Welcome to The Now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Yes; all . 

 ...or "Another Example of the American Right Coalition Falling Apart:"

 

 

 

 

 

  From Reuters : Ford Motor (F.N), opens new tab said on Monday it will take a $19.5 billion writedown and is killing several electric-vehicle models, in the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry's retreat from battery-powered models in response to the Trump administration's policies and weakening EV demand. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company said it will replace the fully electric F-150 Lightning with a new extended-range electric model that uses a gas-powered engine to recharge the battery. The company is also scrapping a next-generation electric truck, codenamed the T3, as well as planned electric commercial vans. “When the market really changed over the last couple of months, that was really the impetus for us to make the call,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told Reuters in an interview. Ford said it will pivot hard into gas and hybrid models, and eventually hire thousands of workers, even though there will be some layoffs at a jointly owned Kentucky battery plant in the n...

  Harris (or her team or followers) thinks that she has the best political attributes of Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, but the opposite is true: she exhibits the worst of Obama and Clinton. She lacks Obama's political charisma and Clinton's political savviness, but shares their political arrogance. She has no real base because she has no core cause or core policy. Donors may favor her, but she doesn't have the allies in the Democratic Party that Obama and Clinton have. Her domestic and economic policies were fleeting if not outright non-existent. Oh, and like Obama and Clinton, she's a staunch Zionist in an era where that equates to supporting genocidal act. 

 

Make no mistake, banning all criticism of Israel, including what's been done to Gaza, will simply lead the way to more atrocities:  

 

 

  From CNBC : The Transportation Security Administration is giving U.S. immigration officials the names of every airline traveler as part of the Trump administration’s widespread deportation program, The New York Times reported Friday. TSA, several times per week, gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement a list of travelers expected to be passing through airports, the Times reported. “ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people,” the newspaper said. ICE and TSA are both divisions of the Homeland Security Department. A Homeland Security spokesperson, in a statement to CNBC, said of the Times report, “This is nothing new.” “Back in February, Secretary [Kristi] Noem reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country and do so without identification,” the spokesperson said. “Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolera...

 It's easy to call it a "racist, imperialist power grab meant to scare Europe and the Pacific into believing that America is not on the decline," but the video has so many other good points: 

 

 

 

 Respect to Ahmed Al Ahmed:

 

 

 

 

The world is witnessing a live genocide that couldn't be justified, and now there's a push to demonize the a whole religion in order to muddy the waters:

 

 

 

 

 In what can be seen as an unusual move of following the leader, WSWS has decided to create "Socialism AI," which promises to be, " a revolutionary tool that will harness artificial intelligence for the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class ." David North compares its potential to the Encyclopedia, which " became an instrument for enlightenment that contributed to the French Revolution by making knowledge available to masses of people who had been kept in ignorance ," and that Socialist AI can do the same if " properly developed and democratically controlled ." All in all, the purpose is to " provide an accurate, thoroughly researched reply to critical issues which arise in the day to day struggles of the working class. It will answer questions posed by intellectuals, students, youth on a vast range of questions, and will give answers which reflect and express the interests of the working class ." I ...

 Because you can't articulate an opinion, let alone fight back, if you don't understand what's going on:

 

 

 

 An opinion journalist/blogger pretending to be a investigative journalist-turned editor-in-chief is destined to end badly. Add in the propaganda element of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Zionist war against MAGA Republicans and the sudden rise of Erika Kirk, and well...

 

Hint: it's not about saving lives or spreading democracy... 

 

  Interesting that when shootings happen in America, there are factions falling over themselves to warn people from "politicizing" the tragedy.

  Q: Why would the richest country in the world need to steal another country's oil? A: To remain the richest country in the world (you don't reach the top without climbing over others).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Huh: The BBC has more . But Niko is right: France (and the West) is losing their colonies, and since they don't have much in their own resources, they are panicking. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Ben Revier of Marketplace.com, 8/6/25 : No, not really, partially due to an over-saturated market and different valuations placed on different degrees.  Nate Weisberg of Washington Monthly, 9/30/25 : Yes, as long as the degree is aligned with demand. Miranda Fraraccio of Busness.com, 5/15/25 : It depends on the degree, but don't underestimate the long-term advantage of work experience. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Many months ago during one of his livestreams, Richard Medhurst commented on the number of Israelis leaving the country amidst the conflicts not only involving Palestine, but Syria, Lebanon and Iran. So what's happened since then? Well:   Keep in mind that having a population that equals or exceeds the number of Palestinians is an important feature in maintaining Israel's claim as a nation-state.