Tag: Syria
‘The lion has fallen!’
Recently, Manbij has fallen under the control of Kurdish militias and their allies. And that is only a rough summary of the city’s grim and complex history.
Israelis invade Syria: Who will stop Israel?
Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel from ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to...
The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.
Unworthy victims?
Reminder: Most of the victims of the global problem of out-of-control militarism don’t get the same attention from the Western press.
Talon Anvil, Task Force 9 and the terrible cost of the...
Subsidizing militarism in search of monsters overseas seems more and more like the American way. With the new focus on near peer competitors like Russia and China, the dangers are only growing.
‘Infuriating’ report reveals ‘breathtaking cover-up’ of US airstrike that killed Syrian...
"The U.S. needs to leave Syria ASAP. Our military presence there makes us LESS safe!"
Why is cryptocurrency popular in war zone areas, with an example...
Until the circumstance changes, Idlib's trades and exchanging work areas will probably stay connected up to the digital currency economy, even as close to every day airstrikes focus on the towns and field encompassing them.
‘It should be easier to raise minimum wage than to drop...
"We need to work to extricate from the Middle East, not escalate."
Castle Black, the Syrian withdrawal, and the Battle of the Bases
Given Washington’s penchant for Middle Eastern military missions, the likelihood of yet more U.S. bases across the region and talk of several Game of Thrones prequels still to come.
“Meltdown”: Trump defends Syria withdrawal as house votes 354 to 60...
As the displacement of 300,000 civilians over Turkey’s assault on Kurdish-controlled areas continues in northern Syria, the House of Representatives voted Wednesday...
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Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach
Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.
You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…
“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”
ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along
This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.
The Trump Inversion Scam makes the world great again – except for America and abused...
Trumpism in a nutshell: batter average citizens to buttress concentrated crony capitalist power. DOGE will end up not as positive, creative destruction, simply self-destructive destruction.
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk are waging a deep and wide ‘uncivil war’
Historians and neuro-scientists show there are well-established psychological patterns that explain how personal fear fosters anger that leads to a need for action to eliminate the fear.