Scott Horton

U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile Preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of Trump's stated war objectives.

Axios reports that Trump wants to seize Kharg Island to grab Iranian uranium stockpiles. But Kharg Island houses 90% plus of Iran's export petroleum, and that's what Trump really wants. www.axios.com/2026/03/08/i...

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

A WSJ investigation tracked the US citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters, with claims that are invariably false but have reached 380 million views. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Iran war could save Vladimir Putin’s failing Ukraine invasion.

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

DOJ Source’s Verdict on 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Revealed FBI interview summaries from the Epstein files detail allegations from a woman who said she was trafficked to Trump as a teen.

The most serious accusations of sexual assault asserted against Trump thus far were deemed credible by the FBI agents who interviewed the victim. www.thedailybeast.com/doj-sources-...

Trump Finds Jaw-Dropping Way to Disrespect His Own War Dead The president sported his own merch while participating in the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members.

Trump makes a dignified transfer extremely undignified.

Opinion | There Is One Crucial Reason We’re Talking About Boots on the Ground

"The US and Israel could dispatch special forces teams, with nuclear experts embedded in them, in the hope of finding, securing and removing or destroying the canisters, perhaps with the help of local insurgents. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how things could go terribly wrong."

The war of unintended consequences Israel and the US have achieved many military aims in Iran, but the unpredictable fallout poses threats to everyone

Lawrence Freedman writes that Israel and the US have achieved many military aims in Iran, but the unpredictable fallout poses threats to everyone. www.ft.com/content/0b16...

Russian intelligence suspected after Birmingham targeted in 'self-igniting parcel' attacks "Test packages" were also sent to the US and Canada, while two more packages bound for North America were intercepted in Amsterdam.

Parcel bomb in Birmingham is linked by police to Russian terrorist operation. news.sky.com/story/russia...

Tony Blair rebukes Keir Starmer for not backing Trump on Iran Tony Blair has rebuked Keir Starmer for his lack of support for Donald Trump's war on Iran , telling the Prime Minister: 'We should have backed America from the very beginning'.

Reflecting the thinking that led him to commit the UK to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and that can best be summed up by his close relationship with Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair scolds Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not backing Trump on Iran. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

If the US strike on the girls school was a bona fide mistake, does that mean it was _not_ a war crime? Nope. Things aren't that simple. The question is recklessness is critical in this context. But Hegseth's stonewalling will undermine the existence of defenses. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump’s Road to Iran

Can Trump's Iran War be justified as humanitarian intervention? Nope. Good try, though.

Sources: Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran Advisers are urging the president ‘to go bigger to end this once and for all.’

Trump is much closer to sending US troops to invade Iran than people realize. US officials and close allies have briefed Trump that if he wants to achieve “unconditional surrender” by the Iranian government—then he is going to have to deploy ground troops to Iran. And he is prepared to do so.

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

Staff at the nation’s largest ICE concentration camp, located north of El Paso, Texas, have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to "die by suicide," according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Friedrich Merz bei Trump: Der Mittelmächtige Für Friedrich Merz lag Deutschlands außenpolitische Schwäche am Dilettantismus der Ampel. Jetzt muss er selbst erfahren, wie wenig Einfluss ein Kanzler hat in der Welt von Putin, Trump und Xi.

Friedrich Merz visits Donald Trump in the Oval Office and comes out very worried about the territorial integrity of Iran, and even its survival as a state. What do you imagine Trump said to him to provoke that? www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

New footage yet again contradicts DHS claims about its killing of a US citizen Body camera video obtained by CBS News in the Ruben Ray Martinez case is another example of the administration misrepresenting lethal action from immigration agents.

This plainly was another homicide of a US citizen by DHS. But since the victim had brown skin, Texas authorities could care less.

Trump is now waging a war of aggression.

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame

From NYT a Week 1 Assessment: The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran’s leadership and undercut its defense capabilities, but President Trump has offered wildly different explanations for what he hopes to achieve.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Pontifex maximus has some words for the Christian Nationalists who showed up in the Oval Office to bless the Iran War.

ICE Barbie Insiders Expose Rumored Lover's Wild Schemes DHS insiders have spilled on how Kristi Noem’s alleged lover ran the show.

With Kristi Noem out, DHS staffers are dishing on how things were operated at the agency: basically Corey Lewandowski ran everything in consultation with Stephen Miller, while Kristi Noem was relegated to serial photo ops. In other words, South Park had it just right.

“If you saw an economy teetering on the brink, the only advice I’d give the administration is don’t do anything rash… don’t do anything silly.... I have a feeling that advice may have come a week too late.”

Capitol rioter pardoned by Trump gets a life sentence for molesting 2 children A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Andrew Paul Johnson, a Florida handyman convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan 6 and later pardoned by Donald Trump has been sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children. He is the sixth Jan 6 rioter to have been convicted of a sex crime against minors since the event.

The Jews Did It Armageddon is Back!

Joe Klein is afraid that the Iran War will spawn antisemitic blowback. "The Rapturists are the benign crazy uncles of the anti-semitic Iran war frenzy. There is real malignancy at foot as well.... And at the root of that is the belief that Israel hornswoggled the USA into war with Iran."