Why have so many waves of protests in Iran failed to result in decisive political change? One factor is that the Iranian state maintains tremendous means to repress protests, including through the use of violence. Another factor is that there is no organized political movement in

304 Billion Barrels: The Real Reason Venezuela Matters to the US Sky News fully exposes Trump’s obsession with a war in Venezuela.

George Carlin nails it: “When your identity is your ideology, congratulations—you’ve officially screwed yourself. It’s not just an idea anymore. It’s YOU. Challenge it? That’s an attack. So you build a bubble: everyone agrees, hates the same people, collapses on cue. Facts die.

Listen to David Bowie's prophecy on the future of the internet.

“If you’re not willing to run in all day for your team… don’t bother!” James Anderson Tailenders Ashes review is live now on BBC Sport YouTube, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

🇮🇷 This is how an Iranian girl, a follower of Zoroastrianism, explains everything "on her fingers": 🔴"Hello, I am Iranian. Everyone keeps asking the same question over and over: what's wrong with the leftists? Why are they so noisy, why do they support the Gaza Strip, but

🚨Our film is up We spent months making this👇 About how Britain shut down many of the factories we need to feed us and defend us. Will have more to say on it in due course but in the meantime - pls watch, share and let me know what you think youtube.com/watch?v=PQ3hT8…

It was true 26 years ago and it’s true now. Quote from, The Whole Woman (1999), Germaine Greer

For all of my life Russia has tried to decouple Europe from America and break the North Atlantic Alliance. It never succeeded. Instead it lost the Cold War, leaving NATO more powerful than ever.  But now success is staring the Kremlin in the face. All thanks to Donald Trump.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using

My monologue on what the new world order means for Britain, from Times Radio today: For those of you who’ve not yet copped that we’re at a watershed in global politics I suggest you have a read of Mark Carney’s speech in Davos yesterday. It’s not often a Canadian prime minister

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🚨🔥HOLY SHIT Newsom just went there: “I’m not naive about the corruption and graft at a scale we’ve never seen. People are writing BILLION-dollar checks to Witkoff and Kushner for this ‘peace deal.’ Trump made $1.5B+ personally in the last 12 months.” How are we tolerating a

These were the top ten jailers of journalists in 2025. Israel is the only one that purports to be a democracy. 1. China 2. Myanmar 3. Israel 4. Russia 5. Belarus 6. Azerbaijan 7. Egypt 8. Eritrea 9. Vietnam 10. Tajikistan cpj.org/special-report…

‼️ Important intervention from camilla cavendish (FT, former No 10). 🆘 The Epstein files aren’t just tawdry scandal, they raise national security questions: unexplained money, Putin references, and elite vulnerability. Branson did due diligence and walked away. Others didn’t.

It certainly looks like Jeffrey Epstein conspired with well-known billionaires to undermine democratic institutions and enrich themselves at everyone else’s expense.

4. The business side of Epstein is a massive vindication of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine (2007) and Richard Seymour more resent Disaster Capitalism. penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/93662/th…

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A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):