When Madeline’s war in 1999 didn’t wrap up in three days as expected the tempo fastened and the target set widened. That’s exactly what’s happening now. And Western political elites will fall in line as they perceive their credibility to be at stake. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

The United States of America should be ashamed of itself. Of all America’s wars I’ve bore witness to, the Iran war is the most obscene. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ira...

President Trump has announced that he has ordered the US to resume nuclear weapons testing. Quite what he means by this is unclear. One thing is clear. If he means resuming nuclear explosive tests with clear yields then those states that have tested least benefit most.

Russia finally tests the Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile and the Poseidon nuclear powered torpedo. Putin’s comments confirm a theory I had - see my Substack #7 below for more.

On the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and its relation to the US led system of world order. My Substack Post #6.

Russia appears to be preparing a new test of the Burevestnik, its nuclear-powered cruise missile with theoretically unlimited range. Why build it? Will Russia/NATO aviation challenge each other in the sky? I explore the implications in my latest Substack.

Debating hate speech and incitement to violence at a time of genocide - our genocide. Is it a type of insanity? I think so.

"The war must not spread to the entire region,” says Merz. Yet Israel did that long ago. Allow me to translate. “Israel must not attack Arabs with money.”

North Korea has revealed a new solid fuel motor for the 1st stage of a new solid fuel propelled ICBM and for its existing solid fuelled ICBM. The motor has a similar thrust to that of the retired US MX ICBM. The extra thrust is for more RVs to go against missile defence. MD does not boost security.

So, what is a particle? If fundamentality consists of a cloud of probabilities we then might ask; what do we mean when we say the universe is “physical?” www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

“The loss of HHS funding…will stymy research designed to get mRNA vaccines out quickly in a public health emergency. The canceled grants include one to develop an mRNA-based vaccine against H5N1…currently one of the most salient pandemic threats…” www.scientificamerican.com/article/mrna...

Russia may be gearing up for a flight test of the Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile - we’re competing to make all kinds of batshit crazy weapons of mass destruction when we should be cooperating to stop global warming. www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/ros...

Anthony Albanese falsely claims he won’t be dictated to by other nations on recognising Palestine. He *is* being dictated to - by the United States. Foot dragging on the genocide arises from servility to the boss in Washington. youtu.be/s0g1ma3oJOA

It’s said the nuclear submarines have been “repositioned” in response to Medvedev’s comments on the Russian “dead hand.” If these are SSBNs and area linked to the comments then repositioning might be area designated 4 prompt depressed trajectory decapitation strikes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

The last two sentences of Spencer Weart’s “The Discovery of Global Warming,” have proven most prescient. “So it is an important job, in some ways our top priority, to improve the communication of knowledge and to strengthen democratic control in governance everywhere.

It is July 25, 2025. The International Criminal Court has yet to indict Joseph R. Biden and Donald J. Trump as co conspirators with Benjamin Netanyahu. It took the ICC less than a month from the start of the Ukraine war to indict Vladimir Putin for crimes - of all things - against children.

The New York Times lies when it says the minister’s comments do not reflect the Israeli mainstream. Polls show Israelis support the genocide, the ethnic cleansing, the killing. Their social media feeds show they support all this with a sadistic glee. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

“Their corpses lay in white shrouds outside their bombed home on Wednesday with their names scribbled in pen. Blood seeped through the shrouds as they lay there, staining them red.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

New techniques using non smooth space times reproduce the theorems of classical general relativity - esp the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems. If singularities are also a feature of granular discrete spacetimes then - it seems to me - one of the key arguments for quantum gravity disappears.

In six weeks Israel has killed 798 people collecting food only - the number doesn’t include all deaths in the ongoing Gaza genocide for the same time period. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Now’s the time to worry about fascism. Not with Trump per se who is more the tin pot dictator type. When Trump’s “base” becomes “perplexed” as they start seeing through him, then they start looking for the committed ideologue. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

President of Iran- “Any repeated aggression (against Iran) will be met with a more decisive and regrettable response.” Meaning, Iran hasn’t decided to withdraw from the NPT but will if bombed again. US & Israel say they’ll bomb again if enrichment continues. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

In Australia the Gaza genocide will be remembered for the name Albanese. One courageous, the other a coward. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The more I think about what I wrote here the more think I’m not right. I mean “the physicalist programme” part. I was thinking of physics, but physics doesn’t have a physicalist programme and Newton had a lot to do with that. If referring to philosophy/metaphysics then what I said is okay.

Isaac Newton in Query 23 of the 1706 Latin ed of the Optics and Query 31 of later English eds - “We cannot say that all nature is not alive” [1]. Newton was right in saying this at the time, and the situation obtains to this day. The physicalist programme has yet to show otherwise.

There are important aspects to the protest actions targeting Israeli linked businesses in Melbourne that are not properly parsed in the media. Let us start with Lovitt Technologies. According to The Age “The vandalised business, Lovitt Technologies Australia… www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

You can see the problem with this article on Iran’s uranium metallurgy capabilities right at the end. The enrichment halls were deeply buried. The metal conversion facilities open slather. If Iran goes nuclear -or if it had a pre-existing hedge strategy - then it www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/s...

The discussion post strikes on Iran throws up some of the seamiest sides of western civilisation in particular its morbid fascination for hi tech military might. Discourse is dominated by the extent the geology at Fordow allowed the coupling of shockwaves from the MOP. Penetration capabilities of

The JCPOA was clearly better than counterproliferation. But it had a weakness - borne out by recent events - it only focused on Iran. Even better would be a nuclear weapons free zone for the region something blocked by Israel and the United States. See that being stated anywhere in the mainstream.

Donald Trump did a Kim Jong Un. KJU did a spectacular for the media saying he knocked out his nuclear test site at Punggye-Ri but all he did was rig explosives to knock out the entrances not his underground tunnels. Punggye-Ri was ready to test again in months. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

So, Operation Midnight Hammer was Trump’s way of saying to Netanyahu the bombing of Iran stops. And it ain’t consistent with the theory an Israel lobby drives US policy in the region.

My sense is that the outcome of the Iran-Russia talks will have as much bearing on Iran invoking Article 10 of the NPT as the US bombings. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

No they don’t. The war shows Kim’s got nuclear missiles that can get through missile defence, that the US doesn’t have conventional munitions to obliterate his deepest bunker, and that Trump’s too chicken shit to bomb him.

Air strikes not Complete not Verified not Irreversible not Dismantlement and hey makes climate change worse. Nice.

The reference to the NPT is important - it’s an indication that Iran will invoke Article 10 of the Treaty and withdraw from the NPT and also scrap the 2000km range limit on its missiles. Israel has said it’ll “mow the grass” whenever a nuclear facility emerges - a recipe for a “forever war.”

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How propaganda fuelling war works - “nuclear experts believe that a military operation would probably only temporarily set back a program the West fears is already aimed at producing atom bombs one day, although Iran denies it.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The only country in the Middle East to have nuclear weapons is Israel, and it is using them as a strategic umbrella under which they are committing genocide. Yet the western world is prattling on about a putative Iranian nuclear weapons programme and the Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

An appalling article from the ABC. The key to Iran’s nuclear programme - the Bushehr nuclear power station - lies above ground. That’s because Iran has not and had not since 2003 a clandestine nuclear weapons programme. Something the ABC wilfully hides. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

“Trump propels US into authoritarianism,” but yearns to bring democracy to Iran. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Israel attacks Iran after Iran announces it’ll install centrifuges at a new third uranium enrichment site.At the same time it becomes publicly clear North Korea is building a new third known enrichment site, not discussed and not bombed. Only proliferators survive. www.38north.org/2025/06/yong...

A post World War 2 State Dept study stated the energy resources of the Middle East give the US “veto power” over other industrial states. The US is a global power and plans accordingly - regime change in Iran is about the containment of - if not rollback in - China. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

‘“How are people supposed to pour into the streets? In such horrifying circumstances, people are solely focused on saving themselves, their families, their compatriots, and even their pets.‘“ People ain’t gonna protest under bombs - the objective is regime change through a coup like Iran-Contra.

The return of stagflation has been another item dominating the news - you can see the connection with Iran. The Consumer Price Index would be the centre of gravity targeted by Iranian strategic planners should Trump overtly join the war. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The accurate description of which would be nuclear terrorism - not counterproliferation.

“The Islamic Republic is a rotten tooth waiting to be plucked, like the Soviet Union in its latter years..” Did not Hitler say just before Barbaroosa of the Soviet Union that all he had to do was knock on the front door and the entire rotten structure would fall down? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

The mainstream media tells us Trump is dismantling democracy in America - as he is - but nonetheless Trump is supporting a war to bring democracy to Iran - and you’re supposed to believe that shit.