Thursday, July 2, 2026
Iran War: Vance Confirms Plan to Use “Deal” as Minsk-Type Pause to Restock Fuel (and Arms); US Ostentatiously Failing to Implement MOU, Seeking to Isolate Iran Over Strait of Hormuz Control
Today’s Iran war news: The US thumbs its nose at MOU obligations and seems content with current Strait of Hormuz transit levels.
Supreme Court Denies Pork Industry Appeal of Animal Welfare Law
How the Supremes gave a win for farm animals over Big Ag.
When Trust in Official Statistics Declines
The Trump firing of the BLS chief imposed costs by lowering faith in official statistics and increasing uncertainty.
Coffee Break: Tawdry Trump Gang Corruption Wave Cresting?
Trump 2.0 is setting records for graft while establishing a tawdry, tacky aesthetic that is not going over with the American public.
Most EU Citizens Support Economic Growth Even Though Climate Experts Question Its Role
Most Europeans do not see a tradeoff between economic growth and preserving the environment. Propaganda and happy Green New Deal patter worked.
Iran War: Iran Disses Witkoff and Kushner in Doha but Does Not Get $6 Billion in Frozen Assets; Strait of Hormuz Traffic Sub-Par but Continues on Oman Side as Talks Over Future Management Continue
Today’s Iran war update: Iran can’t even get its Biden-era promise to return $6 billion in frozen asset honored. So what happens now?
Progress in Understanding Early-Onset Cancers?
Cancer has been recognized as an environmental disease since the first description of chimney sweep’s cancer by Percivall Pott in 1775. The primary social determinant of this disease is described well in this article Lancet Oncology (Abstract then unfortunately a paywall), even if the “social determinants of health” are anathema during our MAHA Moment. More […]
Big Money, the Maine Senate Race and US Party Competition: A Tale in Two Pictures
A “follow the money” analysis of the Maine Senate race, as in the Platner challenge, shows that it is indeed an exercise in class warfare.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Peace Power and Trust Engineering
War Power has long served civilization as the primary institution for managing consequential international conflict. But as the destructive costs of modern warfare continue to rise and advances in communications, sensing, verification, and artificial intelligence expand humanity’s capacity to produce calibrated trust, a new possibility, Peace Power, emerges.
These Church Members Disagree on Politics. Together They’re Wiping Out Medical Debt
A grass-roots effort to extinguish medical debt shows how destructive and ought-to-be-criminal US debt collection is.
Iran War: Israel Makes Massive Bomb Blast in Southern Lebanon, Threatens Imminent Attack on Iran; Iran Refuses Meeting with US on Strait of Hormuz as Assembly of Experts Statement Assures Already Likely Death of MOU; Strait of Hormuz Transits Increasing as Iran and Oman Not on Same Page
Today’s Iran war news: Israel is aggressively escalating in Lebanon and threatens Iran as its Assembly of Experts hardens the red lines.
Is Ecuador’s US-Born President, Daniel Noboa, the Most Powerful Drug Trafficker in Latin America?
“Noboa and Ecuador today export 70% of the cocaine consumed by the world. Most of it leaves on this criminal’s merchant ships and is packed in his banana facilities.”
