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  • ‘People, scale, infectious optimism’: Here’s why India could be the new kid on the AI block.

    ‘People, scale, infectious optimism’: Here’s why India could be the new kid on the AI block.
    Feb 22 2026
    ‘People, scale, infectious optimism’: Here’s why India could be the new kid on the AI block.
    From cheap GPU access to soil sensors and real-time translation, New Delhi’s AI summit signals a bid to become the Global South’s AI powerhouse.
    Thousands of world tech leaders, CEOs, and local founders gathered in India’s capital last week to witness the AI narrative shifting South.
    From AI-powered soil sensors for farmers to real-time translation tools that dissolve linguistic barriers for 22 Indian languages, the India AI Impact Summit hosted by New Delhi showcased a live gallery of how a nation can use domestically developed AI solutions to solve everyday problems at a population scale of 1.4 billion people.
    The summit converted New Delhi into a massive ‘neural center’ where world leaders and tech giants, including the CEOs of OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google, gathered to fill the gap between innovative technology and human development.
    More than just an event, it represents India’s transition from a global back-office to a front-line AI laboratory to develop population-scale solutions for the next billion users.
    - By Sumitra Bhatti, a journalist based in India. -


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    9 mins
  • If Day: When Canada staged a Nazi occupation to sell the war.

    If Day: When Canada staged a Nazi occupation to sell the war.
    Feb 22 2026
    If Day: When Canada staged a Nazi occupation to sell the war.
    How a simulated German takeover of Winnipeg shocked citizens into buying war bonds during WWII.
    The invasion began in the north.
    Reports came first from Norway House: aircraft approaching in tight formation, flying low over frozen lakes and pine forest, their engines carrying through the winter air. Soon after, word arrived that the Canadian city of Selkirk had fallen. The German war machine, it was said, was moving south – converging on Winnipeg.
    At 6:00 AM on February 18, 1942, air-raid sirens shattered the morning silence.
    Troops moved into position along a defensive line five miles from City Hall. At Fort Osborne Barracks, soldiers assembled in the dark cold. By seven o’clock, the first engagement had begun. Artillery thundered in East Kildonan as attackers reached the perimeter. Anti-aircraft guns barked at fighter planes overhead. The sky echoed with explosions.
    Meanwhile, 3,500 Canadian troops and hastily mobilized volunteers under the command of Colonel E. A. Pridham and Colonel D. S. McKay moved to meet the advancing enemy. Defensive lines were drawn five kilometers from the city center. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire at incoming aircraft. Bridges were blown to slow the advance, their spans strewn with rubble and smoke. It made little difference.
    - By Elizaveta Naumova, a Russian political journalist and expert at the Higher School of Economics. -


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    14 mins
  • The youngest nation breaks: Is a new civil war on the horizon?

    The youngest nation breaks: Is a new civil war on the horizon?
    Feb 22 2026
    The youngest nation breaks: Is a new civil war on the horizon?
    Today, the 2018 peace agreement has lost its practical relevance for South Sudan.
    Since the end of 2025, the security situation in South Sudan, the youngest country in Africa, has sharply deteriorated, raising fears of a new civil war. Jonglei State, located near the Ethiopian border, has been particularly hard-hit by violence. The renewed fighting threatens to undermine the 2018 peace agreement between the government and opposition forces.
    Intense clashes have erupted between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the opposition factions of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-in-Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) across Jonglei State, Upper Nile State, and Unity State, as well as in parts of Equatoria.
    Reports indicate that between December 1, 2025 and January 23, 2026, at least 200 people lost their lives due to the conflict in Jonglei State, including over 40 civilians. The United Nations reports that around 280,000 people have been displaced in Jonglei State alone due to the resurgence of hostilities and airstrikes that began on December 29, 2025. This mass displacement has put more than 450,000 children at risk of acute malnutrition.
    - By Tamara Ryzhenkova, senior lecturer at the Department of History of the Middle East, St. Petersburg State University, expert for the Telegram channel JAMAL. -


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    13 mins
  • Romania’s stolen elections were only the start: Inside the EU’s war on democracy.

    Romania’s stolen elections were only the start: Inside the EU’s war on democracy.
    Feb 22 2026
    Romania’s stolen elections were only the start: Inside the EU’s war on democracy.
    How Brussels’ Digital Services Act has been used to pressure platforms and electoral control in member states.
    Romania’s 2024 presidential election was already one of the most controversial political episodes in the European Union in recent years. A candidate who won the first round was prevented from contesting the second. The vote was annulled. Claims of Russian interference were advanced without public evidence.
    At the time, the affair raised urgent questions about democratic standards inside the EU. A congressional investigation reviewed by RT raises even more question. They indicate that the annulment of the Romanian election was accompanied by sustained efforts to pressure social media platforms into suppressing political speech – efforts coordinated through mechanisms established under the EU’s Digital Services Act.
    What appeared to be a national political crisis now looks increasingly like a test case for how far EU institutions are willing to go in intervening in the political processes of member states.
    - By RT Investigations, an in-house team specializing in open-source intelligence (OSINT) and exclusive investigative reporting. -


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    13 mins
  • Can you buy a country?

    Can you buy a country?
    Feb 22 2026
    Can you buy a country?
    The debate over Greenland revives a question that has shaped America’s rise for more than two centuries.
    When US President Donald Trump revived the idea of buying Greenland – and refused to rule out stronger measures if Denmark declined – the reaction across Europe was swift and indignant. The proposal was framed as an anachronism: a throwback to imperial horse-trading that modern international politics had supposedly outgrown.
    But the outrage obscures an uncomfortable historical reality. The United States was not only forged through revolution and war; it was also built through transactions – large-scale territorial purchases concluded at moments when the balance of power left the seller with limited options. From continental expanses to strategic islands, Washington has repeatedly expanded its reach by writing checks backed by leverage.
    If the idea of buying land now sounds jarring, it is worth recalling that some of the largest such deals helped shape the United States into the country we know today. To understand why the Greenland debate resonates so strongly, we should revisit the major acquisitions that redrew the American map.
    - By Evgeny Norin, Russian journalist and historian focused on war and conflict in the former Soviet Union. -


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    12 mins
  • The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe.

    The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe.
    Feb 22 2026
    The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe.
    Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.
    Back in 2016, I was asked what I thought about Donald Trump. Even back then, I saw him as an aspiring fascist, and I responded:
    Simply put. He is a conduit through which white America expresses its most vile desire for white purity. An apocalyptically dangerous white man who sees himself as the center of the world. That kind of hubris bespeaks realities of genocide.
    Trump 2.0 has only confirmed my fears, my dread, and my anger. Make no mistake about it: This administration is unapologetically and shamelessly hellbent on establishing a violent white fascistic state. I know that some are surprised, but the truth of the matter is that the horrible reality of anti-Black fascism is not a new formation. The soul of this country was founded upon white power, white greed, and white violence. So, I am not surprised by the likes of Trump; he is a product of a vicious poison, a historical legacy, that predates his abominable presidency. But this isn’t mere speculation or exaggeration. Our bodies and psyches are a record of this history: chains, enslavement, dehumanization, scarred backs, raped bodies, castrated bodies, broken necks, broken family ties, denied rights, denied citizenship, mass incarceration, and slow death. Indeed, there are those Black voices who not only recorded this history, but who understood its fascistic logics. For example, Black poet and activist Langston Hughes wrote:
    Yes, we Negroes in America do not have to be told what Fascism is in action. We know. Its theories of Nordic supremacy and economic suppression have long been realities to us.
    - - By George Yancy, Truthout -


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    16 mins
  • Far Right Streamer Nick Fuentes Says Women Should Be Put in “Breeding Gulags”.

    Far Right Streamer Nick Fuentes Says Women Should Be Put in “Breeding Gulags”.
    Feb 22 2026
    Far Right Streamer Nick Fuentes Says Women Should Be Put in “Breeding Gulags”.
    Fuentes is the “more energetic and undiluted voice of the American right,” writer Shane Burley says.
    Last week, far-right streamer Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization of women and girls. During an episode of his America First livestream on Rumble, Fuentes declared, “Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists — all of his political rivals — we have to do the same thing with women … They go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”
    It would be easy to dismiss rhetoric this extreme as fringe theatrics. But Fuentes’ Groyper movement has come a long way from its meme-driven origins. The distance between its politics and the broader culture has narrowed, and its sexist, homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and racist ideas have become increasingly normalized in public life. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Fuentes has been angling for greater influence within a conservative movement that is unsettled, divided, and shedding what few restraints remained.
    - By Kelly Hayes, Organizing My Thoughts. -

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    16 mins
  • Missiles in the shadow of the USSR: How Post-Soviet states built their arsenal.

    Missiles in the shadow of the USSR: How Post-Soviet states built their arsenal.
    Feb 22 2026
    Missiles in the shadow of the USSR: How Post-Soviet states built their arsenal.
    From SCUDs and Tochkas to Iskanders and drones, these countries are balancing legacy and new tech.
    The dissolution of the Soviet Union entailed not only the redrawing of political borders, but also the redistribution of one of the most extensive and technologically sophisticated missile infrastructures ever assembled. Across the newly independent states, missile brigades, launch platforms, storage facilities, airbases, and elements of an integrated military-industrial system remained in place, embedded within national territories that had only just acquired sovereignty.
    This overview examines the development of military missile technologies and long-range missile systems in the former Soviet republics, excluding Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic states (which were covered in previous installments of this series). The trajectory of these programs was shaped decisively by the legacy of the Soviet armed forces, whose units, logistical networks, and technical personnel were stationed across the republics at the time of the USSR’s dissolution.
    - By Dmitry Kornev, military expert, founder and author of the MilitaryRussia project. -


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    13 mins