The 54-year reign of the US dollar as the world’s preeminent reserve currency is coming to an inglorious end.

Losing Dollar Supremacy… The Savage Consequences of Weaponizing the Dollar as a Political Cudgel

All you need to know about the Monroe Doctrine. Worth watching. 👀 "The history of the Monroe Doctrine. How 77 words in a USA President's speech in 1823 was used to justify conquest, empire, global domination and two centuries of war in defiance of international law." https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDQM15vyFoOScB-FwTZQ-BTIQ2RXTeS7v

Imperial Boomerang (written by Chris Hedges) The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.

Imperial Boomerang

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would ...

A remarkable story about a very remarkable woman! "Wu Zetian was not content with the title of empress—she seized the throne herself and, from 690 to 705 CE, became the only woman in Chinese history to rule as emperor, bypassing husbands or sons as middlemen."

Wu Zetian: The Woman Who Rewrote China’s Rules

From palace intrigues to civil service exams, China’s only female emperor left a legacy that fueled the nation’s rise and still shapes women’...

⚠Satire Alert⚠ "I expect you are distraught this year’s World Economic Forum has come to an end, and once again, you missed out because you didn’t get an invitation. Luckily, you can stop crying because I was a special guest, just like I am every year, and I’m more than happy to give you the lowdown!"

2026: the year the World Economic Forum admitted that every conspiracy theory is real...

I expect you are distraught this year’s World Economic Forum has come to an end, and once again, you missed out because you didn’t get an invit...

"Based on comprehensive data from conflict databases, academic estimates, and reports on civilian casualties in foreign wars (excluding domestic conflicts or genocides within a country’s own borders), the United States is responsible for the highest number of civilian deaths in other countries since 1960. This is primarily driven by major US-led or US-involved interventions, with total estimates exceeding 4 million civilian fatalities across multiple conflicts (figures vary due to challenges in attribution and indirect causes like famine or disease exacerbated by war)."

By the Numbers… Which Nation is the Deadliest Terrorist?

Sad but true... "The public perception of war has changed radically over the past few decades. It is no longer viewed as the abomination that it is. The consequences are dire: World War III is imminent."

Forum Geopolitica

World War III: A Film that Challenges Everything We Have Been Told

The public perception of war has changed radically over the past few decades. It is no longer viewed as the abomination that it is. The consequence...

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"It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry—that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must." These were the grave reflections of Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, delivered in his 22 January speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. With such Thucydidean tendences in international relations bothering the PM, Carney feared that "strong tendency of countries to go along, get along to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety." In abjuring this tendency, options beyond accommodation and grudging acceptance had to be considered. Who better to inspire than the meditations of Czech dissident author Václav Havel, whose 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless” had conspicuously moved Carney?"

Carney at Davos

Removing that Sign in the Window

"European consumers are fighting back against the U.S. following Trump’s threats to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory. As a result, two mobile apps that offer a way to determine if products are made in America, then suggest local alternatives, have surged to the top of the Danish App Store in recent days."

TechCrunch

Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store | TechCrunch

The boost in downloads comes as Danish consumers have been organizing a grassroots boycott of American-made products, which also included canceling...

"There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly

There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms on...

"Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95."

The Zebra--Good News in Alexandria

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Jeff Rich spoke with RT International about the situation in Greenland including how it relates to the history of the Monroe Doctrine and USA expansion.

The Palestinian Genocide: The Ultimate Evidence

The Video Trump Doesn't Want You To See

🤔 wild... "Another set of 17 malicious extensions linked to the GhostPoster campaign has been discovered in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge stores, where they accumulated a total of 840,000 installations."

BleepingComputer

Malicious GhostPoster browser extensions found with 840,000 installs

Another set of 17 malicious extensions linked to the GhostPoster campaign has been discovered in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge stores, where they accum...

What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?

What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?

#Firefox #Mozilla

"There’s a relentless campaign by scammers to publish malware in the Canonical Snap Store. Some gets caught by automated filters, but plenty slips through. Recently, these miscreants have changed tactics - they’re now registering expired domains belonging to legitimate snap publishers, taking over their accounts, and pushing malicious updates to previously trustworthy applications. This is a significant escalation."

Alan Pope's blog

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains

tl;dr: There’s a relentless campaign by scammers to publish malware in the Canonical Snap Store. Some gets caught by automated filters, but p...

#linux #ubuntu #snap #cybersecurity

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe, you have to make it fall" - Che Guevara Peyoti for President - You are the Revolution

"When we look at history books, we usually only learn what we are allowed to learn and what we are supposed to know. A recent example of this is the portrayal of the Ukraine conflict. It allegedly began in February 2022 when the Russian army invaded its neighboring country. The background to the conflict is concealed; according to the prevailing opinion, it is an unprovoked “brutal war of aggression,” an attack on a sovereign, democratically governed country."

Forum Geopolitica

The falsification of history and the significance of culture

Dwight D. Eisenhower asked the question that every politician should be asking themselves today: “Is there no other way to live?”

In ‘Birdsong on the Seabed’ the poet-bird sings of the land above to the cold-blooded and indifferent sea beasts, but none believe it. This marvellous, almost miraculous, poem fixes the fate of the prophet and the poet in Shvarts’ world - to sing with unbearable beauty of another reality to those who are deaf or indifferent to your song. Sasha Dugdale, Introduction to Birdsong on the Seabed

Is it worth singing where no one can hear?

2026 Slow Reads. Poetry Season. Week III. Elena Shvarts, Birdsong on the Seabed