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Former British intelligence officer and EU Middle East advisor Alastair Crooke paints a far-reaching picture of today's geopolitical conflicts. According to his analysis, the wars and confrontations in Ukraine, against Iran, and in Yemen are not isolated events, but rather expressions of an overarching Western power project. Its aim, he…
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If someone were to suddenly drop you in Amsterdam Noord or a new-build project in Toronto or Copenhagen, you might have some difficulty knowing which country you were in. The architecture and activities of the street would be similar: the ‘universal city’ by design conveys a sense of placelessness. We see standardised architecture,…
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American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that gave scientists a way to control nerve cells using light. The three scientists received the prize for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a…
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The outcome of the US midterm elections will decide whether the USA remains a free nation under the rule of law. Fox News reports that a CIA whistleblower told Congress that Fauci and the CIA deliberately concealed US government funding for gain-of-function research to make the lab-created covid virus more transmissible and dangerous…
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That is a rather narcissistic question to begin with, isn’t it? If we want to be something, then, according to this statement, we can be that, regardless of what it means to anyone else, or what it means to our own obligations to reality. The woke liberal culture would say yes: we can be anything we want to be. Anything? According…
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Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir (PLTR), who in 2016 was the first major technology investor to back Trump and the biggest funder of the Super PACs behind JD Vance's 2022 Senate campaign, has now drawn a clear line on Trump's crucial foreign policy gamble. In a recording of a private lecture on October 12 in…
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Over the years, I have frequently written about what I call the “looter class” and the “producer class” in order to explore the reasons why certain people, groups, and cultures seem to consistently resort to looting and destruction instead of building something of value themselves. It is a threat the West has been grappling with…
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The legal battle over alleged vaccine injuries, which was heard on October 22nd at the Noord-Nederland court in Leeuwarden, is not a typical personal injury case. Seven citizens suffering from serious health problems after receiving their covid-19 vaccinations have sued a number of prominent figures – including former Dutch Prime Minister…
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The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT. Thoroughly intimidated, I…
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Elon Musk recently unveiled a flying car that looks like something straight out of a science fiction movie, yet it is becoming a reality right before our eyes. The new Tesla model can not only fly, but is also capable of performing spectacular aerial stunts, leaping over obstacles, and even driving upside down. One of the most…
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