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GER—An enormous scandal is unfolding in Latin America, which says everything about politics in the 21st century. Far-right Argentine election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested in Bolivia after hiring hitmen to try to assassinate his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Nadia Beller. They failed, and she is now revealing the truth. Cerimedo has deep links to the US government and Donald Trump's top allies, such as Marco ...

CARROS—China’s largest showcase of next-generation robots highlights the rapid development of advanced robotics, featuring machines designed for sports, entertainment, and practical assistance. From athletic performance to precise movements and intelligent coordination, these robots demonstrate how technology could transform future sporting events. •••••••••••••••• China’s new robots showcased at WRC 2026 demonstrate how quickly humanoid robotics is evolving, with increasingly realistic faces, movements, and human-like behavior. Designed ...

The narrow postwar political framework, however, within which these individuals would subsequently be obliged to operate was established early on. In 1947, Shirer, perhaps the most talented of the crowd, was forced out at CBS, without Murrow’s coming to his assistance, for criticizing the Truman Doctrine (that the US, as leader of the “free world,” must lead a worldwide crusade against communism) and the network’s ...

BL—I was 20 years old in 1968 and for anyone born either three years earlier or 3 years later I’m confident you know exactly what that experience was like. In the capitalist psychology of the West we were taught to separate individual development (ontogenesis) from world history. History, after all is made by extraordinary people, not by the average bloke. But in my experience my ...

PE—You may say that all stupidity is malevolent, which I won’t deny, but the common forms of it are accidentally so, and it is chiefly an introduced quality in America, where elements of cruelty and hatred are cultivated non-stop by what is risibly called Capitalist culture.  It seems the toxicity is really in his DNA, since all he does exudes the nasty tang of venom, ...

GP—All of this filth—the manipulation of the rules, the discrimination, and the corruption—reveals two entwined issues, pervasive and polluting: the total disregard for the law by the rich and powerful, particularly Trump and other demagogues; and the socio-economic doctrine of greed and division, which affects the lives of everyone everywhere. An unjust reductive system that reduces everything to a commodity and everyone to a consumer ...