'The Mad & The Free': Can American Society Debate Its Way Out Of Psychosis?

Campbell's Shares Tumble After Dividend Cut As UBS Warns Of "Another Tough Year" Shares of soup-and-snack maker Campbell's tumbled the most in nearly six months in premarket trading after the company swung to a quarterly loss, slashed its dividend, and warned that weakening demand and elevated costs were squeezing margins. Campbell's expects fiscal 2027 adjusted EPS of $1.65 to $1.80, missing the Bloomberg Consensus estimate of $1.84. Net and organic sales are expected to contract by 2% to 4%, signaling that the consumer slowdown is far from over, with national gas...

Former MI6 Spy Alastair Crooke: Iran Takes Its Chances With War Authored by Alastair Crooke The US war with Iran has moved beyond its initial phase to an emerging new one — one in which Iran implicitly stakes its chances on the next phase being war. Most likely this will be in abbreviated episodes of limited war, but possessing nevertheless a potential to widen regionally, should the US (and Israel) elect to sharply escalate. The new phase involves risk of course, yet Iran holds the high cards of an ability to impose disproportionately heavier...

Anthropic Bans Israeli Account Over Iran, Gulf Social Media Citizen Profiling Via The Cradle, An operation run by or on behalf of the Israeli-Singaporean commercial intelligence vendor S2T Unlocking Cyberspace used Claude models to map, classify, and profile social media users across Iran and the Persian Gulf, according to a threat intelligence report published by Anthropic on 11 September. (Photo credit: AP / Vahid Salemi) The platform recorded the locations of users, sorted them as supporters or opponents of their governments, and grouped populations into six demographic categories covering urban, clerical, military, youth,...