After Israel’s unprecedented use of artificial intelligence to select bombing targets in Gaza, experts are now sounding the alarm regarding what one analyst on Thursday called a lack of human supervision over Israeli AI targeting in Iran. “Similarities between Israel’s bombing of Gaza and Tehran are growing...
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That’s one unanswered question that lingers after the announcement Wednesday morning that an as-yet unidentified U.S. Navy submarine torpedoed an Iranian frigate that was 2,000 miles from its home port and that had just taken part in multinational exercises hosted...
Prediction Markets are a National Security Threat
Full ArticleHours before an Israeli attack in Tehran killed Ayatollah Khamenei, an account on the prediction market Polymarket made over half a million dollars wagering that Iran’s Supreme Leader would vacate office before 3/31. That account, named “Magamyman,” was not the...
The launch of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran could lead to economic and financial disruptions that ripple across the countries of the Global South with devastating effects. And while a quick end to the war could dampen these effects, Defense...
On February 16, a fortnight before the outbreak of the Iran war, US President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged having a “good conversation” with Chinese President Xi Jinping about a forthcoming US arms package for Taiwan. This statement came a few...
Three Australian military personnel were on board an American submarine that sank an Iranian navy ship off Sri Lanka this week , Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday. The personnel were on the submarine as part of training arrangements...
If you haven’t heard about the fight between the AI company Anthropic and the US Department of War, you should read about it, because it could be critical for our future — as a nation, but also as a species....
President Donald Trump has the authority to indefinitely suspend admissions of foreign nationals seeking to enter the United States under the US refugee resettlement program, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, backing a key element of...
- - - - Rising government debt levels, especially in major rich countries including the US, are seen (rightly) as a threat to future prosperity, particularly in the context of aging demographics. But meanwhile, buoyant stock markets, Japan excepted, are...
When Ramadan Arrives To Heal What Life Has Broken
Full ArticleSome people enter Ramadan with excitement, surrounded by community, family, and familiar rituals. Others enter it carrying fractures — the kind life leaves behind when responsibilities are heavy, relationships are strained, or the heart has been quietly breaking for far...
Morocco parted company with coach Walid Regragui on Thursday, three months before the World Cup , with the country's football federation naming Mohamed Ouahbi as his replacement. Regragui leaves despite having led the Atlas Lions to the World...
The admission this week by US secretary of state Marco Rubio, echoed by Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, that Israel forced Washington’s hand in attacking Iran has rightly caused consternation. Breathing life into something that would normally...
American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him – Republican and Democrat alike – constructed the gun, and even loaded it. In 1995, US president Bill Clinton issued executive orders...
Washington is reportedly moving missile defense platforms from South Korea to support the Israeli/US attack on Iran. As it does, Seoul is counting the increasing costs of the alliance. First, there is the obvious and headline grabbing financial costs. The...
Ukraine says it will help the United States and its Middle East allies combat the Iranian drones that the Tehran regime is firing at the region. Russia has bombarded Ukrainian cities with these weapons for years, resulting in a series...
Between March 3 and March 5, Iran continued retaliating against the joint United States-Israeli military campaign by conducting widespread strikes across Arab Gulf countries using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones. Attacks were launched against Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,...
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising US gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict , telling Reuters in an exclusive interview that the US military operation was his priority. "I...
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday "everything" must be done to prevent Lebanon "from once again being drawn into war", urging both Israel and Hezbollah to halt military operations. "I spoke today with Lebanon's highest authorities in order...
Lawsuit Against Penn For Allowing ‘Free Palestine’ slogans and Protests Against Israel’s Genocide Must be Dismissed
Full ArticleImage via Wikimedia Commons Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights file a brief as amicus curiae in a Third Circuit Court of Appeals case brought by Israel lobby group Thursday, March 5th — Palestine Legal and...
Ohio State University: Stop Unconstitutionally Censoring and Discriminating Against Palestinian Students
Full ArticleFebruary 18th, 2026 — Last week, Palestine Legal wrote to Ohio State University (OSU) expressing serious concerns about the school's repeated censorship and criminalization of student speech. The legal letter demands that the school end its discriminatory enforcement of...
It is obvious that a successful degrowth strategy will require a massive redistribution of income and wealth. That means dismantling the neoliberal institutions that have overseen a massive shift towards higher income and wealth inequality. Read Article HERE Photo licensed under...
Washington e Tel Aviv contro il diritto: la guerra illegale all’Iran e l’assassinio di ʿAlī Khāmeneī
Full ArticleL’attacco congiunto di Stati Uniti e Israele contro l’Iran, culminato nell’uccisione di ʿAlī Khāmeneī e nella morte o nel ferimento di centinaia di civili, rappresenta una gravissima violazione del diritto internazionale e un ulteriore salto verso la barbarie imperialista. Segue...
Iran-backed Iraqi militias claimed a series of drone and missile attacks against the “US presence” in the region on March 4 and 5, many targeting Iraqi Kurdistan, where significant American forces are located. US and Israeli forces are also likely...
As the war in the Middle East spreads and intensifies, the one in Ukraine continues. While the two are geographically some 2,500km (1,600 miles) apart, the consequences of US president Donald Trump’s latest military adventure for the Russian war against...
The US and Israel have launched a coordinated air campaign in recent days to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities and navy, curb its ability to develop nuclear weapons and eliminate its leadership. The strikes have been accompanied by calls from Donald...
US Special Operations forces captured Nicolás Maduro in a pre-dawn raid in Caracas on January 3rd. The mission reportedly utilized the military’s Maven Smart System, which is built by Palantir and has Anthropic’s Claude model embedded for data analysis and targeting. Claude is a powerful...
US: Trump fires Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem
Full ArticleUS President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for carrying out his sweeping immigration crackdown . According to multiple media reports, Trump was upset with Noem's...
Despite a DoD ban on Anthropic over its demands that its tech not be used for fully autonomous military targeting, its AI model, Claude, is enjoying prime time use in the U.S. war on Iran. Indeed, the U.S. military leveraged its...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian man was wounded Thursday after Israeli forces opened fire at the Shufa military checkpoint near the city of Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank. In a brief statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medical...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the tents of a Palestinian resident in Khirbet Yarza, east of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley, on Thursday evening, while Jewish settlers blocked an agricultural road leading to the area by...
The US and Qatar are in discussions with Kyiv about acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones as a cheap alternative to down Iranian Shahed UAVs amid the war in the Gulf, a source familiar with the...
The German government backs the US and Israel in their war of aggression against Iran – contributing to a further collapse of international law. The murder of national leaders is becoming common practice in warfare. Read Article HERE This work...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) informed the administration of the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil on Thursday that the site will be reopened to worshippers starting at dawn prayers on Friday, following a six-day closure imposed under what the Israeli...
As the conflict in the Middle East engulfs more countries, recent media reports alleging that the CIA is planning to arm Kurdish ground troops to spark an uprising in Iran have been met with vehement denials by Iraqi Kurdish officials....
The United States and Israel have launched a horrific new war on Iran, but the mainstream media is hiding the true cost to the US military and its installments in West Asia. In this in-depth interview, political analyst and editor...
The men, sent to Africa after completing criminal sentences in the US, are from Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen Three men deported by the US to Eswatini – rather than their home countries – have filed a case against Eswatini’s government...
NABLUS, (PIC) An elderly Palestinian died on Thursday after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) obstructed his ambulance transfer following a heart attack in the town of Beit Furik, east of the city of Nablus, north of the West Bank. Medical sources announced the...
“That was meters away from us, that’s the Fairmont Hotel,” said white British fitness influencer Will Bailey in an Instagram video to his 122K followers, standing at the poolside in a crisp white shirt, club music pumping in...
A Greek court sentenced four Intellexa executives to prison for their role in a 2022 scandal that involved the use of Predator spyware against more than 90 public figures in the country. Citizen Lab researchers first published evidence of...
Emmanuel Todd – “The beginning of a world war”
Full ArticleThe Shoah was possible because no one could imagine Auschwitz. Reality overwhelms our imagination. Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris Cross-posted from Emmanuel Todd’s Substack...
What role will Iran's Kurds play as the war expands?
Full ArticleWeeks after suffering a major setback in Syria, the Kurds are again at the centre of another major crisis in the Middle East. Just days after the Trump administration began its war on Iran , reports emerged that...
The semiconductor industry is entering a new era in system design. As traditional monolithic scaling approaches its economic and physical limits, multi-die architectures are emerging as a primary pathway for delivering continued improvements in performance, power efficiency, and integration density....
Jonathan Cook – In Iran, Israel’s morbid military cult now has the US fully in its grip
Full ArticleIn this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the US will drag the world next Jonathan Cook is the author of three...
Israel and the US launched missile strikes on Iran on 28 February following weeks of nuclear negotiations, in a move that triggered shockwaves across the region. The operation resulted in the killing of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...
LENA PETROVA: Welcome, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. I’m Lena Petrova with a new episode of World Affairs in Context. Today, I’m honored to be joined by Professor Michael Hudson, a renowned economist, distinguished research professor of...
Hezbollah and Iran's rocket and drone attacks on Israel on Wednesday were coordinated, Israeli officials believe, marking the first sign of direct collaboration in attacks since the outbreak of the latest conflict. Israeli security officials were cited by Israel's Kan...
The “Legality” of Shooting Ships Out of the Water
Full ArticleIn response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understand what’s gone on. This...
When Syrian forces moved into Kurdish-held territories in northeastern Syria in January, Turkish officials let out a sigh of relief. The “Kurdish question” seemed to be nearing resolution. For Turkey, armed Kurdish movements seeking cultural and political autonomy across Turkey,...
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