A military investigation has determined the U.S. carried out the deadly Tomahawk strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials & others familiar with the preliminary findings. Latest w/ Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Tyler Pager, Helene Cooper
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Le FBI met en garde contre une attaque iranienne aux drones en Californie
Members of Congress are using the kind of hateful rhetoric about Muslims that was common in the early 2000s—but this time with a president who has encouraged it, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.
Vi invito a firmare la petizione a sostegno della Libreria Hoepli: www.change.org/p/proteggere...
More evidence that it was US missiles that struck a primary school in Minab, southern Iran, killing 175 people, mostly children. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Even without missiles, a “trickle of drone strikes, if they continue for months, could damage the Gulf’s brand as a haven within a volatile region,” Robert F. Worth writes:
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
guys I love you but I didn't ask, it's my list not your list
I am writing a list of the 50 best things Britain has brought the world for my newsletter and so far the items are "the scotch egg", "mini skirts" and "Geoff Dyer"
(youngvulgarian.substack.com? if you wonder where it'll go next? I definitely wonder where it'll go next and I'm the one writing it)
I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.
An explosion struck a synagogue in the Walloon city of Liège early this morning, causing material damage in an “act of antisemitism,” officials said. No one was injured or killed.
Actually interesting that Naismith doesn't use the word immigration in the piece. A Blue Labour that decided that instead of forcing care workers to leave the country it was interested in say, getting the police to investigate crime, might indeed do better. There's an exit option for them.
If you support modern equalities legislation and freedom of association and expression, as this MP does, what does accepting that social conservatism is part of Labour's history actually *mean*?
Belief in the gold standard and that you could have a third, hundred year empire in Africa are a component of Labour's intellectual history. Need to make an actual argument that 'I am against economic liberalism' is still a *useful* part of Labour's policy offer, not just say it has a historic role:
I don’t think that’s true because our Secretary of Defense, excuse me, War literally said on live television how refreshing and cool it was to have an ally who didn’t abide by targeting restrictions.
Of course this will not end well for the United States. But just because Americans are so transfixed by their own decline doesn't mean the rest of the world should stop thinking more systematically about the long term trajectory of societies destabilised by America.
One of the worst effects of the Trump era on American culture is in how it reinforces the solipsism that to an extent always permeated American political discourse.
Because any gap in a post gets misread, to be clear I think Gregg has some strong points there that a wave of panic particularly among American observers is sweeping over
Iran's unravelling will be causing problems for the Middle East, Europe and India long after the main focus of American late imperial panic shifts to Cuba.
We're operating in 6 hour news cycles driven by social media panic in ways that make it impossible for too many people to think more than one move ahead
Can’t Musk just send a submarine or something to sort it all out?
Energy security enthusiasts: much harder to instantly disrupt solar and wind energy supplies.
US is also bombing Ecuador.
Oggi pomeriggio all'Università di Milano discutiamo una nuova raccolta di saggi di Uberto Scarpelli (molti dei quali fin qui di non facile reperibilità o inediti) curata da Paolo di Lucia.
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Quote from the piece by Jacob Rowbottom: “Given the breadth of the restriction, the court came to the right conclusion and provided an important safeguard for free speech and protest rights.”
The High Court of England and Wales ruled that the UK government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful.
JACOB ROWBOTTOM on the chilling effects of proscription, organisations as vehicles of expression, and the wider effects of the decision.
verfassungsblog.de/proscription...
Her death is a profound loss for Iraq’s human rights community and for women and girls whose lives she helped protect.
HRW calls on Iraqi authorities to urgently and transparently investigate the killing and ensure accountability, as well as strengthen protections for human rights defenders.
Yanar Mohammed, a leading Iraqi feminist and co‑founder of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated outside her home in Baghdad on March 2, 2026.
For more than two decades, Yanar was one of Iraq’s most courageous advocates for women’s rights.
