🇵🇸 Jeremy Scahill says Donald Trump is not an aberration but “an extroverted representation of the most extreme and violent strands” of U.S. imperialism, arguing the current moment reflects the “dismantling of American mythologies” rather than a break with the past.
Speaking at the Global Decolonization Forum in Istanbul, Scahill said Barack Obama was the “chief normalizer” who bridged the post-9/11 “world is a battlefield” doctrine with the present.
On Gaza, Scahill said Israel’s push for Palestinian disarmament is an attempt to achieve “what they couldn’t achieve on the battlefield” - a “total surrender of the Palestinian liberation cause.”
“Their bombs, their technology… cannot compel that surrender,” he stated.
On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.
Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.
First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.
Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.
Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.
A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.
That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.
Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.
This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.
Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.
The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.
Do you agree with what Sony did??
That map is not a map of intelligence.
It is a map of what happens to test scores when you systematically destroy a population's access to nutrition, stable schooling, and economic security for several generations and then hand them a pencil.
The countries coded darkest red on that map are, without exception, the countries most thoroughly extracted by European colonialism.
The Congo. Sierra Leone. Mozambique. Mali.
These are not coincidences sitting next to each other on a map.
These are the predictable, measurable, documented consequences of specific historical events being laundered into a biological argument by people who need the consequences to look like causes.
The map doesn't show you African intelligence.
It shows you the invoice for European colonialism, repackaged as a nature documentary.
@Jairomartinez87@BryanGuevara17 Estamos mas preocupados por el desorden en el mundo y el impacto de la guerra económica que los gringos nos han lanzado desde el año pasado 🤷🏻
Bukele is using a State of Exception to commit flagrant human rights abuses against the Salvadorian people—and Trump is enabling him. This cannot stand.
Israel killed my childhood best friend today.
He was at work.
In Beirut.
Israel killed him.
Israel killed him.
Israel killed him.
He has 2 gorgeous girls.
He has a beautiful wife..my direct first cousin.
Israel killed Hasan.
Israel killed him.
Hasan was a civilian.
Israel Killed Him.