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Last US Convoy Exits Syria After Brutal 14-Year Regime Change Proxy War Widespread reports on Thursday say the very last US military convoy has finally departed Syrian territory, with the years-long occupation of the primarily northeast oil and gas rich sector over in a 'mission accomplished' fashion. It brings to a final close the 14-year long bloody proxy war which overthrew the Assad government and ultimately installed a pro-US/Saudi axis puppet, in the person of founding Syrian Al Qaeda Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, now known as President Ahmed al-Sharaa. via Le Monde Hundreds of thousand...

The White House is preparing to make Iranian assets available to Gulf Arab states to help the countries recover after the conflict caused significant damage throughout the region.  CBS News reported speaking with a source who said that Washington will make Iranian assets accessible for rebuilding US Gulf allies related to any future damage inflicted […]

US Nuclear Fusion Startup To Build Radioactive Batteries For Use In Space Authored by Ameya Paleja via Interesting Engineering, Avalanche Energy, a fusion energy startup, has won a $5.2 million contract to build radioactive batteries that can power a laptop-class system for months. The contract is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Rads to Watts Program, which aims to build next-generation, compact, resilient nuclear batteries with higher densities.  An early prototype of Avalanche Energy’s radiovoltaic converter for the DARPA Rads to Watts program is exposed to high-energy ion-beam irradiation.Avalanche Fusion Radioactive...