Israeli Attack Kills Al Jazeera Journalist in Gaza

What Decades Of Academic Literature, Military Doctrine Says About Effectiveness Of 'Decapitation Strikes' Authored by José Niño via The Libertarian Institute The United States has long operated under a seductive strategic fantasy. Remove the leader of an adversary organization, whether a drug cartel, a terrorist group, or a sovereign state, and that organization will collapse, enabling American interests to fill the resulting vacuum. However, decades of academic literature, hard empirical data from Mexico’s drug war, and the lived consequences of America’s post 9/11 targeted killing campaigns all tell a damning story many...

1 In 30 Koreans Margin-Called As Kospi Crashes, Regulator Suspends New Levered ETFs, Hikes Margins For the first time in over three years, South Korea’s central bank raised its policy interest rate by 0.25% points to 2.75%, inline with expectations, and kicking off a monetary tightening cycle aimed at containing inflationary pressures spurred by the AI-driven semiconductor boom. It also helped spark a fresh rout in Korean stocks whose daily volatility has become borderline farcical with daily 5% swings having become the norm.  The move on Thursday was the Bank of...

US Intelligence Community Assessed That Massive US Attack 'Unlikely' To Oust Iranian Regime: WaPo Even a massive military assault on Iran is unlikely to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran and its state system, according to a classified assessment produced by the US intelligence community shortly before the US and Israel launched their current 'shock and awe-style' military campaign on Tehran. The Washington Post first reported it, perhaps based on some kind of leak or briefing by an anonymous intelligence official, and calls it— a sobering assessment as the Trump administration...