Amnesty Warns Israel Committing War Crimes With Lebanon Population Transfers

Damage To Key US Bases In Gulf So Extensive The Pentagon May Not Rebuild Them With each week and month that passes since the start of Trump's Operation Epic Fury, more and more reports have come out revealing the massive extent of damage to US military facilities in the Mideast region based on Iran's retaliation across the region.  This is often based on fresh satellite imaging and analysis, despite US government pressure for these research entities to refrain from publishing such data, and to censor open source photographs. After a series...

The Strait Of Hormuz Crisis Exposes A Fatal Flaw In Economic Thinking Authored by Kurt Cobb via Resource Insights, Even a 4–5% loss in global energy supply could translate into a comparable drop in economic activity due to energy’s central role in all production. Disruptions in oil and LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz are already removing a significant share of global energy, with cascading impacts across industries. Rising energy costs trigger widespread knock-on effects—from food and travel to semiconductors—potentially leading to a severe global recession. A priest, an engineer, and an economist are...

Trump HHS Launches Probe Into 13 States Over Abortion Coverage Mandates The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), is investigating 13 Democrat-run states for allegedly forcing employers' health insurance plans to cover abortions. Officials say these rules trample the Weldon Amendment's federal conscience protections.  The Weldon amendment blocks states from punishing health insurers, plans, or providers who refuse to pay for, provide, or refer for abortions on moral or religious grounds, and has appeared in every HHS spending bill alongside the Hyde Amendment since...