RT Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK)🚨 THE CHINA MODEL IS HERE — AND THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKEA chilling look inside Shanghai’s AI-powered surveillance “Urban Brain” system — the blueprint for the social credit grid spreading across China… and soon, the West.In Pudong, a single control room can monitor every resident in real time:• Every building mapped• Every vacancy tracked• Every elderly person living alone logged• Every movement recorded• Every behaviour scoredAnd it gets worse.Trash not sorted correctly?Ca ...

The White House “couldn’t have looked more like Dictator Style”, writes Peter York in a guest essay. But when Donald Trump announced the demolition of the East Wing to make way for a ballroom, “the whole thing moved up a gear” https://t.co/3NGw7PXUC3 ...

The Nobel recognises her courage in speaking out for over 20 years against Venezuela’s descent into dictatorship https://t.co/c7Jv01RpBH ...

RT Chay Bowes (@BowesChay)Look what happens in Ukraine to politicians who speak out against Zelensky.@Dubinsky_pro has been jailed and silenced for the crime of disagreeing.Like so many others, the Dictatorship has silenced forever. https://t.co/778RkA8TN5 ...

North Koreans are repeatedly told they live in heaven on earth. For one hour twice a day, 365 days a year, Kim Seong Min told them that, on the contrary, they were slaves to a dictator.We remember the life of the exiled broadcaster https://t.co/l4HveNVKkB ...

“The West needs a democratic, free Russia,” argues Yulia Navalnaya. “It is in Europe’s interest to support Russian civil society, independent media, human-rights defenders and all structures that unite opponents of Putin’s dictatorship” https://t.co/ZMXs9lbHLk ...

Welcome back. More now on that breaking news. The House just passing a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. And joining us now is Senator Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire. She's the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, thanks for joining us. This funding bill is headed your way to the Senate. House Speaker Johnson calls it a clean bill. Do you support it? Well, we're going to have two votes this morning in the Senate. Um, one is the CR that's coming over from the House ...

“Brazil almost returned to a dictatorship” because Jair Bolsonaro “doesn’t know how to lose elections”, said Alexandre de Moraes, as he voted to convict. The supreme court’s most prominent judge was also a target of the attempted coup https://t.co/JvExTVtzGf ...

From @WSJopinion: It isn’t too late to rescue Brazil from a return to dictatorship. Recent developments offer hope that a gradual power grab, six years in the making, might be reversed, writes @MaryAnastasiaOG. https://t.co/bBMcDR6HaG ...

“Japan shows that while dictators are rightly to be feared, less powerful, less decisive leaders can be just as destructive,” says Eri Hotta.In a guest essay the historian argues that Japan stayed in the war so long, its ultimate defeat became inevitable https://t.co/1ZDqQYbHgO ...