USDA contracts with Palantir Technologies in $300 million deal to collect and analyze data on American farmers. Palantir Technologies, the mega data analysis company, is furthering its takeover of the U.S. federal government under an administration that is more than eager to outsource its responsibilities to private AI-based tech…
Yesterday I spent some hours, first listening to Danny Davis talking with economist Chris Martenson, then preparing a transcript/summary. The conversation was over 50 minutes long and somewhat dense—Martenson is an engaging presenter, but there’s a lot of info packed in. So I did a lot of editing, pruning,…
Viktor Orbán lost Hungary’s election last month; nonetheless, I come not to bury Orbán, but to explain him. On many occasions, the people have banished great statesmen to the political wilderness, only to call them back in their time of need. This was the case with both Churchill and…
Parallel societies are not the problem conservatives think they are, and dispersal may make everything worse. It is the classic chicken-and-egg question, except the usual conservative answer gets the order exactly backwards. The standard script for most conservatives goes like this: mass immigration from incompatible regions has failed because…
The genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in Lebanon have exhausted the moral legitimacy of the West. Now Iran is slowly undermining the military supremacy of the West. On the one hand, an official Western narrative paints a picture of a brave, besieged ‘Jewish’ state of Israel, desperately…
What Technocrats can’t understand is that people are not machines. When the populace rises up to stop them, Technocrats will be shocked, since they thought everyone would cheer them for helping humanity. It never occurred to them that anyone would have another view. This mechanistic, narcissistic worldview hasn’t changed…
Britain’s cultural voice and its sovereign borders, once the proud expressions of a seafaring island nation, now pass, in some measure, through the hands of Indians. Two years ago, I was hired by the British Council to teach English in Saigon, Vietnam. Here was a royal-chartered body, a quango…
Army sought statement denouncing incident as contrary to Jewish law amid backlash, report says. Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has declined to condemn the smashing of a statue of Jesus by a soldier in southern Lebanon earlier this month, according to Army Radio. The…
Laws aimed at pro-Palestine protests should always be looked at as efforts to ban criticism of Israel. That’s what we’re seeing in the UK as the prime minister encourages the prosecution of anyone who says “globalise the intifada”. “If you stand alongside people who say globalise the intifada, you…
The billionaire class waged a war on behalf of a foreign government and sent you the bill. Your MAGA hat is not going to cover it. You worked for fifty years. You got up before dawn in a steel plant, a warehouse, a factory floor, a job site, places…
