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[ad_1] President Donald Trump says he is not interested in negotiating an end to the war against Iran.  “I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported. I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement,” the President wrote on Truth Social Tuesday. “I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing. They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?” While Trump claims the US is not trying to force…

[ad_1] The United States claimed to strike Iranian radar installations along the Strait of Hormuz late Tuesday, and the Islamic Republic retaliated with ballistic missiles and drones against targets in the Persian Gulf region. “U.S. forces struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine laying capabilities, and communications sites,” U.S. Central Command posted on X. “The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members.” Iran reportedly struck two Saudi supertankers in the strait Monday, killing at least…

[ad_1] Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’ Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become billionaire fiefdoms – completely privatized, governed by dictatorial CEOs and financed by subservient taxpayers. The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Hedges interviews investigative…

[ad_1] Teacher bonuses, property-tax relief and revived main streets can persuade skeptical communities more than abstractions about national strategy. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Sen. Ron Johnson said China is helping fund opposition to AI data centers and warned the U.S. should not handicap itself in the race for AI. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] This is a critique of Michael Shermer’s moral case for dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Michael Shermer has spent much of his career teaching others how not to fool themselves. As the founder and editor-in-chief of Skeptic, he has made a profession of demanding evidence, distinguishing what is known from what is inferred, warning against confirmation bias, and urging people to apply the same standards to their own beliefs as to others’ beliefs. There is, however, one superstition before which even professional skeptics can be tempted to kneel: the moral innocence of their own country. In his…

[ad_1] Katy Faust has apparently discovered something important about Log Cabin Republicans: We aren’t conservative, because she says so. How convenient. In her latest RealClearPolitics essay, Faust attacks Log Cabin Republicans for dropping the “T” and returning to our original mission of advocating for gay and lesbian Americans within the Republican Party. Her argument is that supporting gay marriage and gay families is fundamentally incompatible with conservatism – and that the Republican Party was founded to oppose precisely the kind of family structures we support. There’s just one problem: Her history is spectacularly wrong. Faust points to the Republican Party’s…

[ad_1] Adam Liu, Foreign Affairs September 2, 2026 In July, the Pew Research Center found that for the first time in roughly two decades of global polling, the world now views China more favorably than the United States. The sentiment was not universal, but in 25 of the 36 countries surveyed this year, the percentage of respondents who gave favorable marks to China exceeded that for the United States, including several close U.S. allies. Some analysts have taken these findings as confirmation that the golden era of American soft power is over and China is ascendant. According to them, Trump’s policies…

[ad_1] This is a response to Klaus Ziegler’s critique of my moral case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I want to thank Klaus Ziegler for taking the time to read and respond to my essay, “The Moral Case for Dropping the Atomic Bombs.” He challenges my three propositions that (1) the atomic bombings contributed to Japan’s surrender, (2) without them substantially more people would likely have died, (3) therefore, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was morally justified. Despite Klaus’s thoughtful critique that reveals the many challenging issues involved in the U.S. government’s decision to drop the two atomic bombs on…

[ad_1] The social, political, and economic factors that lead people to believe in non-existent beings Humans love patterns. Trying to find patterns even where they don’t exist is our way of making sense of the world. Place a million parallel lines before a human observer and they shall immediately know it if one of them is askew. Likewise, that random act of violence must be a conspiracy, those two presidents must have some ontological connection to each other to explain so many coincidences (Lincoln and Kennedy), and that random array of bushes and shrubs must be a human. Pareidolia is…