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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Eyes in the Sky that Cannot Hide
Airborne ISR has long been treated as a source of persistent, reliable battlefield awareness. But the conditions that enable this capability also create structural vulnerabilities. As sensor networks improve and contested environments intensify, ISR effectiveness becomes conditional rather than assured. Source link www.nakedcapitalism.comRead More
What the appellate court got wrong about Iowa’s school book ban
Ed Tibbetts, a longtime reporter and editor in the Quad-Cities, is the publisher of the Along the Mississippi newsletter, where this article first appeared. Find more of his work at edtibbetts.substack.com. If only Iowa’s school librarians possessed the wisdom of a trio of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The judges overturned a preliminary injunction against Iowa’s…Read More
‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda Sidelines Tribes
This story was originally published by High Country News.Last fall, construction on the Velvet-Wood uranium mine broke ground in the sandstone deposits of San Juan County, Utah. It’s the first mine that the federal government has permitted under a new expedited “emergency” process that allows projects to go through the environmental review required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in…Read More
One Day of Peace
By David Glenn Cox What can you really say? Like Europe in the 1930s, with political crisis, after political crisis leading to a World War. The United States and Iran were in peace negotiations for 21 hours in Pakistan. Then, when no solution appeared by alchemy. The parties left with no future negotiations planned. What? Just one marathon special negotiation…Read More
Meet Candidate Rachel Burns For HD 7
Rachel Burns is running for Iowa House District 7. Check out her website at www.burnsforiowa.com “Iowans deserve a choice, no matter where they live. ” – Rachel Burns Follow Rachel Burns on social media: Facebook Instagram Donate Source link blogforiowa.comRead More
Who will win the Welsh Senedd election?
window.addEventListener(“message”,function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[“datawrapper-height”]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(“iframe”);for(var t in a.data[“datawrapper-height”])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[“datawrapper-height”][t]+”px”;r.style.height=d}}}); The 2026 Senedd election, scheduled for Thursday 7 May, is set to be one of the most consequential contests in modern Welsh political history. A major overhaul of the electoral system has transformed the landscape ahead of polling day. The Welsh government’s move away from the mixed system – combining constituency-based first-past-the-post…Read More
Senator McCormick Responds! TWICE!!
Let me clarify – I got the same email response twice. One about 2 minutes after the other.So it’s just one response, sent twice.Just to clarify. He starts:Thank you for sharing your concerns regarding the United States military strikes on Iran and the ongoing conflict in the region. Your feedback is essential as we work together to shape policies that benefit…Read More
WSJ mocks Trump as own outburst undercuts attack on editors: ‘Thanks for vindicating'
President Donald Trump erupted at The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board recently for having written about the president having “declared premature victory” with regards to the U.S. war against Iran. But an hour later, he appeared to undercut his own argument, prompting the Journal’s editorial board to thank him for “vindicating” its case.“The Wall Street Journal, one of the worst…Read More
After the Attack on Sam Altman’s Home, Will AI CEOs Go On the Offensive?
Sam Altman suggested that an investigative story describing him as someone “unconstrained by truth” with a “sociopathic lack of concern” for consequences caused an early Friday attack on his San Francisco home. The OpenAI CEO’s unsubstantiated implication came in a post on his personal blog published on Friday, hours after the attack. “There was an incendiary article about me a…Read More
Trump’s Disastrous War of Choice in Iran
Whether or not the ceasefire ends up failing, the erratic President has put the region and world in grave danger. Dispatches,Iran,Anti-War,Endless Wars,War And Peace,War Crimes,Stephen Zunes Source link progressive.orgRead More