The Big One Ticking Clock: Southern California’s Faults Are Primed, But Is The Region Ready?

New Modeling Confirms The San Andreas And San Jacinto Faults Are More Critically Stressed Than They Have Been In A Millennium. A Year After The Landmark Study, Scientists, Emergency Planners And Residents Are Grappling With What A Simultaneous Rupture Would Really Mean, And Why The Cajon Pass ‘Earthquake Gate’ May Be The Most Dangerous Wildcard Of All.

IRAN-OMAN: At The Crossroads Of Empire And Sovereignty: Iran, Oman, And The Legal Battle For The Strait Of Hormuz.

MUSCAT, OMAN / BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN — In the gilded corridors of a palace in Muscat this week, behind closed doors and far from the gaze of warships massing in…

UK: Britain’s Shadow War: The F-35 Loophole, Missing Millions, And The True Scale Of UK Complicity In Israel’s OPT And Gaza Assault.

LONDON/GAZA/OPT — On 2 September 2024, Foreign Secretary David Lammy stood before the House of Commons and announced what he described as a “robust” intervention: the suspension of around 30…

UK: Reform’s Reckoning In Rayleigh: A Racism Scandal, A Resignation, And A Party That Keeps Getting Elected.

RAYLEIGH, ESSEX — Stuart Prior never even had time to collect his council papers. Just four days after being swept into office on Reform UK’s historic Essex landslide, the newly…

IRAN: Tehran’s ‘Reasonable and Generous’ Peace Bid and Washington’s ‘Unreasonable Demands’: Inside the Crisis Diplomacy That Is Pushing West Asia to the Brink.

TEHRAN / WASHINGTON / BEIRUT - In the smoke-choked towns of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah drones are outmanoeuvring Israeli air defences. In the Gulf, American warships shadow Iranian tankers. In the…

US: Trump, Epstein, Iran And The Politics Of Diversion: Growing Questions Over Accountability In Washington.

WASHINGTON - As renewed tensions with Iran dominate global headlines, critics of U.S. President Donald Trump argue that another story, one involving Jeffrey Epstein, allegations of elite protection networks, and…

IRAN: Tehran’s Game Of Brinkmanship: Inside A Successor’s War Council, A Blockaded Strait, And The Riot-War Nexus.

TEHRAN -The words were delivered in the marble-clad sanctum of the Beit-e Rahbari, where Iran’s newly elevated Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, now receives the commanders of a nation…

BAHRAIN: The King’s Decree: Inside Bahrain’s Mass Citizenship Revocations And The Silencing Of Dissent.

How 69 Individuals, And Their Children, Were Stripped Of Nationality Without Trial, The Lawmakers Who Dared To Question It, And What This Says About The Future Of Rule Of Law…

PALESTINE/ISRAEL: ‘Hangman Of The Century’ – Inside Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Death-Penalty Crusade Against Palestinians.

As The Far-Right Israeli Minister Revels In A Noose-Shaped Birthday Cake And A Tiktok-Style Fantasy Of Gallows, Rights Groups, Diplomats, And Legal Experts Are Warning Of A Dangerous Slide Toward…

GAZA: Trapped Between Exile And Ruin: The Gazans Stranded In The West Bank With ‘No Home Left, No Where To Go’.

NABLUS, OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Under the concrete bleachers of Nablus city stadium, in a converted changing room that smells of damp and detergent, a dozen men from Gaza have…

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