The IRGC announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, and there are reports of British and other vessels turning around
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Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine
A new US war on Iran would be a cynical and catastrophic escalation of the crisis already swallowing its people
Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to nuclear midnight, four seconds closer than ever before.
Is Trump getting US Troops out of Syria, another nail in the Coffin of Bush’s “War on Terror?”
Trump now has a similar choice, of whether he wants to spend trillions of dollars on a Napoleonic gamble in Iran.
Now They’re Telling Professors what Posters they Can have on their Office Doors, and, no Palestine
One of the two posters depicted, in green, red and black, the phrase “Palestine, from the river to the sea”
Israel’s not-so-subtle Push to Annex the Entire Palestinian West Bank
The latest cabinet measures extend Israeli civilian administrative reach into areas previously reserved for Palestinian governance.
With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market
44% of the new car market in Turkiye is now battery electric or plug-in hybrid! That is more than California
Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death
Location, contact networks, patterns of communication, and group affiliations make it possible to map the social life of an entire people
The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline
Trump ran his second candidacy in 2024 on the all-too-bluntly apocalyptic slogan drill, baby, drill us into a literal hell on earth.
Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change
Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia
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