Posted by Tyler Durden: Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times,

Posted by Tyler Durden: Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times,

The U.S. Navy is evaluating what to do with its headquarters in the Middle East after the Bahrain-based installation sustained damage during recent months of fighting with Iran.

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.

Abderaouf Arnaout and Ikram Kouachi, www.aa.com.tr/eng

• Netanyahu denied contact from UAE president; UAE Foreign Ministry said it does not comment on reports about talks between government leaders

Israeli left-wing newspaper Haaretz rejected three demands Thursday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid being sued and vowed to reveal the truth in court.

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 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.

Dave DeCamp, antiwar.com

More than 100 US military advisers are in Saudi Arabia assisting Riyadh with intelligence and targeting support for its renewed war in Yemen, CNN reported on Thursday.

One of CNN’s sources, an unnamed US official, put the number of US troops assisting in the effort at 200 and said they were part of a new joint task force that was formed in recent weeks as the war in Yemen began to escalate.