Paxton Crushes Cornyn In Stunning Texas Senate Upset

Iran Says Persian-Language Media Outlets 'Funded By CIA' Are Military Targets One key tool Washington has long utilized for influence operations and covert regime change plotting abroad has long been the establishment of foreign media for political messaging. The idea is that a foreign language satellite news channel gets presented as 'independent' while in reality it beams propaganda onto a unsuspecting population within a so-called 'rogue' state being targeted by the US. For example, WikiLeaks previously revealed that US intelligence invested heavily in such projects to bolster anti-Assad forces and sentiment in...

An Iranian source speaking to Reuters has denied that the US and Iran had agreed to extend a 60-day ceasefire under the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, since the deal fell apart shortly after it was signed. The official was responding to a report from Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, which cited Pakistani government sources who claimed that […]

Switzerland Has The Highest 'Minimum Wage' In The World Minimum wages vary widely around the world, but comparing headline wage rates alone can obscure how much workers can actually buy with them. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, compares monthly minimum wages using 2024 data from the International Labour Organization. Figures are expressed in purchasing power parity (PPP)-adjusted U.S. dollars, making wages more comparable based on what they can buy locally. Where no single national minimum exists, ILOSTAT uses other applicable wage floors to make comparisons across countries. The Countries With the Highest...