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Oligarch overreach on every front presents challenges—and opportunities.

Persia's 19th century fight to drive out the British investors who had obtained monopoly concessions is background to the current crisis.

"A tipping point commonly means a point of no return. But conservation can still help ecosystems restore their balance."

A taste of things to come under Trump's "Shield of the Americas"?

Trump's war on universities, like Iran, is doing great damage to the US, here via success in reducing research funding and causing chaos.

The Iran war is going ever more pear-shaped for the US, Israel, the Gulf states, and innocent bystanders, yet Trump refuses to relent.

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The US Strait of Hormuz escort story was fake but Pakistan, which is very exposed to the closure, plans something more serious. Will it work?

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Newsom backs the PMC over anti-vaxxers, even though Northern California is a stronghold of RFK Jr. health fetishists and quacks.

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You can’t say affordability is your top priority and then start a war in the Middle East.

In This House of Brede is a film about the cloistered life and the peace it can bring.

Today's Iran war update: rumors of US force deployments as oil and gas price rises threaten the global economy and Mr. Market's mood.

A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.

But what if one of the country's biggest drug cartels is being run by the US-born president's family business?

Companies tamp down on wage increases thanks to double-digit inflation in employee health insurance, hurting real household incomes.

American readers: please submit comments pronto to the FCC to oppose two dangerously bone-headed SpaceX schemes

Texas' primary election results illustrate an ongoing realignment in the Democratic party that gives Dems reason to hope for a US Senate majority.

Today's Iran war news: Denialism, US pursuit of Strait of Hormuz convoy scheme, Israel pounded, Netanyahu questions, FCC threat

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The American Southern accent reveals how linguistic prejudice reinforces classism, regionalism, and subconscious bias across generations.

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Satyajit Das provides a broad look at the scope and depth of the potential economic downside of the Iran war.

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Why the huge vote against Iran on what Russia depicted as an unbalanced resolution should come as no surprise.

Today's Iran war update: the implications of Iran's apparent demands, risk of a Israeli nuclear attack, and Iran's kinetic escalation.

The recent sequence of assassinations in the Middle East illustrates how acts once considered extraordinary can become normalized, raising the alarming possibility that the next boundary to fall could be the nuclear threshold.

Trump succeeds in talking investors out of the tree even as Iran war fundamentals and his approval rating decay.

Geopolitical crisis creates a mask-off moment for the Ellison family empire including Oracle and Paramount at nexus of AI and global finance.

Today's Iran war update: even if Mr. Market makes Trump TACO, Iran is not likely to relent on its Strait closure soon and damage will compound.

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How about defeat?

How Trump is replacing the pos-World War II only-somewhat coercive rules-based order with openly thuggish, predatory US domination

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On August 9, 2023, Fernando Villavicencio, one of eight candidates in Ecuador’s presidential elections, was assassinated. The candidate was shot three times in the head by sicarios while boarding his campaign vehicle after a political rally in Quito. As we noted at the time, the six suspects arrested in connection with the assassination are Colombian: [This] […]

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Ursula von der Leyen runs roughshod over accountability and transparency even as Ukraine and her own corruptions scandals loom.

Why Sheinbaum is likely to find that decapitating cartel leaders is no more likely to succeed than Israeli decapitation has in the Middle East.

Salt for Sventia is a film about toil and hardship in a remote village in Soviet Russia.

The latest Iran war update: The US attempts to show escalation dominance even as officials look frayed and Iran's pounding intensifies

Part the First: Nutrition and Medicine.  The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is not wrong in his emphasis on nutrition (a stopped analog clock is right twice a day).  I don’t know where Lauren Rice is attending medical school in New York City, but her editorial take seems about half right in I’m […]

Today's Iran war update: markets stay edgy as Administration messaging becomes more hollow and more ships burn.

To cut through today’s fog of information, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War offers a lens to understand the possible direction of the war on Iran.

A review of the history of and best information about Israel's nuclear weapons program, including delivery systems and safety risks at Dimona

Many players driving the Ramadan War, including Trump's Secretary of War, are gripped by doomsday delusions.

It is a curious thing that our politicians and economists in the Uniparty believe that economic growth, now and forevermore, will solve all our problems and cure all our ills.  One looks around and it’s clear this is not so.  Still, this economics truth was stated with utmost, if utterly spurious, clarity by a former […]

Trump is losing in Iran and on the immigration front as a Federal judge backs Constitutional due process rights over efficiency.

This is part of a broader European -- or more specifically, Central European -- trend.

Warning signs are often visible long before catastrophe strikes.

Examining some neocon literature on exploiting ethnic divisions in Iran.

This Iran war update focuses on US claims for damage done to Iran and its level of stockpiles versus available evidence.

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Part the First: As Giants Still Walk the Earth.  Stanley Plotkin began practicing medicine in the 1950s.  When he was an intern, outcomes for patients such as this little boy were frightening and devastating: Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the […]

The latest Iran war update, with more detail on the Administration's desperate escalation scheme versus the rising damage from a Strait of Hormuz closure.

Polling data, religiosity surveys, and demographics raise questions about the Western narrative that Iranians seek regime change

Today's Iran war update starts with a sobering, must-read analysis of the catastrophic real-world damage of a long Strait of Hormuz closure.

AI digital assistants not only do complex tasks on their own, but also lie and scheme. Who takes responsibility when they cause harm?

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