Bitcoin community weighs in on reports of Iran’s crypto toll for oil ships
Alex Thorn, an executive at crypto investment firm Galaxy, said it is monitoring onchain activity for signs of an oil tanker fee paid in BTC. The Bitcoin (BTC) community is discussing the feasibility and implications of the Iranian government accepting BTC for tolls paid by oil tankers crossing the Strait […]
Economy
“A permanent hit to living standards” – Iran War agenda revealed.
Just six weeks in, we’ve already got “global Economic scars” that will “define a generation”. That was fast. The Iran War has been going on for less than six weeks, has thus far involved no infantry engagements of any kind on either side, and is currently in the middle of […]
Empire
From Gaza to Minab, the Same Story – Children Paying the Price of War
Those who had the misfortune of growing up in a war zone require no explanation. War is hell, it is true – but for children, it is something else entirely: a confusing, disorienting fate that defies comprehension. There are children who live only briefly, experiencing whatever life manages to offer […]
Activism
Nuclear Myths Continue to Fuel Neocon Fantasies
In a recent televised rant on the Fox News Channel, the neoconservative publicist Mark Levin made the eye-opening claim that the current US-Israeli War on Iran is “every bit as important as World War Two.” Still more, according to Levin, the specter of an Iranian nuclear weapon (for which there […]
Health
Fertilising Hunger: Violence in the Gulf and the Logic of Control
The US-Israeli assault on Iran is being sold by the US as a defensive manoeuvre. However, it functions as something far more revealing: a maintenance operation for a global system that can no longer sustain itself and is increasingly reliant on violence. The Strait of Hormuz can be regarded as […]
Tech
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
It’s as outrageous as it sounds. Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal to be cloned from a cell taken from an adult mammary gland almost 30 years ago, in 1996. Transitioning from cloning animal embryos to human ones […]
Crypto
Bitcoin community weighs in on reports of Iran’s crypto toll for oil ships
Alex Thorn, an executive at crypto investment firm Galaxy, said it is monitoring onchain activity for signs of an oil tanker fee paid in BTC. The Bitcoin (BTC) community is discussing the feasibility and implications of the Iranian government accepting BTC for tolls paid by oil tankers crossing the Strait […]
Podcasts
Roy Cohn and the Orange Colored Con Man
Roy Cohn and the Orange Colored Con Man by Greg Reese Read on Substack The confidence game, commonly known as the “con game”, relies upon the exploitation of trust, hope, ego, and emotion, and is one of the oldest and most effective forms of deception known to man. Human beings […]
Solutions
The Empire Backs Down, For Now
“So as things stand right now this certainly looks like a humiliating defeat for the empire.” Reading by Tim Foley: Trump has announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran after previously threatening to exterminate their “entire civilization”, citing “a 10 point proposal from Iran” as the reason for the climb-down. Trump and his cronies are spinning […]