There are no limits to the carrying capacity of the earth that are likely to bind any time in the foreseeable future. There isn’t risk of apocalypse due to global warming or anything else. The idea that we should put limits on growth because of some natural limit, is a profound error.—Larry Summers
This is a technical story with stunning strategic implications. It is quite possible the US launched a massive war because Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff lacked the technical expertise to even understand what the Iranians were offering in negotiations. Absolute idiocy.
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Multiple nuclear scientists and nonproliferation experts told MS NOW that the reactor does not have the capacity to serve as an easy conduit to a bomb as asserted by the administration.
The Trump admin cited Iran’s Tehran Research Reactor as central justification for its military strikes, but with no evidence that the facility—built by USA & used for civilian research for 6 decades—was being used to develop nukes.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.
The 'national broadcaster' provides the same shameless cover for #Israel's crimes as the corporate media. #CBC
Less than a week before she died, a woman stabbed in a small southwestern Ontario town had spoken to CBC about the threats she was facing for speaking out about Khalistan extremism. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Not mentioned by empire media: the Iranian frigate Dena, sunk by a US submarine, was unarmed, a condition for its participating in the "Milan'' biennial multilateral naval exercise organized by India. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
This war will last for weeks... within 4 weeks we’re in middle of spring season & if these ships don’t go through the Strait of Hormuz today you either have to switch to a crop that is much less intensive for nitrogen use or see yields fall. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
"Rubio: There was absolutely an imminent threat, we knew that if Iran was attacked they would immediately come after us and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow."
So the U.S. had to ‘pre-emptivly’ attack Iran because Israel was going to attack Iran?
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Despite what N.S. environment minister says, Canada–Nova Scotia Nature Agreement does have timelines and unspent funding will be returned to Ottawa
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The heresy of Walt and Mearsheimer's Israel lobby theory was the claim that Israel and its supporters pushed the U.S. into war. Marco Rubio has now confirmed this analysis when he admitted that Trump went to war with Iran because of Israel.
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#Palestine #Israel
In new comments, Mark Carney misled and lied about Iran’s nuclear program and the history of negotiations — blaming failures on Iran, rather than Trump’s withdrawal.
He condemned Iran for its retaliatory strikes, but not the US and Israel for their initial attacks in violation of international law.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rachel Van Landingham, former legal chief at US Central Command:
"Not only does this violate international law [including Article 2(4) of UN Charter], it clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution."
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Canada condemns Iran's retaliatory attacks Justin Li Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in a statement that Canada "strongly condemns the attacks of the Iranian regime against our partners in the Middle East." Anand further urged Canadians in Iran to shelter in place and said Ottawa will "provide all possible support to Canadians throughout the region." Canada currently has no diplomatic relations with Iran, nor does it have an embassy there.
The United States and Israel have the right to bomb and murder whoever they please.
The countries they attack have no right to fight back.
This is the exact double standard on international law Mark Carney was praised for calling out at Davos, but which he continues to participate in.
Seems like Jared Kushner is de-facto President of the United States, "The Hand" of Bibi not just in the White House but in the First Family.
2 great years Hamilton !
A round table holds a stack of books topped by Katherena Vermette's The Strangers, a black tote bag, a mess of maple leaves, bookmarks, and pens, and a Thank You sheet.
A display of books & a notebook on a dark wood shelf littered with red maple leaves
A page of a notebook has directions on how to read some free books and leave shared notes about them, with a maple leave sticker in the bottom left corner.
Pretty psyched for @writerstrust.bsky.social 's Amplified Voices campaign this month! We've got books to borrow, read, & enjoy! 🍁🔱☺️
The goal was to engineer a deficit crisis by slashing taxes & gov't revenue like bridge tolls & to implement Disaster Capitalism: "the brutal tactic of using the public’s disorientation following a collective shock—wars, natural disasters, etc—to push through radical pro-corporate measures.”
Ie, the web nodes have not yet learned (!) they are all graceful instruments... of this land...
Our WWW is a toddler sitting on top of the WWBioWeb. That untrained toddler has been built outside bio's caring feedbacks, and so has not yet learned it does not exist as separate, but rather as a part of a living web of interbeing.
⭕️ Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) is urging the Democratic National Committee to release its full 2024 election autopsy report, saying Democrats must “deal with the hard truths about how our failure to stop the genocide in Gaza cost us support.”
Video: @rokhanna.bsky.social via X (@RoKhanna)
imagine a world where regulators would actually fucking do something about this
All slides have a grey background with a photo across the bottom of the slide a stone wall with the Al Aqsa Mosque in the background. Bright orange and teal accents through. Black text reads: Powerful evidence in support of CRA's revocation of Canadian Zionist Cultural Association and Canada Charity Partners. Both of these organizations clearly violated CRA policy, not to mention domestic and international law. We requested the revocation documents from CRA and will provide more detail as more information is available. In the meantime, here is what we know about each of these organizations from our previous investigations.
Slide 3: Canada Charity Partners. CCP funds a number of illegal settlement organizations including Jewish Community Hebron, Ateret Cohanim, Geula Titnu Larets, and the Temple Institute. For example: "“Ateret Cohanim is a Jerusalem-based settler organization with the goal of “securing a United Jerusalem,” — which it refers to as “Our Jerusalem” — and “reestablishing… Jewish communities” in East Jerusalem. In reality, this mission manifests as Ateret Cohanim working to build a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem’s old city and East Jerusalem by replacing the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem with Jewish settlers.” -- Defund Racism
Slide 4: CCP, and a similar organization, the Foundation for Public Policy Development, fund Israeli political lobbies, including notorious organizations like HonestReporting and NGO Monitor. NGO Monitor was created with the explicit intention to attack or delegitimize NGOs critical of Israel. Widely discredited, NGO Monitor is even banned as a source on Wikipedia. CCP also acts as a conduit for donations to any charity listed on the Israel Gives platform, which was included in SR Albanese’s report “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide.” CCP has also funded organizations that support the Israeli military / soldiers like the Lone Soldier Centre In Memory Of Michael Levin and Brothers And Sisters In Arms – For The Democracy.
On February 21, 2026, the CRA announced the revocation of two charities: Canada Zionist Cultural Association and Canada Charity Partners.
Learn more at tr.ee/revoked
Where can I enlist for the Butlerian Jihad?
But this requires a degree of progressive taxation that the wealthiest refuse to accept. "We came tantalizingly close to basically fixing society, & entrenched power got so spooked by that prospect they astroturf[ed] a ... movement to eradicate the entire concepts of public health & social welfare.”
