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.

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.

by Norman Solomon, antiwar.com

A new strategy aims to prepare to “deploy, fight, and win decisively in a bio-contested environment” by 2035.

By Patrick Tucker, Science & Technology Editor, defenseone.com

jeremy sharon, timesofisrael.com

The Central District Court on Wednesday sentenced the Jewish extremist convicted of the October 2018 killing of Aisha Rabi, a 47-year-old Palestinian mother of nine, to 13 years in prison.

The individual, who cannot be named as he was a minor at the time of the incident, was also ordered to pay NIS 258,000 ($85,500) in compensation to Rabi ’s family, the maximum sum provided under the law.

by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

Pakistan's defense minister also said that Ansar Allah's attacks on Saudi Arabia could activate the new Mecca defense pact

Pakistan is likely to carry out airstrikes against Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, at Saudi Arabia’s request, Türkiye Today reported on Wednesday, citing Pakistani sources.

Posted by Tyler Durden: Authored by John Walter via Substack,

There is a moment before the fall. You will miss it. Everyone does.

This is not collapse. This is the pre-collapse.

The period when preparation remains possible, when geography can still be chosen, when the window sits open but narrowing.