The American (and Israeli) Role in Syria exposed

A week before the Israeli elections, their assorted offensive wars are becoming a particularly important issue, and high ranking figures are attaching themselves to various hawkish narratives, particularly as it related to the ongoing invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon. Defense Minister Israel Katz has been at the fore in this regard. Last week he […]

A World Turned Upside Down Authored by Alastair Crooke (former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum) via LewRockwell.com, Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 Can civilizations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? The global future is often framed as being that of a multi-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit assumption that states would get along better - and would resolve their differences more easily...

Compute Costs More Than Talent In AI For leading AI companies, the biggest expense is not talent. It is compute. This chart from Visual Capitalist’s AI Week, sponsored by Terzo, uses Epoch AI data to compare spending at Anthropic, Minimax, and Z.ai across R&D compute, inference compute, and staff plus other costs. In every case, compute accounts for the majority of total spending, underscoring how capital-intensive it has become to build and serve frontier AI models. How AI Company Costs Break Down Despite differences in scale, all three companies allocate the largest share of their budgets to a...