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Michael de Adder, Counterpoint

L’européanisation du « parapluie nucléaire » français, un projet de moins en moins tabou chez beaucoup d’alliés Alors qu’Emmanuel Macron doit prononcer, lundi, à Brest, un discours sur la dissuasion nucléaire, son allocution sera particulièrement écoutée par les Européens. Plusieurs pays ont amorcé un virage st...

With Trump withdrawing America's nuclear umbrella from Europe, an extension of the French nuclear arsenal to cover Europe is one of the more approachable options for rump NATO. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

singularity. Before this paper, many physicists believed singularities might only form in perfectly symmetrical stars. Penrose used "global techniques" to prove that once a trapped surface forms, a singularity is inevitable, regardless of the star's shape or symmetry.

Roger Penrose's 1965 diagram from his seminal paper, "Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities". It was a key part of the work that earned him the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, representing the evolution of a star's gravitational collapse into a black hole and the subsequent formation of a

USA: In den Epstein-Akten fehlen Aussagen, die Trump belasten könnten Rechercheure vermissen in den Akten Interviews mit mutmaßlichen Zeuginnen. Abgeordnete sprechen von einer Vertuschungsaktion, um Trump zu schützen.

Several reviews of the Epstein documents identify conclusively that DOJ systematically removed 53 pages containing notes of FBI interviews of victims in which the conduct of Donald Trump is specifically discussed. The DOJ is not denying that it did this, nor is it offering an explanation.

“The Thought of Holding Thousands of Families in Massive Warehouses Should Challenge the Conscience of Every American,” Says Bishop Cahill Newly released details show how the Administration plans to double federal immigration detention capacity, spending an estimated $38.3 billion from last year...

America's Catholic Bishops say the planned ICE concentration camp system has no president in US history other than the internment camps established for Japanese-Americans after 1941. www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

Trump warns of more US casualties in war with Iran, Hezbollah joins conflict | CNN There could be more US casualties as part of the military operations against Iran, President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday. Three American troops have been killed so far, according to the US milita...

Pentagon briefers acknowledged to congressional staff in a briefing Sun that Iran was not planning to strike US forces or bases in the Middle East unless Israel attacked Iran first. This undercuts Trump’s argument on Sat that Iran was planning to potentially strike the US preemptively. It wasn't.

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Pentagon offers no evidence to support claim it attacked Iran in defense The Trump administration’s effort to construct a case for war after shots started flying has few historical parallels.

The Trump administration’s effort to construct a case for war after shots started flying has few historical parallels... because basically it isn't offering one. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump seeks swift end to Iran operation Opinion: The killing of Iran’s supreme leader is a major intelligence and military feat, but Tehran’s regime has not collapsed; US official, via a mediator, proposed an immediate ceasefire; Iran rejec...

Boy is this weird. So many contradictory reports coming from Trump's entourage.
• The US planned for a 4-5 day operation that would weaken the Iranian negotiating position
• Yesterday, the US reached out to Tehran through Italian mediators requesting a ceasefire
• The Iranians rejected this

This analysis seems correct. More to the point, neither Trump, Hegseth nor any other senior spokesman for the administration has presented any contradictory evidence.

“If we’re not careful, we’re going to get a judge killed. It’s just that stark,” says retired federal Judge John Jones, a George W. Bush appointee.

A 60 Minutes investigation found that judges who ruled against the Trump administration have received threats. cbsn.ws/3OEfxrr

“For the last 250 years in this country, it’s been the judges that say this is either constitutional or it isn’t…. [If] nobody’s going to enforce the Constitution, it becomes like the Constitution of Russia,” says Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee. cbsn.ws/4bgCE3T

"Trump offered several seemingly contradictory visions of how power might be transferred to a new government — or even whether the existing Iranian power structure would run that government or be overthrown." His speech was slurred, as well.

Three decades of one-party GOP rule in Texas. Is there anything left to save?

Five weeks? Five days? What are the objectives? You can read all Trump's pronouncements, you'll have no idea. Neither does he.

The CNN style guide: when to use the active versus when to use the passive voice.

Two peas in a pod

Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression | Kenneth Roth Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Kenneth Roth: It is a perilous world when the fate of entire countries rests on the whims of the likes of Trump and Netanyahu. I would love to see the Islamic Republic end, but not at the expense of a world where our destiny is dictated by the men with the biggest guns.

The pro Pahlavi propaganda firing on all cylinders.

Update from Christiaan Triebert, Anushka Patil and Sanam Mahoozi

Videos verified by The New York Times show that the Gandhi Hospital and adjacent buildings in northern Tehran sustained significant damage after Israel carried out a heavy bombing campaign in the Iranian capital on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

UK Cyprus base hit by drone The United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus has been hit by a drone, the Cyprus Mail learned in the early hours of Monday morning. Personnel on the bases were informed that a “small drone” ...

The United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus has been hit by a drone, the Cyprus Mail learned in the early hours of Monday morning. cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/02/s...

Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes

Ilya Somin: “Article I of the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to declare war. This attack is very obviously large enough to qualify as a war. That means it just as obviously requires congressional authorization.”

Trump's war sends oil and gas prices soaring.

Adam Tooze: The Trump trade is dead. Long live the anti-Trump trade. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.

Opinion | An Unwise and Unconstitutional Attack on Iran More war isn’t the answer. If it were, the past 70 years would have produced a better outcome than what we see today.

Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA): “As a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, with access to ample classified information about threats from Iran and others, I can state plainly that there was no imminent threat from Iran to America…” www.wsj.com/opinion/an-u...

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When it comes to war in the Middle East, the major beneficiaries are always Putin, Chevron and Exxon.