State Wars Bleed a Nation to Death

US Bombing Campaign Effectiveness In Doubt As Iranians Rebuild At Rapid Pace Neocon war hawks thought that Iran's defense capabilities could be obliterated through shock and awe style heavy bombing raids, such as during the opening days and weeks of Operation Epic Fury, but just like pretty much every other assumption about how things would go in the little Iran "excursion" - they are once again proven wrong. Several fresh reports from both American and Israeli sources say that Iran is rebuilding damaged and destroyed facilities at much faster-than-expected pace. This...

Chaos Unleashed: When "Irrational" Makes Perfect Sense Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Once fairness and honesty have been stripped out of a social order, social trust collapses. Once trust collapses, society disintegrates. It's important to understand the dynamics of chaos before the certainties in our lives are swept away. Over the past few months, I've been exploring the dynamics of delusion and breakdown: 1. our reliance on models to make sense of the world and what happens when those models no longer track reality; 2. the difficulties in adapting when our old...

The Senate on Tuesday night advanced a sweeping Russia sanctions bill as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky watched the vote from the Senate gallery. Zelensky was in town for the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, after whom the legislation was named. The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 would also extend sanctions […]