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Javier Milei is brash and audacious and he loves Donald Trump. But in many ways Donald Trump is the one who is following Milei. Argentina has an 18 month head start on Russell Vought’s wet dream of implementing a harsh libertarian doctrine. For a while it looked like everything Milei did was succeeding. He tamed inflation, created an export surplus and got back on track with debt service. Economic shock doctrines that rely on austerity for the masses and corporate giveaways always wind up the same, however. It was only a matter of time. The wheels are coming off Milei’s project this year as inflation is back, money is tight and people are pissed. America’s canary came out of the coal mine with black lung.

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Bloomberg / Batimes, Argentina's Economic Activity Posts Biggest Slump Since 2023

Argus Media, Argentina's Economy Contracts in February (April 22 2026)

Peterson Institute for International Economics, Argentina's Fragile Monetary Framework Risks Renewed Volatility (February 11, 2026)

BBVA Research, Argentina Economic Outlook — March 2026

Americas Quarterly, Argentina's Polarization Threatens Milei's Pro-Market Agenda (February 25, 2026)

[Paul Krugman Substack, Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?](Paul Krugman Substack, Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?)

New York Times, Milei's Argentina Economy (September 26, 2025)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46169463 The Secretary of Defense is holding church.

Not metaphorically. Not privately. Inside the Pentagon, during working hours, while the United States is at war, Pete Hegseth has turned American military power into a stage for Christian nationalist politics.

But Hegseth is not the real story.

He is the product of a machine: donors, legal networks, media outlets, party infrastructure, churches, staffing pipelines, court cases, and think tanks all stacked together to turn religious identity into state power.

This video maps that machine.

We’re going to look at how Christian nationalism moved from segregated schools to abortion politics, from “religious freedom” lawsuits to anti-LGBTQ policy, from Project 2025 to Pentagon worship services, and from church pulpits to the administrative state.

Because Christian nationalism is not just a belief system.

It is a power system.

And once you can see the machine, you can see where it is vulnerable.

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Chapters: Open 0:00 Part 1: Secretary of… sigh… war 05:36 Part 2: The Stack 14:24 Part 3: Ok but… 01:00:45 Part 4: History 01:14:24 Part 5: Big Picture 01:41:38 Part 6: What do? 01:55:10

References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CEDwOIxmIjw8Q-U_-eiOmPETPeFdsTNbARvyRKBQzoI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.xhqj3ydgvtc7

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/44446686

spoiler alert-> Hasan is a decent person don't listen to the nonsense mud being slung at him.

Live-streamed on April 6, 2026.

Zahra Fatima Hankir, Lebanese author and journalist joins to discuss her piece in Columbia Journalism Review entitled: "Who is Left to Cover Lebanon?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yi2OeWpPKk

Check out Zahra Hankir's article on The Columbia Journalism Review

https://www.cjr.org/feature/who-is-left-to-cover-lebanon.php

The obscuring of Lebanon and its civilians is no accident. For years, the correspondent infrastructure covering the country has been hollowed out. News organizations, most prominently the Washington Post, have chosen to shutter their foreign bureaus, surrendering decades of know-how. (A spokesperson for the Post said that the layoffs were part of a restructuring “designed to strengthen our footing and sharpen our focus on delivering the distinctive journalism that sets the Post apart.”) Outlets such as the Associated Press and the New York Times that still invest in on-the-ground correspondents are in short supply.

To try to fill the gap in moments of crisis, many news organizations now turn to freelancers or send in journalists lacking the language expertise or long-standing relationships with locals. The work of reporters from Lebanon has taken on an outsize importance.

After Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, the IDF responded by invading southern Lebanon, a campaign reportedly long in the making. In the months preceding the escalation in Iran, peacekeepers from the United Nations recorded more than ten thousand violations by Israeli forces of an American- and French-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon.

Since the war began, on March 2, the IDF has displaced over a million civilians. Across the country, shelters are at capacity. More than 1,200 people, including 124 children and 52 health workers, have been killed by Israeli forces. Air strikes have burned farmland and groves of olive trees core to the identity and economy of the region. Human Rights Watch found that Israel has used white phosphorus in southern Lebanon, a violation of international humanitarian law. The intent is clear: Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, has said the IDF is deploying its “model” from Gaza in Lebanon.

Yet Western newsrooms have, thus far, largely framed the story of Lebanon as a sideshow to the war in Iran.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45265060

Since my post of Hasan claiming Russia was in Ukraine to take a brave stand against imperialism kept getting deleted, here's a longer-form video.

Highlights that made an impact on me include:

• 8:52 "You are transphobic" "I hope that the rest of your life is as horrible" "suck my dick" "you are fucking cancer" because people including a trans person told him he was getting trans issues wrong
• 21:25: "Fucking piece of shit" "fuck you" "you genocidal scumbag" because someone tried to correct him on a news report

And so on. Sounds like the guy would be right at home on Lemmy lol. Also check out the massive stream of people cheering him on in the chat.