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ll tell you that mother s day began in 1908 when anna jarvis decided to honor her mother but mothers day with the apostrophe not in the singular spot but in the plural actually started in the 1870s when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the civil war and the franco prussian war convinced writer and reformer julia ward howe that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such carnage mothers day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers it was part of women s effort to gain power to change society war iran used chinese spy satellite to target us bases financial times via the big picture may 05 2026 leaked documents show irgc secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in march iran secretly acquired a chinese spy satellite to target us military bases across the middle east the china iran axis just became a lot more concrete and a lot more dangerous iran has hit far more u s military assets than reported satellite images show evan hill jarrett ley alex horton tara copp and dan lamothe may 6 2026 washington post iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at u s military sites across the middle east since the war began hitting hangars barracks fuel depots aircraft and key radar communications and air defense equipment according to a washington post analysis of satellite imagery the amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the u s government or previously reported experts who reviewed the post s analysis said the damage at the sites suggested that the u s military had underestimated iran s targeting abilities not adapted sufficiently to modern drone warfare and left some bases under protected the iranian attacks were precise there are no random craters indicating misses said mark cancian a senior adviser with the center for strategic and international studies and a retired marine corps colonel who reviewed the iranian images at the post s request the post previously revealed how russia provided iran with intelligence to target u s forces did you know iran delivered the most widespread direct blow to u s military infrastructure in modern american history shaun king may 07 2026 satellite images show extensive damage to at least 15 u s military sites with over 225 essential pieces of equipment destroyed and the american people were never told the full scale of it what the washington post has now documented is something altogether different a state adversary damaging u s military infrastructure across an entire region bahrain kuwait qatar saudi arabia jordan the united arab emirates multiple bases multiple categories of targets multiple forms of military infrastructure that is the point iran did not merely respond iran demonstrated that the u s military footprint across the middle east is not some invisible invincible architecture of empire it is a map of fixed targets demand destruction vs fuel superseding infrastructure cory doctorow 04 may 2026 pluralistic in starting this stupid unforgivable war trump has vastly accelerated the process of demand destruction rather than buying american oil the whole world has undertaken a simultaneous rapid irreversible shift to electrical substitutes for fossil fuel applications from induction tops to balcony solar to ebikes and evs https thepolycrisis org 01 demand destruction us oil is not winning the iran war as solnit writes trump s stupid war follows on the heels of another unforgivable and cruel blunder putin s quagmire in ukraine which catapulted europe into the gretacene with a wholesale continent wide shift away from fossil fuels to renewables and the devices they power now the rest of the world is following suit in south korea president lee jae myung is leading the charge to transition the country to renewables framing fossil fuels as an existential geopolitical risk trump s demand destruction accelerates putin s demand destruction china and india both increased their energy consumption in 2025 but reduced their fossil fuel consumption over the same period in 2025 coal accounted for less than a third of the world s energy for the first time in modern history 2025 was the year that solar and wind overtook coal globally meanwhile trump and his oil baron buddies keep trying to make fetch happen on the campaign trail trump told the oil industry that if they slipped him a 1b bribe he would give them anything they wanted and he s kept his promise trump will let big oil drill anywhere they like from sacred sites like new mexico s chaco canyon to the arctic he ll even let them take all of venezuela s oil the problem is that banks can see the demand destruction writing on the wall and they are conspicuously declining to loan the oil companies the money they d need to get that oil truly trump s a machine for creating stranded assets at scale in starting this stupid unforgivable war trump has vastly accelerated the process of demand destruction rather than buying american oil the whole world has undertaken a simultaneous rapid irreversible shift to electrical substitutes for fossil fuel applications from induction tops to balcony solar to ebikes and evs https thepolycrisis org 01 demand destruction us oil is not winning the iran war as solnit writes trump s stupid war follows on the heels of another unforgivable and cruel blunder putin s quagmire in ukraine which catapulted europe into the gretacene with a wholesale continent wide shift away from fossil fuels to renewables and the devices they power now the rest of the world is following suit in south korea president lee jae myung is leading the charge to transition the country to renewables framing fossil fuels as an existential geopolitical risk trump s demand destruction accelerates putin s demand destruction china and india both increased their energy consumption in 2025 but reduced their fossil fuel consumption over the same period in 2025 coal accounted for less than a third of the world s energy for the first time in modern history 2025 was the year that solar and wind overtook coal globally meanwhile trump and his oil baron buddies keep trying to make fetch happen on the campaign trail trump told the oil industry that if they slipped him a 1b bribe he would give them anything they wanted and he s kept his promise trump will let big oil drill anywhere they like from sacred sites like new mexico s chaco canyon to the arctic he ll even let them take all of venezuela s oil the problem is that banks can see the demand destruction writing on the wall and they are conspicuously declining to loan the oil companies the money they d need to get that oil truly trump s a machine for creating stranded assets at scale ukraine s rapid rise as an anti drone powerhouse new atlas via the big picture may 05 2026 necessity makes the best r d lab kyiv s counter drone industry now exports back to nato in only four years after the russian invasion ukraine went from being a country knocked back on its heels and scrambling for military aid to emerging as a leading provider of battlefield tested counter drone expertise and exporter of anti drone weapons systems how did this happen let s find out trump not violating any law he who saves his country does not violate any law trump stuns by saying i don t know when asked directly nbc s kristen welker don t you need to uphold the constitution joe depaolo may 4th 2025 insane pre crime strategy unveiled for leftist extremists ken klippenstein via naked capitalism 05 07 2025 the white house declared war on the american people today labeling its political opponents as terrorists including left wing extremists the new label also claims that there are deepening alliances between the far left and islamists or pro palestinian protesters the language is contained in the white house s newly released national counterterrorism strategy it is the first national strategy to be unveiled since 2021 when the biden administration issued its document the strategy identifies the left wing anti fascists anarchists and radically pro transgender ideologies as threats equivalent to jihadi groups like al qaeda and isis or narco traffickers the strategy is the brainchild of white house counterterrorism czar sebastian gorka an eccentric figure i have reported on who last year hinted at terrorism charges being levied for political opponents of the administration the document makes clear he got his wish gorka called the strategy my life s work counterterrorism now officially means targeting trans people sophie hurwitz may 8 2026 mother jones on wednesday the white house released a new united states counterterrorism strategy the first such directive since a 2021 biden era memo emphasizing the need to combat white supremacist violence which has now been scrubbed from the white house website wednesday s document masterminded by white house counterterrorism czar sebastian gorka does not mention far right violence at all it identifies violent left wing extremists including anarchists and anti fascists as a security threat of equal severity to legacy islamist terrorists and narcoterrorists and transnational gangs the administration will now apparently prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti american radically pro transgender and anarchist read more open thread by ian welsh on may 9 2026 23 comments use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts the law of elite consequences continues to demolish america by ian welsh on may 8 2026 23 comments there s a lovely quote in the wsj that encapsulates everything wrong with america in the last 50 odd years many of the investors bankers and corporate chieftains who took over the waldorf and beverly hilton this week have become desensitised to president donald trump s whims the stock market hitting new records even if investors are attempting to pull tens of billions of dollars from some private funds has helped those spirits financiers largely brushed off concerns that have dominated conversations on wall street in recent months including the ongoing war with iran which has driven up petrol prices across the us and is now dividing policymakers at the federal reserve over whether they can eventually cut interest rates does anyone really care if the strait of hormuz is open one high powered banker posited counterpoint grocery prices are getting ridiculous 2 49 a pound for potatoes 5 99 a pound for tomatoes 9 99 a pound for chuck roast round steak and ground beef a pot roast dinner for a family of 5 is going to cost 100 00 pic twitter com sssvblap79 hope rising ️ boomingbox may 7 2026 back in 2009 i wrote a post called essential insanity trying to diagnose what was causing american problems it had three main points here s the last one the second type is worse in a sense when diamond wrote his book on why societies collapse he came to the conclusion that it occurred when elites weren t experiencing the same things as the majority of the society when they were isolated from the problems and challenges the society was facing for 30 years ordinary americans haven t had a raise and despite all the lies americans are beginning to get that but for the people in charge the last thirty years have been absolutely wonderful seriously things haven t been this good since the 1890 s and the 1920 s everyone they know their families their mistresses and toyboys their friends is doing well wall street paid even larger bonuses for 2007 the year they ran the ship into the shore than they did in 2006 when their bonuses equalled the raises of 80 million americans multiple ceos walked away from companies they had bankrupted with golden parachutes in excess of 50 million and if you can find a senator who isn t a millionaire except maybe bernie sanders you let me know life has been great the fact that america is physically unhealthy falling behind technologically hemorrhaging good jobs and that ordinary americans are in debt up to their eyebrows haven t seen a raise in 30 years and live in mortal fear of getting ill because even if they have insurance it doesn t cover the necessary care means nothing to the decision making part of america because it hasn t experienced it america s elites are doing fine thanks all they can taste or remember is the caviar and champagne they swill to celebrate how wonderful they are and how much they deserve all the money federal policy has given them this is the second insanity of the us the decision making apparatus in the us is disconnected from the results of their decisions they make sure they get paid that they re wealthy and let the rest of society go to hell in the end of course most of them will find that the money isn t theirs and that what they ve stolen is worth very little if the us has a real financial crisis during the covid pandemic western elites got richer a lot richer the worse everyone else does the better they do this is the fundamental disconnect in the west the people who are making the decisions do well no matter how much ordinary people are hurt no matter how much they weaken their own countries in fact it s worse than that the worse their countries and citizens are doing the better they do every disaster is used to allow more looting are there oil shortages raise prices even more than costs food same thing are some companies going bankrupt buying opportunity are citizens desperate great they ll work for less life is good for our elites and the more they destroy our countries the better life is for them of course they don t care that trump is driving america and the west into the dirt why should they they don t think it effects them of course in time it will but they don t see that or they don t care after all india s richest people live great lives who cares if india is a corrupt shithole so sorry about high gas prices high food prices high health care costs and no future for you or your children none of that matters trump s getting rich being president and so are american elites and in the eternal honest words of george w bush who cares what you think you don t matter it s been 60 years since anyone in power in america cared about america or americans europe s leaders are about the same suck it up buttercup life s getting worse and no one with the power to change that cares because they re doing more than just fine they re the richest rich in the history of the world and life is good everyone reads these articles for free but the site and ian take money to run if you value the writing here and can please subscribe or donate iran has broken the us middle east raj by ian welsh on may 7 2026 14 comments it turns out that trump s plan to help ships go thru the strait was ended when both saudi arabia and kuwait refused to let the us use their airspace or us bases in their countries to launch attacks the reason is obvious iran has repeatedly ...