“Heatwaves: anger and sadness. And hope, despite everything In less than two months, Europe has been hit by three heatwaves that are exceptional in terms of their early onset, intensity, duration and geographical extent. These heatwaves form part of a pattern of extreme weather events that are becoming increasingly frequent across the globe. The conclusion is clear: global warming is, right now, plunging the Earth into a catastrophe that is irreversible on a human timescale. A catastrophe that hits the poor in poor countries and the working classes in so-called ‘rich’ countries particularly hard. This is the first message of the heatwave. But nothing would be worse than giving up. There is still time to act. Those who fight may lose, but at every stage of the disaster, struggle, solidarity and mutual aid make all the difference. 🗞 Read the article (https://fourth.international/en/771) by Christine Poupin and Daniel Tanuro, members of the Ecology Commission of the Fourth International. 📲 Share it”

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Heatwaves: anger and sadness. And hope, despite everything

In less than two months, Europe has been hit by three heatwaves that are exceptional in terms of their early onset, intensity, duration and geograp...

"Supreme Court Lets Trump End Deportation Protection for Haitians and Syrians President Trump has pushed to rescind Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of people from countries convulsed by humanitarian crises."

Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power Over Immigration

The court handed President Trump victories in his push to rescind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people and turn away migrant...

"Supreme court lets Trump turn back asylum seekers at US-Mexico border Decision allows Trump administration to block migrants from entering US soil and the right to claim asylum"

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Supreme court lets Trump turn back asylum seekers at US-Mexico border

Decision allows Trump administration to block migrants from entering US soil and the right to claim asylum

"Musk’s AI chatbot helped to facilitate the deployment of “over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury,” which Stanley called “a testament to the greatly increased operational efficiency made possible by the Grok Gov Model.” (...) In an analysis by the Lieber Institute at West Point, Jessica Dorsey and Luke Moffett noted that AI systems “are frequently framed as ushering in an era of unprecedented precision and efficiency in warfare,” but in reality, issues that include recent figures involving as many as 1,700 civilian deaths as of May 2026 “calls that narrative into serious question.”" GROK GOES TO WAR: PENTAGON REVEALS MUSK’S AI CHATBOT LAUNCHED MISSILES IN U.S. WAR WITH IRAN

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Grok Goes to War: Pentagon Reveals Musk’s AI Chatbot Launched Missiles in U.S. War with Iran

This week, we learned the Pentagon reportedly leveraged Elon Musk’s xAI to assist in the launch of as many as 2,000 munitions in the U.S. war wit...

A Look at the Text of the Agreement Between the United States and Iran https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/us-iran-agreement-deal-text.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q1A.EO5O.i2yXNXx7BawW&smid=nytcore-ios-share

"Conditions for political prisoners in the Russian Federation and the territories it occupies have deteriorated sharply with the prolongation of the war on Ukraine. Those accused and convicted of weakening the war effort under an assortment of fabricated charges are receiving longer sentences, detainees are being rearrested to prolong their prison time, there are accounts of sleep and food deprivation, and torture is routine." Putin regime subjects political prisoners to increasing brutality as war wears on

Putin regime subjects political prisoners to increasing brutality as war wears on – Peace Alliance Winnipeg News

"Researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a vast whale necropolis in the Indian Ocean's Diamantina Zone, detailed in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. During a 2023 expedition using the Fendouzhe submersible, scientists mapped 485 whale fossil sites and five active ecosystems along a 1,200 kilometre stretch of the seafloor. Fossils dating back 5.3 million years include an extinct species named Pterocetus diamantinae, with researchers estimating the area holds over 10 million carcasses accumulated over geological time." World's Largest Whale Graveyard Discovered by Sub at Bottom of Ocean: "Completely Unexpected"

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World's Largest Whale Graveyard Discovered by Sub at Bottom of Ocean: "Completely Unexpected"

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Philip Caputo, Who Wrote Blistering Vietnam War Memoir, Dies at 84 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/books/philip-caputo-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.Y-_R.E3hdwKLr1v8w&smid=nytcore-ios-share

(Canada) “The federal government must hold firm on several key points.” I’m a former minister of the environment and climate change. Mark Carney and Danielle Smith are about to define Canada’s climate future

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Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

Common Dreams

Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God | Common Dreams

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, ...

“(…) by offering a platform for the vision of the G6 (the G7 without the United States) (…) It is about [with regard to the Strait of Hormuz] rallying the “Global South” (Africa and Asia) to the Western cause (…)” (Gemini) The IMF Meetings Were Supposed to Be About Trade. Then Came the Iran War.

(Claude Sonnet 4.6) The New York Times today publishes a year-long investigation by John Carreyrou identifying Adam Back, a 55-year-old British cryptographer and CEO of Blockstream, as the likely creator of Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence is multiple and convergent: Back is British and a Cypherpunk like Satoshi, he invented Hashcash (integrated into Bitcoin mining), he sketched between 1997 and 1999 the five conceptual pillars of Bitcoin a decade before its creation, and he shares with Satoshi a highly specific lexicon, rare grammatical tics, and 67 identical hyphenation errors out of 325 catalogued — the second-closest candidate shares only 38. A computational analysis of 620 suspects drawn from the Cypherpunks mailing lists, narrowed through successive linguistic filters, leaves only one name: Back. Strikingly, Back vanished from discussions on electronic money exactly during Satoshi's period of activity, then threw himself into Bitcoin six weeks after Satoshi's disappearance. When confronted directly, Back denies it — but refuses to provide the metadata of the Satoshi→Back emails, and apparently made a revealing slip during the final interview in El Salvador. The cryptographic proof — movement of coins — remains absent; the case is strong but circumstantial. My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery: Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back. https://bit.ly/4cxnXdp

“The question is whether officers who carried out orders to bomb Iranian power stations and bridges could argue that they did not know it was “palpably illegal”. (...) “There are many factors that make it hard to say ‘no’ or stand up to stop war crimes, especially where there are grey areas in the law,” (...) "What the law requires of enlisted troops is to disobey only ‘manifestly unlawful’ orders – orders so egregiously unlawful that a person of ordinary understanding would know they were wrong. “However, this skill and moral judgment is not drilled into troops in the same way as they are taught to follow the chain of command and go along with their small units, and troops can also be court-martialed for insubordination if they guess wrong. Since taking office last year, Hegseth has made it harder for officers in the chain of command to find legal advice by firing the Pentagon’s top JAGs, and dissolving the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response unit set up by the Biden administration. Ordinary soldiers have the last-resort option of calling a “GI rights hotline” and calls have reportedly risen sharply under the Trump administration.” Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes

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Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes

Legal experts say attacking Iran’s infrastructure would constitute a war crime – but would military officers be held responsible?

"The 22-year-old wife of an Army staff sergeant came to the U.S. as a toddler. She was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live." ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy https://nyti.ms/4sT6YYJ

"The greatest threat to stability in the Middle East is not Iran, but “the US working closely together with Israel”, argues United States political scientist John Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer tells host Steve Clemons that the notion that the US and Israel are making a safer, more stable Middle East is “ludicrous”. And the idea that Iran is “the great destabiliser” in the region is “a myth that the US and Israel purvey”. After US President Donald Trump insisted that “We have all the cards; they have none”, Mearsheimer says the exact opposite is true - “and that's why we are in desperate straits”." Mearsheimer: No signs of quick end to US-Israel war on Iran | The Bottom Line

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"The roughly $1.5 trillion sought for the Pentagon would amount to about 4.5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product" White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request

The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the Trump administration describes as wasteful.

"From his first announcement of the attack on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has issued a stream of falsehoods about the war." Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran

Opinion | Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran

Whatever short-term gain the president thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and th...

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"Once again, I find myself caught in the conundrum of opposing an illegal war unleashed by the United States and its allies on a country whose regime I vehemently oppose. (...) The path to “Woman, Life, Freedom” does not run through the smoking ruins of Tehran. It runs through the defeat of the very powers that have spent 70 years ensuring Iran can never know peace or democracy. The people of Iran must first be liberated from the clasps of the hideous choice between the current regime and a fate worse than Iraq, Libya, and Syria combined. Our job, as Western Leftists, is to act upon our governments to stop the bombing. To end the sanctions that starve the poor and enrich the regime’s smugglers. To dismantle the propaganda machine that tells us war is peace and occupation is freedom. Then, and only then, can the Iranian people, exercising their own immense power, reclaim their future from both the theocrats and their imperial enablers." On Iran and the Left Progressives have a duty to stop the bombs

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On Iran and the Left