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Saudi Arabia Has Five Points Of Leverage Over The US
Saudi Arabia Has Five Points Of Leverage Over The US
Authored by Andrew Korybko,
It probably won’t ever muster up the political will to use them, however, but the possibility always remains.
Trump recently surprised the Saudis by demanding that they recognize Israel as the precondition for the US implementing their newly signed nuclear energy deal, which wasn’t part of the agreement. This follows him humiliating Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman earlier in the spring by claiming that he’d been “kissing my ass” for rejuvenating the US economy. His mistreatment of the Kingdom and...
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X Cracks Down On Large "Creator" Accounts Built On Stolen Content
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The saturation of large X accounts built almost entirely on recycled video clips has become impossible to ignore. Many of these accounts brand themselves as "creators," but they merely lift original reporting, strip attribution, repackage it, and monetize engagement as if the content were their own.
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Authoritarianism Doesn't Arrive With A Coup... It Arrives With A Login
Authoritarianism Doesn't Arrive With A Coup... It Arrives With A Login
Authored by Sam Lowry via dailysceptic.org,
Authoritarianism doesn’t usually arrive with a coup. It arrives with a login, a compliance form, a penalty notice for keeping records in the wrong format. It comes with a quietly extended electoral term, a cancelled bank account, a prison sentence for a social media post. Each measure has a reasonable-sounding justification. The problem is the direction — and how far it has already travelled.
Power is migrating from the visible arena of democratic politics to the...
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Jun 25, 2026 / Tyler Durden
How Wall Street Launders Dogsh*t Into Retirement Funds
How Wall Street Launders Dogsh*t Into Retirement Funds
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
One of the more embarrassing habits of modern finance is its insistence on pretending the stock market has some integrity left.
Capital, we used to think, flowed to the most productive businesses. Prices reflected fundamentals. Risk was priced. The market, in the long run, separated signal from noise and rewarded cash generation over fantasy. That is the civics-class version of markets, and at this point it bears no resemblance to the one we actually trade in.
The market’s core failure...
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