Scott Horton

Trump team can’t seem to get their stories straight on rationale for Iran war Polling shows one in four members of Trump’s party think he’s too eager to use military force, a sign the public isn’t buying a disjointed White House messaging campaign, writes John Bowden

A run-down of the wildly contradictory statements of Trump, Rubio and Hegseth about the factors that led to a decision to start a war against Iran. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Colorado Gov Jared Polis has not granted clemency to Tina Peters, but he is suggesting that he is open to doing so.

Iran-Krieg: Hat Trump überhaupt eine Strategie? „Regime change“ war gestern: Der Historiker Niall Ferguson meint, „regime alteration“ sei das neue Ziel amerikanischer Außenpolitik. Doch lässt sich Trumps erratisches Handeln wirklich auf einen Begri...

Careful analysis of Trump's, Rubio's and Hegseth's words and the actual military deployment point to the complete absence of a strategy. There isn't even a coherent articulation of immediate objectives which the military actions are to achieve. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration

While on a US State Department sponsored visit to the US, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (alias ‘Tommy Robinson’) amplifies a threat by a GOP politician to assassinate UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. I'm sure Marco Rubio approves.

Ha'aretz continues to be the most important journalistic outlet in the Middle East.

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

So Trump green lit arming the Kurds to take on the IRGC; probably also MeK, and others. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

As they come round the bend, Markwayne is passing up Tommy Tuberville and Ron Johnson for the title of dumbest man in the US Senate.

Rubio says we have to go to war with Iran because it's run by religious fanatics... and that's why Hegseth is busy telling the troops that we're going to war because Jesus says we need to in order to bring about the End Times and Armageddon. It all makes perfect sense now.

Is the Islamic Republic transitioning to a model of dynastic succession? This would give them even more in common with Trump. bsky.app/profile/fare...

The lack of simple professional competence is shocking. DOS operating on autopilot would have done far better. But then, DOS was hit by a decapitation strike before they hit Iran.

When it comes to ending elite impunity, the US could learn from the UK | Jan-Werner Müller British institutions can keep politicians somewhat in check. But in the US, shamelessness has become contagious

Jan-Werner Müller is right: elite impunity is the issue. The answer lies in the first instance somewhere in the upper echelons of DOJ and FBI, which is where probes should have been initiated and led to prosecutions. But this didn't happen. A story coming in The Times will address some of this.

Trump's father Fred was born in NYC. His grandfather Friedrich was born in Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Interesting that he can't keep them apart.

From the Ben Rhodes interview with Ezra Klein today.

Matt Davies, New York Newsday

Ann Telnaes

David Horsey, Seattle Times

Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald

David Horsey, Seattle Times

Theo Moudakis, Toronto Star

Phil Hands, Wisconsin State Journal

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

Ruben L Oppenheimer, NRC Handelsblad

Rob Rogers, TinyView.com

Jeff Danziger, The Rutland Herald

Morten Mørland, The Times

A Southern Baptist Church Has a Registered Sex Offender in Leadership ... and national SBC leadership hedges with talk of "should" & "might" & "may"

The leadership of the Southern Baptists is always filled with convicted sex offenders, and a still larger number of those who prey on youth and escape accountability. It's a hallmark of the church. And here's another one.

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

Trump, Rubio & Hegseth offer Iranian development of nuclear weapons as a justification of war against Iran. But at this point it's clear that Trump's policies and actions have launched the greatest proliferation of nuclear weapons since 1963. And no one is talking about it. Willful blindness.