The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Spartacast 17 It really is difficult for me to overstate how much I despise everything Spartacus Hey everyone, Spartacus here for a seventeenth Spartacast. It’s been a whole year, hasn’t it? And what happened in that time? Think and reflect on it for a moment. Surreal, isn’t it? The reality is, over the past year, I’ve been too busy and, frankly, too angry to post anything. I got my day job back, and I’ve been settling back in, trying to re-acclimate myself to my old schedule, and all I can think about now are the various horrifying things we’ve learned during 2024. I mean, these were things we basically all knew to be the case several years ago, but mainstream sources are no longer calling them disinformation and are finally admitting that they’re true. Honestly, I was also worried that I was being too much of a downer in general. I’ve seen people ask me, “Hey, Spartacus, if things are really this bad, then what are we supposed to do about it?” I’ve also heard less charitable th...

  Craig Murray: Israeli Atrocities Continue in Lebanon Rampant war crimes and ceasefire violations mark the trail of the Greater Israel project as it  advances   — with help from the U.S.-backed government in Beirut  —  in southern Lebanon. The author reporting Monday on Israeli ceasefire violations in Kfarkela, Southern Lebanon.  (Craig Murray) By  Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk N ot only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon on Sunday, as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, its forces also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109 (of whom some are in critical condition). This included a 12-year-old boy wounded in the neck in Kfarkela, standing right next to my local producer Mahmood. I was 20 yards away and on my way to them. Four were killed in Kfarkela and overnight the Israeli army demolished numerous homes there in “punishment.” Apart from one Leba...

  Beneath the Artificial Earth Electricity generation, economic doctrine, and the ever-growing power demands of AI Chris Bateman “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - R. Buckminster Fuller In one of the merely possible futures within reach of our imagination, our planet possesses unimaginable computational power harnessed by Artificial Intelligence. These colossal computational contraptions can calculate protein folds so effectively, that they can predict the side effects of new drugs with only moderate inaccuracy, while mediocre television shows are so cheap to generate that even the most undiscerning viewer is bored of them. To power these computational achievements, the landscape is cloaked in vast continental sheets of light farms, ringed by endless rows of windmills, and peppered with catalytic carbon dioxide stations to compensate for the scarcity of trees. This is the Artif...