How Russia is upending the West’s attempt to control technology with intellectual property
Russia’s challenge to prevailing IP and copyright norms is central to its pursuit of technological sovereignty. Global fragmentation and Western divisions have given Moscow space to test the system’s limits without fully abandoning it.
Trump threatens Iran as peace talks advance despite Israel’s Lebanon escalation
As mediators report a 60-day roadmap toward a final deal, Trump’s threats, Iran’s Hormuz warning, and Israel’s refusal to withdraw from Lebanon are testing whether diplomacy can survive another push toward regional war.
Two deranged blowhards walk into a bar . . . pontificate like know-it-alls ....
The horror exceeds whether Trump is stupid, ignorant, senile and/or fixated, even locked into failed “instinctual” responses. What matters is the damage done from MAGA recklessness before being defanged, decommissioned, impeached or exiled.
Iran: Progress on sanctions relief at Swiss talks with US
As U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland move toward sanctions relief, frozen assets, and a Hormuz hotline, the unresolved war in Lebanon remains the central obstacle to turning a fragile memorandum into peace.
Donald Trump, the end times president or ETP
Making War on Planet Earth, the Rest of Us, and Even Himself.
Japan and South Korea: An alliance of middle powers?
Hedging their bets against Donald Trump is pushing the two countries together.
The persistence of ‘Israel First’
Trump’s Middle East record reveals the short life of “America First.”
Trump and GOP face new scrutiny over Social Security retirement age threat
Democratic senators are pressing the president to say whether he would veto benefit cuts, as the program’s 2032 funding deadline becomes a flashpoint in the fight over retirement security.
Half a dozen ‘ceasefires’ later, the attack on Iran has exposed the limits of...
In Iran, Trump and Netanyahu thought they could impose imperialism on the cheap — but it turns out not everyone is playing that game.
‘Land Grab’: Trillionaire Elon Musk sued in South Texas to block SpaceX’s takeover of...
Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildlife refuge in South Texas.