Interview: Elon Musk plans to turn X into a payments platform, so he wants to eliminate sources of regulatory oversight. He is trying to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - created to enforce consumer financial laws after the GFC. The bureau has helped recover $21b. Only "strong regulators will make Musk play by the same rules as every other bank." ~Julie Margetta Morgan
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Elon Musk Will Personally Profit from Dismantling CFPB, Says Ex-Official
President Trump has given yet more power to Elon Musk, who is now leading the effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Created...
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Some countries are willing to stand up for at least some of their principles: Report: The US threatened to cut aid to South Africa unless it withdrew its case of genocide against Israel, & South Africa's foreign minister said, "No chance”. "Standing by our principles sometimes has consequences, but we remain firm that this is important for the world & the rule of law" ~Ronald Lamola https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-chance-south-africa-remains-firm-on-icj-case-despite-trumps-actions/ #SouthAfrica #ICJ #GazaGenocideNotWar #USBullying #USAid #USPol . image
Some countries are willing to stand up for what's right: Report: The US threatened to cut aid to South Africa unless it withdrew its case of genocide against Israel, & South Africa's foreign minister said, "No chance”. "Standing by our principles sometimes has consequences, but we remain firm that this is important for the world & the rule of law" ~Ronald Lamola https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-chance-south-africa-remains-firm-on-icj-case-despite-trumps-actions/ #SouthAfrica #ICJ #GazaGenocideNotWar #USBullying #USAid #USPol . image
Interview: “The PayPal Mafia”: The South African Oligarchs around Trump Musk’s pro-apartheid & neo-Nazi family history underlies his belief that white South Africans “are the victims of the end of apartheid” & at risk of a “white genocide" Trump’s targeting of South Africa is clearly tied to Musk & other oligarchs who "grew up in South Africa as children" ~Chris McGreal
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“The PayPal Mafia”: Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump
President Trump’s targeting of South Africa is clearly tied to his influential adviser Elon Musk and a coterie of wealthy U.S. oligarchs, “all ...
 Musk applies his paranoid fear to the US #Thiel #Musk #Trump #USPol #WhiteSupremacy #Racism .
Interview: "Trump & Israel’s Criminalization of Thought" Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd on U.S. attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement, Trump’s calls for ethnically cleansing Gaza, Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank, & his own family’s history of fighting eviction from their home in East Jerusalem.
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Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on “Perfect Victims”
We speak with the acclaimed Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd on the publication day for his new book, Perfect Victims. It comes at a time of hei...
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Interview: On Trump & on Israel extending the ethnic cleansing from Gaza to the West Bank The Israeli military’s ongoing assault on the West Bank has displaced over 35,000 Palestinians through evictions, destruction of infrastructure & indiscriminate attacks. Trump's plan for the theft of Gaza & Israel's military campaign in the West Bank are war crimes. ~Mustafa Barghouti
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Mustafa Barghouti on Israel “Moving the War” from Gaza to the West Bank
Israel “has moved the war from Gaza to the West Bank,” says the Palestinian National Initiative’s Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, who joins us from Ra...
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Report: "We will return here, do not worry" Israeli military officer, while ordering his soldier ro withdraw from the Netzarim Corridor, also says: “We will return here, do not worry.... We will return & we will recover all the kidnapped. God willing, the Trump plan will go into effect & we will return to settlement here & build all the settlements."
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Updates: Israel releases 183 Palestinians after 3 captives freed in Gaza
A total of 183 Palestinians released after 3 Israeli captives - Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy - were freed.
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Interview: "Dehumanisation of Palestinians is so normalised" ~Mohammed El Kurd “Death is so quotidian that journalists report it as though they’re reporting the weather”. The Western gaze perpetuates a narrative that dehumanizes Palestinians & shapes our understanding of their struggle for justice & liberation.
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“Dehumanisation of Palestinians is so normalised,” Poet Mohammed El Kurd
Marc Lamont Hill discusses the dehumanisation of Palestinians with author and poet Mohammed El-Kurd.
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Interview: The New McCarthyism: Many Educators are Self-Censoring, while Others Vow to Teach the Truth “This is the new McCarthyism." The new "truth crime laws” criminalize honest education, & two-thirds of teachers are self-censoring discussions of race, gender & sexuality." Jesse Hagopian, Zinn Education Project Howard Zinn wrote A People’s History of the United States.
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Jesse Hagopian on the “New McCarthyism”: As More Educators Self-Censor, Others Vow to Teach the Truth
As Black History Month begins, longtime educator Jesse Hagopian joins us for Part 2 of an interview about the Trump administration and right-wing a...
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Interview: “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza” Peter Beinart addresses his fellow Jews, criticising "the increasing privileging of Zionism as a part of Jewish identity." The Jewish community makes "the existence of a Jewish state, a state that privileges Jews over Palestinians, sacred". It elevates "ethnonationalism — a Jewish state — over Judaism itself."
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Peter Beinart on “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza”
We speak to Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart about his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, which is “...
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