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Italy’s Anti-Mafia Directorate and the “Dirty Campaign” to Criminalize Migration AFANA DIEUDONNE OFTEN says that he is not a superhero. That’s Dieudonne’s way of saying he’s done things he’s not proud of — just like anyone in his situation would, he says, in order to survive. From his home in Cameroon …

National and global crises are seen as opportunities by government technocrats, billionaire oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big Media and the military industrial intelligence apparatus to increase their power and wealth. Incitement of fear has been a central strategy of totalitarian systems for millennia. Demagogues weaponize fear to justify demands …

The double-think and double-standard are patently absurd. But dangerously absurd. The European Union excelled in double-think this week when it censured China for “endangering peace” in the South China Sea while at the same time European states are sending an unprecedented number of warships to the Indo-Pacific region. Germany is soon deploying a frigate …

War is peace, peace is war. Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. That war ended in August 1945 with the atomic obliteration of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the most devastating bombs …

Overseas Operations Bill had sought to protect British soldiers, including those who served in Iraq, for crimes including genocide and torture

The flights, revealed in documents obtained by The Intercept, underscore the growing militarization of policing. THE U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE flew unmanned drones over Washington, D.C., in response to last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act show. The documents — two brief, …

The graveyard of empires redux. On May 1st, the date Donald Trump signed onto for the withdrawal of the remaining 3,500 American troops from Afghanistan, the war there, already 19 years old, was still officially a teenager. Think of September 11, 2021—the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the date Joe Biden has …

Canada could play the role of intermediary and diplomatic bridge both for the benefit of its own citizens and the wellbeing of the world as a whole, Matt Ehret writes. The arctic remains the world’s last frontier of human exploration. It is also a domain of great potential cooperation among great civilizations, …

Instead of fearing to be held to account like the Nazis were at Nuremberg, America’s tyrants face no such international prosecutions whatsoever. The dictatorship manages information both by deceiving the public to believe what the regime itself knows to be actually false (such as that Saddam Hussein might be only six …

Corporations, multinational investment banks, and the rich that they support, are trying to commercialize and control every aspect of human experience.