Nuclear weapons depend on elaborate safeguards intended to prevent unauthorized use while ensuring retaliation remains possible. But safeguards against one kind of failure can create vulnerabilities to another. Can the world’s nuclear command systems be trusted to prevent catastrophe when their collective reliability cannot be established?
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Why Sudan’s Civil War Is Becoming a U.S. National Security Threat
Why the civil war in Sudan has much bigger implications for the region and the US than is generally acknowledged.
China Just Upgraded Its Trade Agreement With Peru in Fresh Setback for Washington’s Donroe Doctrine
While the US has been largely successful in imposing its security doctrine on vassal states in Latin America, it cannot replace the trade or investment it seeks to destroy.
Representative Thomas Massie Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Pete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth, who celebrates maximum lethality, will soon be on the receiving end of a beating. Can he take it as well as he dishes it out?
Another French Revolution
The protests in France are part of the French Revolution tradition. But how much fundamental change is likely?
Coffee Break: Election Aftermath Sees Dems Battle Over Schumer & Jeffries
The Democrats are divided over their congressional leadership with both Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries drawing popular opposition.
10 Reasons Hakeem Jeffries Should Not Be the Next Speaker of the House
Elections have consequences. One should be keeping an AIPAC-backed war-mongerer like Hakeem Jeffries from becoming Speaker of the House.
Iran War: Trump Signals No Big Attack in CBS Interview; Barmy CENTCOM “Iron Gate” Plan Proof of Weakness or Perhaps Cover for Iraq Ground Operation?
Today’s Iran war news: Is post-election fallout already starting to curb Trump’s maneuver room?
Black Sea Is Now World’s Most Dangerous Waterway: NATO Pushes Militarization, Will Türkiye Relent?
As pressure mounts on Turkiye to open its straits to the Black Sea, is there a deal the West can offer to make it happen?
AI Companies Are Preying on Under-Resourced Schools, Students Say
Poorer schools are being lured into spending their limited funds on AI tech in the face of chronic understaffing.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Hour Of The Wolf (1968) Run Time: 1H 27M Plus Bonuses
The Hour of the Wolf is a film about creeping doom.
Is Recognising Possibility a Revolutionary Act?
Discussing the need for narrative as the basis of change and how the recognition of possibility is the basis for revolutionary thinking.
