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By Theophilus Abbah How new machines did not help Nigerian voters “I was so frustrated and exhausted,” Josephine Ochadamu says when asked about her experiences as…

Côte d’Ivoire | A mirage of democracy 

By Selay Kouassi It is March 2025, seven months before the much-anticipated presidential elections. In the brightly lit conference room of the Plateau Mövenpick Hotel in…

Monopoly Round-Up: Private Equity Blocked from Buying Homes. Mostly.

Big business lost this fight, and a battle over railway safety and labor conditions. It's a shocking moment, as Wall Street titans start to see…

“Where’s all the f&$*#ing money going?” The Waste and Costs of American Utilities

NextEra's $67 billion takeover of Dominion shows the problem with utilities. We spend a lot, and get little in return. Why? Utility monopolies profit from…

“Jump Up / Hello Goodbye” Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, Louis Cato & Stephen Colbert

A silent killer lurks in Zimbabwe coal capital’s rivers

The rivers in Hwange carry toxic waste from coal mines, sickening residents, livestock and fish alike. Could selenium poisoning be the culprit? Oscar Nkala investigates…

Ex-CIA Officer Breaks Down Spy Movies

Special election set to replace Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell, who resigned for Pentagon post

The longtime state legislator, who announced in June 2025 he wasn’t seeking reelection, vacated the seat to serve as a U.S. assistant secretary of defense.

Oxpeckers lifts the veil of secrecy from Botswana’s flagship gas project

After months of tense discussions with authorities, Oxpeckers journalist Sello Motseta finally gets to see the environmental plan for Botala Energy’s coal bed methane project…

Monopoly Round-Up: The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming

As students boo commencement speakers touting AI, and communities reject data centers, billionaires are getting nervous and angry. It's going to get worse.

AMABHUNGANE’S TIP-OFFS ARE A LOUD KNOCK ON THE FOURTH ESTATE’S DOOR

A long standing social and academic debate has been around whether the media holds up the mirror to society or whether society holds up the…

The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI… And Everything Else

From electric vehicles to drones to solar to AI, the Chinese are doing what the U.S. used to - investing and competing. Chinese strategy is…

Hollywood coalition plans to conduct its own homeless count, citing flaws in official tally

Hollywood 4WRD says it will release the results of the neighborhood count later this month

Satellite Imagery Shows Ongoing Demolitions Across Southern Lebanon

The fragile ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hezbollah last month is holding.  But satellite imagery shows that at least 46 of 54 towns and villages…

Monopoly Round-Up: What Challenging a Bowling Monopoly Says About America

Lots of monopoly news, as usual.

THINK BIG BE BIG, DEMS get what is the final Countdown (for awhile): https://tinyurl.com/tjyzmh4z

New Podcast drops at midnight: News about its future/my health (both good) + Dems! Think Big Be Big

Fine Print: How Uniform Rental Contracts Explain the U.S. Economy

The inequality of the legal system is on full display. If you're big, you have rights. If you're small, you don't. And the Cintas-Unifirst merger…

Jen Taub LIVE – President Pudding Brain

The tech inside Uganda’s militarised conservation state

The deployment of advanced data-aggregation platforms illustrates the dual-use risks of modern eco-surveillance. By Benon Herbert Oluka, Sam Schramski and Tulani Ngwenya The post The…