Once in a while a turn of phrase, a paragraph, a seminal thought, or a zeitgeist moment captures the temper of the times. Here, Semafor, in a memorable paragraph, places the US Election Day in focus and context. Semaforte. Yes, the US and world’s changing all around us…
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November 5th, 2024, a Day to Remember
As the US prepares for Election Day, the consequences of the vote are drawing nigh. The election results, however they are reported and certified (certification itself looms in the days following the election), the nation will no longer be the same on November 6th… It is time to ask what is truly on the ballot. […]
Death of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza War — What’s Next?
News reports of the death of the Hamas leader began to leak out yesterday. Today more details are being revealed. One of his last acts, it seems, as Sinwar lay gravely injured by an Israeli tank shell explosion was… to turn toward a hovering drone monitoring him and throw a stick at it…
The Gamble in the Mideast
The world is looking at Israel and an expanding war, a generational war, a religious war, an international war, a war with entangling alliances, a war that could drag the US into another war. Amid the realities of war, Israel’s Netanyahu releases a message to the Iranian people
The Moscow Times Reports
September 29, 2024 Putin proposes broader criteria for using nuclear arms
One Million Dead & Wounded
Wall Street Journal / Exclusive Report / September 17, 2024 KYIV, Ukraine — The number of Ukrainians and Russians killed or wounded in the grinding 2½-year war has reached roughly one million. A confidential Ukrainian estimate from earlier this year put the number of dead Ukrainian troops at 80,000 and the wounded at 400,000, […]
Is Russia ‘Bluffing’ — or About to Push the World Over a Cliff
So, are the Russians ‘saber-rattling’ or are they prepping to ‘melt’ Kyiv as Mr. Medvedev is threatening? Is Putin planning to push the proverbial button and launch a nuclear war — and face the consequences? Is his bunker prepared?
Russian Disinformation Targets US
Breaking News presented via Google Wrap Up: After the 2016 US election documented a “Great Hack” of data breaches, foreign-campaign disinformation, and online targeting, who can say that today’s headlines of “DOJ Bombshell” are anything but more of the same CyberWar. Online manipulation, cyberattacks, hacking, disinformation wars resound
Kamala Enters the Presidential Campaign
The decision by President Joseph Biden not to continue his run for re-election opens the door and Kamala Harris, with surprising speed and support enters the stage, accepts a Democratic Party presumptive nomination, selects a vice president, and is welcomed with resounding support at a series of key election state rallies…
After Meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump speaks to The Believers’ Summit
A week beginning with President Joe Biden’s announcement he would not continue his campaign for president ended with a private meeting between Israel’s visiting prime minister and ex-president Donald Trump. Soon after Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu departed, a startling, confusing, ominous Trump statement made national news — Trump Tells Christians ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ […]
President Biden Steps Away from His 2024 Campaign
The withdrawal letter of the US president, delivered to the nation via social media, was not a shock given wide concerns about the President’s health condition
Israel’s Netanyahu Goes to DC
This week’s visit to the US by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents palpable tension. The relationship between the two old politicians, Joe Biden and ‘Bibi’, is a boldface question mark and now come the public scenes. How will House Speaker Mike Johnson act? Donald Trump? The Republican party, Democratic party? Political activists, dissidents, protestors? […]
Nuclear War, A Scenario
Take time out from the daily news cycle and read, listen, or watch as Annie Jacobsen brings her nuclear war story and deep research into a deep, dark world of #NuclearWarPlanners, the #EndofTimes, and the #EndGame
SCOTUS, July 1, 2024
Immunity for the President … The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Donald Trump has absolute presidential immunity for official acts but not for unofficial acts. Some commentators and media call the decision ‘limited immunity’… others speak of a grave threat delivered to democracy
Money & the MIC
Reminiscent of the Dwight D Eisenhower final speech in office as he left the U.S. presidency warning of the influence and power of the military industrial complex (MIC)…. Today, the grave warning resonates and reverberates with war spending and ‘hard power’ U.S. global policies Quincy Institute
Throwing down the gauntlet (or Walking the gauntlet)
How should this week’s G7 meeting in Italy be seen? The messages agreed upon and sent to absent Russia and China are forceful. The war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza-Israel, the rising conflicts with China loom with generational consequences. How should these G7 communiqué-warnings sent by ‘the West’ to ‘the East’ be seen?
UN Chief Talks of Earth Temperature Trend as a ‘Highway to Hell’
Strategic Demands associate, GreenPolicy360, points at the United Nations with its whole world concerns about climate change and the future. StratDem talks of the need for ‘New Definitions of Security’, local/national/global. Doctors of Science say: Time to monitor vital signs & temperature