Friday, June 12, 2026

Tag: spending

Pentagon Excess Has Fueled a Civil-Military Crisis

We must ask whether an institution, the military, supposedly endowed with supernal character by objective circumstances, is to master us, or we to master it by determining for ourselves what it properly is and does.

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Questions grow after analysis links US strike to water facilities serving 20,000 Iranians

Satellite imagery, bomb fragment analysis, and damage assessments have intensified scrutiny over whether U.S. forces struck civilian water infrastructure near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns about potential violations of international law.

Reading the Times

And not just the paper.
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Trump admin guts vital sea monitoring, ‘tears out the eyes and ears of science’:...

David Helvarg discusses the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean.

Study finds AI data centers could consume as much water as basic needs of...

The study highlighted that evaluating AI solely by carbon emissions overlooks devastating localized impacts on water and land systems.

Deviant Donald, self-destructive dictator

As explosive prices erase tax relief,/ Must one be rich to afford ground beef?