Today’s Iran war news: The US-Iran strikes remain on hold for a second day. But Netanyahu and other Lindsey Graham fans are in DC this week.
Monday, July 27, 2026
As New Era of Global Conflict Rages, Climate Change Turns the Prizes to Dust
In the race to control chokepoints and other valuable terrain, global warming will emerge the ultimate winner.
Michael Hudson: The U.S. Plan to Revive Geoeconomic Dominance
How Trump has been trying to use military muscle to reassert US geopolitical and economic dominance.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Cwal AKA At Full Gallop (1996) Run Time: 1H 44M Plus Bonuses!
Cwal is a movie about horses, life, and living on one’s own terms.
How Anti-Worker Lawmakers Are Trying to Muzzle Voters
Unions rightly criticize GOP policies but what do they have to say about their own failed leadership and that of the Democrats with which they have bound themselves.
Humanity and Nature Through Social Production: Marx’s Materialism Unfolded from Epicurus
John Bellamy Foster explains how Marx learned from chemists, physicists, biologists and the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus
How Technology Is Rewriting the Way We Write
On how the use of technology, as in typing and computer-based editing, compared to the effects of composition via handwriting.
Coffee Break: Longevity, Quackitude, a Supplement that Works, and a Short Meditation on Orthodoxy
Part the First: What the Longevity Bros Miss: The Office of Science and Society (OSS) at McGill University is one of the best newsletters of its kind and has provided much to think about today’s Coffee Break. In this first part, it is not too difficult to understand the desire to live long and prosper. […]
Could a Crash Halve Stock Prices?
US and UK stock prices are in nosebleed terrain. How far could they fall?
Marco Rubio’s Supersized Reboot of Operation Condor
The US is seeking to create an Operation Condor 2.0 that involves dozens of countries — at a time when ICT technologies make it easier for governments to share information as well as track people’s movements.
Iran War: Trump Threatens More Intense Attacks as Advisors Push for Humanitarian Crisis by Hitting Food and Water Stores; Oil Rises to Over $100 a Barrel; Iran Warns UK; Trump Retrades Saudi Nuclear Deal with Abraham Accord Requirement
Today’s Iran war news: Trump may have aged out of his TACO habits and is readying new, potentially global-economy-wrecking, attacks on Iran.
Pakistan’s US-Iranian Mediation Services Were Just a Bid To Get a Multibillion-Dollar Bailout
As many suspected, Pakistan’s mediation between the US and Iran wasn’t a selfless diplomatic service for regional peace, after all.
