Inside the risky shooting orders behind the assassination of Iran’s nuclear chief – exclusive

How the 2020 assassination of Mohsen Fakrizadeh bought Israel time to improve capabilities for June attack on Iran.

The founder and chief of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated on November 27, 2020, with Iran pointing the finger at the Mossad. Israel, even after the June conflict with Iran, has not taken responsibility for the episode.

Illness and Endless Wars

War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces suggest they are barely better off than those they’re helping. Social media and journalists make us eyewitnesses to emaciated children too weak to cry. And yet, compared with air raids that crush and bloody instantaneously, a slower disaster, more difficult to capture (especially given our made-for-TikTok attention spans), consists of the hours that many people in war zones spend wasting away from infectious diseases of one sort or another.

Macron moves to shut down suspected Muslim Brotherhood institutions in France

The French government on Monday said it would take new measures to tackle the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in France, including the disbanding of endowment funds and a new asset-freeze mechanism.

An official 74-page report on the Muslim Brotherhood “required more ambitious proposals” from the state, the Elysee said in a statement, after a high-level meeting with a small group of cabinet members.

The Dollar Is Sinking: Here’s Why

The U.S. dollar is tumbling as President Donald Trump’s economic agenda—at the executive and legislative level—takes full shape.

Economists told Newsweek this could advance Trump’s goal of promoting American goods in foreign markets and strengthening exports, but warn that a weakened dollar comes with significant downsides, including the jeopardization of its status as the world’s reserve currency.

Russian Black Sea Fleet Intends To Establish Base In Abkhazia – Analysis

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s three-year war against Ukraine has battered the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF). Ukrainian successes have largely forced the fleet to abandon its traditional Sevastopol base in Crimea for safer anchorage in the Sea of Azov and Novorossiysk on the Black Sea’s eastern coast (see EDM, November 8, 2022,November 15, 2023, January 17, March 26, August 13, 2024, June 27).

L’écologie politique, progressiste ou conservatrice ?

L’écologie politique est régulièrement soupçonnée d’appartenir au camp conservateur – parce qu’elle critiquerait le « progrès », défendrait la nature ou encore les peuples autochtones. Certains considèrent même le risque d’un « écofascisme ». Ces critiques sont-elles fondées ? L’écologie politique est plutôt proche du socialisme, à travers une critique de l’ordre industriel et du marché au profit d’une société coopérative.