science

The Pentagon is speeding up the path from data to strike without a rule requiring a pause, audit, and accounting after grave civilian harm

anti-science

How Trump Sabotaged Independence Day

Dan Dinello

His unjustified Iran War, Humiliating Surrender, and Malignant Narcissism have undermined America

anti-science

Slashing Climate, Weather and Ocean Research to Pay for 32 Hours of Iran War

FAIR

While cuts to NOAA would substantially harm the agency’s work, the proposed “savings” of $1.6 billion is 1.3 days of the war on Iran.

Antisemitism

Critiquing Israel is not Anti-Semitism: The American Psychological Association

Roy Eidelson

definitions of antisemitism recognize that antisemitism involves prejudice, discrimination, harassment, hatred, or violence against Jews as Jews

Artificial Intelligence

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

Jasim Al-Azzawi

( Middle East Monitor ) – In 1916, the Middle East was partitioned by its rulers with ink between Britain and France. A hundred years later, with borders drawn by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, territories continue to contend with claims to legitimacy, sovereignty, and foreign intervention. The Middle East holds a reset, but not in a […]

Artificial Intelligence

Grok’s MechaHitler Antisemitic Rant shows how Generative AI can be Weaponized

The Conversation

By James Foulds, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Phil Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Shimei Pan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (The Conversation) – The AI chatbot Grok went on an antisemitic rant on July 8, 2025, posting memes, tropes and conspiracy theories used to denigrate Jewish people on the X platform. It […]

anti-science

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com) – In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes — poof! — offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared. The two […]

China

Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants

Neil Thompson

Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – Chinese technology companies are poised to play a growing role in the Middle East’s digitalization process, amid expanding ties between Chinese entities and local regional partners. Firms including […]

China

China Displaces the U.S. as Global Leader in Research, with 9 of top 10 Institutions

Foreign Policy in Focus

Nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese. By Imran Khalid ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the last decade, a profound shift has taken place in global academia that has fundamentally altered the hierarchy of scientific research. China, once considered a peripheral player in cutting-edge science, has now ascended to […]