-Stage Decay | KJ Noh & Radhika Desai
As the United States approaches its semi-quincentennial, the contrast between Washington’s triumphalist rhetoric and its material reality has never been starker. Defined by deep precarity at home and centuries of perpetual warfare abroad, this genocidal slaving oligarchy is entering a period of profound systemic decay. Continue reading
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The Backdoor Empire: When Chinese Sensors Expose U.S. Cyber Hypocrisy
CNBC turns Hesai’s lidar partnership with Nvidia into a national-security panic while treating Pentagon blacklist politics as neutral truth. The buried facts show that U.S. law already compels corporate cooperation with surveillance, while U.S. intelligence has long weaponized global digital infrastructure. The real story is technofascism: the merger of state power, Big Tech, surveillance law,… Continue reading
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Stay out of the heat, officials said. The apps sent workers into it
In the first week of July 2026, a heat dome settled over the central and eastern United States. Heat indexes reached 115 degrees. More than 185 million people were under heat alerts, and more than 30 people died before the heat broke. The real count will rise, because heat often kills through the heart, kidneys… Continue reading
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The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children
PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children with highly questionable messaging on race, history, and politics. Even more concerning, PragerU is led by former Israeli spy, Marissa Streit, who has stated she uses the tactics and… Continue reading
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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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Trump Lost. Now the World Faces The Economic Consequences | Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai
Trump’s ‘deal’ with Iran represents the end of Trumps’ futile search for an off ramp from the conflict that can be tarted up to look like a victory, at least to the most credulous and loyal of his dwindling following. Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai assess this defeat and its implications for the US economy,… Continue reading
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Post-Iran war: The end of an era, not to decline, but as a trigger to abrupt change
Trump’s chokehold on oil, tariffs, and tech backfired – forging a new era of self-sufficient economies and generational confrontation. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 