Are We Headed for All-Out War in the Middle East?
Tensions are high and the US has made a move to increase its already substantial military forces in the Middle East
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Between Optimism and Despair: The Messy Middle Paths Through Climate Breakdown
The mindset at the root of the ecological crisis will continue to drive destructive patterns, until we are forced to confront it.
Read more...US Deploys Pathetic Wizard of Oz Messaging Strategy to Pretend It Can Influence Iran Conflict Trajectory
The US is bizarrely pretending it has influence over the coming Iran and Axis of Resistance response to Israel escalation.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Middle East’s A Dance of Death – Part 3: Spillover
Why the prospects for containing, much the less resolving, the escalating Middle East conflict, are poor.
Read more...World-Ending Maneuvers? Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today
Even if the looming Israel-Iran conflict does not produce a regional war or worse, the ICBM lobby poses another huge risk to collective safety
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Middle East’s Dance of Death – Part 2: Fallout
Satyajit Das, continuing his series on the contemporary Middle East, focuses on the Al Aqsa Flood attack and Israel’s response.
Read more...Insects: Apocalypse Soon?
The world-wide decline of insect populations, strengths and weaknesses of the studies, causes and effects
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Middle East’s Dance of Death – Part 1: Deluge
A long view of the conflict in the Middle East.
Read more...Israel: Armageddon?
Israel, as John Mearshimer put in in a new post, has gotten itself in deep kimchee. Who else will it drag into its desperate mess?
Read more...Michael Hudson & Jill Stein: Israel Just Crossed Hezbollah And Iran’s Red Line: WWIII Looms
Israel has just greatly upped the ante with assassinations in Tehran, Beirut, and possibly a third in Damascus. How will the Axis of Resistance respond?
Read more...Israel Assassinates Hamas Negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, in Iran, Leading to Condemnation Across Muslim World; Israel Attempts Assassination of Hezbollah Leader in Beirut; Settler Brownshirt Rampage Against IDF Wins Knesset Backing
Israel escalates as Tony Blinken wrings his hands.
Read more...Starvation in Sudan: As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate
How a brutal, five year old civil war in Sudan has been producing Gaza-level starvation and war crimes.
Read more...Ukraine End-Game: Rate-Determining Steps and the Question of Denazification
Further discussion of some of the likely complexities and stumbling blocks in Russia’s slow-motion conquest of Ukraine.
Read more...U.S. is Facing a Major Energy Crunch Due to AI’s Insatiable Demand
A proposed Department of Energy initiative show the US is unserious about either curbing AI energy demand or managing the impact on the grid
Read more...Israel Economy Bleeding Out as Damage Compounds
Israel ‘s economy is buckling due to its campaign against Palestinians. But despite what may be irreparable damage, it is not turning back.
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