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Robert Inlakesh hosts The Target LIVE Mint Press News More than two years after six-year-old Hind Rajab was killed alongside her rescuers in Gaza, Hezbollah is systematically targeting commanders linked to the Israeli unit accused of killing her. In this week’s episode of The Target, Robert Inlakesh examines the battlefield campaign, the evidence, and the growing pressure on Israel’s military leadership. On this Monday’s edition of the Target Stream MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at how Hezbollah has hunted down the Israelis connected to the infamous killing of Hind Rajab in the Gaza Strip – investigating how the Lebanese…

Female refugees in Pakistan. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 A family arrives at a camp in Sudan carrying everything they still owned. A few cooking pots. Some blankets. Perhaps a plastic bag of clothes. They expect to stay a few weeks before returning home. Instead, they are displaced again. And again. And again. The war that unsettled them has become one of the largest humanitarian disasters on Earth. Tens of millions have been uprooted. Aid agencies inform those who listen that millions face hunger, disease, and violence. Yet outside these aid agencies and diplomatic circles, many struggle to explain anything…

Newly released dashboard camera video shows police officers in Pasadena, California, engaging in what officials called “horseplay” with loaded firearms, during which one officer accidentally shot another. The incident took place in September 2025 in the department’s parking garage as officers prepared for their shift. In the video, one officer quickly draws his gun and points it at a fellow officer seated in a patrol car. According to police, the officer in the car then drew his own weapon, which discharged, shooting through the windshield and hitting the other officer in the shoulder. Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris said the…

Opening of Obama Presidential Center. Screengrab from video posted to YouTube. Any consideration of the newly opened Obama Presidential Center calls for a review of the Obama administration’s record of action. The building and its grounds are inconceivable outside of this context, and the record will have to be given more attention. Revisiting the Obama policy program is surprising in that it shows how little has truly changed. The remarkable feature of this program in 2026 is its clear consistency with the lawlessness and authoritarianism of Donald Trump. Yet the tone and the packaging are clearly different. If Obama seemed…

Trump responds to a reporter’s question on the Iran peace deal. (Screengrab of video posted to X.) For the past 60 years, U.S. presidents have used and misused the concept of threat to justify the use of force on a massive scale.  U.S. presidents in the post-World War II era were so fearful of a congressional and public return to isolationism that the threat of communism was exaggerated to justify increases in defense spending and maintenance of hundreds of unneeded military bases and facilities.  In the current era, we are devoting large sums of money to defense spending as well…

When a global superpower can’t even win a war against algae, you know their influence is at an end. How Europe became the world champion of heat deaths. Climate change and biodiversity decline reshapes bird biology. Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars. Enough with the blue-balling, NASA! Related: This short story published by Wired still makes me cry every time I read it. Enjoy. NASA’s aging infrastructure can’t handle Artemis launches without $1 billion in upgrades, watchdog warns. But sure, let’s keep throwing money at Elon’s Mars delusions. Elon is plunging into the abyss with…

In a basic Marxo-Freudo 101 syllabus–which no longer complies with the spirit of Texas law–we learn that Artificial Intelligence is neither language nor labor. To speak language, you need to have been born to a mother and father. To labor, you must be living in relation to death. Laugh at Freud if you like, because the joke must lie somewhere, but there are words such as mother and father which require your living attention to the unspoken grammar of a sane life. An AI agent may be tangled up in knots of unspoken parameters, but it is not tethered to…

Ten years ago this month Hillbilly Elegy was released. A few weeks later, Rod Dreher gave the little-known author J.D. Vance a national platform with his review and subsequent interview that crashed The American Conservative’s website. Not only did Vance’s book explain an undercurrent of frustration among the white working class; it also exposed a cluelessness among elites, unaware of the Big Sort bubble they created, as evidenced by their bewilderment when Donald Trump won the presidency later that year. A decade later, Vance is no longer explaining white working-class angst to the silver-spoon crowd. Instead, his role has evolved…

The New York Times recently ran a podcast on Return to the Land, a membership club for straight, white people. It operates like a Manhattan co-op, with members buying shares that entitle them to a piece of real estate, the main difference being that, instead of being on a tiny island, home to some of the most expensive apartments in the world, this club is located on 160 acres of unused land in a remote part of Arkansas, where the closest grocery store is 30 minutes away. The reporters covering the story, Rachel Abrams and Debra Kamin, couldn’t have been…

It is often said that generals are ready to fight the last war. In other words, after every war, the military evaluates the results in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, but the next war always presents different conditions and problems, making many of these lessons less relevant. Germany and Japan were not North Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh and Saddam Hussein were not Hitler and Stalin. Wars fought with tanks, battleships, airplanes and missiles had limited relevance when fighting against IEDs and drones. Nevertheless, there is one lesson that modern wars should teach both the civilian leaders who initiate…