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by Charles Sullivan / February 27th, 2026
One of the things I have learned in my more than seven decades of life is that everything has its opposite. For instance, you wouldn’t know up if there was not also a down. You wouldn’t know warmth without cold. Darkness reveals the light. For every peak there is a corresponding valley. In the same way, good and evil reveal one another.
Not long ago, a group of Buddhist monks and a dog named Aloka completed a peace walk of more than two thousand miles from Texas to Washington, DC, in the dead of winter. Their long walk was a continuation …
An outsiders introduction to developing a Large Language Model
by Rick Sterling / February 27th, 2026
In front of the Israeli Consulate in downtown San Francisco, a memorial to Aaron Bushnell took place on Wednesday February 25. This date marks the second anniversary of what Aaron called his “extreme protest” against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The demonstration was organized by Veterans for Peace and Noise Against Genocide. Leaders of local Veterans for Peace chapters spoke about the significance of Aaron’s action in 2024. At the time, VFP published an eloquent statement titled “Madmen Arsonists Strike Again: They as Much as Lit Aaron Bushnell’s Match for Him.”
Others spoke about how Aaron has been honored around the world including in …
An outsiders introduction to developing a Large Language Model
by Robert Malone / February 27th, 2026
Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It answers our questions, writes our emails, and holds conversations that feel startlingly human. But how does it actually work? How is an AI built, taught, and kept from going off the rails? The answer is more fascinating, and more human, than most people realize.
Part One: Building the Brain
Every AI starts with a goal. Do you want it to recognize faces? Translate languages? Answer questions? That goal determines everything that follows. Once the goal is clear, the real work …
by J.S. O’Keefe / February 27th, 2026
Driving through Yellowstone, I watch a black bear stand on her hind legs at the roadside, teaching her cubs to beg. She rises, sways slightly, forepaws lifted in a gesture that tourists find irresistible. This is her curriculum: stand tall, look needy, wait for the windows to roll down.
The cubs aren’t interested. They scramble up a lodgepole pine or dig furiously at the ground, noses pressed to earth, hunting for the pulse of ground squirrels beneath the soil. They’re terrible students, or maybe the only ones paying attention to what the …
by Binoy Kampmark / February 27th, 2026
This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alleged “narco-boats” and vessels supposedly heading to US shores laden with illicit drugs, Cuba had its turn at engaging a boat with “a known history of criminal and violent activity”.
On the morning of February 25, the speedboat in question was identified in Cuban territorial waters. Registered in Florida in the United States, it approached, according to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, “up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo Falcones, Corralillo …
by George Galloway / February 26th, 2026
history of repression in Canada. Yves Engler is the latest victim. Mark Carney wants a Zionist Palestine state. And Canadians see the US as their main threat. And why wouldn’t they?
Oprah, Deepak Chopra, Huckabee, Trump and his ICE marks
by Phil Rockstroh / February 26th, 2026
I have been writing for decades that Oprah Winfrey was a more effective force insofar as retailing capitalist propaganda than the Joseph Goebbels’ progeny of Fox News/NewsMax outrage peddlers and the corporate-funded nomenklatura/apparatchik clowns of the rightwing think tank shit-circuses.
Oprah’s grift emanates from the same capitalist ideological snake oil of self-bootstraps transcendence; withal, if an individual visualizes the capitalist order’s conception of success with the proper measure of rigorous intensity and unquestioning belief in the magical nature of the system then the universe will …
by Jan Oberg / February 26th, 2026
It is old hat for those who know a bit about peace that it cannot be created by looking only at the various types of violence employed. The world’s focus on the Ukrainian battlefield and its characteristic mixing up ceasefire with peace is misplaced.
One has to ask: And why did they take to violence in the first place, particularly when other options and tools were ready to be employed? And could have stopped the violence and helped the parties find some kind of peaceful existence.
Further, what is it that makes it necessary …
by Ellen Brown / February 26th, 2026
On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair, markets sold off and gold and silver plunged. Investors were positioned for a “dove,” someone inclined to cut rates aggressively and keep money loose; and Warsh has a long-standing reputation as a “hawk.”
So wrote Michael Nicoletos in an article titled “Everyone Is Focusing on the Wrong Thing.” But Nicoletos and some other commentators are seeing something else on the horizon – a rebalancing of the banking system through an overhaul of the Federal Reserve itself. In recent months, noted Nicoletos, Warsh …
by Greg Godels / February 26th, 2026
It was in 2013 that Thomas Piketty rediscovered the problem of wealth inequality with his celebrated book Capital in the Twenty-first Century. Published by Harvard University Press and selling several million copies, the book turned prevailing mainstream economic thinking on its head. Academic economists and capitalist apologists had long assured us that capitalism persistently created wealth and distributed it fairly to all the factors of production, with deviations from this fair distribution attributable to unusual or exceptional intervention in the process.
But Piketty’s look at all the available, relevant data showed just the opposite: capitalism– absent any external or exceptional circumstances– invariably …
by Binoy Kampmark / February 26th, 2026
It was good of Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, to come clean with the witchery and superstition that marks the Bible. When a text advocating genocide, ethnic cleansing and dubious real estate advice in the name of a vengeful Sky God becomes foreign policy and the sentiment of an office holder, foreheads should crease with worry. But Huckabee has no concerns on conceding, as he did to conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson in a podcast interview, that Israel has an ancient, unsubstantiated right drawn from the heavens to claim good chunks of the Middle East.
In the interview, …
by Dan Lieberman / February 25th, 2026
Each day we learn that the leaders of the “free world” lag behind us. Relying on them to give us peace and stability has its doubts. The annual Munich Security Conference, a gathering of Western world’s movers and shakers, tells us why we have this insecure world.
The Conference reached deep into the nitty gritty that determines European security, stability, and prosperity.
Topics addressed at the MSC 2026 will include European security and defense, the future of the transatlantic relationship, the revitalization of multilateralism, competing visions of the global order, regional conflicts, and the security implications of technological advances, to name a …
by Tricontinental Asia / February 25th, 2026
Jumping up and down like a fangirl called on stage by their favourite celebrity, Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s 104th prime minister, was all smiles standing next to US President Donald Trump aboard the USS George Washington. The image was symbolic of the decades long postwar US-Japan alliance, where Japan continues to serve as an ever more subservient client state and unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US empire.
On 8 February, just months after Takaichi took office, a snap election was held during a severe snow storm in most parts of the country, which overlapped with school entrance exams. Many argued that this …
Mayor Mamdani won't be there
by Gary Olson / February 25th, 2026
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of the “capital of capitalism” was a tremendous accomplishment and a blow to Zionists, Wall Street and Democratic Party higher-ups. Even the New York Times described his victory as a “surge of anti-establishment discontent.” Just a few of Mamdani’s frequent pre-election critical comments on capitalism include:
* Taxation isn’t theft. Capitalism is.
*. Socialism doesn’t mean stealing from the rich. It means taking back money from the rich who stole it from everyone else.
*Socialism isn’t some utopian fantasy but the only pragmatic response …
Condescending and Harmful
by Binoy Kampmark / February 25th, 2026
With much in the way of pomp and false premises, the social media ban in Australia for those under 16-years-old was celebrated as a healthy incentive to encourage children to get off the screens and into the playgrounds. A stampede of reinvigorated youth would rush to libraries to borrow books. Sport would be taken up with vim and vigour. Conversations in person would, miraculously, take place with renewed vigour. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had treacly visions of young Australians growing up playing in the outdoors with their friends, pursuing the game of “footy” and swimming and other sports, “discovering music …
by Jeffrey Sachs / February 24th, 2026
The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of these illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief. You took the money illegally; now you should return it.
President Donald Trump, you took funds from the American people that were never yours to take. Give them back, and end the abuse of power.
Friday, the Supreme Court confirmed what many of us argued from the beginning: Your sweeping tariffs were an unlawful overreach of executive power. The Constitution gives …
by Lawrence Davidson / February 24th, 2026
California politics is currently being shaken up thanks to a drive, led by the Service Employees International Union, to enact a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to offset federal cuts to healthcare and support public education and food assistance programs. Campaigning for the measure, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told an enthusiastic crowd that “never before have so few people had so much wealth and so much power.” In a democratic society, he thundered, “the billionaire class cannot have it all.”
It’s a message that’s particularly relevant in today’s world.
In January 2026, as the World Economic Forum opened in Davos, a …
Can citizen diplomacy build a safer future for everyone?
by Jan Oberg / February 24th, 2026
What a thrill to be interviewed by former British diplomat Ian Proud! Don’t waste a minute: acquaint yourself with him here on his homepage, which he elegantly calls “Proud Diplomat.” Notice also his book, A Misfit In Moscow.
Ian is, of course, also on Substack, where he calls himself The Peace Monger, and recently he set up his own PeaceMonger Channel on YouTube.
For once, I was not interviewed as if I were a military geopolitical expert, where I normally have to twist the whole thing …
Mark Zuckerberg takes the Stand
by Binoy Kampmark / February 24th, 2026
It’s not a rare thing to see the founder of Facebook ducking and weaving before the irate comments of Congress as he explains, for yet another time, why his network does not harm, has no intention to harm and, if harm arose, it was unforeseen and unintended. This dance of mendacity has been going on for years, and reached another level when Mark Zuckberg took the stand on February 18. Zuck has finally found his way to court where he faced cross-examination before counsel and the attention of a jury.
The trial being held in Los Angeles is considering the extent …
by Lee Hall / February 23rd, 2026
As you know Trump is gearing up to attack Iran. And I wanna be angry with him, but we must face the facts. Those Iranian assholes have to be stopped. There’s no other way to look at it. (Click the links to see the proof.)
Iran has 5,500 nuclear weapons.
Iran has around 750 or 800 military bases encircling the globe. It’s tough to know the exact number because a lot of them are secret.
Iran has encircled the United States with military bases.
They spend a …
Incomplete Truths and the High Cost of Official Secrecy
by Nolan Higdon / February 23rd, 2026
Notice: My goal is to provide fresh insights with every post. This article focuses exclusively on new developments regarding the Epstein Files. For a comprehensive background on the saga, please visit our [full archive here]; the most recent updates are located at the bottom of the page.
Recently, social media was flooded with images purportedly showing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a child alongside his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, in the company of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine …
by Sammy Attoh / February 23rd, 2026
Invocation
The climate crisis is not a neutral storm. It is not an unfortunate accident of weather or a tragic twist of fate. It is the latest battlefield of empire — a slow, suffocating siege in which the Global South pays for the pollution of the Global North. Rising seas, burning forests, collapsing harvests, and vanishing species are not the random convulsions of nature. They are the predictable consequences of centuries of extraction, industrial greed, and colonial arrogance.1
The atmosphere has become the new frontier of conquest. Climate colonialism is the silent siege of our …
al-Quds al-Arabi interview
by Eric Walberg / February 23rd, 2026
Interview by: Hassan Salman
Canadian researcher Eric Walberg (left) stated that US President Donald Trump’s disregard for all diplomatic protocols and his indiscriminate insults directed at allies and adversaries alike are pushing the world to boycott the United States and seek new partners elsewhere.
In an exclusive interview with Al-Quds Al-Arabi, he also asserted that the Old World, or what is known as the “collective West” led by the United States, is struggling to enter the 21st century and has been negatively …
by Yader Lanuza / February 22nd, 2026
After the Trump administration illegally kidnapped the legitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3rd, 2026, we saw two distinct and divergent responses from Venezuelans. On the one hand, the Venezuelan diaspora, especially in the United States, celebrated President Maduro’s kidnapping and bombing of their birth country. They congregated in small gatherings the weekend of the abduction, including in Miami. These celebrations, alongside videos online, were widely disseminated in corporate and social media for a US-based (and broader Western) audience, all broadcasting the same message: Venezuelans support President Maduro’s abduction. On the other hand, inside Venezuela, for weeks after the …
No Public Funds For Charter Schools
by Shawgi Tell / February 21st, 2026
While it is not the first state or court to rule that charter schools are unconstitutional and have no right to public funds, it is refreshing to see constitutional standards being upheld in an era where they are casually ignored by authorities at many levels.
On February 19, 2026, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that, “The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Republican-backed bill establishing a statewide public charter school system was unconstitutional. In a unanimous opinion authored by Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Michelle Keller, …
Radio interview of a Syrian and who is now living in Lebanon
by Paul Haeder / February 21st, 2026
by Binoy Kampmark / February 21st, 2026
In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second largest state has decided to deal with what it regards as an antisemitic problem. After last December’s attacks on Sydney’s Bondi Beach by two gunmen on attendees of a Hanukkah event that left 15 people dead, it has become modish to insist that a blight has gripped the continent. On February 8, the State government of Premier David Crisafulli announced it was “delivering strong, decisive action to combat antisemitism [and] address terrorist-motivated offending to make Queensland safer.”
As with other parts of the country, antisemitism has been singled out as …
by Philip A. Farruggio / February 21st, 2026
John Sayles wrote and directed the blockbuster 1987 film Matewan, about the 1920 Battle of Matewan. This was centered around the Matewan, West Virginia coal miner’s strike that saw scores of people left dead. Fast forward 115 years to Minneapolis, Minnesota. On the one hand we have the US government, run by a wannabe dictator, sending what translated into Storm Troopers, aka ICE & Border Patrol, to intimidate the citizens of Minnesota. Looking back into Matewan WV and Sayle’s film, we have the coal company, a government to itself, sending the Baldwin-Felts detective agency AKA Storm Troopers into town to intimidate the fledging miners’ union. …
by Bruce Lerro / February 21st, 2026
Orientation
The socialist left trashes attempts to unite the left and right
Is it possible to oppose this centrist drift to the middle of the political spectrum by uniting socialists and conservatives? In the United States socialists howl at the prospect of uniting with conservatives. “How stupid” they might say. “Conservatives are pro-capitalists, pro-war and anti-communist. Besides, conservatives want to bring back the power of the church, the aristocrats and the king. What a dumb idea! How could any socialist find common ground with conservatives?” In the first place, our socialist leftist have …
The Decapitation that Failed
by John Perry and Roger D. Harris / February 20th, 2026
The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that it would face little immediate consequence.
The response within the US political establishment to the attack on Venezuela has been striking. Without the slightest cognitive dissonance over President Maduro’s violent abduction, Democrats call for “restoring democracy” – but not for returning Venezuela’s lawful president.
So why didn’t the imperialists simply assassinate him? From their perspective, it would have been cleaner and more cost-efficient. It would have been the DOGE thing to …
