Syrian army besieges Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo following clashes

With protests surging across cities and towns across Iran, the regime has reportedly unleashed foreign fighters to crack down on protesters. The U.S. State Department raised the alarm about Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraqi terror militia set loose on Iranians.

Lamenting the Liberal Order That Never Was

The day the cloud went out

17 House Republicans Join Democrats to Restore Obamacare Subsidies Extension

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 9, 2026

Russia’s Oreshnik Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Used In Large-Scale Attack On Ukraine

In Defence of our Neighbours, Pt. 2

In a major economic achievement for President Milei, Argentina has fully and rapidly repaid the US$ 2.5 billion drawdown from a US$ 20 billion currency swap facility with the United States Treasury.

Microbial patterns in colorectal tumors may predict patient survival and disease progression

Among the Agents. How I use coding agents, and what I think they mean

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 8, 2026

Days Of Rage, Nights Of Flames Across Iran

The Unfortunate Greenland Kerfuffle

A video short that went viral showed Weaver talked about moving home ownership from an “individualized good” to a “collective good,” saying that “especially white families, but some POC families” are going to have to embrace a “different relationship to property” than “the one that we currently have”:

The Tyranny of the Complainers

Young women are radicalising This article calls to mind “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 7, 2026

U.S. Forces Seize Fleeing Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker In North Atlantic

Venezuelan Echoes in the Arctic, Pt. 1

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data

This had the opposite effect from what was intended on me. My House Burned in the L.A. Fires. What Happens Now?

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 6, 2026

Thousands of residents in southwest Berlin are still without electricity and heating amid freezing temperatures after a weekend attack on a cable bridge caused a power outage. Some 14,000 of the some 45,000 households initially affected have had their power restored, but provider Stromnetz Berlin said it might take until Thursday for complete coverage to return.

Pakistan’s high fertility has driven population growth faster than India’s. In 1952 Pakistan had about one-tenth of India’s population; by 2025 it had grown to nearly one-seventh.

Notes on Afghanistan

A Mysterious Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Grown Nearly Half the Size of Europe

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 5, 2026

Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation in Venezuela

Israeli’s propaganda or real knowledge. Could be both. Iran’s Khamenei Plans to Flee to Moscow if Regime Collapses

U.S. Special Ops Aircraft Arriving In UK Could Point To Looming Oil Tanker Boarding Operation

The Unreported Story Of Grid Scale Battery Fires. The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. It turned out that the big problem was that these facilities were subject to large and dangerous fires on a regular basis. In some cases the same facility would catch fire multiple times.

The depressing thing about this link is the complete lack of even minor skepticism in comments. I am not saying that there are not valid reason to move away from a particular way of doing things but you have to read a lot of comments before you get to someone who actually talks about the benefits of Desflurane vs other options so that you can judge for yourself if this makes sense and not just a money saving thing disguised as green initiative that dumb people just lap up. Desflurane is a common anesthetic used in hospital operating rooms worldwide. It’s also a climate super pollutant. Now, several decades after the drug was first introduced, a growing number of US hospitals have stopped using the anesthetic because of its outsized environmental impact.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 4, 2026

This is a China friendly site so you can think of this as an English version of China’s message to the world. PLA’s Drill Around Taiwan, Explained

Up to 45,000 households in Berlin expected to be without power for days as a result of a fire next to a power plant; far-left group claims attack, says it targeted the ‘fossil fuel economy’

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 2, 2026

Ukrainian Spy Master Kyrylo Budanov Explains His New Job As Top Zelensky Aid

Destruction Seen At Caracas Base That Was A Focus Of The U.S. Military Operation

Doctors suspected it was a case of welder’s anthrax and quickly got access to an anthrax antitoxin from the US Strategic National Stockpile—where it’s kept in case of a bioterror attack. Along with a tailored antibiotic regimen, the teen rapidly improved and was off ventilation 72 hours later. The doctors’ quick thinking likely saved his life; of the previous eight cases of welder’s anthrax, six were fatal.

The 2023 climate event revealed the greatest failure of climate science