Swedish Buy Now, Pay Later Giant Klarna Rolling Out Stablecoin with Stripe’s Bridge
Digital bank Klarna’s stablecoin, issued by Stripe’s Bridge on top of the upcoming Tempo blockchain, is set to debut next year. What to know: Klarna, the Sweden-based digital bank known for its “buy now, pay later” offering, said Tuesday that it will debut a U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the latest global fintech […]
Economy
A Trillion Dollars Goes Poof! The Epic Cryptocurrency Crash That We Are Watching Is A Major Warning Sign For Global Markets
The ride up was a lot of fun for crypto investors, but now many of them are getting wiped out by the ride down. For a long time, people were using borrowed money to make absolutely enormous returns in the cryptocurrency market. Unfortunately, that bubble is bursting and an epic […]
Empire
Polishing Genocide: Israel’s Desperate War To Erase History
Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The perfect little story, built on myths and outright fabrications – that of a small nation fighting […]
Activism
It Should Be Illegal To Use AI To Deceive People
AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It should be against the law to use generative AI to deceive the public. I’ve got absolutely no problem with outright government censorship in […]
Health
Memory Lapses and Brain Fog Skyrocket in Young Adults, Nearly Doubling in 10 Years
A study published in Neurology found that cognitive problems in young adults nearly doubled from 2013 to 2023, while rates in older adults stayed flat or declined. Researchers say chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure — made worse by modern lifestyle stressors — disrupt brain energy and drive […]
Tech
Is AI a Catalyst for Growth–or For Collapse?
Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable. The current narrative holds that the big problem we need to solve is conjuring up cheap energy to power AI data centers. Fortunately for us, the solutions are at hand: building modular nuclear power plants at scale and tapping […]
Crypto
Strategy and Bitcoin supporters call for ‘boycott’ of JP Morgan
The tension erupted following news that Strategy and other crypto treasury companies would likely be excluded from major market indexes. The backlash against financial services company JP Morgan from the Bitcoin community and supporters of BTC treasury company Strategy continued to swell on Sunday as calls to “boycott” JP Morgan […]
Podcasts
The UN Screws the Palestinians
On 18 November 2025, I appeared on Helena Cobban’s podcast, “Gaza and the World,” to discuss the recent UN Security Council resolution — 2803 — that incorporates President Trump’s 20-point plan for dealing with Gaza. This disgraceful resolution denies the Palestinians any real path to self-determination while essentially putting Gaza […]
Solutions
ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras
Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose, California over its deployment of Flock’s license plate-reading surveillance cameras, claiming that the city’s nearly 500 cameras create a pervasive database of residents movements in a surveillance network that is essentially impossible […]