Later the ruling class became even more sophisticated at channelling, diverting and destroying social and political opposition. They played hard cop and soft cop repression and bullying where necessary, but cooption tactics could be cheaper and more effective.

One ploy increasingly used by university administrations was to accede to demands for student participation, without relinquishing any real control. Some student activists were bought off by such cooption. 

CAPITALIST COOPTION:

EXTRACT FROM "RESISTANCE" BY JOHN PERCY....

US President Donald Trump has revealed that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, wished him a happy birthday during a phone conversation on Saturday.

Shortly after the phone call, the US president took to his Truth Social to provide details.

“President Putin called this morning to very nicely wish me a Happy Birthday, but to more importantly, talk about Iran, a country he knows very well. We talked at length,” Trump, who turned 79 on Saturday, wrote.

The two presidents spent “much less time” discussing the Ukraine conflict, he noted, adding that the topic “will be for next week.” “The call lasted approximately one hour. He feels, as do I, this war in Israel-Iran should end, to which I explained, his war should also end,” Trump wrote.

Israel has the right to defend itself, Foreign Minister Penny Wong says, but she has dodged questions over whether its surprise bombardment of Iran is a breach of international law.

Seeking to hamper Iran's attempts to develop military-grade nuclear capability, Israel struck military facilities, nuclear scientists, a major gas facility that exports internationally and other targets in a two-day barrage that Iran says has killed 78 people.

Iran retaliated with missile launches of its own that killed at least three people in Israel, with the US helping to shoot down a number of incoming missiles.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened Iran to expect worse to come.

CNN — President Donald Trump praised the United States Army as the “greatest, fiercest and bravest fighting force” at the conclusion of a grand display of military might in the nation’s capital Saturday as the Army celebrated its 250th birthday with a parade.

Éric Denécé was found dead on June 12, 2025. The official version claims suicide, a theory that the family of this troubled geopolitical analyst does not believe.

Real, vibrant, resilient health—begins not in the pharmacy, but in the soil beneath our feet. Central to our health is a diet derived from a diverse range of life forms, whether these are plants, animals, fungi, algae or other microorganisms, that have been nurtured by sunlight and rich, organic soils or natural, uncontaminated waters.

The Sixth Mass Extinction: Can You Survive It?

By Rob Verkerk PhD, Melissa Smith and Meleni Aldridge 

As agricultural systems become ever more industrialised, plant foods are grown increasingly in sterile hydroponic media, and more ingredients, often bioengineered, are generated in bioreactors, we need to ask ourselves what kind of impacts such ‘high tech’ foods will have on our human health.

Joe Rogan likes to hunt and cook his own food. He shoots with a crossbow – Elk, with their wild screams, are his favourite prey – then barbecues the meat and serves it thinly cut, with cheese and jalapenos. He uses weed and psychedelics, reads Hunter S. Thompson, and dabbles in stand-up comedy. He’s a mixed martial arts expert, and nurtures his hard, nuggety physique with gruelling workouts and experimental supplements.

Joe Rogan’s message can be rambling and unpolished, yet men idolise him. This might be why

His creed, as he once put it, is to embrace something that’s terrifying, “that most people shy away from, and you can succeed in life”.

The US gave Iran “chance after chance to make a deal” over its nuclear program, US President Donald Trump has stated, suggesting that the Israeli airstrikes against the Islamic Republic are the result of its own recalcitrance. He called on Tehran to agree to Washington’s terms “before it is too late.”

The Israeli military conducted a series of airstrikes on numerous targets across Iran early on Friday, including military and nuclear sites. The Iranian authorities have confirmed that the attacks killed Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces. Several media outlets have claimed that several other high-ranking Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists also perished.

As US President Donald Trump gears up for the first major military parade in the US in decades, protesters are planning "No Kings" events all over the country on Saturday.

Tue 3 Oct 2023/ Five years ago, Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul to pick up a document he needed in order to marry his Turkish fiancee. The journalist never walked out. Inside the consulate, he was ambushed by a 15-member Saudi hit team, who suffocated him and dismembered his body with a bone saw. The death squad then slipped out of Turkey on two charter planes owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

Netflix will air a new series called "Our Universe", a six-part documentary produced by BBC studios. Modern cameras and technology incorporating CGI have been used to take viewers on an exploration of our universe, including some close-up shots of some fantastic animals. 

Morgan Freeman, the academy award winner, is the narrator of this iconic show which according to him*, has taken 13.8 billion years to reach this moment in the story of our Universe. 

Israel has risked a potentially devastating conflict with Iran that could engulf the region and undermine the world economy with an unprovoked attack on nuclear facilities and Iranian leaders on Thursday, reports Joe Lauria.

Israel has opened the gates of hell in the Middle East.

In a thoroughly unprovoked attack on Iran, the Israeli military rained down fire on several major sites including the capital Teheran.  The New York Times reported:

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

WHAT FOLLOWS IS UNVERIFIED BY GUS BUT IT MAKES INTERESTING READING.... WHILE THE DEMOCRATS RELIED ON "ILLEGAL AND UNREGISTERED VOTERS" TO SWING THE RESULT OF THE 2020 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION —AND "TRIED THE SAME CAPER IN 2024 BY ALLOWING 12 MILLION ILLEGALS ENTERING THE USA" — THE "OTHER SIDE" WORKED ON SO-CALLED vote-flipping algorithm.

The Dark Enlightenment Coup

The commercial or mainstream press is a megaphone for the ruling class. It genuflects before establishment politicians, generals, intelligence chiefs, corporate heads and hired apologists who carried out the corporate coup d’état that created our system of inverted totalitarianism.

Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report

The corporate structures that have a stranglehold on the country and have overseen deindustrialization and the evisceration of democratic institutions, plunging over half the country into chronic poverty and misery, are in the eyes of legacy journalists unassailable.

The US Defense department is reviewing the 2021 AUKUS submarine deal with the UK and Australia, the Financial Times reported earlier. The review is being led by Elbridge Colby, a senior defense official known for his past skepticism of the pact.

The Pentagon is taking a hard look at its role in the AUKUS alliance to make sure it fits squarely within the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda, according to a Department of Defense spokesperson.

“We’re reassessing AUKUS to ensure this carryover from the last administration aligns with the president’s priorities,” the spokesperson said.