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This 2-pound dinosaur is rewriting what scientists know about evolution Science Daily (Kevin W)

#COVID-19/Pandemics

Where have all the Long COVID clinics gone? The Sick Times

Climate/Environment

‘Exceptional’ wetness points to climate change future, say scientists Financial Times

Will there be a super El Niño later this year? Here’s what that would mean. Washington Post

How a shift in the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of a major ocean current system PhysOrg

Global fatal landslides in 2025 Eos

The Iran War is also a climate war EnergyMix

FWIW, not where I am, have yet to use air con. Our hottest time is now-ish through the start of rainy season in early May:

U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters in 2025 Climate Central

Colorado River may deliver just a third of normal water supplies this spring, projections show Greeley Tribune

China?

No Magnets, No Drones: How China Controls the Future of Warfare OilPrice (resilc)

Goodbye, Taiwan China Talk

China stands to gain from US moving military assets for Iran war: cross-strait adviser South China Morning Post

Africa

Hunger crisis is set to get worse in west and central Africa – why and what to do about it The Conversation

South of the Border

US and Ecuadorian militaries burn homes and torture workers in “Operation Total Extermination” WSWS (Micael T)

European Disunion

Oil and gas industry urge EU to pause methane emissions law Reuters

Greenland’s Untested Oil Basin Could Be the Next Big Discovery OilPrice

The Dutch ruling elite, its royals, and the war against Iran WSWS (Micael T)

Old Blighty

The HMS Dragon row: why has it taken so long to get a UK destroyer to Cyprus? Guardian (Kevin W)

Israel v. The Resistance

Pentagon burned through $5.6B in munitions in first 2 days of Iran war The Hill

Charlie Foxtrot Julian Macfarlane. There are cluster bombs and cluster bombs….

U.S. Begins Withdrawing THAAD Missile Defence Systems From South Korea to Replenish Losses in War with Iran Military Watch

‘No endgame’: Why US Democrats say Iran war hearing has them worried Aljazeera

The US is asking Romania to deploy additional forces for strikes on Iran TopWar. Micael T:

So now they up-the-ante against Russia. The installations in Poland and Romania were to defend against Iran but everybody knows the installations are against Russia.

Background https://www.ir-ia.com/news/us-nato-launch-missile-defense-system-in-romania-despite-russias-concerns/

Iranian drones are shooting down interceptors Not the other way around. Kevin Walmsley (Kevin W)

Why are ships linked to China getting through the Strait of Hormuz? FRANCE 24 English, YouTube (resilc)

‘Swinging into action:’ The Saudi Arabian pipeline designed to bypass Hormuz Middle East Eye. resilc: “Puts the Houthis back in play.”

Hormuz closure would cost Gulf states average 3.8% of GDP, Marex warns as Bahrain most exposed BNE Intellinews

Shia uprising erupts in Bahrain YouTube (resilc)

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine says it has hit Russian ‘missile component’ plant BBC

Mass Ukrainian Drone Raid Hits Chemical Plant in Tolyatti, Mariupol Ammo Depot Kyiv Post

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

>Israel Googling Real Names of Anonymous X Users Consortium News (Kevin W). This is so evil

FBI Investigates Breach That May Have Hit Its Wiretapping Tools The Register

German Publishers Push Regulators To Fine Apple Over App Tracking Transparency 9to5Mac

Imperial Collapse Watch

A Farewell To Arms Supplies Aurelien

As U.S. Military Threats and Actions Escalate, Coalition Calls for Ending Preparations for a Military Draft Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

From Suez to Hormuz: parallels in imperial overreach Asia Times (Kevin W)

Shots fired at US Consulate in Toronto, police say Politico

Trump 2.0

Unpacking Hegseth’s Propaganda on Targeting Civilians Ryan Goodman

Bondi Is Said to Move to Military Housing Because of Threats New York Times (resilc). BWAHAHA.

MAGA war skeptics rage over Lindsey Graham Politico (Kevin W)

Hegseth warns Russia as signs point to Moscow sharing intel with Iran Fox News (Kevin W). BWHAHAHA

RFK Jr. to Undergo Surgery MedPage Today. For his brain worms?

GOP Clown Car

Rand Paul: Midterms will be ‘disastrous’ for Republicans The Hill

L’affaire Epstein

Epstein’s ‘Zorro Ranch’ under investigation in New Mexico Anadolu Agency

Jeffrey Epstein had two key aides – why do they still control his money and secrets? BBC (Paul R)

A top biotech VC quietly helped Epstein’s ‘great friend’ make a comeback STAT

AI

“A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule Gary Marcus

Without effective regulation of AI, society is facing a head-on collision with a driverless car Guardian

Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents Axios

How AI Assistants Are Moving the Security Goalposts Brian Krebs

The Bezzle

The Next Domino: The Liquidity Trap Ryan Perkins. Important. Private credit as a potential crisis detonator (or accelerant, given the Iran war givens)

Bill Ackman Details Plan to Take Hedge-Fund Firm, New Fund Public Simultaneously Wall Street Journal. Lisa T:

Bill Ackman taking Pershing Square public is like Godzilla coming out into Tokyo Bay to make a profit, right before everything turns to shit. Based on his big, histrionic performance on CNBC at the start of the pandemic, in the day before the markets crashed, if he’s taking his company public, can’t be long now. He went on wailing about the pandemic and his vulnerable father and it was quite the performative performance. Sheesh. Settle down, dude. Watching it, I was thinking, he’s deliberately trying to drive the market down.

Bill Ackman Wants Your Money Again Matt Levine

Are Prediction Markets Actually Good for Journalism? Columbia Journalism Review. No. The bettors have to be either very knowledgeable or if a political topic, representative. Look at Brexit. Prediction markets are at best a useful foil or aside in a proper piece….save for insider trading type activity

Guillotine Watch

Forbes World’s Billionaires List: The Top 200 Forbes (Kevin W)

Antidote du jour (via):

And a bonus (Robert H):

A second, atypical bonus from John U:

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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72 comments

    1. Carolinian

      Indeed but the source of the leaking seems to be the company–run by former Israeli spooks–Musk is using to verify the identities of the premium version X users. The latter have to turn over all their personal details.

        1. amfortas

          thanks!
          i expect that it was ted cruz’ people who looked me up on march 9th-10th,lol…i called and left a foul mouthed voicemail…”fucking reptile”, etc.(cornyn is “prostitute”)…and, i remain unrepresented.

    3. FlyoverBoy

      BTW, when I tried to link this to my Facebook friends (I know, I know), it was blocked as “Fordidden.” But they got the story from MintPress News, and the link from that site worked.

  3. mrsyk

    What is a lovely photo of snow-cloaked, out-west size trees. That must have been a magical walk. Thanks John.
    The WaPo climate article on El Niño is surprisingly candid for a mainstream piece.
    For instance, the lede,

    New data suggests this has the potential to become one of the strongest El Niño events on record.

    There’s been rumblings about this in the climate sciences community for a short stretch now as the elephant in the room begins to take form.

  4. Bob from Kansas

    “U.S. Begins Withdrawing THAAD Missile Defence Systems From South Korea to Replenish Losses in War with Iran ”

    I think this is telling me we are not “winning” as much as orange man says we are.

    By the way, thanks for the Richard Medhurst video yesterday. It was eye opening, and this article backs up what he said. I am sure Iran will just bomb the new ones…

  5. Ginger Goodwin

    In Canada, about 2 years ago Rick Salutin in his column in the Toronto Star opined that the NDP at the federal level should merge with the Liberals because, at least, these individuals would have some form of political party and hence have some effect in Canadian politics. As “left wingers” of the Liberal party – they are more viable than a political party virtually with no “footprint” as NDP/CCF, long since a corpse with advent of Layton and Mulcair and the latest leader — who again ? Neither Carney, Poilievre and now anyone in the NDP have any moral standing, in politics and/or as leaders of any form of governemental represention or even as political representatives of Canadians, because of their full throated support for Trump and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran with the killing of the Iranian leader(s) and school children within 24 hours of initiation of war. These are very dark days but the aforesaid “leaders” will backtrack when the war tanks big time, slowly and very suddenly, as they say about going bankrupt. Cynicism is not the issue, I am simply, very simply, think realistically. I am ashamed to call myself a Canadian. Canadian tourists and travellers would be well advised not to attach a maple flag on their persons and luggage – self identifying as a Canadian.

      1. Ginger goodwin

        No.

        Sierra alumnus retiring and their policies are, except WTR to the environmental issues, identical to the Liberals and NDP. Their sole rep Elizabeth May supported Carney saving his gov’t from an election within the last 6 months. Greens are a one horse trick. If David Suzuki were “political” maybe the party would have legs. If NDP are not squeezed out again between the Liberals and Conservatives in the next election then Greens may be able to garner single digit political winners. Conservative chance to form gov’t force NDP partisans to reurn “home” to Liberals in order to keep neandethals and Trump right wing supporters out of power. “Wet” Tories (Clark, Mulroney but not Harper, etc.) faced with neabderthals either sit on their hands or vote Liberal. Separatist initiative in Alberta just yesterday did not get enough support to put rhe question to the voters. OIL interests have spoken: separatism scare the bejesus in the oil sector. Like Putin — they like stability even if the Tar Sands are the dirtiest oil extratives in the world — bar none. Pipelines will not be built without state guaranteeing the investment and profits. Big problem because the PPP in Ontario and nationwide are just as bad as in the UK. MSM in Canada,.whether state funded (CBC $1 billion annually) or private networks keen on not displeasing gov”t advertising and big Oil. — just like the US’ Petroleum Broadcasting (PBS) in the US. Problem in Canada is the same as the US: US Citizen Supreme Ct money bags decision does not apply but we have the same result. We got Sanders like sheepdog political party(ies) – Greens and NDP. No real choice just Liberals in a hurry (NDP) or Liberals poaching right wing Conservative party policies. MSM commentators, in English and French, are amazed how Carney has eaten Conservative lunch and Poilievre’s policies. Liberals and Conservatives have been doing this since 1867. Pendulum back and forth. Not uncommon for NDP to switch to Liberals — just like today. Just like What Gore Vidal said about US political parties: 2 wings of one political party and the cooptation of any and all expedient ideas.

    2. Don

      “I am ashamed to call myself a Canadian.”

      It’s more complicated than ashamed (embarrassed? embittered?), but I know what you mean; we are Mexican Permanent Residents now. For a while, we were able to hold our noses and vote NDP, but can’t do that any more.

      I started to watch the Canada/Cuba World Baseball Classic game this morning (I recorded it and hope to get back to it later) — cheering for Cuba, of course, but that has been the case for many decades.

  6. The Rev Kev

    “Unpacking Hegseth’s Propaganda on Targeting Civilians”

    Hegseth says that his War Department does not deliberately target civilians but I can think of over 1,300 Iranians who might dispute this. But this war will not end well for Hegseth. Trump will never blame himself for starting this war so he will look for somebody to throw under the bus. It won’t be Netanyahu or Lindsey Graham as he will still be loyal to them. It won’t be Tulsy Gabbard as she is too low down the pole, even though Trump likes to throw women under the bus.

    But then there is Pete Hegseth as people like The Duran have suggested. Trump can claim that it was on Pete’s advice that he started this war and nobody would be sorry to see his tattooed a** go out the door. A few private leaks about his drinking problem and his responsibility for the killing of those school girls and he could be quickly gone.

    A word about that school bombing. Scott Ritter was mentioning that back in the 90s one of his jobs was to update the target stack which meant examining every target to see if it was still valid or even still there. It was tedious but vital to know what was actually being bombed. What is the bet that old Pete gave that job to an AI and called it a day.

    1. Carolinian

      Of course as he admitted this didn’t stop that bomb shelter massacre in Iraq.

      I’m having some doubts about Ritter. In that talk he says that Netanyahu’s house was blown up with Netanyahu’s brother in it. Search suggests this is not true–perhaps not even the house. Even if it was just an aside Ritter seems a little too eager to sell himself as in the know about everything.

      And the notion that the military was being righteous in past neocon wars but not this one is silly. Our problem at the moment is that Trump and his scurvy crew are even dumber than Dubya–quite an accomplishment.

      1. XXYY

        I like Ritter and admire his many good qualities (including his passion), but he does sometimes have a bad case of rose-colored glasses. I’ve been watching the US political scene since the seventies and nothing that’s happening right now is terribly novel except perhaps in scale.

        Ritter sometimes gives the impression that back when he was a young ‘un soldiers were more honorable, men were more manly, officers were more straightforward and trustworthy, and so on. I wish it were true, though I see no huge signs of it. Granted, Ritter has much closer exposure to the inside of the military world than I do.

        1. Lefty Godot

          Sometimes I wonder if he is bipolar (or “manic-depressive” as we used to call it), because he can go from picking up any rumor that sounds wonderful (for the Resistance) and spotlighting it one day to then going all doomer the next. He’s very knowledgeable, but very up-and-down in his emotional reactions to what’s going on, which affects what stories he leans into. He did predict that this war would happen way back when Iran started increasing the yield on its uranium processing, fwiw.

  7. Yves Smith Post author

    Apologies, added some links after the customary launch time due to Iran War post. All done now. Please refresh this page and re-skim if you arrived before the time of this comment.

      1. FlyoverBoy

        Yves, as always, thank YOU for what you do.

        I once had the honor of meeting you in your travels to visit devotees of the site. Picturing you delivering the things you type makes them even richer reading for me now.

  9. The Rev Kev

    “Epstein’s ‘Zorro Ranch’ under investigation in New Mexico”

    If this article had been from 2019, then it would have been of immediate interest. But to wait seven years after his death to finally go see what was at that place? Anything of interest would have been cleared out of that place long, long ago and burned in the surrounding desert. Justice delayed is justice never served. Glaciers move faster than the investigation of Epstein’s empire.

    1. Carolinian

      It’s the state of New Mexico investigating because the Fed’s never did. They say they are looking for buried bodies of girls which, if found, would be quite horrible.

  10. kevin c smith

    Are Prediction Markets Actually Good for Journalism? Columbia Journalism Review. No. The betters [should be “bettors”] have to be either very knowledgeable or if a political topic, representative. Look at Brexit. Prediction markets are at best a useful foil or aside in a proper piece….save for insider trading type activity

    1. vidimi

      Taibbi as usual with his finger on the pulse of the moment. He’s pioneered the freedom-of-speech-while tip-toeing-around-Israel beat. I look forward to reading another piece on that iconoclast Bari Weiss.

  12. pjay

    – ‘Jeffrey Epstein had two key aides – why do they still control his money and secrets?’ – BBC

    I had to laugh at this:

    “Indyke and Kahn have denied any wrongdoing in their interactions with Epstein and are not facing any criminal charges. “No judge in any court anywhere has ever found that Mr Indyke or Mr Kahn committed any wrongdoing of any kind,” Daniel Weiner, Indyke’s lawyer, told BBC News.”

    Ah yes, the Michael Tracey defense. Rather than seeing this as *the central f**king problem*, it is used as evidence that there is nothing to see here! “Epstein was only convicted of solicitation from a 17 year old. Pay no attention to all that other evidence that was collected by investigators and then repressed or ignored by prosecutors.”

    We are a nation of rights and laws, after all. Let Justice prevail!

    1. JBird4049

      >>We are a nation of rights and laws, after all. Let Justice prevail!

      I’m sure that Dimitri Simes would agree with you.

  14. Vincent Cozzy

    Reparations could be paid by imposing a fee on every ship traveling through the Straits.

    1. Yves Smith Post author

      Won’t work. Go look at the level of war risk insurance that makes it not affordable to ship by tanker. This was in a article we posted on why lack of war risk policies = no ships transiting the Strait. Overly high premiums achieve the same outcome. Any level of fees that were adequate to amount to reparations would kill shipments stone cold dead. At best, this would be a tiny portion of the total needed.

  15. The Rev Kev

    Damn if I ever considered that a camel might enjoy relaxing in the surf and this one is thoroughly enjoying it by the looks of it. You think camels and all you think of is deserts. Reminds me of a program that have/had to get kids from the rural outback and take them to coastal cities so that they could see and swim in the ocean. The sight must have been a wonder for them.

  16. YuShan

    “Iranian drones are shooting down interceptors Not the other way around.”

    Heheh! This is exactly how I have been seeing this too, since day one!

  17. The Rev Kev

    ““A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule”

    Just a heads up. A little way down the page are the words ‘Read full story’ in red. Do not forgot to open it up to read. It is a stunner as it outlays case after case how LLms have all the security architecture of Swiss cheese. I don’t even know if it can even be fixed at this stage but security is going to be a hacker’s paradise.

  18. Tom Stone

    Trump has demonstrated an existential need to dominate or to be seen as dominating every situation.
    When it becomes undeniably clear that this illegal War of choice is a disaster I believe he will look for something to smash dramatically to prove he is still the Big Dog.
    And that thing he decides to smash will likely be on the Home front as internal criticism becomes louder.
    Trump has no filters, he is pure Id with no restraints.
    If you think it’s crazy now (It is), give it 90 days.

    1. FlyoverBoy

      Agree. I think after the war and economy both crater, the next move — given his psyche, maybe the only available move — will be a doubling down on repression at home.

      1. Ginger Goodwin

        Overall as Carney explained in Davos there is a fundamental agreement between the economic and finance classes in Canada and the US. The issue is that Trump is an aberration. Given the economic integration, what each class owns in the other country, there is unbearable pressure on Trump and his economic fraction to relent and stop kicking the dog. For these people all was happy and profitable as or even though Trump’s retail fraction and small business fraction were being crucified on the Chinese business deflationary alter. Finance (US dominant business fraction) is rolling in super profits as the rest (small business) and the lumpenproletariat are being slaughtered economically and reduced extreme poverty. So the real difference between Canada and the US is primarily the weather so there is no choice so higher taxation, etc. in Canada to provide at least state lodging because it is seriously cold in the winter in Canada. As a rule in Canada the homeless single persons are left to their devices but women with children live in motels paid by municipalities. Back to normal means each country’s rich people are not hampered in investing in either or both countries as they see fit. Dependency theory refers to Canadian business as comprador either as investors in the US and/or Canadians staffing US businesses in Canada. Not to say that from time to time they fight over rights to buy/invest in the up and coming profitable business opportunities. So, the political and economic elite will sell out to the highest bidder. It’s a fight over spoils.

  19. Mikel

    Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents – Axios

    Just spitballin’, and I don’t know why the article made me think of such a thing, but I can imagine the circle-jerk financing going so far as lending to computer programs start businesses.

  20. Jason Boxman

    On “A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule

    At an employer I know, they’re now rolling out access to a third-party AI code review tool. Amusing, in light of

    As Chris Laub summarized the study on X,

    Alibaba tested 18 AI coding agents on 100 real codebases, spanning 233 days each. they failed spectacularly. [It] turns out passing tests once is easy. maintaining code for 8 months without breaking everything is where AI completely collapses.

    People are really huffing glue. And this means more velocity, as software engineers (now just LLM operators) aren’t required to review code as often, because AI will do it. Watch that technical debt increase even faster over time. And all code bases worldwide are going to converge into the same style and (lack of) quality.

    1. Henry D

      This paper suggests that they have discovered a way to identify when AI is hallucinating. We’ll have to wait and see if it turns out to be valid.

      2. Jason Boxman

        Even were that the case, the cost per token is still prohibitive for our economic transformation to a worker-less society. LLMs are only capable of mediocrity.

    2. Acacia

      I recently tried Google’s coding assistant for JavaScript and it was a dumpster fire. At first, it seems cool and it does a pretty good job of spitting out a bunch of code.

      But then… during debugging (because of course nothing works completely the first time), it starts forgetting its own suggested fixes and pretty soon I felt like I was just playing whack-a-mole, asking it to keep fixing the same problems over and over and over. Unbelievable eff-ups that even a student learning the language would not make.

  21. AG

    3x MONTHLY REVIEW

    1) French Theory in the Intellectual Cold War
    by John Bellamy Foster
    https://monthlyreview.org/articles/french-theory-in-the-intellectual-cold-war/

    2) Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism? A Commentary on Vivek Chibber’s Jacobin Radio Interview
    by Vijay Prashad
    https://monthlyreview.org/articles/could-capitalism-have-thrived-without-colonialism/

    3) Insectopolis and the Fantastic Peter Kuper
    by Paul Buhle
    https://monthlyreview.org/articles/insectopolis-and-the-fantastic-peter-kuper/

    1. jeanwahl

      If you’d like a critical take on french philosophy from a marxist perspective that’s worth a damn, just read Fredric Jameson’s work. These hysterical and disingenuous takedowns like this foster essay and all of rockhill’s work are completely ridiculous

      1. AG

        Thanks for that.

        I don´t know when I will find time for a serious reading of Rockhill.
        I haven´t known about him one year ago.

        I was a bit puzzled when I looked through MONTHLY´s new edition and all the various subjects to all of which Foster contributed time consuming essays.

        p.s. Too big a question, but still what could be an example for those shortcomings?

      2. Ginger Goodwin

        Explain. Foster follows Sweezy, Baran and Magdoff. Cooptation was and is real. Jameson was praised mostly for his writing style, which was (Jameson) a wonder and equal to Adorno. Truly a master of words and imagery. However sometimes it was too flowery and adrift. Though he (Jameson) did propose that the US health care had a model already in place; US Congressional and Veterans (military) health care. No need to import from Canada or the UK. Just saying.

        1. AG

          re: writing style Adorno

          Nice to see it addressed. It seems a lot of acknowledgement of that aesthetic level and dimension to analysis has been lost in the last 25 years within academic circles and those affiliated.
          Fwiw univers. teachers have been complaining that Adorno simply cannot be taught any more.

          Any suggestion what to check out by Jameson (sorry if dumb question.)

          1. Acacia

            My Jameson recommendation would be The Political Unconscious, or since I know you are interested in cinema, The Geopolitical Aesthetic. If you want something more mind-bending and germane to our present impasse, check out An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army.

          2. Ginger Goodwin

            If Marx’s chef d’oeuvre is the Manifesto then for Jameson
            “Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is a 1991 book by Fredric Jameson, in which the author offers a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a Marxist perspective. The book began as a 1984 article in the New Left Review.[1][2] It has been presented as his “most wide-ranging and accessible book” (Wikipedia). Wordsmith and imagery is truly otherwordly – my assessment.

          3. Ginger Goodwin

            Not a dumb question. I was truly privileged to have had as my thesis advisor in the 1980s Leo Panitch (himself a student of Miliband and indirectly of Poulantzas) — Panitch’s work is a synthesis and application of Miliband, Poulantzas and Gramsci — and he wrote with Sam Gindin The Making Of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire. I studied with Greg Albo the long standing and current editor with the late Panitch of the Socialist Register. Well worth reading The Making with Jameson’s post modernism book. Major complaint of the US (primarily) Marxists is their lack of ties with the organized working class. This is however not true of the European post WW2 marxists — almost all were either members of communist or socialist political parties ie. Althusser, for example. But true for Sweezy, Foster, et al. This detachment led them into wild theories not attached to the praxis and theory of the day. This is not true for Miliband, Raymond Williams. EP Thompson and Albo, et al. for example, who are/were strongly embedded in organized labour.

  22. Tom Stone

    If Trump is a “Stable” genius it explains where his endless store of horse shit comes from.

  24. Mikel

    I did this so you don’t have to…

    I looked at Trump’s Truth Social account. (Don’t have to sign up to see the posts I saw).
    It’s all campaigning, aggravating old enemies, and the usual demonizing of “others”.
    What war with Iran?🤷‍♂️

  25. Louis Fyne

    Irony: IRGC may be the most green people on the planet. A hard recession will do wonders for emissions, alas it only requires Tehran to look like a Mad Max blackened hellscape.

  27. flora

    Meanwhile, Ukr and UK carry on with the mad Mackinder dream.

    From Reuters today:

    Kremlin says Britain was involved in Ukraine’s missile strike on Russia

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-britain-was-involved-ukraines-missile-strike-russia-2026-03-11/

    and from AFP via Yahoo news.

    Death toll from Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Bryansk rises to 7: governor

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/death-toll-ukrainian-attack-russias-150813952.html

    Ukr and the EU seem determined to start a wider EU war.

    1. Lefty Godot

      I really wonder if Russia’s Oreshnik is all that it’s cracked up to be, given the very limited use (twice now?). If Russia has any evidence of UK involvement in Ukraine’s terrorism, 6-7 Oreshniks should be sufficient to largely demilitarize the UK (still wouldn’t denazify it, but one step at a time). And serve notice to the rest of the European blowhards that it’s time to straighten up and fly right. It could just be that the current leadership is too hung up on legalistic niceties and being seen to obey all the rules, but after a dozen or more years of being screwed around with by the Empire you would think the time for all that politeness is over.

    2. thoughtful person

      Ww3 is the direction all this is going. In fact, who decides when wars are part of a world war?
      Criteria?

  30. AG

    re: China and the Classics

    THE NEW YORKER

    How China Learned to Love the Classics
    The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

    By Chang Che
    March 8, 2026
    https://archive.is/tjnYo

    p.s. Something tells me NEW YORKER manages to spin this in a way it is unfavourable to the Chinese…but I will find out.

  31. Jason Boxman

    Tariff Man returns

    Trump administration launches Section 301 trade probes into Mexico, China, EU, others (CNBC)

    The Trump administration announced new trade investigations of China, Mexico, the European Union and more than a dozen other economies, with the goal of replacing President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, which were recently ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.

    The probes, which are likely to be expanded to more nations, will be conducted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently predicted that by August, U.S. tariffs would return to the levels that existed before the Supreme Court’s ruling.

  32. AG

    re. THAAD and South Korea

    2016 article from when Ted Postol and Jeffrew Lewis were still talking to each other:

    Illusion of Missile Defense: Why THAAD Will Not Protect South Korea
    By Theodore A. Postol , George N. Lewis

    September 2016
    https://www.globalasia.org/v11no3/feature/illusion-of-missile-defense-why-thaad-will-not-protect-south-korea_theodore-a-postol-george-n-lewis

    I think Postol in his most recent Glenn Diesen appearance said THAAD and PATRIOT probability of success is around 5%.

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