Katherine O’Donnell

US spent $3.7bn in first 100 hours of Iran war as costs mount, think tank says <article data-history-node-id="434919" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-us-spent-37bn-first-100-hours-iran-war-costs-mount" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-us-spent-37bn-first-100-hours-iran-war-costs-mount" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US spent $3.7bn in first 100 hours of Iran war as costs mount, think tank says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The first 100 hours of the US war on Iran are estimated to have cost about $3.7 billion, or roughly $891.4 million a day, according to the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies.</p> <p>The think tank said the early phase of the conflict is particularly expensive because it relies on advanced and costly munitions.</p> <p>With President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth indicating the war could last for weeks, the report warned the Pentagon may need additional funding beyond its current budget.&nbsp;</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A heavily damaged building at Tehran's Azadi Sport Complex following a US-Israeli strike on 5 March 2026. AFP" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="94fa1c46-72a6-4ef7-95b7-1bf9f9d47bae" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/IRAN-ISRAEL-US-WAR_0.jpg" width="1341" height="754" alt="A heavily damaged building at Tehran's Azadi Sport Complex following a US-Israeli strike on 5 March 2026. AFP" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A heavily damaged building at Tehran's Azadi Sport Complex following a US-Israeli strike on 5 March 2026. AFP</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

US spent $3.7bn in first 100 hours of Iran war as costs mount, think tank says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-us-spent-37bn-first-100-hours-iran-war-costs-mount

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Sign the Petition Arthur Leahy Bridge

Petition to name new Cork bridge after the amazing activist Arthur Leahy c.org/G9jPzJTZYb. #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

Ráiteas ón Uachtarán Connolly tar éis ionsaithe a bheith déanta ar an Iaráin

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BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Congratulations!

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

I’ve been researching how to disengage from exploitative unethical & American tech— and finding info. & advice in piecemeal bytes. Here we go! delighted to have this information all in one easy to read article — www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tremendous piece on a subject most Irish people never even give a thought to, but has huge impact on so many immigrants’ lives. Please read and share #speirghorm

I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.

Read the rest of Mary Turfah’s devastating, powerful writing in her essay I’m Not Done with You for @thebaffler.com: thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

"The autopsies, Weiss writes, were ‘accompanied by the harvesting of organs’ and sometimes used for medical training. Later, as with the destruction of medical infrastructure in Gaza, Israel continued to test the limits of what it could do."

“What does Israel do with these bodies? In her book Over Their Dead Bodies, Meira Weiss—who served as an officer in the Israeli military before pivoting to academia—writes that during the first intifada,"

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes.

Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates.

Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

Minister 'erred in law' in ruling out two homes from mother & baby homes redress scheme Landmark ruling as High Court judge directs children's minister to consider adding two homes to scheme

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Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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Inniu, bhronn an tUachtarán Connolly onóir Saoi of Aosdána ar ealaíontóir Éireannach Dorothy Cross, ag searmanas sa Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Today, President Connolly conferred the honour of Saoi of Aosdána on Irish artist Dorothy Cross, at a ceremony in the Arts Council.

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Watch👇Rep AOC (D-NY) connect the dots on income inequality and the rise of authoritarianism, and MAGA Republicans say she’s just a bartender. I’d like to see one of them pontificate on this subject for 2 minutes, ain’t happening. #TrumpAffordabilityDisaster

Once again for the people at the back. Especially anyone looking at Times, Mail or Telegraph headlines today.

Media coverage of the far right in the UK:

- (euphemism) party accused of saying something deeply racist/misogynistic/transphobic

- unmistakably deeply racist/misogynistic/transphobic quote

- asks party whether it is

- party says of course not, it's free speech and the left is mean

Article ends

I'm really glad more and more people are noticing correlationism, part of the conspiratorial logic of AI...

Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2025). A Metatheory of Classical and Modern Connectionism. Psychological Review. doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

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#BREAKING EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women’s rights and gender equality."

#Eurovision #EU

“All I do is think about God — freely”

akimbo— my favourite style

“Look at me— my hands are merely adornments & my legs 🦵 are decorative”

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“The investigation detailed how specific chemical compositions in Israeli munitions turn human bodies into ash in seconds.” 2,842 Palestinians were fried by illegal thermal weapons — leaving parents with no remains of their children to mourn or bury

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Vacancies | BMoral

A reminder that applications for the ERC Postdoctoral Research Associate position close this Tuesday 10 February at 12:00 noon local Irish time. We look forward to receiving applications from candidates interested in the BMoral Project. Further details: www.bmoralproject.com/projects-6
#Philsky #ERC

Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny

Barrister's winning speech at Palestinian Action Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge

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Epstein funded organisations linked to Israeli military, FBI document says Billionaire paedophile also funded settlement-building body in occupied Palestine

Epstein funded organisations linked to Israeli military, FBI document says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/epstein-funded-organisations-linked-israeli-military-fbi-document-says

Call for Papers: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries. University College Dublin, 23-24 June 2026. Submission deadline: February 27, 2026. For more information, see the full CFP at philevents.org/event/show/1....
#PhilosophyConference #HumePhilosophy #ScottishEnlightenment #Epistemology #UCD