Israeli Forces Kill 14-Year-Old Boy in Gaza as IDF Continues Constant Ceasefire Violations

We've Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial, And... Rage Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What happens when optimization is itself the point of failure? In today's zeitgeist, everything must be optimized or we'll fail: our time, productivity, fitness, diet, supplements, career, income, wealth--everything must be constantly optimized lest we fall behind or fail. The grand irony is optimization generates fragility which generates failure which generates denial which eventually generates rage. We've optimized global supply chains for efficiency and cost, rendering them exquisitely vulnerable to disruption and collapse. We've optimized the global economy for "growth"...

In an effort to make the latest Israel-Lebanon ceasefire agreement seem like it was doing something more than the half dozen that came before, there was talk during negotiations of Israel agreeing to “symbolic” withdrawals from small segments of Lebanon as a good faith gesture. It wouldn’t impact the overall occupation, but it’d be something […]