Friday, September 4, 2026
The Puerto La Cruz refinery in Venezuela. Photo: Daniel Zambrano, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington’s Venezuela Model Is Regime Change with an Invoice

Washington is getting a fifth of the country's reserves locked in for a generation, while the companies that lobbied hardest get first access to pump it.

Obama Says US Won’t Send Any More Troops to Fight Islamic State, but Will...

President Obama has been stressing that he is playing a long game on the fight against Daesh. And now he's pledged to increased the country's attempts to combat Daesh’s online propaganda.
President Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House

Meeting with Trump signals Netanyahu’s Clout Is Waning

By Christian Emery, UCL (The Conversation) - A...
Aerial view of a large data center complex in the desert

From the Great Basin to Gaza: How Nevada’s Data Centers Power a Surveillance Pipeline...

Reno and Sparks are approving the data centers that feed AI warfare abroad, then buying the camera networks that bring it home.