1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (259+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (762+ words) Twenty-five years later, Republican politicians are still using 9/11 to justify war in the Middle East. And they’re still lying shamelessly. During remarks outside the Pentagon on Friday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (235+ words) Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Iran launches newly acquired precision missiles towards US warships in the Persian Gulf as the Trump administration’s ‘Economic D-Day’ backfires tremendously. In this Monday’s episode of The Target Stream Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh takes a…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (435+ words) But the story doesn’t end with Steinem. Norton connects the Cold War propaganda apparatus to CIA interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Italy and Indonesia, the enormous human toll of U.S. post-9/11 wars, and the cultural institutions and intellectuals allegedly enlisted to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (194+ words) This article was originally published by Truthout Two seemingly contradictory letters emerging from the AI industry point toward the same future. The letters seem to argue for opposite futures. One presents wider access and fewer restrictions as the route to…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (351+ words) President Donald Trump was accused over the weekend of exploiting an energy crisis of his own creation to make the case for what he dubiously characterized as “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela, a country that the…...