Israeli Defense Minister Threatens to Take Lebanese Territory If Hezbollah Doesn’t Halt Attacks

Marriage Benefits Men's Life Expectancy More Than Women's One data point has recently caused much astonishment, confusion and also anger online. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, it is the finding that men benefit more from being married in terms of life expectancy than women do. In other words, that men live longer and healthier lives if they are backed up by a spouse in doing so, while women don’t see the same support in prolonging their length and quality of life. The notion that men rob years of life from their wives and...

US, Japan Begin Major Military Exercises Focused On Islands Near Taiwan Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com The US and Japan kicked off their biennial Keen Sword military exercise on Monday, one of the largest joint drills between the two countries. This year, the exercise will focus on Japan’s southwestern islands, including its westernmost island, Yonaguni, just 68 miles east of Taiwan. Both the US and Japan have deployed new anti-ship missile systems to Yonaguni for the drills, ratcheting up tensions with China. Source: Military News AgencyUS Marines have been deployed with the Navy-Marine...

The paradigm shifts. The networked supra-national stratum that long has pursued its global “grand design” through manufacturing public consent for wars of imposed compliance has, at last, run up against the limits to power. We are, indeed, at an “emperor has no clothes” moment. All can see it. Its traditional tools — the US military, […]