Is the war on Lebanon another oil war?
William Gibson on the current war: Hammer, meet wasp’s nest.
On one side, Beirut before and after the Israeli strikes. On the other, precision targeting seen from an Israeli drone.
Today in “What have we learned from history?”: the Trojan Horse.
Straight out of a James Bond story: Mount Weather could be Bush’s secret bunker.
An interesting animated map showing who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history.
What cats know about war.
Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a nuclear war, but didn’t.
Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a nuclear war, but didn't.
New Research Sheds Light on Soviet Plans for World War III.
New Research Sheds Light on Soviet Plans for World War III.
I didn’t know this. Live Aid’s real effect on the ground was far from positive.
The Russian troops had expected their “special operation” to be brief. Soldiers had brought scant supplies: one admitted that he’d packed only a single uniform, because he thought he was on a training exercise. Some asked Semenov where they could buy cigarettes. “They said, ‘Why are there no shops near here?’ I said, ‘This is a restricted zone!’ They didn’t understand where they were.”
Great read about Chernobyl under Russian occupation during the recent invasion. Where senior staff had to keep up quite a balancing act in order to save lives and avoid disaster.
A scorching monologue by Max Porter, exposing the seemingly ordinary people who forge the tools of genocide – the wrench-turners, ledger-keepers, and nameless faces behind the machinery of death.
