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[ad_1] Hamideh Khaleghi Mohammadi, University of Sydney and Ali Abbasi, University of Sydney The Conversation Coverage of the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States has largely focused on battlefield developments, political statements and international diplomacy. However, another story has been unfolding on the streets of Iran. Despite fears of further military escalation dominating daily life, residents continue take up space, both in person and online. Night after night, they gather in public spaces, posting the evidence on social media. In this process, many have turned to culture and the arts to show solidarity, and to encourage coming together during this uncertain time. Battling…

[ad_1] Ana Kasparian, the co-host of The Young Turks, joins The American Conservative correspondent Harrison Berger and Senior Editor Luke Nicastro to explore the emerging bipartisan anti-war movement. They discuss the Iran War, AI and data centers, and the latest House of Representatives vote on the NDAA. Recorded July 23, 2026. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Trump is asking for $1,500,000 million for the military for next year. That’s close to $600 billion (adjusted for inflation) more than we were spending on the military in fiscal year 2025, before Trump took office. This increase is huge by any measure. It comes to around $4,600 per household. It is around 8 percent of the total budget. This spending request dwarfs sums that are often the subject of major debates in Washington. For example, last year Democrats pushed to have the enhanced subsidies in the Affordable Care Act exchanges…

[ad_1] Supreme Court Takes Up Neglected Part of Constitution [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The latest evolution of President Donald Trump’s trade war arrived on Thursday evening: New tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 12.5 percent, targeting most of America’s largest trading partners. Those new tariffs replace the so-called “global tariff” of 10 percent that Trump implemented in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in February that struck down an earlier set of tariffs. That “global tariff” had been implemented under the auspices of a law that grants the president power to impose temporary tariffs that last no more than 150 days—in other words, that was always a stop-gap solution, and the…

[ad_1] Juan Cole Informed Comment The Iran War will erode the purchasing power of American consumers this summer, according to CNBC, especially because of high diesel prices. That projection helps explain Trump’s cratering numbers on his mind-bogglingly stupid Iran War. Even in his MAGA base, support for the war was only about 50% last May. It is now only a third. And that’s Trump’s base. In the rest of the country people want it to be over with yesterday every time they fill up the tank. Rabobank has downgraded forecasts for Netherlands economic growth in the next two quarters to 0.2%…

[ad_1] Your News to Know rounds up the most important stories about precious metals and the overall economy. What gold’s ominous “death cross” actually tells us Why UBS is bullish on gold – but hardly alone What central-bank gold buying and China’s new digital yuan experiment have in common Gold’s “death cross” is real – but it’s not an obituary I have never cared much for financial jargon. Sometimes a complicated term describes a genuinely complicated idea. Other times, it makes a fairly simple observation sound like knowledge delivered from the mountaintop. “Death cross” lands somewhere in between. Business Insider recently reported that gold…

[ad_1] The ‘Surprise Billing' Racket [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The making and unmaking of American dominance. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] As part of a probe of leftwing nonprofits, a congressional committee subpoenaed BreathThrough News, the People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. U.S. House of Representatives building and the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. (Ron Cogswell, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) By Stephen PragerCommon Dreams Press freedom groups have issued dire warnings that House Republicans’ efforts to subpoena the nonprofit left-wing news organization BreakThrough News represent a dangerous new step in a McCarthyite war on political dissent. On Wednesday, Fox News reported that BreakThrough, a New York-based outlet, was one of three nonprofits that had been issued subpoenas…