Beginning a few months after this El Niño takes hold, we can expect to have the warmest global temperatures yet, by what is may be a fairly wide margin. It pairs very poorly with the increasingly well established finding that the rate of global heating has increased sharply over the last decade

The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.

“Death and destruction from the sky all day long.” I'm telling you, these people are genocidal fanatics. And no, this did not begin with Trump. They want to do to Iran what previous US administrations did to Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Iraq, Libya... the evil is 100% bipartisan.

It is wild that European countries want to join a war that was started illegally by and for a man who is wanted for war crimes and genocide by their *own* institutions.

The US and Israel have apparently attacked another elementary school in Iran, this one in Tehran. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

My first job when I turned 16 was for a “defense contractor-funded think tank.” So many memories that summer… Cue Huey Lewis’ If This Is It Got my driver’s license, first kiss and saw real time footage of a supersonic missile blowing up a crowded Libyan market.

"American forces had "perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran's shores," said Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi, who added that the ship was a “guest of India’s navy”.

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

The US did a version of this in Iran in 1953. They did it in Afghanistan in the 1970s. They did it in Syria for the last decade and a half. It's tried and true US strategy. How on earth is this "Putin's tactic?"

''CGD operators said replacing contracted Qatari volumes with spot LNG priced at more than double the contracted rate could erode CNG's price advantage and result in a permanent shift of customers to electric vehicles." Look at that.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse. 1/2

The RCMP have acted as a goon squad for pipeline protection too in Canada even though they haven't gotten direct funding from a fossil fuel company: Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin. grist.org/indigenous/e...

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran. Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich. Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

Rules based international order update:

This is who will replace Crockett in the House

The Lebanese Health Ministry reports that Israel has killed 397 people and injured 1102 since yesterday's bombing of Lebanon began

NEW: Canada’s media class have been claiming Iran is weeks, months or a few years away from obtaining nukes for at least 25 years. @davide.readthemaple.com provides a timeline of these claims, which are frequently used to justify war and/or sanctions on Iran. www.readthemaple.com/documenting-...

Ahem www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/n...

Christian Zionism might genuinely be the end of us all

The LNG industry is a funnel from our pockets to foreign shareholders. Eby’s NDP is putting our money into a sinkhole of debt, stranding us with unprofitable assets and US corporate control. Things don’t have to be this way. Thank you to Nick Gottlieb and Andy Hira for putting it so clearly. #lng

Only one Liberal MP spoke out publicly against Carney's outrageous endorsement of the illegal US-Israel war on Iran: Victoria MP Will Greaves. And it's a good statement. Carney can't afford to eject even 1 MP from caucus so backbenchers have a little more leverage right now. #cdnpoli

Venture Global #LNG, the notorious, corrupt, Trump loving energy company is ready to save the day with their full, wandering LNG tankers which currently have no customers. War profiteer? Something tells me this is a risky business model you should keep secret. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

World Press Freedom Canada's keynote speaker for its awards ceremony this year is David Frum. Hacked emails show he wrote speeches for Israel's UN ambassador and then a profile of the same ambassador. newrepublic.com/post/201498/... 1

Americans are about to get a sharp reminder of what it means for US natural gas prices to be tied to global markets via the LNG exports that Obama green-lit and Trump & Biden expanded.

"The LNG industry is an economic disaster that will harm British Columbians and Canada more broadly." Recommended piece by Prof Anil Hira and @nickgottlieb.bsky.social vancouversun.com/opinion/lng-...

NEW @thenation.com: The tools of the War on Terror must be destroyed before Trump uses them to finish building his world order, at home and abroad. What we did at home yesterday is what we do in Iran today is what we will do at home tomorrow. The way we break the cycle is straightforward: abolition.

to be blunt you need to develop a theory of mind that doesn't rely upon finding the first brown person who agrees with you.

"listen to local voices" invariably means "listen to this one guy i found who agrees with me that bombing them is good for them"

After 2022, the oil industry won a huge windfall and a dramatic reversal in climate policy in the west by using the war as a rhetorical and political tool in ways that had virtually no grounding in economic realities. *They are going to try it again*

Public Service Announcement: When the price of gasoline jumps this week, remember it was refined from oil (mostly Canadian) produced weeks ago, only 2% of which comes from the Middle East. It's a policy choice, not 'market forces', that explains why you'll pay more (and oil profits will soar). /2

"To put it bluntly, the LNG industry is not a growth engine, but a mechanism for redistribution of B.C. ratepayers’ dollars to foreign shareholders, and of B.C.’s industrial economy towards LNG." My latest, for the @vancouversun.bsky.social with Andy Hira at @sfu.ca

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

People in the US love to quote Ike's "wisdom" about the military industrial complex. In many ways Ike oversaw its entrenchment, initiating a clandestine war on most of the world that would establish the post-WW2 US as a country committed to and increasingly dependent on a permanent state of war

A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet. This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

Think Ian Welsh is right here. The biggest risk to Iran right now is if their leadership accepts a premature ceasefire, reentering bad faith negotiations that allow USA/Israel to re-arm their depleted THAAD/Patriot interceptors. Link: www.ianwelsh.net/the-simple-m...

More classic good-guy stuff.

‘Liberation,’ American-style.

paging Canada

Hard to tell if they're in on the joke here. Like this has become a common phrase for people to post whenever Israel slaughters kids again. They believe it sincerely but I also think they get a little thrill out of the lie of it.

The cries of anguish. Jesus Christ.

please don't call this weakness or cowardice or whatever. schumer supports the war and wanted more cover than he got. that's why dwelling on process stuff is ultimately a dead end: because even if every form was filled out correctly, this would still be an abomination.

“Canada’s position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East.” It’s not possible to produce satire that matches Canada’s PM @mark-carney.bsky.social’s abdication of all moral authority here. Israel literally started it!

The US and Israel do not possess any shame about their crimes of aggression, however.

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

astonishing that even as the two most violent entities on Earth launch an unjustifiable war of aggression against a country of 90 million people, many in the west feel the need to insert adjectives about how much they hate the country, implying it deserves to be attacked. Just not this way, I guess.

weird, carney's new world order looks a lot like the old one

The Fourth Reich