MEL GURTOV – David Remnick, who writes for The New Yorker from Israel (August 3), believes Trump holds the key to a Netanyahu victory (in a critical election October 27). At the moment that’s not good news for Netanyahu, since Trump has clearly regarded Bibi as an obstacle to a war settlement with Iran. But Trump is notoriously unpredictable. He “may still prefer the devil he knows,” Remnick writes.
Nuclear for Another Dictator? Trump’s Bad Deal with Saudi Arabia
MEL GURTOV – Even putting aside this transaction between two unreliable and faithless leaders, providing Saudi Arabia with nuclear technology is a bad deal that should never have been offered. It is full of holes on enrichment, runs an unacceptable risk of nuclear proliferation, and while good for Israel will do nothing to help the Palestinian people establish their own country. The deal demonstrates a deplorable lack of foresight of Trump and his advisers in their willingness to trade extraordinary policy and strategic gifts for nothing that is in the human interest.
The rulers of the nuclear powers are slow learners
LAWRENCE WITTNER – Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear holocaust.
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
NICK ENGELFRIED – The organized opposition to data centers builds on a wave of popular fury with the AI industry and its massive footprint, unlike almost anything in recent U.S. history. Moreover, “concerns about data centers are agitating even people who have never taken a public stand on any issue before,” Seed said. “They’re willing to take a stand on this.”
Arrested for Clapping, Iranian Prisoner Hunger Strike & Stopping Robot Teachers
RIVERA SUN – In the baffling koan of these times, what is the sound of our one hand clapping? All our voices, singing.
A Brief History of How Countries Sleepwalk Into War
JOHN P. RUEHL – From the Civil War and World War I to the ongoing conflict in Iran, America’s and other nations’ expectations of war have repeatedly been challenged by the realities that emerge once fighting begins.