Iran War: Israel Air Defenses Crumbling, US Base Attacks Continue as Markets Set for Wile E. Coyote Moment
The Iran war situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the US and Israel.
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Qatar’s LNG Blackout Just Broke the Global Gas Market
More on the global impact of QatarEnergy’s LNG production stoppage and the uncertainty over when it might resume operation.
Read more...Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine
How Category III CPT codes for new procedures became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game, to patient detriment.
Read more...Iran War Widens as Iran Attacks Saudi Oil Infrastructure, Israel and Hezbollah Exchange Strikes
A daily update on the Iran war, today focusing on Iran’s attack on Saudi oil assets, the economic war, and kinetic events like F-15 downings.
Read more...Iran War: Quick Early Updates
Some of the latest Iran war sightings even as the fog of war and attempted narrative control is mighty thick.
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US, ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN, START REGIONAL WAR; IRAN RETALIATES AGAINST ISRAEL, US BASES IN BAHRAIN, SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR. UPDATE: ISRAEL TV REPORTS IRAN BLOCKS STRAIT OF HORMUZ
The US and Israel have launched a war against Iran. A great empire will fall.
Read more...Trump Says He’s ‘Entitled’ to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree
Will Trump try to use the war just launched with Iran as part of a scheme to stay in office for another term?
Read more...The Hidden Math Behind Rising Electricity Prices
How high construction and financing costs are likely to lead to even bigger electricity price increases than anticipated now.
Read more...Iran War Watch: Iran Makes Real Concessions on Nuclear Enrichment But Can Trump Take That Win? UPDATE: Israel Embassy Evacuation Says War May Be Imminent
As stoopid and wildly US-hegemony-destructive as a war with Iran would be, the possibility is still very much in play.
Read more...How X’s Algorithm Shifts Political Attitudes
Not only does brain-pickling by algorithm work, but it has a durable effect by influencing voter information sources over time.
Read more...From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that falling trust in government and financial institutions puts the U.S. economy in peril
Read more...Trump Policies and “Donald Dash” Expats Produce Net Emigration for US, Prospective Population Shrinkage
The US showed net emigration in 2025, with an increase in expats bumping up over a rising trend line.
Read more...Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help.
A proposal to fund spay and neuter surgeries plus low-cost vet clinics and pop-up food pantries seeks to keep pets with their families.
Read more...The Roots of Nazi Ideology: Arthur Graf J. Gobineau and His Racial-Racist Political Theory
How resentment of the republican ideal of equality stoked the racist theories of Arthur Graf J. Gobineau.
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