Syria’s Sharaa Tells Al Jazeera His Nation Is Working To Establish Security Agreement With Israel

Housing Starts & Permits Plunge In August As Homebuilder Confidence Nears COVID Lows On the back of another tumble in homebuilder confidence (though still a long way from homebuyer confidence)... ...building permits were expected to decline in August (while starts were expected to rebound from July's big plunge). However, both Starts and Permits dropped MoM, dramatically worse than expected (Starts -2.6% MoM vs +6.7% MoM exp, Permits -2.7% MoM vs -1.5% MoM exp) On a SAAR basis, Starts at back near post-COVID lows while Permits are holding in a four year range... The details...

US Bombs Somalia For 81st Time This Year Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com, US Africa Command announced on Friday that its forces launched another airstrike in Somalia as the Trump administration continues a record-breaking bombing campaign in the country, which receives virtually no coverage in US media. AFRICOM said the strike was launched on September 8 and targeted al-Shabaab in the vicinity of Quumbi, a village about 50 miles northeast of the southern port city of Kismayo, As usual, AFRICOM offered no other details about the strike, and there were no statements...

Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed many but not all appears, by that standard, either unwilling or unable.