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[ad_1] In The Godfather, Michael Corleone informs Tom Hagen he is being reassigned ahead of a particularly violent stretch for the family. “You’re not a wartime consigliere, Tom,” he said. “Things may get rough with the move we’re trying.” The scene comes to mind as the Iran war hits the six-month mark and President Donald Trump continues to drive the national conversation but to no obvious benefit for himself or his party ahead of the midterm elections. It would seem self-evident, even tautological, that Trump would be better off in a period of peace and prosperity rather than unpopular war.…

[ad_1] Apologies if today’s Grail news briefs lead to the end times…just doing God’s work! Do cells have intelligence? This respected scientist says we are “oblivious to all kinds of minds not like ours”. Non-profit group plans to launch a probe that will reach the nearest alien star system, Alpha Centauri…in 80,000 years. Can science test the possibility of reincarnation? Related: What happens when a skeptic digs into the reincarnation research of Dr Ian Stevenson? From Nefertiti to Cleopatra, ancient Egypt’s biggest mysteries have yet to be solved. A history of unicorns: Unicorns have pivotal roles in mythology, fantasy and…

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[ad_1] When imperialism turns knowledge, technology and art into instruments of submission, radical traditions teach another lesson. Sliman Mansour, Palestine, Rituals Under Occupation, 1988. (Via Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) By Vijay PrashadTricontinental: Institute for Social Research In January 1968, 470 delegates from seventy countries gathered in Cuba for the Cultural Congress of Havana. They arrived from nations at war, socialist societies under construction, national liberation movements struggling against colonialism and imperial centres where intellectuals had begun to rebel against power. Vietnam was resisting the most powerful military on Earth. The murder of Che Guevara three months earlier had not extinguished the…

[ad_1] Do you remember over the course of the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections when Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement promised to launch the United States into yet another Middle Eastern war, this time with Iran? No? No one does. Because it didn’t happen. “When I’m back in the White House, we will expel the warmongers, the profiteers, and take over our government and we will restore world peace,” Trump said during a National Guard Association speech in August 2024 to cheers and applause. Trump’s future Director of National Intelligence, former congresswoman, veteran and key…

[ad_1] Photo by Zbynek Burival Back in March, when the Trump administration and the Israeli government initiated their attack on Iran, it didn’t take a prophet to foresee the potential for an energy disruption due to the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked off to at least some extent. With over 10 million barrels a day worth of oil blocked at its peak, along with 20 percent of the global economy’s liquefied natural gas (LNG), the blockade has caused the greatest energy supply disruption in history. At the start, some analysts were predicting oil could go as high as $200 a…

[ad_1] Marcus Coleman, the father of a California girl permanently disabled by an illegal immigrant, blasts sanctuary city policies at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday. Coleman’s daughter, Dalilah, suffered a fractured skull, broken femur, and traumatic brain injury in the 2024 California crash after an 18-wheeler driven by an illegal immigrant crashed into the vehicle she was in.At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing, Coleman told Democratic members of Congress that he “rejects their sympathy.” MARCUS COLEMAN: How is that okay? How are you guys not fighting for this? Right here, how are you guys…

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[ad_1] Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands. This definition also very well describes the Trump Administration’s war with Iran. According to media reports, President Trump was cajoled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that this would be an “easy war,” like Venezuela. Just assassinate the Iranian leadership, he promised, and the regime change would bring in a pro-America regime in Iran. The CIA disagreed with the assessment, but Trump went with Netanyahu and the…

[ad_1] Amid public discontent and warnings from Pentagon leaders that the Iran War undermines military readiness, President Donald Trump has settled on a new strategy: lower the temperature on military hostilities and focus instead on strangling Iran’s economy. Middle East experts told The American Conservative that this approach won’t fundamentally change Tehran’s own military strategy, at least not in ways congenial to American interests. Moreover, in practice it is leading to skirmishes centered around the Strait of Hormuz, where the U.S. aims to blockade Iranian ports while securing free transit for allied countries. Meanwhile, ordinary Iranians face dire threats to…