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The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 2)
Yves here. This post continues an analysis of how tech advances, and now AI, are deployed as vehicles…
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol
For more than three decades, Theodore Postol, a physicist and professor emeritus at MIT, has been an unusually…
The Next Energy Crisis Could Be a Water Crisis
Yves here. Even though this article highlights how production of electricity nearly always depends on water (either for…
Iran War: Trump Threatens to Bomb Oman as Iran Attacks on Shipping Notch Up, WSJ Reports Planning for Bigger Escalation; Debate Over Covert Transits
[Today’s Iran war post launched before complete because I had to run out. It should be done by…
Imperialist Realism and American Empire
“May you live in interesting times.” So says the apocryphal Chinese proverb that may well have been more…
Links 8/26/2026 Plus Iran War Note
Dear patient readers, Your humble blogger did not want to compete with a fine Iran conflict background article…
