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Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale. Jeffrey D. Sachs Sybil Fares Common Dreams In his farewell address of January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans against the []
News Desk The Cradle Washington is seeking congressional approval for a nuclear energy pact with Saudi Arabia that does not include safeguards aimed at preventing the development of an atomic bomb, two sources told Reuters on 22 July. US President Donald Trump’s government is planning to submit “to Congress a pact with Saudi Arabia to share nuclear []
Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. In a Le Monde op-ed, Oman’s Badr al-Busaidi argues the West’s decades-long policy of “containing” Iran was always misguided. And that the true threat comes from Tel Aviv. Al-Busaidi pushes for a new security order built around regional states. Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi penned an op-ed for the French outlet Le Monde on Tuesday. The article []
The Chris Hedges Report. The Trump administration has embroiled the United States in another quagmire, similar to the Vietnam War and recent wars in the Middle East, by going to war against Iran. Now that the June 17th Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran is dead, the US and Iran seem to be stuck in a []
Robert Inlakesh and Ahmed AbdulKareem MintPress News Newly leaked documents reveal that while the Yemeni Armed Forces escalated their military campaign and Red Sea Blockade against Israel during the genocide in Gaza, a secret intelligence alliance and a “sophisticated espionage network” were being formed between Saudi intelligence, Israel’s Mossad and the CIA inside Riyadh to []
Nate Bear Do Not Panic In the wake of the death of three American troops on a base in Jordan following a retaliatory attack by Iran, I’ve seen a lot of commentary online stating that they “died for Israel.” This idea that Americans are dying for Israel has become an oft-repeated narrative since the US []
Britta Shoot Prism Journalist John Washington’s new book explains how fighting and closing detention centers is critical in the larger battle to stop immigration enforcement Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, dozens of immigrants have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Between January and July 6 this year, at least 21 individuals have died []
Marah Abdel Jaber Prism A seasoned humanitarian aid worker directing distributions to Gaza since the start of Israel’s genocide in October 2023 went on their first mission to the Strip last winter. During the two-week mission, they conducted a ground assessment: testing the efficacy of aid, recording field interviews with residents, and surveying the functionality []
Are Americans Wired for Authoritarianism? Charles Derber argues the nation’s democratic ideals have long masked an entrenched system of elite rule. As Donald Trump openly defies constitutional norms and concentrates power in the White House, many Americans see him as a dangerous break from the nation’s democratic traditions. Sociologist Charles Derber argues the opposite. In []
The 2026 World Cup was a lesson in how authoritarians capture what we love and how we refuse to let them. Emese Ilyés Common Dreams I inherited a few things from my father, who, as the story goes, when I was a baby in Transylvania, swam across a frozen river to escape communist Romania, toward []
