Fuckerberg spends hundreds of millions for personal security details, millions for fucking freaky parties for Incoming Rapist in Chief . . .

... and laughs hard laying off thousands from his shit factories of unsocial media

What kind of stupidity is this to believe one fucking word Zyklon Blinken has to say about his Final Solution soluitons? Why do these Podcasters do this shit?

Truly, this is all written on toilet paper. The digital gulag was put in place decades ago, and now? So, how do resistence fighters communicate, move around, gather, get weapons? Some cave in Pakistan with Osama?

Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave his farewell speech to the Atlantic Council, where he admitted that Hamas “cannot be defeated by a military campaign alone,” and that according to U.S. assessments, “Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost.”

Blinken said Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has become “a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.” But that was the goal all along. The goal was never to defeat Hamas, and it was always ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

The Jewish Century is on overdrive. DO not believe a fucking thing. Reality bites. Money. Jobs.

“You can't just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it's serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of the Coalition for Palestine at MIT.

How many community colleges have schools tied to drones and aviation, all dual use, primarily sponsored by the mercenary murder industrial complex:

“What this ultimately means is that MIT's research can enable a genocide and in fact is enabling the ongoing genocide against Palestinians,” Iyengar states plainly. The two students have found themselves in hot water recently following Iynegar’s tepid encounter at a MIT career fair as well as an op-ed authored by the student coalition.

Iyengar’s engagement with Lockheed Martin recruiters—where, after politely waiting in line at a career fair, he expressed his discomfort for their involvement in the genocide and climate crisis—resulted in him being charged with harassment and intimidation of the recruiters. The op-ed called out Daniela Rus, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, for the laboratory’s direct collaboration with the Israeli military. Rus successfully pressured MIT’s paper, The Tech, to retract the article despite it presenting publicly available information and real ties to the Israeli military apparatus.

“By introducing these technologies and by enabling these technologies,” Iyengar tells Hedges, “what is really being enabled by MIT's research for the Israeli military is the ability for drones to engage in tracking, in facial recognition, in targeting of Palestinians.”

UAS and UAV, acronyms for murder flying objects:

Don’t let your babies/daughters grow up and be, well, drone cowgirls?

Yeah, all those fucking state-funded schools for drones, for, well, the benefit of Israel Hell.

And it is all about racism, slavery, anti-blackness, mother fucking democrats and republicans!

[Bullet holes riddle the memorial sign of Emmett Till's body was found at the Tallahatchie River. Photo: Emmett Till Memory Project]

for Aiyana, for Tommie, for Jordan

all their deaths were ruled suicide

by choosing to live in 71108
by taking a run through 71106
by gorging themselves on government assistance
by jumping into the Atlantic
by refusing to comply
by denying the Gospel of Gender
by boarding the BART to Fruitvale
by inhabiting the food desert
by defending the flag that never defended them
by reading Marx
by preaching “Revolution!”
by protesting peacefully
by speaking in the tongues of the unheard
by playing “cops and robbers”
by sleeping on the couch
by resting in “peace” in a Haynesville cemetery
by drinking the bitter, flinty waters of austerity
by driving too fast through a “Church Zone”
by dreaming drunk in the drive-thru
by practicing self-defense in a “Stand Your Ground” state
by praying without ceasing in a Charleston church
by turning up the music too loud
by whistling...allegedly
by “excited delirium syndrome”
by selling loose cigarettes and cds
by standing at the door and knocking
by “the combined effects of sickl…”
by

JP Sloan is a Louisiana native and a scholar of early Black poetry. He is also an aspiring poet and an organizer with the Black Alliance for Peace.

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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it. — D. H. Lawrence

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How many in the next, his second, Rapist in Chief’s administration are all Project 2025-ed up and dick sucking that Oklahoma is Our Land of Home Schooled Dumb as Crackers Christian Brain-Melding project?

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So, again, the most unqualified, but pure of heart rapists, they get the nod by the fucking unrepresentatives in the House and Senate. This fucking whore, PTSD fuck, worried about money money money, Jodi Ernst of Iowa announced she’s going to back the former Fox News host. Ernst is a former military officer and survivor of a sexual assault. She initially had expressed skepticism over Hegseth. THey, the rapists squads of billionaires, spent on million bucks on advertising attacking her. Cave in fucking AmeriKKKans.

And here we are, dumb and dumber, but that is the smile of billionaires, like the fucking Heritage Foundation and 2025 Kock Cocksuckers:

A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century

Donald Trump’s pick to become defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, appears to be moving closer to securing enough votes to be confirmed by the Senate. On Tuesday, Republican Senator Jodi Ernst of Iowa announced she’s going to back the former Fox News host. Ernst is a former military officer and survivor of a sexual assault. She initially had expressed skepticism over Hegseth. The New Yorker's Jane Mayer revealed a dark money group tied to Elon Musk had spent half a million dollars on ads pressuring Ernst to back Hegseth. Hegseth's confirmation can only be blocked if three or more Republicans join Democrats in opposing him.

During Tuesday’s one-day hearing, Senate Democrats grilled Hegseth on a number of issues, including his criticism of women in combat, allegations he raped a woman in 2017, reports of public drunkenness and his record running two veterans’ groups where he was accused of financial mismanagement. The hearing ended after just one round of questions, after Republicans rejected a request by Democrats for a second round of questions. Many Democrats also criticized Hegseth for refusing to meet privately with them, which was unprecedented, before Tuesday’s hearing.

Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois questioned Hegseth’s qualifications to run the Defense Department, which employs over 3 million people. Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran, Purple Heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She lost both her legs in combat in Iraq.

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: What is the highest level of international negotiations that you have engaged in, that you have led in? Because the secretary of defense does lead international security negotiations. There are three main ones that the secretary of defense leads and signs. Can you name at least one of them?

PETE HEGSETH: Could you repeat the question, Senator?

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: Sure. What is the highest level of international security agreement that you have led? And can you name some that the secretary of defense would lead? There are three main ones. Do you know?

PETE HEGSETH: I have not been involved in international security arrangements, because I have not been in government —

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: OK.

PETE HEGSETH: — other than serving in the military. So my job has been to —

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: So, no. The answer is no.

PETE HEGSETH: — lead men and women in combat.

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: Can you name one of the three main ones that the secretary of defense signs?

PETE HEGSETH: If you’re talking about defense arrangements, I mean, NATO might be one that you’re referring to.

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: Status of Forces Agreement would be one of them.

PETE HEGSETH: Status of Forces Agreement. I’ve been a part of teaching —

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: So —

PETE HEGSETH: — about status of forces agreements inside Afghanistan.

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: But you don’t remember to mention it? You’re not qualified, Mr. Hegseth. You’re not qualified. You talk about repairing our defense-industrial complex. You’re not qualified to do that. You could do the acquisition and cross-servicing agreements, which essentially are security agreements. You can’t even mention that. You’ve done none of those. You talked about the Indo-Pacific a little bit, and I’m glad that you mentioned it. Can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in the ASEAN — in ASEAN and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations? And how many nations are in ASEAN, by the way?

PETE HEGSETH: I couldn’t tell you the exact amount of nations —

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: No, you couldn’t —

PETE HEGSETH: — in that.

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: — because you’ve not even bothered to do —

PETE HEGSETH: But I know we have allies in South Korea, in Japan and in AUKUS with Australia, trying to —

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: OK.

PETE HEGSETH: — work on submarines with them —

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: Mr. Hegseth —

PETE HEGSETH: — and data transfers with them.

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: — none of those countries are in ASEAN.

PETE HEGSETH: We have allies across —

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH: None of those three countries that you’ve mentioned are in ASEAN. I suggest you do a little homework.

AMY GOODMAN: Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois questioning Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary. This is Hegseth responding to New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who questioned him about his past comments opposing women serving in combat roles.

PETE HEGSETH: I respect every single female service member that has put on the uniform, past and present. My critiques, Senator, recently and in the past, and from personal experience, have been instances where I’ve seen standards lowered. And you mentioned 11 Alpha, 11 Bravo, MOS, places in units. And it — the book that has been referenced multiple times here, The War on Warriors, I spent months talking to active-duty service members, men and women, low ranks, high ranks, combat arms and not combat arms. And what each and every one of them told me, and which personal instances have shown me, is that in ways direct, indirect, overt and subtle, standards have been changed inside infantry training units, Ranger school, infantry battalions to ensure that —

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND: Give me one example.

PETE HEGSETH: — commanders meet —

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND: Please give me an example. I get you’re making these generalized statements.

PETE HEGSETH: Commanders meet quotas to have a certain number of female infantry officers or infantry enlisted. And that disparages those women —

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND: Commanders do not have to meet quotas for the infantry.

PETE HEGSETH: — who are incredibly capable of meeting that standard.

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND: Commanders do not have to have a quota for women in the infantry. That does not exist. It does not exist. And your statements are creating the impression that these exist. Because they do not. There are not quotas. We want the most lethal force. But I’m telling you, having been here for 15 years listening to testimony about men and women in combat and the type of operations that were successful in Afghanistan and in Iraq, women were essential for many of those units. When Ranger units went in to find where are the terrorists hiding in Afghanistan or in Iraq, if they had a woman in the unit, they could go in, talk to the women in a village, say, “Where are the terrorists hiding? Where are the weapons hiding?” and get crucial information to make sure that we can win that battle. So, just you cannot denigrate women in general, and your statements do that. “We don’t want women in the military, especially in combat.” What a terrible statement! So, please, do not deny that you’ve made those statements. You have.

AMY GOODMAN: Democratic New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand questioning defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. And this is Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: In June of 2020, then-President Trump directed former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the legs in downtown D.C., an order Secretary Esper refused to comply with. Would you carry out such an order from President Trump?

PETE HEGSETH: Senator, I was in the Washington, D.C., National Guard unit that was in Lafayette Square during those events —

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: Would you carry out an order to shoot protesters —

PETE HEGSETH: — holding a riot shield on behalf of my country.

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: — in the legs —

PETE HEGSETH: I saw 50 Secret Service agents —

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: — as directed to Secretary Esper?

PETE HEGSETH: — get injured by rioters trying to jump over the fence —

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: Again —

PETE HEGSETH: — set the church on fire and destroy a statue.

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: You know what? That sounds to me that you will comply —

PETE HEGSETH: Chaos.

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: — with such an order. You will shoot protesters in the leg. Moving on. President-elect has attacked our allies in recent weeks, refusing to rule out using military force to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal and threatening to take — to make Canada the 51st state. Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally Denmark, by force, or would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?

PETE HEGSETH: Senator, I will emphasize that President Trump received 77 million votes to be the lawful commander-in-chief of this country.

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: We’re not talking about the election. My question is: Would you use our military to take over Greenland, or an ally of Denmark?

PETE HEGSETH: Senator, one of the things that President Trump is so good at is never strategically tipping his hand. And so, I would never in this public forum give, one way or another —

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: So, that sounds to me —

PETE HEGSETH: — direct, what orders the president would give to me in any context.

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: That sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out such an order to basically invade Greenland and take over the Panama Canal.

AMY GOODMAN: Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii questioning Pete Hegseth at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Forces Committee. This is Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who asked Hegseth about allegations that he raped a woman at a Republican women’s conference in Monterey, California, in 2017.

SEN. TIM KAINE: I want to return to the incident that you referenced a minute ago that occurred in Monterey, California, in October 2017. At that time, you were still married to your second wife, correct?

PETE HEGSETH: I believe so.

SEN. TIM KAINE: And you had just fathered a child by a woman who would later become your third wife, correct?

PETE HEGSETH: Senator, I was falsely charged, fully investigated and completely cleared.

SEN. TIM KAINE: So, you think you were completely cleared because you committed no crime. That’s your definition of “cleared”? You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife. I am shocked that you would stand here and say you’re completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and cheat on the mother of a child that had been born two months before, and you tell us you were completely cleared?

PETE HEGSETH: Senator —

SEN. TIM KAINE: How is that a complete clear?

PETE HEGSETH: Senator, her child’s name is Gwendolyn Hope Hegseth. And she’s a child of God, and she’s 7 years old.

SEN. TIM KAINE: And she was —

PETE HEGSETH: I’m glad she’s here.

SEN. TIM KAINE: And you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn’t you?

PETE HEGSETH: Those were false charges.

SEN. TIM KAINE: Well, no —

PETE HEGSETH: It was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared. And I am so grateful —

SEN. TIM KAINE: You’ve admitted —

PETE HEGSETH: — for the marriage I have to this amazing woman behind me.

SEN. TIM KAINE: Now, you’ve admitted — you’ve admitted that you had sex at that hotel on October 2017. You’ve said it was consensual, isn’t that correct?

PETE HEGSETH: Anything —

SEN. TIM KAINE: You’ve admitted that it was consensual. And you were still married, and you just had a child by another woman.

PETE HEGSETH: Again —

SEN. TIM KAINE: How do you explain your judgment?

PETE HEGSETH: Completely false charges against me.

SEN. TIM KAINE: You —

PETE HEGSETH: Fully investigated, and I was completely cleared.

SEN. TIM KAINE: You have admitted that you had sex while you were married to wife two after you just had fathered a child by wife three. You’ve admitted that. Now, if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be secretary of defense, wouldn’t it?

PETE HEGSETH: It was a false claim then and a false claim now.

SEN. TIM KAINE: If it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be secretary of defense, wouldn’t it?

PETE HEGSETH: That was a false claim.

AMY GOODMAN: Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth answering questions from Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine. And this is Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly confronting Pete Hegseth about reports he’s been drunk at work.

SEN. MARK KELLY: So, while leading Concerned Veterans of America, there were very specific cases cited by individuals about your conduct. I’m going to go through a few of them, and I just want you to tell me if these are true or false. Very simple. On Memorial Day 2014, at a CVA event in Virginia, you needed to be carried out of the event for being intoxicated.

PETE HEGSETH: Senator, anonymous smears.

SEN. MARK KELLY: Just true or false? Very simple. Summer of 2014 in Cleveland, drunk in public with the CVA team.

PETE HEGSETH: Anonymous smears.

SEN. MARK KELLY: I’m just asking for true or false — true or false answers. An event in North Carolina, drunk in front of three female staff members after you had instituted a no-alcohol policy and then reversed it. True or false?

PETE HEGSETH: Anonymous smears.

SEN. MARK KELLY: December of 2014 at the CVA Christmas party at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C., you were noticeably intoxicated and had to be carried up to your room. Is that true or false?

PETE HEGSETH: Anonymous smears.

SEN. MARK KELLY: Another time, a CVA staffer stated that you passed out in the back of a party bus. Is that true or false?

PETE HEGSETH: Anonymous smears.

SEN. MARK KELLY: In 2014, while in Louisiana on official business for CVA, did you take your staff, including young female staff members, to a strip club?

PETE HEGSETH: Absolutely not. Anonymous smears.

SEN. MARK KELLY: I’m going to leave with concerns about your transparency. You say you’ve had personal issues in your past, yet when asked about those very issues, you blame an anonymous smear campaign, even when many of these claims are not anonymous. Which is it? Have you overcome personal issues, or are you the target of a smear campaign? It can’t be both. It’s clear to me that you’re not being honest with us or the American people because you know the truth would disqualify you from getting the job. And just as concerning as each of these specific disqualifying accusations are, what concerns me just as much is the idea of having a secretary of defense who is not transparent.

AMY GOODMAN: That was Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly. No Democrats met with — got to meet with Hegseth before that hearing, except for the ranking member, Senator Reed. Meanwhile, Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma criticized the Democrats’ questioning of defense secretary [nominee] Pete Hegseth.

SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Senator Kaine — or, I guess I better use “the senator from Virginia” — starts bringing up the fact that — what if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have. And then, how many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No. But it’s for show. You guys make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because a man’s made a mistake.

AMY GOODMAN: And those are some of the excerpts from Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. When we come back, we’ll be joined by two military veterans who were arrested for protesting Hegseth at the hearing. Stay with us.

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And who else should be shot?

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And what is Gaza? And, one day before the next Rapist in Chief gets his marching Century of the Jew Marching Orders?

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Nah, Jews DO NOT care, man, if the fucking world is contaminated.

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Whores, one and all.

AG nominee Pam Bondi won’t say Trump lost 2020 election

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Hows that price of fucking eggs, health care, insurance, housing, transportation, fuck . . . a society that doesn’t go attack dog on these fucking people and these fucking wasteful fucking projects is a lobotomized motherfucking society. Welcome to AmeriKKKA.

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Fucking criminals of the Bezos-Ellison-Zuckerberg-Musk variety, or a more local fucking felon? Dr. Robert Pamplin Concedes He Raided His Employees’ Pension Fund

Properties all over Oregon will now be sold so he can pay back tens of millions of dollars.

He should have his head amputated.

But, here it is, the crime syndicate that is the US$$A.

He conceded in the Dec. 26 filing in U.S. District Court in Portland that he had, over the previous five years, violated a laundry list of federal pension laws, in effect using his company’s pension fund as a bank and diverting tens of millions of dollars from thousands of pensioners whose labor helped make him wealthy. Many of those violations were first reported in the pages of Willamette Week.

As a condition of the settlement, Pamplin agreed to a lifetime ban on serving as a trustee, to make the pension fund whole for all losses, and to pay millions in fines.

“It’s a severe but appropriate penalty,” says Jim Ambrose, a Portland pension lawyer who reviewed the settlement. “What Pamplin did was egregious.”

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Capitalism is brutality, barbarism, bunco, broken, bereft of ingrained criminality, and it is killing us not so softly:

Private Equity Hospitals Deemed Threat to U.S. Healthcare: Report

Senate Budget Committee says private equity hospitals pose a particular threat to healthcare in rural and other underserved areas.

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Back to the Queer Guy for the Queer Guy:

It’s a Jew thing, this fucking love of criminals of the rabbinical influenced variety.

Mark Zuckerberg, Miriam Adelson to Be Among the Co-hosts of Trump's Inaugural Gala

Once bitter rivals, Zuckerberg, in his latest move to get into Trump's good graces, will co-host the event Monday evening, along with megadonor Miram Adelson and several others, including Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, tapped to serve as Trump's ambassador to Italy.

Groveling but transactional Jew Boy.

Zuckerberg once seemed a foe of the former president, banning him from Facebook and Instagram after a mob of Trump's supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But lately, he's been endearing himself to Trump as one of a number of tech executives who have been seeking to improve their relationships with the new president.

Meta declined to comment Tuesday.

In November, weeks after Trump won the presidential election, Zuckerberg flew to Florida and dined with the Republican at his Mar-a-Lago club. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, also donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund.

Zuckerberg announced last week that he was changing Facebook and Instagram content moderation policies, including replacing third-party fact-checking with user-written “community notes." Trump said the new approach was “probably” due to threats he made against the technology mogul.

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In the end, the colonialists, the fucking thieves, and here it is: Food.

• Big farming projects in North Africa’s deserts are presented as a response to food insecurity. But aquifers will be depleted and costs will be high. While small farmers are pushed out, there's no guarantee that production will be for local people. https://grain.org/e/7229

• Under schemes such as the Plan Mattei promoted by the far-right Italian government, thousands of hectares in the deserts of North Africa are being allocated to big farms. Food security problems, exacerbated by the climate crisis, will only get worse. https://grain.org/e/7229

• Qatar's largest dairy company, Baladna, plans to raise 280,000 cows on 117,000 hectares in the Algerian desert. Across the region, countries are selling off their remaining water sources to foreign agribusinesses in the name of short-term food security. https://grain.org/e/7229

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And it’s all about the fucking psychopath billionaires and millionaires and wannabe’s.

Yeah, climate change is just a fucking bowel movement of Rapist Trump’s anal retention. Source. Just one of thousands of human rip-off’s.

In June 2024, the streets of the small town of Tiaret in Algeria were filled with barricades and raging fires. After weeks without water due to a prolonged and severe drought, residents were fed up with the government’s lack of response. Outside the town, in the countryside, the situation was equally desperate. Farms in this western part of Algeria, which contribute significantly to the national wheat production, were struggling as crops shriveled up from little rain and depleted aquifers.

The situation for Algeria and the entire North African region is expected to only get worse. The region is a hotspot for increased extreme heat, drought and aridity, with the most severe projections of temperature increases reaching 2.6°C by 2065. This will have dramatic impacts on agriculture and pastoralism, exacerbating the region's already massive dependence on food imports. Algeria, for example, imports almost 75% of its cereals, more than half of its milk and almost all the raw materials used in the food industry for the production of edible oils and sugar.

The Algerian government's response to this situation, like several of its neighbours, has been to expand large-scale farming southwards, into the Sahara desert. It involves building large-farms irrigated with underground water reserves. The idea is not new. These type of irrigation projects have been tried in Algeria's desert since as far back as the 1930s, with mixed results and some lasting environmental impacts. But now the government is determined to make it work through partnerships with foreign agribusiness companies.

Claiming the ambitious goal of converting one million hectares of desert into farmland, the Algerian authorities have signed numerous deals with foreign (and some domestic) companies in the past decade (see Table). These deals involve concessions for vast tracts of land, along with incentives and financial support from the Algerian state. In 2022, the government launched a digital platform for agriculture investors and passed an investment law that provides even further incentives to foreign companies. Investors have rushed in, but it is not clear that this will make the country more food secure, especially over the long term.

The biggest project is a US$3.5 billion deal with Qatar’s largest dairy company Baladna. Announced in July 2024, it vows to grow feed crops and raise 280,000 cows on 117,000 hectares in Adrar Province. The farm, ten times larger than the massive Baladna dairy farm in Qatar that it is modelled on, is supposed to decrease Algeria's reliance on milk, especially powdered milk.

But the farm will need over 1.7 trillion litres of water from an aquifer that is not renewable and will be stocked with dairy cows most likely imported from the US[1]. Moreover, even though Algerian banks and the Algerian National Investment Fund will provide three-quarters of the funds for the project, the management of the farm and its board of directors are controlled by Baladna, through its 51% equity stake. Baladna is a "strategic company" of the Qatari government and its stated first priority is Qatar's food security, not Algeria's food needs. While both sides speak about Algeria's food security to the media, the company speaks about a "significant return on investments" to its investors.

Building on this trend of large-scale corporate farms in the Sahara, another massive project there involves the Italian company Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF), a vertically integrated food and agribusiness company with farms around the world. It was allocated a first concession of around 900 hectares in Ouargla Province and then a second for 36,000 hectares in Timimoun. The corporation will farm wheat, lentils and beans and build a pasta factory. Its concessions come with a promise from the government to grant it licenses to dig wells for irrigation. The company managing the project, BF El Djazair Spa, is a joint venture between BF and the Algerian National Investment Fund, with the Italian corporation holding 51% of the shares, and the costs being distributed proportionally. This project is also marketed as a food security initiative for Algeria, but, for BF, it forms part of a larger expansion plan to establish farms outside Italy to supply wheat to its pasta and couscous factories. BF controls 42% of the Italian Seed Company (SIS), which gives it exclusive rights to hundreds of varieties. These include “Capelli” wheat, which originated in North Africa and is particularly prized in the production of Italian pasta. Moreover, since the project in the Algerian desert is part of the Italian government's Mattei Plan (see Box), 30% of its production is to be allocated for export to Italy.