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Old fortification in Oman. Photo by Matthew Stevenson. Before the United States decides to stump up another half a trillion dollars for Pete Hegseth’s Excellent Adventures, it might want to answer the question why the country has only won a handful wars in the last hundred years? Victory disease is defined as “dangerous overconfidence, arrogance, and complacency that arises within a leadership or military force following a string of decisive victories,” and most imperial powers in decline, including now the U.S., suffer from it chronically. On paper, measured by budget appropriations, the U.S. army is the greatest show on turf—with…
On Thursday, the ninth day of the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. is ready to restart combat operations against the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached, reiterating threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure. “We are reloading with more power than ever before, and better intelligence,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing. “We are locked and loaded on your critical dual-use infrastructure, on your remaining power generation, and on your energy industry. We’d rather not have to do it.” The Washington Post, citing unnamed officials, reported Wednesday…
U.S. and Iran Should Turn This Pause Into Peace Source link
Congress defied the plain meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it said data gathered by warrantless surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could be used by the F.B.I. for prosecution purposes, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Justice Louis Brandeis in 1916. (Harris & Ewing /United States Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) By Andrew P. Napolitano The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the…
Last week’s purchases were mostly funded via sales of the company’s STRC preferred stock. What to know: Strategy bought 4,871 bitcoin for about $329.9 million last week at an average price of $67,718 per coin. The company has spent roughly $58.02 billion on its bitcoin at an average cost of $75,644 per coin, leaving it with about $5 billion in unrealized losses at current prices. With 766,970 BTC, Strategy controls about 3.8 percent of bitcoin’s circulating supply. Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) added 4,871 bitcoin to its treasury over the past week at an average price of roughly $67,718 per coin,…
The Growing State Tax and Jobs Divide Source link
To protect the fundamental right to due process, a federal judge has permanently blocked the Justice Department (DOJ) from prosecuting Californians who fail to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) if the state doesn’t require them to do so. In a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public-interest law firm, four John Does described the impossibility of complying with the DOJ. A rule issued by former Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021 required anyone who’s ever been convicted of a sex offense to register with their state, regardless of whether their state’s laws…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Dave Decamp for AntiWar.com The US is sending thousands of additional troops to the Middle East and is considering restarting the bombing campaign against Iran or launching ground operations in the country, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US officials. The report said that the forces include 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush and…
The Department of War is preparing four options for President Donald Trump to escalate the war against Iran. The Pentagon hopes that if Trump selects one of the options, it will force Tehran to comply with Washington’s demands. Two US officials confirmed to Axios that the Pentagon was developing plans for a “final blow” against Iran. The options for Trump will include an invasion or blockading the island that serves as Tehran’s main oil export hub, invading an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz, seizing islands that are controlled by Iran but claimed by the UAE, and blocking or…
Image by JF Martin. As Cuba teeters on the brink of an escalating US assault, my thoughts drift back to a trip my wife and I took to Havana and Trinidad (the Cuban city) in 2017. Shelly and I fell madly in love with a place so strangely unique that it wrestles with your intuitive sense of possibility. Everything in Havana screams of paradox, of things that cannot possibly coexist anywhere else. If Trump and his goons destroy Cuba the loss will be immeasurable. At the risk of seeming hyperbolic – when the Cuban revolution dies, the planet will be…