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[ad_1] Joshua Scheer As the Trump administration moves toward a second ceasefire agreement with Iran and officials in Washington attempt to declare the conflict a success, new reporting suggests the human cost of the war remains far higher than the Pentagon is willing to admit. According to investigative journalist Nick Turse, the official U.S. military casualty count from the war with Iran has quietly climbed again. Yet even the latest figures appear to exclude hundreds of known casualties, raising serious questions about transparency, accountability, and whether the American public is being told the truth about the real cost of…

[ad_1] Recruiting station for the British Army in London. (No lines evident.) Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Over the breadth of the ocean and all the way from a noisier Murica, politics in Cuppaland once ran on instantly recognisable machinery. You could hear the engine from streets away and know precisely what was coming. Ever since Doomchoice ten years ago—though not entirely because of it—Cuppaland has looked increasingly like a place that has lost its political bearings. The sort of spectral figure you might pass in a gloomy corridor and fail to recognise, despite once knowing them well. Not enough people…

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[ad_1] By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout “Maersk facilitated the transport of bullets Israel used to snipe Palestinian children in the head,” said one activist. On June 8, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask off Maersk Campaign published a report with Oxfam Denmark demonstrating that Maersk has continued to ship weapons to Israel amid its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, despite claiming otherwise. The shipments include “parts for bullets, bombs, mortars and projectile bodies” which have been “central” to weapons used by Israel to slaughter civilians in Gaza and now Lebanon, the report states. In 2025,…

[ad_1] When the article arrived in my inbox, I felt something I hadn’t felt in a long time — a frisson, that particular French shiver that sits somewhere between excitement and dread. Jeff Bezos had just announced that AGI had effectively shown up, and that he intended to harness it through his new venture, Prometheus, to produce what he was calling AGE: artificial general engineering. The pitch was expansive: a technology capable of designing everything from rocket ships to pharmaceutical compounds, opening up entire categories of human problem-solving that had previously been bottlenecked by the sheer limitation of human engineering…

[ad_1] When the state is so big and intrusive that people need its permission to do everything from building a house to merging businesses, it’s easy for the lines to blur between conversations in which government officials merely voice preferences and those in which they twist arms to get their way. That creates room for partisans to defend “jawboning”—government bullying of private parties to do what officials won’t or can’t do themselves—as nothing more than casual chats. The best way to handle jawboning is to strip government of power so it has little coercive leverage, and we should always work…

[ad_1] Adryan Corcione Prism In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Smalls worked at an Amazon warehouse in the Staten Island borough of New York City. With no social distancing required and no personal protective equipment provided, Smalls’ co-workers began getting sick with COVID. In response, he organized a workplace walkout, protesting their unsafe conditions. Despite his record as a high-performing employee, he was fired for organizing, which only fueled his efforts.  In May 2020, Smalls co-founded the Congress of Essential Workers, which later became the Amazon Labor Union. Smalls helped lead the drive for…

[ad_1] Story at-a-glance A 72-hour break from cellphones triggered increased cravings in study participants; brain scans showed heightened activity in reward centers when shown phone images Cellphones stimulate your brain’s pleasure center similarly to other rewards, creating dopamine hits that lead to dependency Your brain’s attention center becomes increasingly focused on phones, making it difficult to concentrate on other tasks without feeling pulled back to check devices Regular phone breaks help manage cellphone dependence; strategies like setting phone-free times during meals or before bed reduce cravings Excessive phone use negatively impacts focus, sleep, and mood, creating addiction-like patterns that interfere…