Blast waves reverberated across Naqshe Jahan Square, the 964,000-square-foot plaza, constructed in 1598 during the Safavid empire.
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Blast waves reverberated across Naqshe Jahan Square, the 964,000-square-foot plaza, constructed in 1598 during the Safavid empire.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w... Golestan Palace dates to the 14th century, with its famed hall of mirrors. Iran is one example of many civilizations that create and maintain works of exquisite beauty over the millennia yet give rise to leaders capable of cruelty to their own and other peoples.
2026 GOP SAVE Voter ID Act Requires Your Current ID to Match Your Birth Certificate (You'll Need Both!) OR You'll Need Passport Plus More to VOTE in 2026.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b... From basic plastics and fertilizer made in Saudi Arabia and Oman, to sugar from Brazil and helium from Qatar, disruptions are raising prices.
Aluminum prices hit 4 years highs when deliveries from Qatar and Bahrain ceased (metal is used for planes, cans, power lines).
America produces substantially more oil than we consume. Although we import some oil from Canada and Mexico, while exporting even more from Texas, we buy hardly any oil from the Persian Gulf. Self-sufficiency in oil has done nothing at all to insulate the U.S. economy from Middle East chaos.
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An important conversation with Jack Smith about his story, experience, and insights into current events.
youtu.be/2M8vsVfVdpo?...
www.rsn.org/001/mike-joh... Multiple six figure annual "salary" payments to Mike and his wife from non-profits, law firm, clients, and Louisiana College most years. He will never betray the hands that feed him.
www.forbes.com/sites/christ... Mega-donor fortunes jumped $12B each when bombs hit Iran and drones torched Qatar's LNG plant. Their LNG build-out brought Louisiana coastal communities air pollution, heightened vulnerability to hurricanes, degradation of fishing and wetlands, chronic health issues.
Nelsons told me in 2016 that he would be “hugely cutting guesting,” that he would do “a week with the Vienna Philharmonic, a week in Berlin.” In 2017 he took the Philharmonic for 2 weeks in Asia. Every year since 2017 when Bachtrack has ranked the world's busiest conductors, Nelsons is 1st or 2nd.
You could trust Nelsons to conduct anything well - a fine Brahms cycle and an “Elektra” of shocking power; the first installments of a recorded survey of the Shostakovich symphonies won Grammy Awards. In 2015, he took on another prestigious post, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a... He was 34 when he signed his first Boston contract. His work at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra suggested an already mature artist. I wrote that there was “probably no current music director in the country I would rather hear conduct on a weekly basis.”
The iconic gold curtains in the Oval Office were originally chosen by First Lady Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton’s administration in 1993, designed by Kaki Hockersmith. Trump brought them out of storage in 2017!
www.eenews.net/articles/the... About half of Iran’s $50 billion oil industry is controlled by the IRGC. That includes a ghost fleet of oil tankers that take its sanctioned crude abroad, mostly to China. Kharg Island export terminal in the Persian Gulf handles 90% of Iran's crude.
The 3 decade take-over of medical systems by United Healthcare et al, creating expensive, ever changing, systems to code and bill for compliance or reimbursement has killed Private Practice Medicine and Wallstreet and PE now own Medicine. Amazon runs 'clinics'. Fast and Impersonal, for profit.
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Over the past week, Russia has attacked our country thousands of times – the enemy used nearly 1,750 attack drones, 1,530 guided aerial bombs, and 39 missiles against our people.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
Before Trump pushed to shut the agency and influence its editorial decisions, Voice of America broadcast in 49 languages with 360 million weekly listeners around the world, providing news to countries with limited free press, like China, Russia and Iran.
www.the-independent.com/voices/afric...
It suited Europeans to say captured and enslaved people were ignorant. Complex mathematics was developed in W Africa. 14th-C Malian king Mansa Musa used his gold to hire scholars, build libraries, educated hundreds of thousands at Sankore University.
Experts say Donald Trump has previously engaged in types of basis shifting, among other aggressive tax avoidance practices, and Trump organization is positioned to benefit from rolling back IRS regulations targeting these practices.
wapo.st/4ll10gE Transactions called “basis shifting” have allowed businesses to dodge tens of billions of dollars in taxes, Treasury data show, by illegally depreciating the same asset over and over again. Trump is revoking Biden's crackdown on this practice in complex partnerships like Trump's.
Experts say Donald Trump has previously engaged in types of basis shifting, among other aggressive tax avoidance practices, and Trump organization is positioned to benefit from rolling back IRS regulations targeting these practices.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Trump has signaled his preferred outcome is an Iran led by a strongman who will cooperate with him on a peace deal and give the U.S. a slice of Iran’s oil industry. He shows little interest in promoting democracy in Iran or cultivating an exiled opposition figure.
www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...
... 3/6/2026 Examination of the use of AI in battle - how the military's Maven smart system built by Palantir mines, sorts, and analyzes all relevant and classified data to coordinate targets, and is then meshed with Claude AI to create a decision support system.
www.wsj.com/world/china/... Ahead of President Trump’s visit to Beijing, Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent is considering a tricky trade-off in his agenda for coming talks with his Chinese counterpart: reducing China’s oil purchases from U.S. adversaries like Russia, who now supplies 20% of China's crude.
www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... 3/6/2026 examination of the use of AI in battle - how the military's Maven smart system, built by Palantir, which is mining all the relevant and classified data, is meshed with Claude to create a decision support system for coordinating targets.
I would expect the Pentagon to use disinformation to discredit Anthropic and Claude for refusing to change the company contract to include the civilian surveillance and completely AI lethal weaponry requested by Hegseth.
Hope has a new home: On the South Side of Chicago, the Obama Presidential Center will be dedicated June 18, and the campus will open to the public June 19. It will be a place for all of us to come together to Bring Change Home. Sign up for tickets and updates at Obama.org.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w... Putin spoke with bravado about cutting off Europe's gas supply. The Kremlin's importance as a global supplier of oil and gas grows as conflict in Iran disrupts energy production across the Middle East and sends global energy prices soaring. #TheTrumpEffect
yahoo.com/news/articles/meet-markwayne-mullin-multimillionaire-head-231136631.html
DHS head Markwayne owns 30+ businesses and properties in Oklahoma, Florida, DC. Mullin Plumbing is the region's largest home service supplier. His 1600-acre cattle ranch is an event & wedding venue. $65M net worth.
wapo.st/4seM1Yh CIA director John Ratcliffe has had analysts review and remove any prior reports over the last decade that examined violent white nationalist groups, women's roles overseas in those groups, potential for violence against LGBTQ groups abroad, calling them a waste of spy resources.
