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Vladimir Putin congratulated Yevgeny Znamensky on his birthday: on August 13, the Great Patriotic War veteran turned 101.

Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings on the opening of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples in Krasnoyarsk.

Vladimir Putin congratulated the employees and veteran workers of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network on its 25th anniversary.

Larry’s note: This article discusses suicide. Service members, veterans, and family members in crisis can reach the Veterans/Military Crisis Line by dialing 988 and pressing 1, texting 838255, or visiting VeteransCrisisLine.net. When the Secretary of the Army orders every officer and sergeant in the force to personally check on every soldier, every single day, that...

The image of an Israeli/Zionist alliance with white South Africa is of the same character as the myth that Apartheid was profitable to capitalism, or that there was a secret alliance between South Africa and the CIA/USA. It is claimed that Israel as an “apartheid state” shared a kinship with White South Africa based on...

It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up “leadership” vectors of the Ummah; not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult. The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle. Or dodgy sub-standard theatre – complete with photo ops and sparse intel...

Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Oz, a dual citizen of Turkey and the US, is head of Medicaid, a federal program that provides health care for the uninsured poor. He announced last Tuesday that Medicaid, as directed by President Trump, would no longer pay for change of gender surgeries for children and for hormone therapies to counteract...

Hardly a week goes by when Donald Trump is not the centerpiece and source of a lie so outrageous or an accusation so heinous that one has to sit back gazing at one’s computer screen, stunned by the audacity and shaking one’s head in disbelief. But even after what is now more than a year...

A black teen, Nolan Wells, went out with his white friends for the Fourth of July; he didn’t come back. Naturally, many online have decided this must have been murder, and people have already been arrested for making violent threats. Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, and the Black Congressional Caucus are already involved; his friends are...

The Guardian published an article on Wednesday reporting that multiple sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as the ship’s deployment stretches into its ninth month and over 260 consecutive days at sea. According to the article: Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying...

Today in dystopia, the US government is monitoring the social media accounts of individuals who oppose the rapidly spreading installation of Flock surveillance cameras throughout the United States. In an article titled “The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts,” 404 Media reports: Mass surveillance is dramatically escalating around the world as the public...

Rumble link Bitchute link Truth Jihad link Press TV interviewed me and Clive Menzies on last night’s News Review. Below is a transcript. Press TV: It’s a pleasure to have you. Thanks for your patience. Joining us from Morocco, Kevin Barrett. I put the first question about the International Energy Agency’s report just earlier today....

The recent Jason Arday affair at Cambridge University was significant in more ways than one. Right when most Europeans were distracted by hot summer weather, government climate fear mongering, forest fires, barbecues and the pleasures of beach life, what happened at Cambridge symbolizes the bankruptcy and collapse of science and academic life. As the DEI...

The head of the region reported to the President on the execution of his instructions and on the socioeconomic indicators.

Santiago de Chile/Washington. Die Regierung von José Antonio Kast hat sich am Donnerstag in Washington vor der Interamerikanischen Menschenrechtskommission (CIDH) zu Vorwürfen eines systematischen Abbaus staatlicher Strukturen im Bereich der Menschenrechte, der Aufarbeitung der... weiter 13.08.2026 Artikel von Benjamin Grasse zu Chile, Politik, Wirtschaft

Interview mit dem Arzt Joel Heredia. Erfolge und Zukunft des zapatistischen Gesundheitssystems medico: 1994 drückte die indigene Bevölkerung in Chiapas mit einem bewaffneten Aufstand ihren Unmut über die Verarmung aus. Da die mexikanischen Regierungen ihre Forderung nach einem würdevollen Dasein nicht erfüllte, begann die indigene Bewegung, unabhängig vom Staat gesellschaftliche... weiter 13.08.2026 Artikel von Philipp Gerber zu Mexiko, Soziale Bewegungen, Soziales

Reading by Tim Foley:

It’s hard to wrap your mind around the abusiveness of the imperial status quo, partly because it’s all we’ve ever known, and partly because it’s too big to perceive all at once.

The statistics don’t show you the true human impact. The personal anecdotes just show you small snapshots of individuals suffering in their own lives. A working single mother crying in her car in a TikTok video because the endless toil necessary for survival is all-consuming and overwhelming. A news report about child labor in DRC cobalt mines. An Instagram reel about a father in Gaza carrying plastic bags he’s been told contain the remains of his daughter.

Individually, such stories are heartbreaking and enraging. But they are not merely personal anecdotes from separate individuals. These stories are unfolding all around the world, every moment of every day, affecting the lives of billions of human beings in different ways and to varying degrees.

If we could see it all, it would radicalize everyone against the empire instantaneously. 

But we cannot see it all. We simply can’t take in all the suffering that is happening in all the ways it is being inflicted upon innocent people all around the world.

The most powerful weapon our rulers have is the fact that homo sapiens are incapable of perceiving everything all at once. If everybody could perceive all the consequences of the decisions being made by powerful people on a deep experiential level, most of humanity would rise up to overthrow the established order, and there’d be hardly anyone willing to defend it.

The only thing keeping the heads of the oligarchs and empire managers attached to their necks is the limitations of human perception.

Which of course is why they work so hard to maintain the present limitations of human perception. All the propaganda, internet censorship, AI shenanigans, algorithm manipulation and government secrecy we see from the capitalist empire is there to keep us from seeing too much, because unadulterated truth tends to have a radicalizing effect on the mind.

That’s why they’re scrambling to roll out police drones, AI mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems while doing everything they can to slow down our access to information and insight: it’s a race to get us fully locked down in a capitalist dystopia policed by militarized robots before humanity’s unprecedented ability to share inconvenient facts and ideas lets us see enough to awaken a revolutionary zeitgeist in our collective consciousness.

So in that sense there really is a kind of worldwide struggle between light and darkness — not in a religious sense, but in the sense that there is a direct ongoing conflict between the agenda to see and to know versus the agenda to keep things hidden. Humanity’s higher impulses are trying to bring things into the light of awareness, while those representing our lower nature are trying to keep things obscured in the darkness of ignorance and confusion.

I don’t know which side will win in the end. I just know it makes sense for every well-intentioned person to spend as much the time and energy as they can muster trying help make the abuses of the empire as visible as possible for everybody.

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According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated […]

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