New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
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“There’s no Somali folks in the Epstein Files”
Welp
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Trump: "Spain said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it"
Not receiving consent and moving forward anyway is a consistent theme in his life — as E. Jean Carroll can attest
Supply chain disruption will be a big problem from the Iran war and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz - often coming in ways that might not be well known. Ie this example in the FT live blog www.ft.com/content/9a9b...
I know that one
They cannot help themselves, grifters gonna grift
Monitoring Polymarket becomes new intelligence source for US actions
www.ft.com/content/2883... Polymarket users won big with unusual bets on US attack on Iran
Both of these and add Dot and the Kangaroo
I mean….Iran is striking at oil infrastructure across the gulf are you really ready for a world where oil goes to 150 and us bans export of oil and gas to keep a lid on inflation at the expense of everyone else. It will really suck for Europe.
By virtue of these images, I am an expert on the straits of Hormuz
Honestly one thing that really cheered me up this week was every time I went to an exhibition about the end of Reconstruction it was a useful reminder that, yes, progress goes backwards, things do get worse. Just gotta keep trying to make things better in your own time.
Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei - remarkable reporting here by Mehul Srivastava and James Shotter. ie "Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel." www.ft.com/content/bf99...
As de Villepin said this am, the point of international law is the “depersonalisation des enjeux”
The dubai expat very vocal about the shittiness of the metropole* really is one hell of a textbook example of "I DIDN'T REALISE I WAS SELLING A PUT!", maybe the cleanest one in recent memory.
Just months ago, US President Donald Trump said Iran’s nuclear programme was 'obliterated'. Just this week, he told the US Congress his preference was to 'solve this problem via diplomacy'. What changed? ft.trib.al/cFtYAJ7
The best descriptor for this era is 'vandalism'. These people have decided to break stuff, just because
What?
Am still thinking about this, and how “it must be AI” is unavailable as a soulagement.
like the Sarkozy trial, symbolic and all, but it really really really matters that your system is shown to be able to put *anyone* in jail
{obvious conclusions of the above left as exercise to the reader}
Is this the kind of nostalgia that Dan is after?
Ahhhhh, the inconvenient truths about everything are having a moment - women, environment, journalism, universities, science 😢
As she says, 1 victim and 50+ perps, 1 perp and 50+ victims; the use of chemicals etc… I cannot stop seeing this everywhere….
Incredible interview and what timing on this (yes, she is doing a publicity round for her book but..) in the context of the other sexual abuse and rape we see going unpunished - elle est forte, une eveilleuse.
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
The man casually admits to bombing Iran 14 times with no Congressional or UN approval and the headlines in European media is “at least he still likes us”. What are we doing here?
Any levers it did or does have it either cut off to spite its face or just never leveraged properly. Growing up in EAfrica, the world service is and was something….but China builds better roads faster, with no radio broadcast
I wonder if looking around at the other decisions to drop soft power efforts play a role? (Mainly in anglophone world view). Leaves a big gap that we can very clearly seeing being filled by those who are seeing the benefits….
