"Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death. War is a grave step after all other options have been exhausted. That Trump had other courses of action is well known. That he preferred this one is hard to unsee." My column. www.ft.com/content/2f3e...
Then, more than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government. www.wired.com/story/openai...
New footage reveals an apparent U.S. or Israeli strike near a boys' school in Abyek, west of Tehran, on Feb. 28. Satellite imagery suggests a comms tower was the intended target, but flying debris killed a child on the playground. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.
Israeli forces advanced in southern Lebanon on Monday, raiding new territory as part of a stated effort to expand a military-controlled buffer zone as it steps up its campaign against the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
This is a prominent UAE businessman at the forefront of normalizing with Israel
“It’s targeting 101…”
My analysis for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on yet another deliberate strike against civilian infrastructure in Iran—this time hitting an entire emergency medical compound.
But Why? By whom? And where is the accountability? These answers and more we must continue to demand.
NEW: Satellite imagery and open-source evidence show a March 5 airstrike destroyed an Iranian emergency medical base in a Shiraz park, while a military site 200 meters away was untouched. New investigation by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and @chrisosieck.bsky.social : newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai...
NEW: New testimony lays bare the machinery that hid Syria’s missing children and destroyed their identities. Morgan Laffer reports on years of systematic abuse and the new government’s inadequate efforts to uncover the truth, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
Excellent, depressing analysis from the WSJ. And of course, none of this had to happen.
Energy historian Daniel Yergin:"We are looking at what is by far the biggest disruption in world history in terms of daily oil production..If it goes on for weeks, it will reverberate across the global economy.”
BREAKING: Oil prices soared past $114 per barrel for the first time since 2022 on Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East.
Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.
India is attracting billions of dollars in AI investment. But will the country be able to develop its own AI champion?
http:// bit.ly/4bpT75X
The “Tehran Square” Hegseth refers to here does not exist. He’s probably thinking of Tahrir Square in Cairo. Azadi Square would be the rough equivalent in Iran.
Brent, the international benchmark, leapt 20% in Asia trading on Monday to $112.40, over concerns that the widening conflict in the Middle East would lead to weeks-long supply disruptions. ft.trib.al/AGLYaLV
oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.
The ten second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike. n.pr/4aVMqZi
The war on Iran is causing gas and oil price explosions.
Our research shows: Fossil fuel prices are the most important prices for inflation and inequality. Energy price shocks are redistribution shocks. The poorer you are, the larger the share of income you spend on essentials.
"Smoke has covered the entire city. I have severe shortness of breath and burning in my eyes and throat."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
A good example of why we need answers about strategy: We're destroying refineries and oil production. If the goal is to immiserate the Iranians and cut off their income, fine. (Not great thinking, but understandable.) But if it's regime change...uh, they're gonna need that rebuilt. So why do that?
Civilians in Tehran are reporting toxic oily rain following US and Israeli airstrikes on oil storage facilities. An estimated 10 million people face exposure to hazardous chemicals, with risks including skin burns and lung damage.
Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.
The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…
theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
NEW: The State Dept. has ordered diplomats in Saudi Arabia to leave. It's the first mandatory ordered departure issued by the agency during the US-Israel war on Iran, and indicates US officials fear more violence. Iranian drones hit the embassy in Riyadh. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
War with Iran has "disrupted the flow of commerce through one of the global economy’s most critical hubs, paralyzing much of the ocean and air traffic that carries goods between Asia and Europe while punishing investors in faraway financial markets." wapo.st/4cuZ5DH
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.
I'm out of words here
