1+ day, 6+ 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, 5+ 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, 13+ hour ago   (734+ words) Amodei said the incidents led him to call for a three-step plan to pace AI development and allow companies time to “align and safeguard their models, and for third-party evaluators to confirm this.” Amodei’s essay was published days after Jacob…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1762+ words) Gerald Horne argues that understanding Du Bois’s radical internationalism is essential to understanding the political crisis—and ideological confusion—of our own time. W.E.B. Du Bois did not suddenly become a radical internationalist late in life. As historian…...

1+ day, 14+ 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, 2+ hour ago   (1002+ words) Finally someone in high public office has had the nerve to state the obvious: that Britain’s Orthodox chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, is talking complete nonsense. Sadly, no one in the media seems ready to listen to Ed Miliband, the UK’s…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (764+ words) Jon Wilson Informed Coment On October 27, Israelis go to the polls in an election fraught with debate about ancient history. The country’s right-wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has concrete plans to extend sovereignty over much of the West Bank and…...

5+ day, 3+ 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, 3+ hour ago   (394+ words) Within any mass movement there exist political currents representing bourgeois and working-class forces and various nuances in between. In the case of this particular movement, which found inspiration from the Civil Rights struggles, bourgeois feminists, personified by Steinem, dominated the…...

5+ day, 3+ 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…...