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How Joe Biden enabled Israel’s aggression toward Gaza — and Iran

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:23:19 +0000

David D. Kirkpatrick writes: On March 5, 2024, five months into the war in Gaza, Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, sent a confidential letter to President Joe Biden. Under the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross holds a unique responsibility to counsel states about avoiding war crimes. In the letter, which I obtained from a former United States official, Spoljaric reminded Biden that the organization had condemned the “horrific” October 7th massacre of Israelis...

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Nearly half of Israel’s government joins march vowing Gaza settlements

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:23:04 +0000

Oren Ziv reports: The “March of the Thousands” could hardly be called a demonstration or a protest. Those are actions usually taken in opposition to the government, or demanding something from outside of it. But when several thousand right-wing activists marched to the Gaza fence on Sunday, calling for Israel to re-establish settlements in the Strip, they did so with the participation of almost half of the government and under the auspices of the police — even though the army...

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Cover-up: Pentagon has withheld information on dozens of U.S. military injuries in Iran war

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:22:48 +0000

The New York Times reports: In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes against U.S. forces in the country. Those attacks injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters, according to several U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the...

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Trump’s aggressive crackdown on leaks is not unprecedented

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:22:22 +0000

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of President Trump’s new Air Force One jet. The Justice Department told The Times late last week that it had issued subpoenas to third-party phone service providers seeking several journalists’ phone and text messaging records....

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Wildfires across North America won’t be extinguished with tarrifs

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:22:05 +0000

The Guardian reports: After days of acrid smoke from northern wildfires choking major US cities and inspiring Donald Trump to threaten Canada with tariffs, officials now say the reverse is also happening as parts of Canada issue air quality warnings caused by American fires to the south. Officials in the Canadian province of British Columbia warned in an alert on Saturday evening that smoke from US fires, spurred on by thousands of lightning strikes in the north-east, was creating smoky...

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How soon will the UK’s newest prime minister, Andy Burnham, seek a mandate?

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:21:44 +0000

Daniel Boffey writes: Andy Burnham had emerged victorious, but niggling doubts remained about his mandate. It was the summer of 1987 and the 17-year-old had represented Labour in a school hustings as Margaret Thatcher and Neil Kinnock were battling it out in that year’s general election. “Andy was standing against another guy, a really nice guy who was the Conservative candidate,” said Steve Harrington, a former English teacher at St Aelred’s Catholic high school, in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. “Andy gave a...

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Music: John Taylor — ‘New Old Age’

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:21:07 +0000

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In the data-center age, the business of Silicon Valley is more like oil-refining than coding

From elsewhere — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:32:13 +0000

Matteo Wong writes: The AI boom has showered some of the nation’s most prominent companies in market value. OpenAI and Anthropic are now the two most valuable private companies in the world. Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia have become larger than ever. But among the biggest winners has been Caterpillar, a purveyor of yellow trucks and cranes. Caterpillar’s stock has more than doubled in value over the past year, making the company worth six times as much as Nike. Its ascent...

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Data centers have united Americans of both parties in a shared hatred

From elsewhere — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:31:56 +0000

The Washington Post reports: Kyle Schmidt ticked through what makes him irate about the massive Google data center slated for construction about a mile away from his home near Sand Springs, Oklahoma. He didn’t like that residents were kept in the dark about what would be built on a pristine tract of mostly forested land. He’s worried about the data center’s potential impact on the community’s water supply and on the dream home that his family moved into last year....

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My son was killed by ICE. I want accountability

From elsewhere — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:31:41 +0000

Rachel Reyes writes: This spring I watched Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing to become the homeland security secretary. It was most likely the first confirmation hearing I ever watched. I have never been a political person. I tuned in because Mr. Mullin’s words were of personal concern to me. In 2025 a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed my son, Ruben Ray Martinez, in Texas. He was 23 years old, a quiet, funny and gentle young man — and an...

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