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"A nasty, brutal fight": what a US-Iran war would look like

vox.com - A deadly opening attack. Nearly untraceable, ruthless proxies spreading chaos on multiple continents. Costly miscalculations. And thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — killed in a conflict that…

At Baghdad funeral procession for Qasim Soleimani, calls for retaliation against the United States

washingtonpost.com - Mourners attend the funeral of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, top commander of the elite Quds Forces, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. (Wissm Al-Okili/Reuters) By Mustafa Salim, Kareem …

A Dubious Official Story Masks the True Motives Behind the Soleimani Assassination

mintpressnews.com - BAGHDAD — The recent assassination of Iran’s most popular and well-known general, Qassem Soleimani, has stoked fears that a new war pitting the U.S. and its allies against Iran could soon become a de…

Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue Who Qassim Soleimani Was

theintercept.com - A reminder: Trump pulled out of the landmark Iran nuclear deal less than 18 months after assuming office. He replaced his predecessor’s nuclear diplomacy with a “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran,…

Suleimani killing the latest in a long, grim line of US assassination efforts

theguardian.com - The US government is no stranger to the dark arts of political assassinations. Over the decades it has deployed elaborate techniques against its foes, from dispatching a chemist armed with lethal poi…

With Suleimani Assassination, Trump Is Doing the Bidding of Washington’s Most Vile Cabal

theintercept.com - While the media focus for three years of the Trump presidency has centered around “Russia collusion” and impeachment, the most dangerous collusion of all was happening right out in the open — the Tru…

Opinion | Yes, Soleimani was an enemy. That doesn’t mean Trump made the right call.

washingtonpost.com - President Trump makes a statement on Iran at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) By Editorial Board January 3, 2020 at 6:39 PM EST MAJ. GEN. Qasem …

The Hubris of Ignorance

stonekettle.com - Have you been following this? All these airplane crashes? And everyone is so confused. Everyone is going, Gosh, how come there are so many airplane crashes? Well, um, I gotta theory here. You remembe…

If Trump Can’t Bully Iran Into Backing Down, Things Could Get Scary Fast

nymag.com - It’s a bit of a chimera, truth be told: The president who has endlessly and redundantly attacked open-ended military commitments and expensive and extended conventional warfare has taken an action th…

Explosive report indicates that Donald Trump's loans from Deutsche Bank were backed by Russia

dailykos.com - The reasons that Donald Trump would need a massive distraction at this point are numerous. Every day seems to produce fresh evidence that the White House was fully aware that Trump’s delay of militar…

Private jet firm: Rogue employee helped Ghosn flee

bbc.com - A Turkish private jet firm says a rogue employee acted alone to help former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn escape from Japan using its aircraft. Mystery surrounded how Ghosn, who faces criminal charges in …

A Biden Nomination Means a Second Trump Term ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - I remember when I began to feel dread that Donald Trump would win in 2016. It was when I saw Hillary Clinton shimmy in the first Presidential debate. Trump was managing to attack her from both the le…

Inclusion In The Atrocious | Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - Every summer for over a decade, in nearly every major American metropolis, innocent window shoppers, bohemians, and tourists have been accosted by clip-boarded assailants from Human Rights Campaign (…

'Silent death': Australia's bushfires push countless species to extinction

theguardian.com - Close to the Western River on Kangaroo Island, ecologist Pat Hodgens had set up cameras to snap the island’s rare dunnart – a tiny mouse-like marsupial that exists nowhere else on the planet. Now, af…

Ruling class bereft of answers while catastrophic fires escalate across Australia

wsws.org - Catastrophic fire conditions exist today throughout much of Australia, from the southwest of Western Australia, across South Australia, to Victoria, the island state of Tasmania, and New South Wales …

Sydney power under threat as fires destroy substations

news.yahoo.com - New South Wales is under a third state of emergency over the severe fire conditions (AFP Photo/PETER PARKS) Sydney (AFP) - Electricity supplies in Australia's most populous state, including its large…

How a New Wave of Orbiting Sentinels Is Changing Climate Science

undark.org - On Sept. 15, 2018, at precisely 6:02 a.m., a Delta II rocket lifted off in a cloud of fire and smoke from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast. The payload, a NASA observation sa…

Australia’s Fires Give Us a Glimpse of What’s Coming

jacobinmag.com - Not surprisingly, the government is now facing a vocal backlash. When, for instance, Scott Morrison ventured to the fire-devastated town of Cobargo, angry locals abused him in the street. “You won’t …

Make room for the e-bikes, the top selling electric vehicles for the next decade

treehugger.com - A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars. Recently, after calling the teens the decade of the bicycle, I predicted that the Twenties would be the decade of e…

Black hole boots a star clear across the Milky Way — and it's moving incredibly fast

mnn.com - There's really no arguing with a time-and-space-bending vortex, especially the supermassive specimen at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy known as Sagittarius A*. So it doesn't much matter what one s…

Former Fox News reporter says Trump invited her to his office 'so we can kiss'

theguardian.com - A former Fox News reporter has added her name to the list of nearly two dozen women who have accused Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances towards them. In a book published next week, the F…

Death toll rises in Indonesia's sinking capital as flood defences struggle

theguardian.com - The death toll from floods caused by torrential rains in the Indonesian capital rose to at least 53 as rescuers found more bodies, disaster officials said on Saturday. The worst monsoon rains in more…

Amazon Threatens to Fire Employees Who Speak out on Climate Crisis

ecowatch.com - Amazon employees who speak out about the climate crisis say they have been threatened with firing. Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) said Thursday that the company's legal and HR teams had …

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