Some staggering barbarism here... The whole "lethal injection" mimicking a medical procedure has always been a performance designed to make the public feel better about an act of retributive violence by the state. This one, 30yrs after the crime, achieved the opposite

Is the threat to humanity AI itself, or is the AI peril just another symptom of the threat to humanity's future posed by berserk vulture capitalism (aka "the market"). A world ruled by the insatiable greed of billionaires is going to destroy humanity

Sorry, again, how much journalism does anyone imagine can be done from inside the White House? How much does it matter how WH press flaks spin govt actions? Do we reveal truths in the WH briefing room? 🤣 tonykaron.substack.com/p/ban…

News media may feel duty-bound to report Trump's (latest) promise that Iran will surrender and oil prices will plummet (post-Midterms!!!), but oil markets ignore him. And it's oil markets, not presidential exhortations, that determine the price we pay at the gas pump...

A rusted aircraft carrier limping into port at a Thai sex-tourism town such an eloquent image of the autumn of empire...

Actually, BBC, what's remarkable about this oil deal is the shamelessness with which the U.S. reenacts the piracy on which the British Empire was founded -- and the Western media describing as a "deal" an arrangement made with a proxy imposed after a violent regime change...

U.S. media talks about a deal between Trump and Venezuela without questioning how it came about, and whether Venezuela was w willing party to it: US illegally toppled Vz’s govt and installed its own proxies, who have done this “deal”. There’s other language for such actions…