Daily News 07/28
Daily News 07/28
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Seyed M. Marandi: Saudi Oil Is Burning & Trump Has No Way Out The Trump administration’s expanding confrontation with Iran is increasingly exposing the limits of military power in a rapidly changing global order. What began as an effort to pressure Tehran has, according to Iranian political analyst and former nuclear negotiator adviser Seyed Mohammad Marandi, evolved into a widening regional conflict in which Washington faces diminishing options and mounting strategic costs. As tensions spread from the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea and Yemen’s battlefield, Marandi argues that every escalation risks deepening the energy crisis while strengthening the very alliances the United States hoped to weaken. In this wide-ranging conversation with Glenn Diesen, Marandi examines why Saudi Arabia’s renewed intervention in Yemen may have backfired, how Iran has adapted its military strategy, and why he believes Washington is confronting a geopolitical reality it can no longer control. Whether or not one agrees with his conclusions, the interview offers an important perspective on how officials and analysts close to Tehran interpret the conflict, the shifting balance of power in West Asia, and the broader transition from a U.S.-dominated international order toward an increasingly multipolar world.
Video: Ongoing Global Warming Acceleration: 2026 to be Record Warm; Beaten by 2027: Latest by James Hansen
Cuts Threaten U.S. Tracking of Climate Tipping PointThe Trump administration and Congress are locked in a high-stakes debate over funding for U.S. ocean observation networks at precisely the moment scientists say the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of currents that regulates global climate, may be approaching an irreversible threshold.
James Hansen: Beware Media Hype. It’s Not the El Nino!Abstract. Emerging climate extremes should draw public attention to human-caused climate change. We expect unusual sea surface temperature (SST) and global warming the rest of this year to make 2026 hotter than 2024, despite 2024 being a peak El Nino year, while 2026 is only the lead-in year of an emerging El Nino. Beware the “surprise” record high being blamed on an extreme El Nino on top of global warming otherwise consistent with IPCC estimates. Instead, record warmth provides additional evidence of high climate sensitivity and increased net climate forcing in the past decade. These two factors are driving an unusual increase in global SSTs with major consequences. If you bear with our discussion to the end, you will find some possible good news. Figures in this post are continually updated on our website.[2] We are now on Substack[3].
In ‘Win for Voters,’ Another Federal Court Blocks Trump Attack on Mailed Ballots A majority of the three-judge appellate panel called part of the president’s March executive order “an unprecedented federal incursion into states’ exclusive power to determine voter eligibility.”
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatens states over elections The secretary’s comments come as the Trump administration is increasingly using government agencies to sow doubts about the nation’s electoral system.
This Is Not of God’: Faith Leaders Demand Release of Pastors, End to ICE ‘Terror’“This is a terror campaign with the mission of traumatizing our neighbors,” one pastor said of the Trump administration’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown. “We don’t need terror. We need peace.”
Europe live: Officials warn that wildfires could still be burning in November
Africa facing $10-$20 billion economic hit from ‘super’ El Niño, AfDB climate chief warns
‘It came out of real frustration’: the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night examines Earth Liberation Front, a US eco-anarchist movement, and its legacy of radical environmentalism
Earth’s waters are quietly running out of oxygen, scientists warnOxygen is disappearing from oceans, lakes, rivers, and coastal waters at an alarming rate, threatening aquatic life and weakening the natural processes that help regulate Earth’s climate. Scientists warn that this widespread deoxygenation is closely connected to other major planetary threats, including warming, pollution, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification.
‘Stunning Admission’: Trump Admin Targeted Democrats by Canceling Clean Energy Grants“ It is despicable that the administration is taking away funding from states that did not vote for Trump,” said US Sen. Dick Durbin.
As Highways Expand, Black Communities Are Threatened With Flooding and Land Loss Road expansions are repeating a long history of environmental racism and displacement.
Xenophobic pogroms in South Africa – fight the right with class struggle! Over the past three months, a wave of xenophobic demonstrations, attacks and killings against migrants has swept South Africa. Shops have been looted, foreigners chased out of their homes, while more than 50,000 people have been forced to flee the country in fear for their lives. The South African right wing is currently cheering on the violence…
Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy. Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.
Trump Medicaid Rule Could Strip Coverage From Seriously Ill People Even terminally ill people must prove they are too sick to work to keep their Medicaid coverage.
4 Years After Roe Was Overturned, Public Opinion on Abortion Has Shifted As abortion laws became substantially more restrictive, public opinion moved toward greater support for abortion access.