Senior US commanders for the US army, navy and air force have formally registered their disagreement with Secretary of War Hegseth’s directive on Iran. How long before more junior ranks show their disagreement? Will we then see open mutiny?
While Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched strikes at US military installations in the region, Iran’s army, which is distinct from the IRGC, has also been busy: striking at US installations and troop concentarions in the UAE and Bahrain
The Israeli leader credited his frequent appearances on US television and his ‘intimate knowledge’ of US leaders for his having been able to persuade Trump to go to war. Leading one to ask, was that ”intimate knowledge” obtained with the help of Jeffrey Epstein?
The attack came after US forces struck a wedding ceremony in Sirik, southern Iran, killing at least five and injuring more than seventy. Iran retaliates with a wave of counterstrikes on US facilities across west Asia
Tech and AI giants are reportedly buying up antique books and manuscripts and feeding the pages into high-speed scanners. Once the contents are digitised, the original manuscripts shredded. Giving the AI companies the opportunity to rewrite history. All the more amazing then is the fact that this was foreseen more than fifty years ago in Rollerball, a science fiction film starring James Caan.
Everyone tells you to “live in the moment” but no one tells you how
Despite being caught raping a woman, the migrant suspect is walking freely due to Spanish legal technicalities
Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile seems to have been aimed to cause maximum collateral damage. It killed at least 21 civilians when it detonated above a sports complex in a residential district in the Iranian city of Lamerd
Col Larry Wilkerson on how the intricacies of mine warfare give Iran an advantage in the Strait of Hormuz. While US economic and political dominance are shifting to China and Trump and his retinue seem oblivious to dangers that Trump’s policies have created.
Wonder why England has become a shit hole?
Includes an updated list of those who Thomas Dalton considers the ‘new Elders of Zion’
Mike Whitney on a new book by Pat Buchanan, which ponders why WWII need never have happened and why communism might have perished in 1940. Instead of living on for fifty years and murdering tens of millions more in Russia, China, Korea, Vietnam and Cuba