Is Sanders advocating for regime change in Israel? A lot of people are asking
11.03.2026 18:56
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The 15 UNSC members get to vote on stuff amongst themselves. Stripping veto power from the 5 permanent members wouldn't change that.
11.03.2026 18:18
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The real "common ground" was the thousands of people they bombed along the way
11.03.2026 17:50
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Lebanon’s Ministry of Health: 634 people killed by Israel since March 2.
64 killed today.
11.03.2026 16:51
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Holding my breath until "Vance walks fine line between his identity and politics in wake of CN-inspired attack"
11.03.2026 17:02
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To clarify, it's only one list and it's because of all the stuff you've said that fits the list content. I am American though, so feel free to continue with the ad hominem attacks about that. bsky.app/profile/did:...
11.03.2026 15:03
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Wild how news media can classify Raytheon, Graham Platner, and the guys who did the GHF massacres all as "defense contractors"
11.03.2026 14:55
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Arrested Development meme "It's one interceptor missile, Pete. What could it cost? $100,000?" above a quote from The Atlantic:
"Last summer, during the 12-day war, the U.S. expended roughly a quarter of its THAAD missiles in defending Israel from the Iranian barrage. Each THAAD missile costs more than $12.8 million, and American defense contractors produce only 96 a year. The Trump administration has allocated funds to increase their production to 400 a year, but this could take up to seven years. That the U.S. will use up in just the next few weeks more than a third of the THAADs that it has stockpiled over the past year is entirely imaginable."
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/us-iran-war-air-strikes/686228/
can someone who is good at the economy help me budget this
11.03.2026 14:10
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Extraordinary and yet another example why archives are so important: “Nick Davis, a 23-year-old master’s student at Cambridge University” discovered the overlooked letters while conducting research in the archives.
11.03.2026 13:13
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Extract from the Hague Convention of 1907
CHAPTER I The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers
Article 1.
The territory of neutral Powers is inviolable.
Art. 2.
Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across the territory of a neutral Power.
Art. 3.
Belligerents are likewise forbidden to:
(a) Erect on the territory of a neutral Power a wireless telegraphy station or other apparatus for the purpose of communicating with belligerent forces on land or sea;
(b) Use any installation of this kind established by them before the war on the territory of a neutral Power for purely military purposes, and which has not been opened for the service of public messages.
Art. 4.
Corps of combatants cannot be formed nor recruiting agencies opened on the territory of a neutral Power to assist the belligerents.
Art. 5.
A neutral Power must not allow any of the acts referred to in Articles 2 to 4 to occur on its territory.
It is not called upon to punish acts in violation of its neutrality unless the said acts have been committed on its own territory.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague05.asp
If they're allowing the US to use those bases for e.g. logistical purposes, then they're ipso facto not a neutral country.
And if you seriously think they're refusing to allow American soldiers, ships, planes, and munitions to pass through those bases, then I have a bridge to sell you.
11.03.2026 13:36
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Thankfully there are now AI programmes that can generate fake manuscripts that look real, so nobody will ever need to look at the actual real things again
11.03.2026 13:37
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The same thing happened when Cambridge recently uploaded ~300,000 images of Genizah manuscripts to their CUDL site. Bots immediately started scraping all the new images to train genAI, so much so that the library introduced annoying captchas for researchers trying to view manuscripts.
11.03.2026 13:36
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Look if the US and UK want their bases to stop being hit and the Strait of Hormuz open then all they have to do is stop attacking Iran
11.03.2026 13:28
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~90% of the UAE's population is foreign nationals who are effectively indentured labourers. Abu Dhabi doesn't care what happens to them and they certainly don't have a high standard of living.
11.03.2026 12:48
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Iran is at war with the United States. US bases in the Gulf and foreign bases hosting US forces, like RAF Akrotiri, are legitimate military targets. It's not like Iran targeted Birmingham. They sent drones to a British base with American warplanes.
11.03.2026 12:42
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I gotta say this war has led me to believe that 95% of military spending in the US just goes to defense contractor shareholders and nothing else. Like what do you mean the US just decommissioned its only mine defusing boats in the gulf and there’s no replacements?
11.03.2026 11:52
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Yet another advantage of a centrally planned economy
11.03.2026 12:05
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Also the last time the US declared war!
11.03.2026 12:01
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Maybe it didn't work on Hamas or Ansarallah but surely it will work this time on a state with 90 million people in it
11.03.2026 02:20
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"and worst of all, killed or wounded thousands of civilians"
11.03.2026 01:29
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It's the same story every time. I can't believe this is still going around and institutions keep adopting it
11.03.2026 00:37
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holy swiss cheeses christ
10.03.2026 22:54
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Show me one of those statements from the last 12 months
10.03.2026 21:29
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ten years ago my apartment was robbed and the chicago police fingerprinted me then called a month later to ask if I had any leads
10.03.2026 21:27
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