Since the turn of the century, the expansion of solar power has surpassed expectations, more than any other energy source. 

Once extremely expensive and only used in remote regions, space travel or pocket calculators, today's solar modules — easy to set up and operate — generate cheap electricity all over the world.

Solar is winning the energy race

Gero Rueter

The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.

Global solar energy capacity has skyrocketed over the last decade:

Some old truths about warfare have been knocking on the door of the Oval Office in the month since US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent US and Israeli warplanes to bomb Iran.

The failure to learn from the past means that Donald Trump now faces a stark choice. If he cannot get a deal with Iran, he can either try to declare a victory that will fool no-one, or escalate the war.

Jeremy Bowen: Trump is waging war based on instinct and it isn't working

by Jeremy Bowen

You’re not imagining it.

Everything costs more. Everything is monitored.

Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom.

That’s because it is.

The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen—You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite

BY John & Nisha Whitehead

The government has turned everyday life into a revenue stream—funding endless wars, bloated agencies, surveillance systems, and profit-driven policing… all on your dime.

You’re not just paying taxes. You’re paying to be watched. Paying to be policed. Paying to be controlled.

This isn’t government. It’s a business model.

After one month of war against Iran, one conclusion stands out more clearly than anything declared in all the press briefings: Neither the US nor Israel entered this confrontation with a plan for a long war.

The campaign was conceived as a short and brutal episode, a shock operation designed to break Iran’s will, force Tehran back to the table on humiliating terms, or in the most ambitious fantasies circulating around Donald Trump’s political circle, trigger internal collapse and perhaps even regime change.

A month of war has shown the strategic failure of attacking Iran

What the US and Israel saw as a quick campaign, Iran sees as a fight for survival. Costs are rising and the end is nowhere in sight.

BY Murad Sadygzade

This isn’t just a weapons deal.
It’s a shift in air superiority — and who controls the skies over the Gulf.

You’re not about to watch a story about fighter jets being delivered.

You’re about to see how one strategic transfer can change detection, engagement, and survival in modern air warfare.

Russia Secretly Delivered 48 Warplanes to Iran — $6.5B Fighter Jet Can Blind All U.S. Radars in Gulf

Right now, reports indicate Iran has secured a deal for up to 48 advanced Russian Su-35 fighter jets, part of a multi-billion dollar agreement that could redefine its air force capabilities.

Not gradually. Structurally.

[24 October 2022]: Questions have been asked about a mystery account said to be supporting the campaign of Trump-backed Joe Kent – triggering wild speculation and theories about the former Green Beret.

A report published at the weekend claimed that a company listed by the 42-year-old Maga champion as paying his salary, did not appear to exist.

I write these lines at a particularly difficult moment for Venezuelan sovereignty. The imperialist attack of January 3 and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and Congresswoman Cilia Flores marked a new escalation in an aggression that now spans more than twenty-six years against the Bolivarian Revolution.

This is not an isolated episode. It is a new chapter in a broad and multifaceted strategy aimed at taking away the Venezuelan people and government’s power of decision and, ultimately, reversing the political path inaugurated in 1999.

The Commune and Popular Sovereignty in Times of Imperialist Siege

By Cira Pascual Marquina

US President Donald Trump has boasted that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader, is “kissing my ass” and must “be nice” to the US.

Trump made the remarks on Friday at the Saudi sovereign wealth fund’s annual forum in Miami, amid the US-Israeli war against Iran, which sparked retaliation in which Saudi facilities were targeted.

During his address, Trump reminisced about his ties with 90-year-old Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. “I… love the king of Saudi Arabia. What a man he is. When I was there, we bonded,” he said, recalling that the king once grabbed his arm to get up.

A fully automated news site with no journalists shows how easily AI can mimic credibility – and how exposed Australia is to manipulation.

_The Daily Perspective_ is a month old and looks professional and sleek. Its team of journalists uploads articles every few minutes.

They come from culturally diverse backgrounds that reflect their expertise – pretty rare in our local media landscape.

In the first hours of his second term, President Trump signed executive orders re-withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, rolling back incentives for electric vehicles, pausing approvals for wind farms in federal waters, and declaring a “national energy emergency” to expedite drilling and open up more land and sea for drilling.

Trump Is Accidentally Making a Great Case for the Green New Deal

Trump and his billionaire oligarchs are standing between us and a cleaner, more equal world. 

The German federal government is defending the planned Monday reception of Syria’s transitional president Ahmed al‑Scharaa. “It is important to stay in contact with the Syrian regime” government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius told the dts news agency on Friday.

Kornelius added that the idea of the Chancellor meeting al‑Scharaa for lunch is not an extraordinary honor but simply a matter of courtesy, and he explicitly rejects the claim that al‑Scharaa is a war criminal.

Something is happening in the United States. It’s not just the rise of a tyrannical, anti-democratic, narcissist President. It’s a people’s movement in response. It is the rise of a nationwide resistance, led by skilled truth-tellers who defy the tsunami of post-truth bilge and document the death toll and other obscenities.

Catriona Jackson

This isn’t a story about a single strike or a sudden decision.
It’s a story about pressure reaching a breaking point — and a system finally snapping.

You’re not about to watch Iran step back because it wants to.

You’re about to watch it happen because the strategic, economic, and military pressure became unsustainable — the same way it always does before a forced retreat.

Right now, something inside Tehran’s power structure has shifted. Not publicly. Not clearly. But structurally.

In this video, Money & Empires breaks down why Iran is being pushed into a retreat position, how pressure builds across military, economic, and geopolitical fronts, and why these moments of sudden reversal follow patterns we’ve seen before — almost frame for frame.

This isn’t speculation.
It’s historical precedent, pressure mechanics, and strategic positioning.

US President Donald Trump’s signature is set to appear on US paper currency starting this summer, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.

It will mark the first time a sitting US president’s signature has appeared on legal tender.

The Treasury said the redesign is intended to mark America’s upcoming 250th anniversary. Trump’s signature is expected to replace that of the US treasurer, altering a long-standing convention, while the Treasury secretary’s signature will remain and no new imagery will be added.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the move is appropriate for the Semiquincentennial, calling it a way to recognize the achievements of both the country and President Trump. He said the first $100 bills bearing Trump’s signature alongside his own will be printed in June, with other denominations to follow in subsequent months.