By Thierry Meyssan,   Voltairenet.org

• By Al Mayadeen English

Human Rights Watch documents 23 verified incidents in southern Lebanon and warns that the weapons can cause severe burns and lifelong physical, psychological, and socioeconomic harm.

Supertanker rates on the Baltic Exchange's benchmark Middle East-to-China shipping route have surged to a staggering $800,000 a day. With US forces having destroyed five Iranian-linked tankers and Tehran threatening further escalation in recent days, prospects for near-term stabilization remain limited.

The freight surge signals that crude oil and refined products continue to flow but are becoming increasingly costly to transport out of the Gulf region to global markets.

max blumenthal, thegrayzone.com

responsiblestatescraft.org

While it is somewhat cliche to say that the “whole world changed” after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, it does not detract from the reality of the statement. In numerous tangible ways, the culture, security, and politics of the nation were never the same after al-Qaida hijackers in passenger planes left nearly 3,000 people dead in smoldering ruins across lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., breakingdefense.com

by John H. & Nisha Whitehead

Days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, President Trump flooded his Truth Social account with AI-generated fantasies of himself commanding armies of giant, red-eyed robots.