Report: UAE Has Secretly Launched Attacks Against Iran

Offload Risks Onto The Bottom 90% And Immiseration Follows Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The underlying story of the past 50 years has been the offloading of risk onto workers and consumers. On my map of how the world works, we start with structures of control that distribute the good stuff--resources, assets, income and power--and the bad stuff: costs, losses and risks. As I explained in The US Economy In a Nutshell: Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Costs, the current arrangement distributes the gains to the top 10% and the costs and risks to...

Supreme Court To Decide If Plane Can Be Seized Over 6-Pack Of Beer Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on July 20 agreed to hear the appeal of an Alaska pilot whose small airplane was seized for attempting to haul beer into a so-called dry jurisdiction where alcohol is banned. The court’s decision in Jouppi v. Alaska took the form of an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its decision. The aircraft was subject to a legal process known as civil asset forfeiture,...

UK Risk Spreads Oddly Calm As PM Starmer Faces Growing Threat Of Ouster Wes Streeting is reportedly poised to resign as UK health secretary and launch a formal challenge to UK PM Keir Starmer in a Labour Party election. Following a meeting with Starmer in Number 10 (which lasted just 16 minutes), an “ally” of the health secretary told The Times that Streeting was “going to go for it”. Around 100 Labour MPs have publicly called for Starmer to resign although a similar number of lawmakers have urged challengers to hold...