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Stuff’s Quarantine Nation podcast sells itself as sober reflection on the Covid years. Read through the lens of Edward Bernays, it looks more like a second wave of propaganda: regret without reversal, fear and heroism without accountability, and a tightly controlled story about what we’re allowed to question. Quarantine Nation presents itself as a reflective oral history of New Zealand’s Covid years. It’s marketed as “a mostly serious history,”…

The 1979 oil shock wasn't a market event — it was engineered by the same imperial establishment now trying to pin an economic crisis on Trump. Barbara Boyd exposes the playbook and explains why unconditional surrender is the cure, not the cause. · Barbara Boyd argues that warnings of a 1979-style oil shock after President Trump’s call for Iran’s unconditional surrender are a manufactured panic pushed by the City of London’s…

Axel Springer SE has moved to purchase the Tory party-affiliated British outlet The Telegraph · FILE PHOTO: Copies of The Daily Telegraph on display at a newspaper stand, London, UK, March 6, 2026. © Getty Images / Jack Taylor · Germany’s Axel Springer SE, the owner of Bild, Politico, and Business Insider, has announced that it will buy out The Telegraph for £575 million ($771 million). The deal would unite two of…

The greatest threat to dollar primacy is not foreign rivals but domestic populists, fighting the wrong battle with the wrong weapons By Prof. Dr. Kai-Alexander Schlevogt, a globally recognized expert in strategic leadership and economic policy, who has served as Full University Professor at the Graduate School of Management (GSOM), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), where he held the University-Endowed Chair in Strategic Leadership. He…

The statement comes after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized for strikes on Gulf countries · US President Donald Trump ©  Andrew Harnik / Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has released a new threatening statement to Iran, just hours after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an apology for previous strikes on Gulf countries. · In a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump claimed that…

The Ukrainian leader’s suggestion that his military should speak personally with the Hungarian prime minister “in its own language” has upset has backers in Brussels · Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky ©  Charles McQuillan / Getty Images · [RT] The European Commission has criticized Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky for threatening Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, calling his comments unacceptable. · Earlier this week, the…

Washington has rapidly warmed up to Caracas after kidnapping President Nicolas Maduro and forcing his administration to comply with US demands · FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump. ©  Global Look Press / Jim LoScalzo · [RT] The US has “formally recognized” the interim Venezuelan government, President Donald Trump has stated. He has also touted a new “deal” with Caracas on the nation’s gold. · Trump drastically changed his…

Frank Bergman · The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is preparing to release another explosive batch of 47,635 additional documents connected to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein, adding to the millions of records already made public. · Officials say the new batch of files is expected to be released by the end of the week, raising expectations that more bombshell revelations about Epstein’s network could soon surface. · The…

Andrew Korybko · He just ordered that some of Russia’s LNG exports to the EU be redirected to Asia, and if the EU doesn’t coerce Zelensky into giving him giving him more of what he wants in Ukraine, then there’d be no reason for him to not cut off Russia’s exports to them entirely for catalyzing a full-blown crisis. · The EU agreed late last year to end Russian LNG imports by 31 December 2026 and pipeline gas imports by 30 September 2027,…

Jason Ross - Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Hedquarters said the US Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has been hit by the country’s drones. Credit: CC/Tasnim News Agency · Consider what a single week of war has revealed about the fragility of the system the Western order long assumed was permanent. · Iranian drones strike Amazon data centers in the Gulf, knocking banking systems offline across the region. Qatar halts liquefied natural gas…