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  • The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets

    The Trump administration says the United States has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli war on the country began. Critics have questioned the accuracy of the Maven system, the artificial intelligence system used by the military to speed up the process of identifying targets. “Imagine Google Earth for war, a map of war with white dots, infused with information like elevation, coordinate, what is precisely there, whether it’s friendly or foe,” says Katrina Manson, a reporter for Bloomberg News and author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. The Pentagon launched Project Maven in 2017. Google was an initial partner, but the company pulled out after over 3,000 Google employees signed […]

  • U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker

    A Russian tanker carrying around 700,000 barrels of crude oil has arrived in the port of Matanzas, Cuba, breaking the U.S. blockade imposed by President Trump three months ago. Fuel shortages in Cuba have caused dayslong blackouts and have brought all sectors of the country to the brink of collapse. The White House is claiming the arrival of the Russian tanker, unimpeded by the United States, does not signal a “formal change in sanction policy,” and said U.S. decisions on shipments going forward would be made on a case-by-case basis. “I think possibly what’s going on is that the administration has begun to worry that their effort to strangle the economy could push the economy over the edge and generate a mass migration crisis,” […]

  • "Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional": Trump's Birthright Citizenship Ban Reaches Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week on the constitutionality of President Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship. An executive order, signed on Trump’s first day back in office, declares children born to parents without permanent legal status would no longer be automatically granted citizenship. The policy “is deeply illegal, unconstitutional and morally wrong,” says Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. The ACLU is representing all children targeted by Trump’s executive order in a class-action lawsuit. Wofsy says roughly 5 million U.S.-born children would be affected by the order over the next 20 years.

  • Headlines for March 31, 2026

    Trump Drops Bunker Buster Bombs on Isfahan and Threatens to Obliterate Iran’s Energy Infrastructure, Iran Vows to Target American University Campuses in the Region After U.S. Strikes Hit Iranian Universities, Iran Strikes Oil Tanker Near Dubai and Fires Cluster Munitions at Israel, Israel’s Parliament Approves Death Penalty for Palestinians, Palestinian American Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Outside City Hall After Assassination Attempt, Socialist Filmmaker Avi Lewis Elected to Lead Canada’s New Democratic Party, MSF: Rape and Sexual Violence “Part of Everyday Life” in Sudan’s Darfur Region, At Least 70 Killed in Attack on Gold Mine in South Sudan, Mexican Officials Call for Investigation After Mexican Immigrant Dies at […]

  • "The Institutions Have Not Collapsed": Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran's Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War

    As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, President Donald Trump has said he wants “to take the oil” and seize Kharg Island, Iran’s key export hub in the Persian Gulf. President Trump’s comments come as 3,500 U.S. troops began arriving in the region on Friday, with The Washington Post reporting that the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of potential ground combat in Iran. According to a consortium of human rights groups in Iran, nearly 1,500 Iranian civilians, including at least 217 children, have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. Iranian scholar Ali Kadivar says the increased targeting of residential areas, schools and hospitals in recent days shows that regime change is no longer the main goal, if it ever was. […]

Fair Observer

  • European Leaders, Convened in Elsinore, Sign Declaration of Independence From the US

    Elsinore, Denmark — In a ceremony at Kronborg Castle — a venue chosen, said one senior European Union official, because it “felt appropriately dramatic without requiring a new venue-hire budget line” — the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, convened an emergency summit on Tuesday at which the assembled leaders of the… Continue reading European Leaders, Convened in Elsinore, Sign Declaration of Independence From the US The post European Leaders, Convened in Elsinore, Sign Declaration of Independence From the US appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • When Strategy Fails, Civilian Infrastructure Becomes the Target

    US President Donald Trump’s decision to stretch his ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz from 48 hours to five days was not a sign that the crisis has suddenly come under control. It is a sign that last week’s threat has run into reality. The White House had warned that Iranian power plants and energy… Continue reading When Strategy Fails, Civilian Infrastructure Becomes the Target The post When Strategy Fails, Civilian Infrastructure Becomes the Target appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • The Dead Cannot Speak For Themselves

    Lea Ypi, author of Indignity: A Life Reimagined, is one of the most compelling philosophical voices of our time. She’s also a lively and personable speaker. Born in Albania under the Hoxha communist dictatorship and educated across Italy and Britain, she now holds the chair of Political Theory at the London School of Economics.  Her… Continue reading The Dead Cannot Speak For Themselves The post The Dead Cannot Speak For Themselves appeared first on Fair Observer.

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  • Trump expected to attend supreme court arguments on landmark birthright citizenship case - US politics live

    Court case will weigh the constitutionality of his contentious bid to end birthright citizenshipUS supreme court to weigh whether Trump can deny birthright citizenshipSign up for the Breaking News US emailOn Truth Social, Donald Trump claimed that the president of Iran’s new regime, who he characterized as “much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors”, has asked the US for a ceasefire.However, Trump said he would only consider the offer when the strait of Hormuz is “open, free and, clear”. Continue reading...

  • Bold concepts, loose ends in Ibram X Kendi’s Chain of Ideas

    While informative, the book struggles to identify what strategies can change racist systems held hostage by the political right and centre• Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt’s not straightforward, trying to assess a book written by someone whose stature and reputation loom large over the text. I have not read any books by the American academic and anti-racist writer Ibram X Kendi before, but I had absorbed his ideas and interventions into American racial discourse over the years, as well as the controversies. And so I was curious about his latest – and his first since the “anti-woke” backlash.I tried reading it as a stand-alone text, rather than another chapter in Kendi’s history. Every book […]

  • I’m fighting Trump’s birthright citizenship order at the supreme court. Will we adhere to the best of our history? | Cody Wofsy

    For 128 years, it’s been clear that if you are born in this country, you are a citizen. The court must not turn back the clockI am lead counsel in the challenge to Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. As I and my team help the ACLU legal director, Cecillia Wang, prepare for the supreme court argument in this case on Wednesday, we are poring over legal minutiae and sharpening our arguments. But the larger questions that loom over the whole case are simple: What does it mean to be an American? Will we adhere to the best of American history and protect the values of equal citizenship and opportunity?In early America, like today, people born on US soil were citizens, even if their parents were immigrants. That’s a […]

  • Yes, the rich must start paying their fair share of taxes | Bernie Sanders

    We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffersNever before in American history have so few had so much wealth and power. Today, the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. One person, Elon Musk, worth $805bn, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households. And that inequality is getting worse. Last year alone, after receiving one of the largest tax breaks in history from Donald Trump, 938 billionaires in America became $1.5tn richer. Since he was re-elected, Trump and his family have become $4bn richer.Never before in American history have we had such concentration of ownership. While profits soar, a handful of giant corporations […]

  • US supreme court to weigh whether Trump can deny birthright citizenship

    Trump issued executive order in January 2025 that seeks to undo birthright citizenship, overriding the constitutionSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe US supreme court will hear arguments on Wednesday over whether Donald Trump can reverse generations of precedent and deny birthright citizenship to babies born on US soil, which would impact hundreds of thousands of children annually.As of Wednesday morning, and per his official schedule sent out by the White House, the US president has plans to sit in on the hearing. Continue reading...

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Aeon

  • The Medici’s lost garden of wonders

    The rise and fall of the Medici’s ingeniously engineered ‘Garden of Wonders’: the Pratolino ‘proto-theme park’ in Tuscany- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

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  • Tempi Trial Starts After Three Years of Anger and Unanswered Questions

    Larissa, Greece — Three years after the deadliest train crash in Greek history, which claimed the lives of 57 people, the long-awaited trial against those responsible began. Court proceedings were halted following their start after a horrid day of technical failures and adjourned to April… The post Tempi Trial Starts After Three Years of Anger and Unanswered Questions appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

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  • Once Evicted From This Kashmir Lake, People Now Seen as Its Saviours

    For the past few weeks, residents living in and around Dal Lake in Indian Kashmir have witnessed “a different phenomenon” as a green sludge has accumulated on the once pristine water. Photos circulating widely on social media triggered a public outcry. Some citizens and environmentalists warned that the transformation reflects heavy sewage pollution in this

  • An Ominous Reckoning for the Gulf States

    Trump’s Iran war has left the Gulf shattered: US bases turned into targets, economies battered, and the “oasis” myth destroyed. Gulf rulers now confront a harsh reckoning over their reliance on Washington and the uncertain search for a new, fragile security order. As Trump assembled major US naval and air assets in the eastern Mediterranean

  • Iran War Threatens World Food Crisis

    While media coverage of Iran’s restrictions on passage through the Hormuz Straits focuses on fuel prices, partial closure is also disrupting crucial fertiliser and other supplies, risking catastrophe for billions worldwide. Hormuz chokepoint Since the war began, only a few of the hundred or so vessels, previously passing through the narrow Straits of Hormuz daily,

Sludge

  • These State Pension Funds Invest in Palantir

    Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powering ICE operations.

Yale Environment 360

  • Indonesian Mega-Farm Drives Surge in Deforestation

    Indonesia saw the loss of forest hit its highest level in eight years last year, a jump driven in part by a sprawling effort to turn rainforest into rice and sugarcane plantations.Read more on E360 →

Inside Climate News

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Labor Notes

  • Overwhelmed by Strike, San Francisco Schools Found the Money for Top Union Demands

    Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just four days on strike, February 9 to 12, they won their top demands—some of which the district had previously refused even to bargain over. “It was hard and it was joyful and we f-ing beat them,” said Ilan Desai-Geller, a high school teacher who served on the bargaining committee and as a regional strike captain. “They found the money all of a sudden.

The World – PRI

  • Cuba's crisis, as told through Cuban voices

    A Russian oil tanker has reached Cuba, offering brief relief after months of severe fuel shortages. But for many Cubans, the crisis runs much deeper. Through voices on the island and in exile, this story captures daily life shaped by blackouts, rising hardship and difficult choices about the future. The World's Tibisay Zea reports.

  • Making matzo with a Jewish food historian in Montreal

    Montreal is home to a vibrant and diverse Jewish food scene, with plenty of room for experimentation alongside traditional fare. As Jews across the globe prepare for Passover, Host Marco Werman catches up with Kat Romanow — who teaches cooking classes and hosts events as The Wandering Chew. Romanow describes the global influences that shape Jewish cuisine in Montreal, and describes variations […]

  • Teen Basketball pro in Europe opts for college hoops in the US

    It might seem like a step down, but now that the NCAA lets student-athletes get paid for endorsements, the money is better at US universities than it is for most pros in Europe. Nineteen-year-old Dame Sarr came to Duke this year and has been a stand-out guard, even as his old club, FC Barcelona, would love to have him back one day. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

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