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"They are able to take their wealth, feed it into this underground financial system, move it around a lot, and then make it look legitimate so they can spend it in the formal economy without anyone realising that it's criminal wealth." On Downstream this week, Aaron Bastani talks to journalist Oliver Bullough about the multi-trillion-dollar global money laundering network. Watch the full conversation on our YouTube channel.

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Morgan McSweeney – who just quit as Downing Street chief of staff over his role in the Mandelson scandal – was one of the most powerful figures in Starmer's Labour. But who really is he? We asked investigative journalist Paul Holden back in November. Holden has a personal connection to this story. On Friday, it emerged that McSweeney's thinktank Labour Together paid a PR firm to investigate several journalists looking into its finances, including Holden. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

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Bettors on Kalshi and Polymarket are waging nearly $1 billion on the Super Bowl. But according to Kalshi’s CEO, what they’re doing isn’t actually sports betting - it’s "trading." What’s behind the marketing ploy? Dodging taxes and regulation, of course.

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On Friday, three University of Minnesota students were arrested by campus police for chaining themselves to the entrance to Morrill Hall. The students are demanding university president Rebecca Cunningham — whose office sits in the building — expel ICE from university grounds and declare UMN a sanctuary campus. So far, Cunningham has not made any statement against ICE or taken action to protect students. In 2024, 11 students were arrested in the same building for demanding the university’s divestment from Israel.

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The Super Bowl is tomorrow, and chances are you’ll be tuning in (viewership reached a historic 127 million last year). Chances are you’ve also already been bombarded with prediction market ads prompting you to bet on every aspect of the big game. But how much do you really know about Kalshi or Polymarket? 70% of people that participated in prediction markets lost money, and less than 0.04% of traders hold the vast majority of profits. That's because despite what companies like Kalshi and Polymarket will tell you, insider trading is a big problem for prediction markets. You might not be trading against the house, but you might be trading against someone who knows the right answer, from the inside, with little restrictions. Know the truth.

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TODAY: Hundreds of high school students in Orange County walk out to protest ICE. A Placentia school board member recently introduced a controversial resolution that would allow ICE free entry into schools.

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"F*ck ICE intensifies*

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On Thursday, over a dozen nurses with the New York State Nurses Association were arrested for blocking the entrance to the front of the Manhattan headquarters of the Greater New York Hospital Association. The nurses' direct action was part of a "day of action" in their ongoing strike to demand fair wages and benefits and better working conditions. Around 15,000 nurses are currently on strike — the largest in New York City history. Thursday marked day 25 of their strike.

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A few weeks ago, Nekima Levy Armstrong was arrested for leading a protest in a St. Paul church over the pastor’s affiliation to ICE. In an interview with Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek, Armstrong responds to the AI-manipulated image of her the White House tweeted out immediately upon her arrest, calling it “MAGA propaganda.” Watch the full interview on Freedom Side Live on Breakthrough News’ Youtube channel.

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At Washington’s Critical Mineral Conference, Vice President JD Vance says the quiet part out loud: the attacks on Venezuela are about gaining access to its oil.

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Peter Mandelson was useful to Keir Starmer because Labour are willing to do "almost anything" for a positive economic message. That includes a £240m Ministry of Defence contract doled out to Palantir, a US company that sells surveillance and warfare tech to Israel. But what's the connection between Mandelson, Starmer, Palantir and Jeffrey Epstein? On Novara Live, @nojusticemtg and Dalia Gebrial go into the detail.

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At a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admits to engineering an economic crisis in Iran to trigger domestic instability.

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Donald Trump hit the EU with tariffs and now threatens to colonize Greenland (an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark). Is this the end of the political West and the transatlantic alliance? Ben Norton explains. || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join us at Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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San Francisco educators, parents and community members held a press conference this morning to announce that the United Educators of San Francisco would officially go on strike Monday, February 9 for the first time in 47 years. Over 6,000 educators are in the union, and their demands include fully-staffed schools, dependent healthcare for educators, and safe, stable learning and working conditions, after the district failed to reach an agreement in 11 months of bargaining.

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Why would a billionaire like Jeff Bezos buy then destroy one of the world's most prestigious newspapers? Because owning media allows you to own the public imagination, argues Dalia Gebrial on Novara Media.

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“Ten minutes after I arrived home, the first bomb fell.” BT spoke to Venezuelan citizens about the evening of the January U.S. attack on Caracas. They describe a terrifying night of despair and uncertainty, but remain determined in the wake of Trump’s continuous threats, telling BT, “We will overcome this.”

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Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear expose Jeffrey Epstein's US intelligence connections and how he acted as a "node for geopolitical power" for the elite who wanted to enrich themselves. Watch The Freedom Side Live on BreakThrough News' YouTube page.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admits that if Trump successfully sues the IRS for $10 billion, that money would come from taxpayers.

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While publicly demanding the prosecution of crimes committed on Epstein island, Musk is profiting off of sexual exploitation with X’s hyper-sexual chatbots and non-consensual sexual image generation. When French authorities raided X’s Paris office to investigate, Elon called the move “a political attack.” In response, the French MFA responded: “Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn't fly in France.”

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TODAY: Thousands of students from downtown Los Angeles area high schools walked out and rallied at city hall. They attempted to march on the Metropolitan Detention Center, but were blocked by LAPD.

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On Tuesday, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon on his "War Room" podcast calls for deploying ICE to patrol voting polls in the November midterms. Bannon’s remarks come amid rising concerns of Trump orchestrating interference in this year’s elections.

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"If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."

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