The Radical — Tuesday, 19 May 2026

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Articles #

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Gold Idol Rises As Border Guards Go Unpaid #

A twenty-two-foot golden statue of President Donald Trump glistened under the Miami sun this week as Christian and Jewish clergy gathered at the Trump Doral golf course to dedicate the fist-pumping monument. While the gold leaf reflects the midday heat, two hundred and forty thousand Department of Homeland Security employees are entering their second week of total payroll default. This paper identifies the physical reality of the Hollow State in this contrast: the regime can find the capital for ten-foot…

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CIA Death Squads Strike Mexico As Officials Surrender #

Francisco “El Payin” Beltran died in a ball of fire on a highway in Tecámac after a car explosion that Mexican security analysts now link to a secret CIA assassination campaign. Beltran, identified as a mid-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel, was the latest target of the agency’s elite Ground…

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Amateur Vibe Coding Opens Door For Global Worm Attack #

Pratik Desai sat in a quiet room hunched over sixteen hundred pages of medical notes, attempting to use a chatbot to build a custom workflow for his dying mother. Desai is part of the growing vibe coding movement, where non-technical users use simple prompts to generate complex software agents. This…

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Amazon Sued For Pocketing Billions In Stolen Tariff Cash #

Two consumers stood before a federal court in Seattle on Friday to file a class-action lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal tariff refunds.…

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In Brief #

JBS CEO Predicts Negative Beef Margins

Wesley Batista, CEO of JBS Beef North America, warned that 2026 will be more challenging than the previous year due to negative margins in U.S. operations. The Brazilian meat giant is bracing for a downturn as consumer prices remain high despite corporate refund windfalls.

LinkedIn Cuts Eight Hundred Jobs For AI

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is slashing five per cent of its global workforce, roughly 875 positions, to refocus on AI infrastructure. The layoffs hit engineering and product teams as the platform closes its office in Graz, Austria.

Solidarity Drive Supports Locked Out Workers

In Whiting, Indiana, Lisa Vallee and Just Transition Northwest Indiana have launched a resource drive for 800 USW Local 7-1 members locked out of the BP refinery. Vallee stated the initiative is about workers saying, “We deserve more, and we won’t stop until we get it.”

Ukraine Strikes Deep Into Russian Territory

Ukrainian autonomous drones successfully hit the PO Strela defense facility in Orenburg, fifteen hundred kilometers from the border. The strike targets Russian MiG equipment manufacturing and signals the terminal reach of Kyiv's new indigenous weapons programs.

Pope Denounces Automated Warfare At La Sapienza

Pope Leo XIV issued a forceful warning against the 'spiral of annihilation' inherent in autonomous warfare during a historic address in Rome. The Pontiff argued that airplanes should be carriers of peace rather than tools for the automated liquidation of human life.