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Washington’s public line is tidy enough to fit inside a briefing note. An F-15E Strike Eagle was downed over Iran, one crew member was recovered, the second crew member was later pulled out, and the United States carried out a difficult but successful Combat Search and Rescue operation inside hostile territory. That much explains why HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopters, pararescue jumpers, and support aircraft were in the air. What it does not explain is why the episode ended with a special operations wreck field near Shahreza that included two MC-130J Commando II aircraft and three MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, platforms associated with CSAR missions but also…

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US commandos accompanied and assisted Ecuadorian soldiers on raids targeting suspected cartels.  Two US officials speaking with CBS News confirmed that US special forces were participating in the Ecuadorian operations. They explained that the US soldiers accompanied their Ecuadorian counterparts and provided assistance. The operations targeted sites with suspected ties to Los Choneros.  In March, the US provided intelligence for an anti-narcotics operation. Local witnesses say the Ecuadorian forces targeted a dairy farm without ties to a cartel. The farm workers were kidnapped and beaten by the soldiers.  Under President Donald Trump, the US has stepped up military operations in…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As expected, inflation was sharply higher in March than in prior months. The overall inflation rate for March was 1.3 percent, although inflation in the core index was just 0.2 percent. This brought the year-over-year rates in the overall index to 3.3 percent, and in the core index to 2.6 percent. The jump in war-related inflation was expected, but it is important to note that inflation was already on an upswing even before the war started. The Personal Consumption Expenditure deflator (PCE) for February rose by 0.4 percent, as did the core PCE. Year-over-year inflation…

Anybody who runs a business or engages in regulated activities knows that government red tape imposes a significant burden. Those burdens can be very high, deterring entrepreneurs from launching companies, restraining the growth of those that already exist, and driving some people to operate illegally rather than try to deal with an administrative state that specializes in obstructionism. But just how much do federal regulations cost us? A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) tries to tally the price tag—and warns that Washington, D.C. needs major reform. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Kit Klarenberg Substack Leaked documents expose how prolific Western government contractor Torchlight, staffed by British military and intelligence veterans, has covertly trained “commercial and government clients” the world over in GCHQ’s digital espionage and cyberwar strategies. Cloak-and-dagger techniques to “discredit, disrupt, delay, deny, degrade, and deter” target adversaries and populations, honed for kinetic and psychological warfare and regime change…

The part that doesn’t get said out loud often enough is this: you can be “aligned” in a war and still be on a collision course. We dig into why U.S. goals in Iran and Israel’s goals in Iran don’t just differ, they actively clash and how that clash shows up in assassinations that erase diplomatic options and strikes that look designed to cripple Iran’s long-term ability to function as a state. We also zoom out to the stories getting buried while everyone watches missiles and maps. Using recent UN reporting and on-the-ground dynamics, we talk about accelerated West Bank…

Image by Maayan Nemanov. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress…Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.”–Frederick Douglass After 14 months of negotiations, at 4 AM Sunday morning UTLA signed a very favorable Tentative Agreement with Los Angeles Unified School District, winning a raise of almost 7% a year and the salary table reforms we sought. Under the current contract, a new LAUSD teacher starting at the first salary level sees an increase of only $6 a month in their second year, $61 a month in their third and fourth years, and…

In a commercial aired during this year’s Super Bowl, doorbell camera company Ring advertised its new “Search Party” function. The advertisement portrayed a family notifying Ring of a lost dog, prompting the company to search through its doorbell network’s footage and use AI to find the animal. Ring’s surveillance “may be applied to puppies today, but where else could it go?” warned the American Civil Liberties Union. Following a privacy-conscious backlash to the commercial, Ring owner Amazon announced that it was canceling a planned partnership with Flock Safety, a police surveillance technology company. This article originally appeared in print under…