"Even if history never truly repeats itself, right now it seems all too appropriate to wonder whether the current US intervention in Iran might indeed be America’s version of the Suez Crisis."

The Latest at Inkstick: Northrop’s ‘Culture Change,’ the US-China AI Race, and More inkstick.substack.com/p/northrops-...

"They are among 2,055 people — men, women and children — Israel has killed during its latest war on south Lebanon, which ostensibly aims to weaken Hezbollah. Of that number, at least 88 are medics." inkstickmedia.com/in-war-on-so...

“Administration after administration discovers Guantanamo and thinks it’s a solution to some problem, but then they have no exit strategy.”

"The Pentagon’s investments in autonomous weapons systems, battlefield AI, and programs like Project Maven, the researchers argue, are not peripheral to American dominance; they are structurally central to it."

"This is the second war between Israel and Hezbollah since 2024. Really, though, today’s war is merely the second act of a conflict that never truly ended the first time around."

"The problem is that the excitement (or, to some, hyperbole) around how AI is shaping warfare paints the technology with broad brush strokes." inkstickmedia.com/what-does-ar...

Hint: It has more to do with massive spending and military integration than you might have guessed.

"Across the last six years, Greece has faced a steady stream of allegations that it illegally deports asylum seekers. In some cases, displaced people have been abducted by masked individuals who put them in life rafts and cast them adrift in Turkish waters."

“It’s like actually who’s getting … hurt? It’s the people that are the ones getting hurt,” he says. “We get that in our flesh, man. My parents get it in their flesh."

"The war at home and wars abroad have always been intricately intertwined and mutually reinforcing. We cannot defeat one without fighting equally fiercely against the other."

Like Bush's invasion of Iraq, Trump and Netanyahu's joint attack on Iran is being sold on myths.

What the 1980s peace and labor movements can teach us about challenging today’s war economy.

"A new study concludes that the United States and China, despite pursuing radically different visions for how artificial intelligence should be developed and governed, have become leaders in the global AI race through one shared formula: heavy government spending and deep military integration."

"Such explanations obscured an uncomfortable reality — that the US had repeatedly undermined democracy across the region (as well as in other parts of the world) to advance its own interests."

"Explosions in Algeria exposed French military personnel, civilian workers, and local populations to ionizing radiation, resulting in numerous radiation-induced illnesses. Environmentally, the legacy is equally troubling."

Slides obtained by Inkstick's @tkbarnes.bsky.social show the defense contractor Northrop Grumman prioritizing speed over weapons’ cost and performance as Pentagon reforms push faster weapons procurement. inkstickmedia.com/northrops-cu...

'Two detention facilities within 50 miles of FIFA’s Miami headquarters — including the Everglades Detention Facility, widely known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — have been documented by Amnesty as sites of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and in some cases torture.'

“They were surrounded by barbed wire, and little children were standing next to the barbed wire,” he says. “If somebody protested out of frustration, they would throw them on the ground and tie them up with plastic ties, like you used to tie a garbage bag."

"Left to their own devices, and faced with the money, power, and jobs wielded by the war lobby, members of Congress may limit themselves to demanding more details about the Pentagon’s reckless budget plans, or shaving off a few billion dollars here or there." inkstickmedia.com/can-trumps-i...

In Beirut’s Bourj Hammoud, displaced families, church leaders, and longtime residents confront a growing fear: that Israel’s war with Hezbollah could drag Lebanon back toward sectarian conflict. inkstickmedia.com/israel-hezbo...

While Washington pushes Cuba to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe, one general suggests using Guantanamo Bay to detain people fleeing the fallout. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/as-trump-loo...

"Trump’s pledges of peace were always more calculated than deeply felt, aiming at the parts of his conservative base — including many veterans — who were sick of endless wars." inkstickmedia.com/can-trumps-i...

"The sounds woke up my partner and me, and our flatmate, late at night. We ran to the window overlooking Beirut’s skyline, but we already knew what it was. We also knew Lebanon had now become a part of the war.'

"If the history of American interventions in the region offers any guide, the full bill will likely not become apparent for months, years, or even decades. When it finally arrives, however, it will carry a familiar name: blowback."

“When you enter a courtroom, it’s like a football field, Winning depends on the players, of course, but it also depends on those around you.” - Spyros Galinos (CPT) @katymfallon.bsky.social and me wrote on the effects of putting migration & humanitarian aid at trial. @inkstickmedia.com 1/2

"In short, one of every five Iraqis was forced from his or her home: a chilling foreshadowing of what we have since seen in Gaza, and that we are now beginning to see in Iran and Lebanon."

"In a small courtroom in Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos, the highly contentious trial of 24 humanitarians and nonprofit workers was already a few hours underway. The case had become part of the fabric of a narrative about the island’s recent history of migration."

A new report argues that the US has undergone a fundamental transformation since it won the right to host the tournament in 2018. What FIFA once assessed as a “medium risk” hosting environment has, in Amnesty’s view, become something far more dangerous.

With the Iran war, there is neither the pretense of legality nor of legitimacy. inkstickmedia.com/imperial-blo...

For an alternative perspective on President Macron's nuclear speech, read my article "France Expand Nuclear Deterrence While Ignoring Its Legacy of Nuclear Tests in Algeria?" published by @inkstickmedia.com #nuclearjustice #NPT inkstickmedia.com/france-legac...

A decade after what Europe calls the 'refugee crisis,' Greece is increasingly prosecuting both migration and solidarity. inkstickmedia.com/how-greece-p...

"At present, of course, our society is one in which President Donald J. Trump is the quintessential seeker of power, a man who needs power the way most of us need food. And as it happens, he has at his beck and call not just the entire military establishment, but ICE (and so much more)."

"History may not repeat itself, but the US intervention in Iran might indeed be America’s version of the Suez Crisis."

Amnesty International warns that the World Cup could become a platform for authoritarianism and the staging ground for ICE arrests. inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-th...

"As part of Washington’s campaign to isolate the island nation and topple its communist government, the US is now targeting Cuban medical brigades."

"For nearly eight decades, Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation have paid the price of American “help.” Since 1948, the US has sent an estimated $300 billion (when adjusted for inflation) in foreign aid to Israel, much of it in the form of weaponry to the Israeli military."

"France, as a recognized nuclear-weapon state, cannot build the future of its nuclear deterrence in Europe without confronting its own past. Strategic credibility cannot exist without nuclear justice." inkstickmedia.com/france-legac...

"Samiha is among the 1.2 million people who have been displaced by Israel’s bombs since that night. Thousands of them now simply live on the street in Beirut, in tents, with nowhere else to go. Israel killed seven of them earlier in February, on Beirut’s public beach."

"Mongabay and CNN tracked eight Chinese research vessels that have undertaken deep-sea mining exploratory missions over the past five years ... the ships spent just around 6% of their total open water time in or near areas reserved by Chinese companies for deep-sea mining exploration."

"Though such violence rose and dipped over the years, an invigorated, alarming level of Islamophobic bigotry has remained a constant feature of American life for at least a quarter century." inkstickmedia.com/from-the-us-...

As Israel escalates its war on Lebanon, much of the country's displaced search for ways to get by in Beirut. inkstickmedia.com/letter-from-...

"The idea that such mass slaughter can be justified as a way of scaring the bad guys and reducing violence is intellectually unsupportable and morally obscene."

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"As the United States and Israel continue to deepen their joint war on Iran, showering the country with deadly airstrikes, President Donald Trump’s administration is meanwhile ratcheting up threats against Cuba."

An investigation by @mongabay.com and CNN asks whether China’s deep-sea missions are only about mining, or something more. inkstickmedia.com/are-chinas-d...

War isn't the only risk that could lead to nuclear catastrophe.

"In a new book and conversation with Inkstick, reporter Neil Shea reflects on two decades of reporting across the far north — where climate change, Indigenous knowledge, and geopolitics collide."

"A growing number of influential Republican leaders have spearheaded a nationwide drive to revive the anti-Muslim hysteria of the years following 9/11."

"The FBI’s Los Angeles division, working hand in glove with federal prosecutors, has been busy building cases against community response networks and cobbling together felony charges for people showing up to ICE protests."