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Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says

“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars
Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit” and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements. “We haven’t won a war in this century. We’ve caused immense harm. We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says.

Isto vai acontecer muito mais frequentemente depois desta guerra acabar, e seja qual for o seu resultado. A experiência ganha ali, de ambos os lados do combate, vai ser usada para fazer muita, muita merda pelo mundo inteiro.
Obrigadinho, Fidaputin.

Brazilian foreign fighters in Ukraine sound alarm about infiltration by South American gangs
At first glance, a YouTube interview with Philippe Marques Pinto looks like one of dozens of others in Ukraine’s long-running campaign to recruit South American soldiers to bolster its ranks in the fight against Russia. “I worked as a private security guard in Brazil, and when I arrived here, I got training, and it was just a question of adaptation,” Pinto says in an April 25, 2025, video for the Foreign Recruitment Center, a channel run by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. But according to…

Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Risk:A Machine Learning Approach
Alvaro Ortiz, Tomasa Rodrigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.124…

Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Risk:A Machine Learning Approach
We introduce a novel high-frequency daily panel dataset of both markets and news-based indicators -- including Geopolitical Risk, Economic Policy Uncertainty, Trade Policy Uncertainty, and Political Sentiment -- for 42 countries across both emerging and developed markets. Using this dataset, we study how sentiment dynamics shape sovereign risk, measured by Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads, and evaluate their forecasting value relative to traditional drivers such as global monetary policy and m…

Neuer EU-Geheimdienst in Planung https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10197

In English. Hmmm...so someone particular could understand?
The pope in a major foreign policy address blasts how countries are using force to assert dominion
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/09/the-pope-in-a-major-foreign-policy-address-blasts-how-countries-are-using-force-to-assert-dominion/

Iran foreign minister says country ready for negotiations
but also ‘fully prepared for war’
Abbas Araghchi warns adversaries against ‘miscalculation’ as Trump mulls military response to protest crackdown

‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down

Iranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’

Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for r…

Moment-based Posterior Sampling for Multi-reference Alignment
Axel Janson, Joakim And\'en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12651 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1…

Moment-based Posterior Sampling for Multi-reference Alignment
We propose a Bayesian approach to the problem of multi-reference alignment -- the recovery of signals from noisy, randomly shifted observations. While existing frequentist methods accurately recover the signal at arbitrarily low signal-to-noise ratios, they require a large number of samples to do so. In contrast, our proposed method leverages diffusion models as data-driven plug-and-play priors, conditioning these on the sample power spectrum (a shift-invariant statistic) enabling both accurate…

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Trump declared a national emergency to shield Venezuelan oil revenue held by the U.S. government from seizure by private creditors,
framing it as critical to U.S. national security and regional stability
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/10/trump-venezuela-oil-natio…

Trump declares national emergency to shield Venezuelan oil cash
Trump said in the order signed late Friday that losing control of these funds would "materially harm" national security and foreign policy.

Everything here is built for one type of weather.
And most of the time it works.
But when it doesn’t, it really doesn’t work.
L.A. has spent over a century advertising its perfect Mediterranean climate.
Now increasingly frequent severe weather events are triggering citywide soul-searching about who deserves protection,
what neighborhoods get resources,
which elected officials are to blame,
and whether the promise of this place still holds.
So…

Climate Change Is Killing the Myth of Los Angeles
For over a century, the city has drawn people with the promise of perfect weather. Now floods and fires threaten its very survival.