By Colin Todhunter In 2017, the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra in India experienced a mass poisoning incident: hundreds of cotton farmers and farm workers suffered severe symptoms after spraying pesticides, with at least 23 deaths reported. Official police records linked 96 poisoning cases—two fatal—directly to Syngenta’s insecticide Polo, with 36 cases involving only Polo and […]
Trump’s embrace of dystopian Palantir spying tool sends stock soaring
Kit Klarenberg·June 4, 2025 The Trump administration has charged the surveillance firm Palantir with agglomerating the US population’s personal data across government agencies, raising alarm about a centralized spying tool targeting hundreds of millions without oversight. Wall Street responded to the news by sending Palantir’s stock price to unprecedented heights. During an end-of-year investor call […]
Will Bibi Ask Trump to Nuke Iran? Ritter Says “Yes”
Mike Whitney • July 2, 2025 The outcome of the conflict has been particularly instructive for Israeli leaders who now realize that they are incapable of winning a conventional war with Iran. Unfortunately, that lesson has ominous implications for the rest of the world as no one seriously thinks that Netanyahu is going to ditch his life-long dream of […]
A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Jun 26, 2025 Interesting Times with Ross Douthat The billionaire Peter Thiel is unimpressed with our pace of innovation. In this episode, he critiques artificial intelligence, longevity science and space travel — and warns that our lack of progress could lead to catastrophic outcomes, including the emergence of the Antichrist.
Best Reader Comment of the Week [June 27, 2025]
From Moon of Alabama blog: Reflecting upon the events of the past month. The Ukrainian spiderweb operation in Russia was a shock to both the Russian military establishment and the world at large, and demonstrated one of the new directions in warfare by combining modern drone technology with a network of in-country saboteurs and […]
US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels
Wyatt Reed·June 18, 2025 Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles. On June 13, the Army announced the creation of Detachment 201, otherwise known as the “Executive Innovation Corps,” […]
War Is The Worst Thing In The World
Caitlin Johnstone June 20, 2025 War creates a waking nightmare which any sensible person would want to avoid except in the direst necessity. And yet we are ruled by people who actively seek it out. War is the worst thing in the world. It is the single craziest behavior exhibited by humans. The most destructive. […]
WATCH: The Agenda – Their Vision, Your Future
The latest excellent documentary from Oracle Films. The Agenda: Their Vision | Your Future is a feature-length independent documentary produced by Mark Sharman; former UK broadcasting executive at ITV and Sky (formerly BSkyB). In fiction and fact, there have always been people and organisations with ambitions to control the world. And now the oligarchs who […]
Zelensky makes new threats against Russia
RT The Ukrainian leader has vowed to “reduce” Moscow’s military potential with new strikes, with his army chief echoing the remark. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has suggested that Kiev’s forces will conduct more long-range strikes targeting facilities deep inside Russian territory. Ukraine has significantly escalated drone attacks deep into Russia in recent weeks, despite ongoing diplomatic […]
US has bombed nuclear sites in Iran – Trump
RT US President Donald Trump has announced that American forces have carried out a large-scale airstrike targeting three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan, in a statement on his Truth Social platform. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump wrote. “All planes are […]
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