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Alt-text: Screenshot of a social media post. It shows a promotional image for Bob Vylan's live performance at Glastonbury, showing text that it is scheduled for Saturday from 14:30 to 15:30 at West Holts. The image features two smiling members of the band against a purple background with BBC and Glastonbury logos. Text above is written by the band (with a verified check mark) and reads, “Turns out we’re finally at a point where the BBC trust us on live tv! Watch us live either in the field or in the comfort of your own home!”

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Leading economists endorse Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral plan to freeze rents, expand free buses, and launch public grocery stores.

Comment: this is what actual argumentation for increased military spending looks like, not the cheap shots and smears of being propaganda vectors levelled against dissident points of view like those of Sanchez or Varoufakis. Europe deserves better than paranoia and McCarthyism.

Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy on what's driving Netanyahu and why this will be a defining moment for Trump's MAGA movement.

The House of Representatives is trying to pass a resolution making the term “Free Palestine” an official antisemitic slogan.

Republican Representative Gabe Evans from Colorado introduced the resolution in the wake of the attack on a gathering for Israeli hostages in Boulder this week. Mohammed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, has been charged for the attack, during which he yelled “Free Palestine,” according to the FBI.

“Whereas, while shouting ‘Free Palestine,’ an antisemitic slogan that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and Jewish people, Mohammed Sabry Soliman attacked the peaceful demonstrators with homemade Molotov cocktails,” the resolution reads. House Republicans are expected to vote on the nonbinding resolution next week.

Paul Buitink talks to former Greek Minister of Finance (2015) and author of several books like 'Technofeudalism, What Killed Capitalism' about the risks of modern technofeudalism in which cloud capitalists extract rents from the public and distort public discourse. He says we need to tax big tech to the hilt since privatizing wouldn't work. Also he proposes how cities should create their own tech alternatives.

The gentlemen also talk about the euro, why Bulgaria shouldn't join and Greece should exit. The Netherlands should perhaps try to reform it or join a union with other hard currency countries. Yanis would like to federalize the EU but realizes it's maybe time to dismantle it. Also he laments Europe's military Keynesianism and thinks it's not wise to spend all that money on defense. The EU has taken the wrong turn and each path since 2014 when it comes to the war in Ukraine Yanis believes.