Latest posts

Is Deepseek Dangerous? A Comprehensive Analysis of Its Risks and Implications - Digital Marketing AI
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the way we interact with technology, and chatbots are at the forefront of this innovation. Among them, Deepseek has quickly risen to prominence as one of the most notable AI assistants. However, with rapid adoption c…
Pedro Sánchez Bleeds Spain Dry: Expands Welfare Abroad While Spaniards at Home Struggle
Amid rising discontent, Pedro Sánchez's government allocates Minimum Vital Income to citizens abroad while many Spaniards face economic hardship. This controversial policy raises critical questions about priorities and resource management. The post Pedro Sánc…
The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 2
In continuing to unpack the ideologies of the oligarchs who are part of the new Trump administration, Iain Davis examines how their ideas are being translated into policy. He considers the consequent infrastructure rollout that is preparing the US and the wor…
The Corporate State and the Fourth Branch
The federal bureaucracy is under a microscope as Elon Musk and his DOGE gang run roughshod over key government agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Aviation Administration, among several others. Federal government wor…
Gender medicine and the Cass Review: why medicine and the law make poor bedfellows
In April 2024, the final report of the Cass Review, an independent review chaired by Dr Hilary Cass, was published, offering recommendations to improve gender identity services for children and young people in the UK. The core purpose of the Review was to imp…
The Linguistic Cosmopolitanism of the Constitution of India
In this, the second in our series of special posts to mark the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India, Javed Majeed unpacks the text through a nuanced analysis of its language and conscious choice of terms & phrases, to reveal a fundamentally cosmopoli…
Farmers of La Via Campesina: we globalise struggles and hope!
How do we get from the current system to the desired one? How do we influence people to change their way of life so they engage again with practical activities linked with their own needs? How do we not target just privileged people but also people from popul…
Zacatecas, Mexico: Nine Students Dismembered by the Cartels – Trump Was Right: It is Urgent to Ex...
In the wake of a brutal cartel attack on nine students in Zacatecas, this post urges a critical examination of Sheinbaum's government and its accountability in the escalating narco-state crisis. The post Zacatecas, Mexico: Nine Students Dismembered by the Car…
Morena and Claudia Sheinbaum Have Kept Up Mexico’s Move to the Left
Waleed Shahid Incumbent parties around the world keep losing to upstart challengers. Yet Mexico’s López Obrador defied the trend, handing off his presidency to Sheinbaum. What’s their secret? The post Morena and Claudia Sheinbaum Have Kept Up Mexico’…CPP-Central Committee: Strengthen utmost the Party on its 56th anniversary! Lead the people’s str...
Propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Dec 26, 2024): Strengthen utmost the Party on its 56th anniversary! Lead the people’s struggles against the US-Marcos regime and advance the revolution!CPP Central CommitteeC…
Airpower and Modern Politics: Symbolism Beyond Effectiveness
Abstract As hitches multiply in the Baltic Sea, or the use of missiles and drones in Ukraine, the Middle East, Russian and NATO forces are showcasing successive demonstrations of their respective air power. The face of air power changed since the heroic image…
The Human Terrain Program Done Right: Legacy of the Soviet Partisan Movement and the Underground ...
“War’s nature is violent, interactive between opposing wills, and driven by politics. War’s character, its conduct, constantly evolves under the influence of technology, moral forces (law or ethics), culture, and military culture, which also change across ti…
Non-International Armed Conflict – Current Conceptual Challenges: Confronting organized crime and...
This article reviews the current state of the law of non-international armed conflict (NIAC) in light of increasingly violent, intense, sophisticated, and at times transnational criminal armed groups. The current range of legal regimes addressing these issues…
CPP CC Statement On The Occasion Of The 56th Anniversary Of The Party’s Founding
CPP Central Committee | Communist Party Of The Philippines December 26, 2024 Holding high the Red banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and The post CPP CC Statement On The Occasion Of The 56th Anniversary Of The Party’s Founding appeared first on Redspark.
How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
Nearly half the world’s children “live in countries where risks to their health and safety due to the effects of climate change are extremely high,” according to UNICEF. By 2050, almost all children globally will be “exposed to heat waves,” resulting in the r…
The German Political Theorist Who Explains What’s Happening in Washington
Carl Schmitt, a Third Reich jurist and philosopher, saw politics as a life-and-death battle against enemies and democracy as dispensable. The post The German Political Theorist Who Explains What’s Happening in Washington appeared first on Washington Monthly.
A Far-Right Attacker Kills 5 in a Christmas Market. The German Far Right Takes Advantage.
Carol Schaeffer The eastern German city of Magdeburg mourns as the Alternative für Deutschland party sees an opportunity after one of its supporters plowed into a fairy-tale Christmas market. The post A Far-Right Attacker Kills 5 in a Christmas Marke…
How the super-rich shape economies and societies
Are governments doing enough to address today’s widening inequalities, or are they pandering to the wealth elite? Max Steuer‘s Dangerous Guesswork in Economic Policy and Sarah Kerr‘s Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let’s Talk Wealtherty consider this…
Trump begins overhaul of DOJ, border policy in sweeping Day 1 moves
President Trump implements dramatic changes at the DOJ and deploys troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to enforce immigration policies. Four senior officials at the DOJ’s Executive Office of Immigration Review are fired, including Chief Immigration Judge Sheila …
EU tech policy in 2025: Enforcement, competitiveness, navigating global challenges
Member states grapple with the complex task of transposing and implementing EU’s digital rulebook. The post EU tech policy in 2025: Enforcement, competitiveness, navigating global challenges appeared first on Euractiv.
Justin Trudeau’s Fecklessness Made Him an Easy Target for MAGA Manifest Destiny
Jeet Heer The United States probably won’t annex Canada. But Trump’s imperial dreams are already destabilizing the world. The post Justin Trudeau’s Fecklessness Made Him an Easy Target for MAGA Manifest Destiny appeared first on The Nation.
What newcomers think about Canada's immigration challenge
Amid the passionate debates and policy proposals around immigration to Canada, a key voice has been absent: that of immigrants themselves. This set CBC News on a path to ask recent newcomers directly and in depth about their experiences in their adopted count…
How Trump Uses Capitalism’s Myths to Exploit MAGA Rage
America is a nation still at war with her mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems, in which a teeming desire for some kind of break from the economic status quo continued to ring out in the exit polls, there was a blank space. While it seems to have be…Will Markets Go Up Now That Trump Is President?
Donald Trump was the first president in modern U.S. history to take office without holding a prior public office or serving in the military. This non-traditional path to the White House came with a distinctly corporate approach to economic and fiscal policy, …Call for Submissions- International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Educ...
updated: Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:25am Indo-Dutch Research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education deadline for submissions: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 The Indo-Dutch research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education is …On people’s perceptions of climate change and its impacts in a hotspot of global warming
The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is a global hotspot for climate change and highly vulnerable to its direct and indirect impacts. Understanding people’s perception of climate change is crucial for effective adaptation strategies. We conducted a study by using …40 AI-Driven Censorship Techniques to Control Narratives and Suppress Dissent
Major AI service providers continue to deploy content moderation algorithms designed to suppress and manipulate viewpoints, actively enforcing censorship under the guise of moderation. From Foreign PsyOps to Domestic Thought Control The censorship and content…Healthcare professionals’ perceptions about implementing accreditation as a strategy to improve h...
Objective This study aims to investigate the healthcare professionals’ perceptions about the impact of accreditation as a strategy to improve the quality of healthcare services and organisational performance in public hospitals in Jordan. Design A cross-…The French defence industry builds to a war footing
In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about France debating whether supermarkets should maintain a minimum 10% margin on food, Draghi warning that Europe’s security is in trouble, Bulgaria risking the loss of €2.5 bn from the EU Social Climate Fund, and so…Comparing public willingness-to-pay for different low-carbon measures: A case study of Shenzhen, ...
Cities in China have made progressive strides in developing low-carbon societies and experimenting with various low-carbon measures. The successful implementation of these low-carbon measures and the subsequent maintenance of relevant amenities rely on the su…
Trump’s Pardons and Purges Revive Old Question: Who Counts as a Terrorist?
by Hannah Allam ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a surprise visitor joined …Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
Society / March 27, 2025 Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on. …Team AKD Doing Well - But needs to get the Goals
Survey Reflects Election Results, Challenge Lies in Sustaining Gains A recent survey conducted by Verité Research indicates a sharp rise in the government’s approval rating following the election. The approval rating increased from 24% in July 2024 to 62% in…
Show HN: Using Language Models to Analyze Trump's Speech Patterns
We built a system that detects linguistic anomalies in political speeches by comparing them against LLMs fine-tuned on a speaker's past rhetoric. Applied to Trump's second inaugural address for some interesting results.Links below include reproducible methodo…
The mysterious statisticians shaping how we think about fertility
Humans have always tried to glimpse the future. Our methods have improved — from the stars and tarot cards to tremendously complex election forecasts. People love predictions, making them and reading about them. How else to explain the popularity of palm read…
Tariff turbulence and political missteps: Get up to speed on the Ontario election
The Ontario election campaign is in full swing — which you may have noticed because of an unsolicited text message from PC Leader Doug Ford. Here's a quick look at how the race unfolded during the first full week of campaigning.
UK Provides 5,000 Missiles... Geopolitical Shifts in Global Energy Trade… A Disruptive Shock…
The global energy trade is undergoing significant shifts driven by geopolitics. Sanctions, strategic alliances, and competition over emerging energy technologies are reshaping traditional oil and gas flows. Russia’s confrontation with the West has accelerated…
Exclusively For EC: A LANDSCAPE IN FLUX: IRA, 2025 BUDGET BATTLE, AND GLOBAL POLITICS CROSSROADS...
The year 2025 has brought significant challenges in American politics and international affairs. Key issues include shifts in global energy alliances and debates over the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) under the returning presidency of Donald Trump. Complicati…
The Shattered Mirror of Globalisation: Unveiling the Consequences for the Electricity Industry
2. The Future of Electricity and Industry The global energy sector is at a crossroads, with two competing pathways: Continuation of Fossil Fuels Many governments prioritize short-term energy security by extending the life of oil, gas, and coal, particularly i…
Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion | Forethought
AI that can accelerate research could drive a century of technological progress over just a few years. During such a period, new technological or political developments will raise consequential and hard-to-reverse decisions, in rapid succession. We call these…
The Recalibration of Global Power: …Toward a Tripolar World Order?
"2. Yalta 2.0" agreement among major powers, particularly distancing European nations from these essential negotiations. This potential realignment signifies a wider shift in global power dynamics, where emerging geopolitical realities are contesting conventi…
We have chosen to live in a chaotic world.
Written By Germán & Co ¨In a single, disconcerting moment, everything shifted. It defies explanation: harsh authoritarianism—sometimes cloaked in a pitiless communist guise—now stands as the model to emulate. As unlikely as it seems, the evidence tells a diff…National Security Is Not International Security: A Critique of AGI Realism
Published on February 2, 2025 5:15 PM GMTTL;DRsIntroductionPart I. Superintelligence and Security: Contingencies in the Securitisation of AGI1. Superintelligence may not be the defining feature of military capability…at least for a while2. Su…Continuing recovery of wolves in Europe
Author summary We report that wolves are continuing to make a remarkable comeback across Europe, with their population growing to over 21,500 individuals by 2022–a 58% increase in a decade. This is a notable conservation success, particularly in a region heav…
An “Abundance Agenda” for Government Is the Anti-DOGE
Since the 2024 election, Democrats have struggled to figure out why their agenda seems to have lost its hold on so many working-class American families. This kind of political introspection has a deep intellectual history, even at the high point for American …
International Courts and the Ouroboros: Legitimacy in the Age of Populism
[Shagnik Mukherjea is an undergraduate student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India] Introduction Globalization, nation-states, and democratic politics cannot fully coexist—only two can be sustained at any given time. In his 2000 pape…
Special Forces Mission & Mindset: Reclaiming Unconventional Warfare in the Renewed Age of Irregul...
Introduction The post-Global War on Terror (GWOT) United States (US) Army Special Forces (SF) Regiment faces a unique opportunity to rejuvenate its identity as it seeks to find balance with the overarching US Army’s evolving concentration on irregular warfare…
Outside the Box: We Need to Appreciate and Learn from AI’s (and Our Own) Flaws
Person-to-person communication produces learning. Institution-to-person communication produces two contrasting things: instruction and propaganda. Artificial intelligence is neither a person nor an institution. But it functions like an institution masqueradin…Unveiling chemical industry secrets: Insights gleaned from scientific literatures that examine in...
Objective Examine peer-reviewed scientific articles that used internal industry documents in the chemical sector to reveal corporate influence. Summarize sources of internal documents used in prior scientific papers to identify ongoing corporate strategies wi…Development and evaluation of a digital behavioral economics game towards improved understanding ...
The earliest and often most significant impacts of climate change in the American West is on water resources. For communities reliant on irrigated agriculture, ensuring water security in the face of climate change can be critical to the preservation of local …Improving citizen-government interactions with generative artificial intelligence: Novel human-co...
Effective communication of government policies to citizens is crucial for transparency and engagement, yet challenges such as accessibility, complexity, and resource constraints obstruct this process. In the digital transformation and Generative AI era, integ…