Scott Horton

Gym Jordan: Trump promised us war with Iran and now he has delivered on his promise.

Meanwhile AfD is being much more vocal in its criticism of Trump's war in the Middle East, echoing unmistakable cues from the Kremlin.

ALLIANCE OF SOVEREIGN NATIONS

Michael Weiss: Markus Frohnmaier, the German Neo Nazi AfD parliamentarian, whom the Russians describe as "absolutely under our control," is in DC this week to hang with Anna Paulina Luna and Mike Johnson, plus others Republican members of U.S. Congress. asn26.com

International humanitarian law is at risk – but it still carries weight | Kenneth Roth A study says IHL is at ‘critical breaking point’ amid horrendous violations in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. But to declare its demise would be premature

Rubio's theocratic foreign policy represents a surrender of US decision making to Israel. "The first time Trump has so explicitly acknowledged Israel as a driving force behind the war [with Iran]—landing at a moment when Americans' public support for Israel has hit historic lows."

Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

When Neanderthals and ancient modern humans interbred, the pairings were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans, according to a new Science study. This finding helps explain why Neanderthal ancestry present in most humans is unevenly distributed. scim.ag/3OB9jIR

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

The evidence is strong that Trump’s central claims about Iran are false, not merely that they haven’t been sufficiently explained to lawmakers. trib.al/NBVX56S

Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

Emad Hajjaj

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

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Trump announces his forever war.

This is straight from the talking points that Trump has sent to to all Republicans in Congress, and it's straight from Orwell. "We're at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia." bsky.app/profile/atru...

From Ed Luce's FT column this morning: www.ft.com/content/611e...

Notice how Sen Capito doesn't answer the question.

La guerre choisie de Donald Trump en Iran ÉDITORIAL. Avec une attaque massive, qui ne répondait à aucune urgence, le président des Etats-Unis et le premier ministre israélien visent à provoquer l’écroulement du régime iranien. Mais sa chute p...

Le Monde: With a massive attack that wasn't in response to any immediate threat, the US president and the Israeli prime minister aim to bring about the collapse of the Iranian regime. Yet its fall could usher in a period of great instability in the country. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Studies of Rupert Murdoch TV consistently show it is a stream of faked videos and montages that have nothing to do with the news they are reporting. This is where news ends and political propaganda begins.

When Hegseth says "no stupid rules of engagement," this is what he means.

Trump’s Case for War With Iran Faces Growing Scrutiny U.S. intelligence showed threats from Iran loomed, as they had for years. But they were not imminent.

US officials and lawmakers with access to classified information, along with experts who have spent their careers poring over public data and government reports, say the administration’s assertions about why they needed to go to war with Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong.

Everything Netanyahu says pans out perfectly, doesn't it?

Iran conflict: Israel and Hizbollah launch attacks as Middle East war expands US embassy in Riyadh hit by drones, Saudi government says

In the mind of Netanyahu, war is peace and peace is war. The Israeli prime minister told Fox News that the assault on Iran would ‘usher in an era of peace that we haven’t even dreamed of’ as the conflict entering its fourth day spread across the region.

Gulf States in Race Against Time to Repel Iran’s Onslaught There are only so many air-defense interceptors available to knock down an almost limitless number of drones.

Gulf states are in a race against time: will their air-defense interceptors, with their impressive success rates so far, have to be rationed before Iranian drones and missiles run out? The calculation also depends on how fast the US and Israel keep destroying Iranian launchers. WSJ's analysis.

Bernie Sander's proposed super tax on the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans is a huge hit.