EU politics
Jonas Tögel, Pascal Lottaz – Europe’s Path to Self-Destruction
22 September 2025
Media
Geopolitics
Nick Cleveland-Stout – Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post
Netanyahu referred this week to a ‘community’ pushing out preferred messaging in US media — and boy are they making a princely sum Nick Cleveland-Stout is a Research Associate in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program […]
Media Influence
Branko Milanović – Note on new technologies in China and on our human future
What negative changes new technologies are bringing with them. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posted from Branko’ Substack “Global […]
Geopolitics
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos – Israel wins TikTok
Larry Ellison and a constellation of billionaires will finally get their way, buying the very app they wanted to kill a year ago for being too ‘pro-Palestinian’ Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is the Editorial Director of […]
Fake News
Deadline: BBC News Journalist Mohamed Shalaby Says He Was Banned From UK Broadcaster’s Premises After Calling Out Gaza Coverage
A journalist with BBC Verify fact-checking outfit challenged the company’s smears of murdered Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif and was fired for it. Read Article HERE
Media
Robin McAlpine – Political violence is driven by commercial interest
Social media algorithms are designed to make people angry. Robin McAlpine is Head of Strategic Development at the Common Weal think-tank in Scotland. Cross-posted from Robin McAlpine’s blog The global debate over the rise in […]
Media
Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk is a staging post in the rise of Christian fascism in the United States. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he […]
Geopolitics
Jonathan Cook – The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West
Western elites don’t care what you think or say, so long as you don’t notice that they are the ones making money from a genocide, asset-stripping western economies and trashing our planet Jonathan Cook is […]
EU politics
Aurelien – The Truth Market…The Scum also rises.
People don’t seek truth. They seek a reasonably authoritative-sounding confirmation of their own assumptions and prejudices Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication […]
Geopolitics
Hamza Yusuf – Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘The mainstream media failed Gaza’
Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief accuses Western journalists of ‘capitulating to the Israeli narrative’. Hamza Yusuf is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist whose work focuses on Palestine. Cross-posted from Declassified UK Licensed under the Creative […]