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Reprisal bombing in Lebanon
dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-he...
and chemical warfare in Tehran
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...

Iran's Kurds would do well to read up on the fate of Syria's Kurds as summarized in BBC reporting six weeks ago.
What happens when their usefulness to the US expires?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Friday night, @tpogge.bsky.social, @jonasjaegermeyr.bsky.social, and moderator Max Gruenig joined us for Global Shocks and the Future of Food System Resilience, a conversation that connected analytical, scientific, and policy perspectives on shared global challenges!

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The pattern continues with a double tap strike on Niloofar Square (1 March), detailed below, followed by a similar double tap strike on Ferdowsi Square (2 March), about 7 km away - both in heavily populated areas of Tehran. These attacks often kill reporters.

1/3 of Iran's dead are underage girls killed at their schools.
8 medical facilities were also hit.
10 innocent mistakes?
Or an effort to show that Israel isn't alone in practicing Gaza-style warfare?
If the latter, expect dead reporters.

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Serious issues, well presented in ca. 6 minutes.
I enjoyed my brief appearance in one of them.
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Team Trump Opposed War With Iran. Then They Started One Donald Trump, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, and so many in MAGA claimed they would stop regime-change wars, not start them. We have the receipts.

They were against regime change war.
But how else do you stop people talking about Epstein?
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New York Times reporting.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

How Jad Jadallah bled to death at age 14.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Global Shocks and the Future of Food System Resilience A conversation connecting analytical, scientific, and policy perspectives on shared global challenges

How do global disruptions reveal vulnerability in food systems?

Global Shocks & the Future of Food System Resilience will evaluate the repercussions impacting market instability & supply-chain stress with @tpogge.bsky.social, @jonasjaegermeyr.bsky.social & Max Gruenig.

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Acoziborole Winthrop, developed by DNDi and Sanofi, receives European Medicines Agency positive opinion as three-tablet, single-dose treatment for most common form of sleeping sickness The recommendation is based on Phase II/III study demonstrating up to 96% success rates at 18 months across both early and advanced stages of T.b. gambiense, the most common form of sleeping sickness.

Major breakthrough against sleeping sickness, a historically neglected disease largely confined to the world's poorest people.
dndi.org/press-releas...

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

The debate about the US using AI for automated killing and mass surveillance.
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: Report A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15.

Reconstruction of Israel's killing of the 15 aid workers.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-so...

US allows coal plants to emit more toxic mercury into the air Environmental Protection Agency rollback of standards marks latest move to boost fossil fuels

Mercury is highly toxic to children:
harming the developing brain & nervous system;
causing severe neurodevelopmental damage: lower IQ, reduced memory, attention deficit disorders;
can cause tremors, headaches, motor dysfunction.
www.ft.com/content/d1f3...
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420 days.
Pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, is still held under inhumane conditions in Ofer Prison without charge.
Without evidence that he was a combatant, he is imprisoned under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law for 6-month periods.

Ma Jun: ‘No business interest’ in Chinese coal power due to cheaper renewables  - Carbon Brief Ma Jun, one of China’s most recognisable environmental activists, tells Carbon Brief that more needs to be done to encourage “multi-stakeholder” participation in climate efforts

China burns about 30% more coal than the rest of the world combined: nearly 5 billion tonnes.
Ma Jun is a leading voice for bringing this down fast: burning coal no longer makes sense economically.
www.carbonbrief.org/ma-jun-no-bu...

Capitalization of the World: Global Distribution of Income from Property, 2000–2020 - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality B. Milanovic and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 125. 2026.

The Gini coefficient of global capital income is 94% - half of it goes to just 0.75% of the world's population. Data from 2020.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

It's being reported by the editor of @migrantinsider.bsky.social.

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Climate change could expose 1.1 billion people to hunger by 2100 (but there’s good news too) – AI modelling study Without rapid cuts to fossil fuels and a shift to clean energy, climate change could drive over a billion into hunger by 2100, hitting Africa hard.

As the US promotes fossil fuel burning at home and abroad, the outlook darkens for climate-change-induced famine crises around the world, esp. in Africa, where 170 million could be exposed each year by the end of the century.
theconversation.com/climate-chan...

Global warming has been accelerating from 0.19 to 0.25 degrees Celsius per decade.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

From Inside Climate News.
The impact of Trump's policies on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Cardiovascular deaths from air pollution declining in the U.S., but racial disparities persist A new study from the Yale School of Public Health shows that air pollution-related cardiovascular deaths are increasingly concentrated among traditionally

The environmental regulations Trump is scrapping have reduced cardiovascular deaths from PM2.5 pollution from 42,000 in 2001 to 23,500 in 2020.
We should strengthen these regulations and reduce racial disparities in their effects.
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Despite annual economic growth of ca. 5%, CO2 emissions in China are down over the last two years - slightly. They now stand at 8.6 tonnes per person versus 14 tonnes for the US.
Details from Carbon brief.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

US midterm elections are coming up in November, including 35 senate seats, all seats in the House of Representatives, & many offices in the states.
Elections in the US are privately funded, often by rich firms & individuals seeking legislative favors.
This is how it looks:

India will use more coal over the next 25 years, report says India's coal consumption could more than double by mid-century before plunging sharply as the country shifts toward cleaner energy, long‑term projections published by government think-tank NITI Aayog ...

After China, India is the world's second-largest coal consumer, burning 1.26 billion metric tons annually.
This is expected to more than double by 2050 to a peak of 2.62 billion metric tons per year.
We must do much better!
www.reuters.com/business/ene...