El-Sayed on Track to Win US Senate Primary, Overcoming AIPAC’s $30 Million Onslaught
Abdul El-Sayed’s opponents, with substantial AIPAC funding, outspent him 11 to 1 but still lost. Israel support is becoming a scarlet letter.
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Links 8/5/2026
Iran War: US Again Fabricates Talks On, “Deal Is Nigh” As Reuters Reports Even Greater Weapons Depletion; Iran Debunks Media Reports on Oman Negotiations v. “Opening”
Today’s Iran war news: Disappointingly, more commentators are repeating Trump bogosity as the weapons and real economy crunch worsens.
Read more...A Brief History of How Countries Sleepwalk Into War
How America’s and other nations’ expectations of war have repeatedly been upended by the reality of fighting.
Read more...Will Climate Change Make Homes Uninsurable?
In many countries, most buyers borrow to purchase homes, with insurance required. Climate change is breaking that model.
Read more...Links 8/4/2026
US Intervenes to Prop Up Japanese Yen Amid Worries About Possible Large Sales of Treasuries to Buy Yen, Carry Trade Unwind
On the US intervention to push up the yen, including some wee corrections of misperceptions.
Read more...Why Have China and Russia Just Stepped Out of the Shadows in the U.S.-Iran War?
Readers will hopefully have fun with extreme neocon Simon Watkins’ upset that Russia and China dare support Iran, and worse, more openly.
Read more...Iran War: Trump Keeps Up Threat Display, False Claims of Negotiations as He TACOs; Israel Still Pressing for Escalation as US Withdrawals Continue
Today’s Iran war news: Coming shortages will limit how long Trump can TACO at comparatively low cost. What happens then?
Read more...Michael Hudson — Trump, the Democrats, and the 2026 Midterms
The Democrats’ long-standing sellout of workers means they are not a shoe-in for the upcoming midterms.
Read more...Links 8/1/2026
Challenges to the Unsustainable Exploitation of Human Beings and Nature Converged Across Civilizations
Starting from ancient China, Hellenism, and India, proto class struggles sought production in concert with nature, freedom, and solidarity.
Read more...India’s Gen Z Cockroach Party Flexed Its Power—And Won
On the grievances of India’s Cockroach Party and how they succeeded in cowing the Modi government.
Read more...Much of American Christianity Is Failing the Litmus Test
On the dodgy Christianity of Christian Nationalist thought leader, R.J. Rushdoony,.
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