AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers Posted on April 23, 2025 by Conor Gallagher Conor here: As the following piece from DeSmog notes, the AI champions assure us that eventually “AI will develop solutions to deal with climate change.” ...

Italy To Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation From Fascism https://ikona.telesurenglish.net/content/uploads/2025/04/Italia-768x433.jpg.webp Italian guerrillas on the day of liberation from fascism, April 25, 1945. X/ @rsumen April 24, 2025 Hour: 2:17 pm On April 25, 1945, Italy marked...

Von der Leyen’s paws are all over Ireland’s counter disinformation strategy Declan Hayes April 25, 2025 Stupid and all as this report is, its main recommendations and approaches will work its way into law both at the national Irish level and at the European Union level as well. The government of Ir...

Two Hundred Years Ago, France Strangled the Haitian Revolution with an Inhumane Debt: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2025) Since its 1804 revolution, Haiti has been punished for its freedom – crippled with debt, coups, and foreign meddling – but we must never forget that it was the first successful an...

This from the Dept of Silly Progressives demanding that capitalism be fair and just: How the American Economy Is Rigged to Serve the Rich, and Why Tariffs Won’t Change That Posted on April 25, 2025 by Yves Smith Yves here. William Lazonick has explained how financialization, particularly stock buyba...

‘Vance Go Back!’ — Indian Farmers on US VP’s Visit April 23, 2025 “No surrender to Trump’s tariffs” — Abdul Rahman reports on demonstrations against the implications for Indian agriculture of the U.S. vice president’s visit to New Delhi this week. https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/...

Return of the Ikhwan: Erdogan reboots the Muslim Brotherhood in West Asia With Damascus fallen and Sanaa under bombardment, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seizing a renewed opportunity to reassert Muslim Brotherhood influence across the Arab world – from Syria and Lebanon to Jordan and Y...

Deadlock Posted by @nsanzo ⋅ 04/25/2025 https://slavyangrad.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-24_21-17-24.png “I think we have an agreement with both of them, and I hope they do it,” Donald Trump stated Wednesday night in a media appearance in the Oval Office. The US President clarified that he...

The Grayzone: ‘Independent’ anti-Russia outlet Meduza faces collapse after US funding slashed April 23, 2025 natyliesb By Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone, 3/18/25 After fervently denying that they relied on financial support from the US government, the supposedly “independent” Russian language paper M...

What’s Next? There is a growing sense among many that we may be on the verge of a new world order or-- to be more accurate-- at the end of an old one. Opinion polls show very low confidence in the familiar institutions of governance and high uncertainty about the economy. Voters are rejecting tradi...