1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (259+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (762+ words) Twenty-five years later, Republican politicians are still using 9/11 to justify war in the Middle East. And they’re still lying shamelessly. During remarks outside the Pentagon on Friday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1026+ words) Trump and his wife Melania launched meme coins that enriched insiders. Now Hunter Biden did, too. His Laptop token immediately crashed 99%. A recent series of scandals demonstrate how US politicians increasingly exploit their own supporters with financial schemes. The clearest…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (235+ words) Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Iran launches newly acquired precision missiles towards US warships in the Persian Gulf as the Trump administration’s ‘Economic D-Day’ backfires tremendously. In this Monday’s episode of The Target Stream Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh takes a…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (766+ words) 404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol’s predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (699+ words) And a reaffirmation of the UN charter and international law. Chinese President Xi Jinping underlined the need for stronger international coordination for common security in West Asia and a reaffirmation of the UN Charter and international law. Xi demanded external…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (435+ words) But the story doesn’t end with Steinem. Norton connects the Cold War propaganda apparatus to CIA interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Italy and Indonesia, the enormous human toll of U.S. post-9/11 wars, and the cultural institutions and intellectuals allegedly enlisted to…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (242+ words) The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Sunday urged Americans to push back on the vision of the future being presented by the oligarchs who run the artificial intelligence industry. In an interview with MeidasTouch, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas)…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (955+ words) A familiar spectre is haunting the nation — that of communism. Or so one might conclude from the Republican Party’s increasingly frantic rhetoric. Following a string of wins by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in congressional primaries from New York…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (689+ words) The latest casualty of Pete Hegseth’s disastrous tenure as Secretary of “War” is Dan Driscoll, who resigned Monday as Secretary of the Army after repeatedly clashing with the Heg. Driscoll isn’t a liberal in lion’s clothing. He’s an old friend…...