Anti-Imperialists Want To Improve The World; Liberals Just Want To Feel Good About Themselves
Ultimately what separates the anti-imperialist left from mainstream liberal “humanitarians” is whether you’re in it for humanity or for yourself. Reading by Tim Foley: Ultimately what separates the anti-imperialist left from mainstream liberal “humanitarians” is whether you’re in it for humanity or for yourself. For the liberal, wanting peace and […]
Economy
The Hormuz Hype: How Europe Got Played at the Oil Casino
Europe’s oil shock was sold as a tragic consequence of the war on Iran and chaos in the Strait of Hormuz. The story was simple. Blame Tehran, blame geography, tell Europeans there was no choice but to pay. Yet official documents quietly admit that the EU’s direct dependence on Hormuz is limited and that […]
Empire
Amnesty International Defends US Regime-Change NGOs: Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba
Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up the social fabric.” Amnesty’s new 95-page report (in Spanish, with an English summary), criticizes governments across the political spectrum for attacking […]
Activism
Truth, Fear, and the Collapse of Control
Guest Post by Mark Keenan There are moments in history when systems of control begin to lose their effectiveness—not because they are dismantled, but because they are no longer believed. We may be entering such a moment now. The signals are contradictory. On the surface, the world appears increasingly unstable—conflicts escalate […]
Health
Russia’s Cancer Vaccine Administered To Melanoma Patient
The Russian Ministry of Health announced yesterday that doctors at the National Medical Research Center for Radiology administered the country’s first domestically developed personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine. The patient who received the vaccine is a 60-year-old melanoma patient. Neooncovac, is the first domestically developed personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine. First Test […]
Tech
The System Being Built While the World Burns
The System Being Built While the World Burns by Greg Reese Read on Substack According to the Brookings Institution’s analysis of carbon tax timing, high fossil fuel prices are the worst time to impose a carbon tax, but are the best time to build the underlying market architecture. And that […]
Crypto
China Expands Digital Yuan
China has just taken another decisive step toward the future of money, and once again, the West is pretending this is simply about “payment efficiency.” The People’s Bank of China has now expanded its digital yuan program by adding 12 additional banks, bringing the total number of participating institutions to 22. China […]
Podcasts
#634: Monitoring the Situation
Physics tells us that the sheer act of witnessing an event plays a role in the outcome. Most people are helpless to change the situations we are witnessing around the world, but we feel compelled to know about their struggle, regardless of whether we can assist or not. The American […]
Solutions
Beyond Recession: Economic Collapse and the Architecture of Control
There is a moment—subtle, almost impossible to locate precisely—when a society begins to feel different. Not dramatically. Not in a way that triggers immediate alarm. But in small, almost negligible shifts: prices that no longer make sense, opportunities that seem harder to reach, institutions that respond slower than they used […]