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Breaking Down the Global Hegemony of Silicon Valley: The Monopolistic Empire
Sam Ambrose
For decades, Silicon Valley has been vaunted as the epicenter of technological progress, innovation, and entrepreneurial brilliance.
Yet beneath the polished veneer of creativity and disruption lies a far more calculated and aggressive strategy that has made its dominance appear self-ordained. Silicon Valley's stranglehold on the global tech market was not pulled off by innovation and talent alone; it had to be cemented through monopolistic practices, corporate warfare, intelligence agency partnerships, and relentless ambition from some of history's most powerful tech moguls.
The Exploitation of African Nations: A Case Study
Cathy Smith
The Myth of African Poverty Concocted by the Oligarchy
The relations of the global powers to the continent, especially America, Russia, China, and Israel, have mainly been based on resource extraction, strategic economic influence, and military influence. However, it is the role of foreign corporations, often in partnership with these powers, that truly drives the exploitation of African resources. These multinationals are largely plundering wealth for the enrichment of small, elite classes in every country from Algeria and Angola, Cameroon, right across to nearly every corner of this vast continent. The nature of such interactions has often typically taken the form of resource extraction, infrastructure development, military aid, and enhancement of political alliances.
China, Russia, the US, and Israel have been enduring players in Africa, their involvement stretching over many years. Still, most of their activities have focused on resource extraction, strategic military alliances, and political influence at the cost of ordinary African citizens.
China's Role in Africa: Resource Extraction and Debt Trap
The Chinese involvement in Africa has largely been marked by large infrastructure projects financed with heavy loans, finally turning out to be debt traps for most countries concerned. In return for roads, railways, and ports, China gains control over much valuable resources like oil, minerals, and timber. In Angola and Cameroon, local people rarely benefit when Chinese firms get mining contracts. China has also seized control of bauxite extraction in Guinea, while Chinese-funded projects have saddled Ethiopia with heavy debt and limited returns. This is a model some refer to as "debt-trap diplomacy," where countries are locked into cycles of debt dependency that are very profitable for Chinese companies, yet the broader population remains marginalized.
The Co-optation of Feminism: Media, Power, & Identity – Kamala Harris Analysis
Cathy Smith
Feminism was once a revolutionary force, a creed born out of struggle, resilience, and the dream of a world much different from what we had been given. It was born from the pain of millions of women working, poor, Black, Indigenous, women of color who refused to take the world as it was. And yet, today, feminism is an idea manipulated, diluted, commodified, and often controlled by those very forces that it initially came into being to dismantle from the military-industrial complex to corporate media giants; feminism today hardly resembles its initial mission of radical social transformation. This has happened because things are ingrained in how our media landscape rolls along.
We hardly notice how forces remake feminist discourse into more palatable, consumer-friendly, and politically neutral forms. The corporations that run the media, the intelligence agencies that shape public opinion, and the political powers that remain in control have combined a grand symphony of influence that has redefined feminism, replacing its radical edges with a glittering but hollow vision of empowerment. It is time to reclaim the radical roots of feminism to inspire a new generation of activists to fight for real change.
An Economic Lesson for President Trump
Paul Craig Roberts
President Trump’s economic proposals, with one exception, constitute a coherent package. I will address his proposals in a later column. Today I address his bad idea that would cause the failure of Trump’s renewal of the American economy. That bad idea is H-1B and L-1 work visas. For the past three decades, American manufacturing, engineering, and design jobs have been moved offshore. US corporations use foreign labor to design, engineer, and manufacture the products that they sell to Americans. The consequence is to deny Americans the income from producing the goods and services that they consume. Wall Street and the corporations have imposed deindustrialization on the United States, thereby putting it on the road to a third world economy.
H-1B and L-1 visas add to this loss of American employment and income from jobs offshoring. A minimum of 85,000 H-1B visas are granted each year. This means that 85,000 Americans are displaced from working in the IT and engineering sectors of the US economy. By the time the visas expire, the foreigners are integrated into the work force and are on their way to receiving green cards, Over a 10 year period, 850,000 American jobs have been given to non-citizens.
DeepSeek: The Rise of China's Open-Source AI Amid US Regulatory Shifts and Privacy Concerns
Cindy Harper
DeepSeek offers open-source generative AI with localized data storage but raises concerns over censorship, privacy, and disruption of Western markets.
A recent regulatory clampdown in the United States on TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform, triggered a surge of users migrating to another Chinese app, Rednote. Now, another significant player has entered the spotlight: DeepSeek, a Chinese-developed generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, which is rapidly gaining traction. The growing popularity of DeepSeek raises questions about the effectiveness of bans like TikTok and their ability to curtail the use of Chinese digital services by Americans.
President Donald Trump has called attention to a recent Chinese AI development, describing it as a “wake-up call” for the US tech industry.
Speaking to Republican lawmakers in Florida on Monday evening, the president emphasized the need for America to strengthen its competitive edge against China’s advancements in technology.
The Global Water Crisis in 2025: Who Controls the Most Precious Resource?
Fred Gransville
1) Water Monopolies: Who, When, Where, Why, and How?
Water monopolies, a burgeoning threat of the 21st century, are rapidly gaining control over a resource that was once considered a public good. The scale of commercialization has surged in recent decades, with corporations vying for dominance over water rights across the globe.
Who: A few large multinational companies, including Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo, hold the majority in the water market. Other food and beverage companies also sometimes enter into partnership deals with governments, sometimes with large-scale water rights where access to freshwater is already an issue of stress. Under pressure from economic and political interests, local and national governments have often privatized water utilities and handed control to these big multinational companies.
The Geopolitics of the Arctic in 2025: Resource Wars, Pollution, Climate Change and Global Competition
Tracy Turner
In a better world, the Arctic would be left to wolves, polar bears, seals, and whales. But not in this world, with our Robber Baron Politicians and Criminal CEOs.
The Arctic, once a remote, frozen frontier, is now a hotbed of fierce geopolitical rivalries due to unprecedented climate changes. The melting ice cap has escalated the stakes in 2025 for control over its vast resources and emerging shipping lanes. This heated contest, involving global powers such as Russia, the United States, Canada, China, and Israel, is not just about territory loss, but also about how trade and energy sources will be managed in a warming world.
As industrial activity in the Arctic grows, so do the alarming environmental risks. The prospect of an ecological disaster looms larger each day, threatening one of the last unspoiled places on Earth. The Arctic, once pristine and untapped, is now on a dangerous path toward becoming a permanent casualty of corporate greed and military-industrial pollution.
Consumption America: How Maximum Profits Are Depleting Health, Food Systems, and the Planet
Tracy Turner
Abstract:
The building blocks of 21st century American life, from suburban homes and lawns to gas-guzzling SUVs that clog roadways, have been rooted in excess. Today's culture of consumption controls almost every phase of our lives; excess is now not only deemed normal but actively celebrated. While encouraged at all costs to consume, we are simultaneously expected to look away from the outcomes of those behaviors.
Yet, this is fundamentally an unsustainable consumption culture that in many ways gives women a sense of empowerment. And the corporations facilitating the vicious cycle of consumption with this trend have prospered from the base of ignorance and apathy among us while agricultural livelihoods, biodiversity, and our health—that nurturing touch to life—continue to buckle under such exploitation. This system is based on the principle of maximum profit, a principle that often works directly against the environment and the very systems of life we rely on for survival. As will be outlined in these following sections, this destructive, profit-driven model is taking humanity—and the planet itself—into extinction.
Israel's Widening Reach: A Geostrategic Melange of Diplomacy, Resource Extraction, and Imperialism
Chris Spencer
The State of Israel is an intricately interlinked part of the geopolitics of the region, largely through its special relationship with the United States, complemented by that with Russia, and now spreading toward Africa, Latin America, and beyond. This complex geopolitics at the core represents the struggle for military and economic hegemony, ensured through resource extraction, diplomatic manipulation, and covert operations. It's not just a question of influence but of siphoning the wealth and resources of the most vulnerable regions, using military power to enforce such domination. In this model of imperialism, it might be observed side by side with the tactics of Russian and U.S. actions where countries all over the world act as pawns in a greater competition for global domination.
Mathematical Analysis of Military Spending and Resource Drain
Global spending on military budgets includes direct military aid, projects of resource extraction, and covert operations-all exposing a wide net of transferences of wealth from the South to the masters of imperialism. Herein follows an overview of selected financial figures and the overall implications.
Judaism: From Psalms to Surveillance Mind Control
By Cathy Smith
God, my blade-server, encrypts my soul in the fortress of His protection, shielding me from the firewalls of fear. His commands are my protocols, sharpening my spirit like a flawless algorithm in the face of battle. Though the route of my VPN may be long, My Bladeserver runs a checksum on every transaction of Death and Mind Control
The Descent of the Judaic Faith -- From David's Psalms to Modern Surveillance,
Genocide and Mind Control
Once having come from profoundly spiritual and a strong dependence upon God's protection, the Judaic faith has transformed through quite remarkable, deeply troubling means. The biblical legacy, based on divine trust and humility, has been replaced by a modern nuclear Israel of high-tech military power, pervasive surveillance, and psychological mind control manipulation.
This trajectory from the Psalms of King David to the Surveillance Mind Control World-Domination State of 2025 tracks the decline of Israel's spiritual ideals and the rise of technological control. What once was a kingdom grounded in divine faith is now a state led by military and intelligence networks, mind control, and genocide. With Israel becoming the high-tech superpower that it is today and the complicated geopolitics it's playing out, the spiritual realm of King David appears to grow ever more far away, muffled by algorithms, drones, and genocide.
This timeline charts the evolution of Israel from David's psalms of refuge to the modern state's dominance through intelligence, technology, and psychological manipulation. It outlines the decline of Israel's foundational ideals and their replacement by military prowess, surveillance, and psychological strategies aimed at both global dominance and control over its citizens and occupied populations.
