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[ad_1] Image by Richard Young. Global warming is becoming a self-advertised nuisance with the recent Nepal disaster bringing renewed attention: Is global warming fueled by fossil fuel CO2 emissions behind the Nepal catastrophe? In High Mountain Asia, there are thousands of glaciers at some stage of transforming into large lakes that may burst, barreling down mountainsides. The recent Nepal incident is but a warning, according to Jason Gulley, professor of geology, University of South Florida, who focuses on glacier hydrology. (The Melting Glacier in Nepal Was a Time Bomb. There are More to Come, The New York Times, August 28,…

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[ad_1] Washington has converted a military operation into a strategic endurance contest in which Iran possesses an exceptionally powerful economic weapon, writes Dan Steinbock. Israeli Air Force F-16I Sufa fighter jets during the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, March 4. ( IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) By Dan Steinbock Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not ignorance of the risks, but the political decision in Washington and Tel Aviv to gamble that coercive military power could overcome them. So, why did they set the stage for the catastrophe that was…

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[ad_1] “You kill people and break things for a living.”- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in Quantico, Virginia on September 30, 2025 The primary male sex hormone, testosterone, has been in the news of late. Students of social science may be familiar with the series of twentieth-century prison studies which had as their conclusion that high testosterone levels among incarcerated felons were associated with a propensity toward personal and violent crimes such as rape and murder. Correlation is not causation, but statistics are statistics all the same. Sports enthusiasts will know that testosterone has often been at issue in cases…

[ad_1] Image by William Gibson. In a recent Jacobin article, Noah Suárez-Sikes, “an organizer with the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,” criticized mainstream news outlets for gleefully outing DSA leaders who hail from backgrounds that range from upper-middle class to upper class. Dubbed “Class traitors are welcome in the socialist movement,” a construction perfectly tuned to immediately alienate right wingers and left wingers alike, the piece was framed around a feeding frenzy by the NYC and national conservative press against one Gustavo Gordillo, who Suárez-Sikes first described as “the democratically elected cochair of the New York City…

[ad_1] Leftists will never experience a grand revelation for the horrors they’ve inflicted on the American people and offer atonement. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The base at Abu al-Duhur had been dead for thirteen years. Wrecked in the Syrian war, out of service since 2012, its runways cratered and its hangars stripped, it sat in Idlib province about 60 kilometers from the Turkish border, useful to no air force. On the night of August 18 eight Israeli missiles fell on it. Israel said it had struck to stop Turkish troops from moving in. Six days before the strike, Israel had gone to Washington with the same warning. Its intelligence, it said, indicated there might be Turkish movement into the airfield. The Americans took…

[ad_1] Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney took to the airwaves on August 22 to explain in a speech and Q&A why he walked away from trade negotiations with the United States and thereby opened Canada to economy-crushing tariffs from the country once considered its closest friend. Carney gave three key reasons. The U.S. proposal, Carney said, demanded compromises on the protection of Canadian culture and the French language, including the promotion of French-language shows on streaming platforms and mandatory labelling in French as well as English on packaging. Carney also said it was “unacceptable” that the U.S. “wanted to restrict”…