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Fighters attack ‘Africa’s Alcatraz’, which detains high-value prisoners, and disrupt crucial supply chains to capital., Fighters attack ‘Africa’s Alcatraz’, which detains high-value prisoners, and disrupt crucial supply chains to the capital. In a new wave of attacks in Mali, an al-Qaeda-linked group has stormed a main prison housing fighters fromContinue Reading

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Снявший голову, по волосам не плачут (When your head is cut off, you don’t cry about your hair) – Old Russian Proverb OPINION – Russia is readying for Victory Day celebrations at a time when Moscow is anything but victorious as its unprovoked war on Ukraine enters its fifth yearContinue Reading

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Russia has industrialized cognitive warfare, producing synthetic media at scale through a modular system that targets soldiers, civilians, and Western publics with distinct engineered effects. A Chinese frontier AI capable of executing the same doctrine is now freely available worldwide, unrestricted and priced within reach of any actor. The U.S.Continue Reading

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On May 1, organizers reported over 5,000 May Day Strong actions across the country — the most widespread distribution of U.S. May Day actions ever. Numbers are interesting, but they’re not nearly the whole story here. Because this May Day was even more important than you think. With No Kings, millions wereContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by Sentient. In the early 20th century, scientists discovered how to produce nitrate from air. This was key to the development of factory farming because nitrate is a very efficient fertilizer that is readily absorbed by crops. But the following decades revealed significant downsides to theContinue Reading

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The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . There’s a viral clip of Russell Brand that’s recently been making the rounds on social media. If you haven’t seen it, Brand — who is facing multiple charges of sexual assault — was asked by Piers Morgan about a Bible he seemed toContinue Reading

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The United Nations has called on Israel to “immediately” release two activists detained on a flotilla bound for Gaza., UN demands Israel immediately releases flotilla activists NewsFeed The United Nations has called on Israel to “immediately” release two activists detained on a flotilla bound for Gaza. The pair were capturedContinue Reading