Iran is winning the Meme propaganda war principally because Trump is such an easy buffoon to picture

 Iran's Meme War Against Trump Ushers In A Future of "Slopaganda"

The Hajj, The Muslim Pilgrimage is a mandatory religious duty for all physically and financially capable Muslims including Iranian Shia to perform at least once in their lifetime. One wonders how the Iranian Shia intermingle with Saudi Sunnis

 

War in Iran Is Making the Hajj, the Muslim Pilgrimage, More Expensive

Surprising praise of Russian Drone Tech as if Ukraine's Drone Tech hasn't been disabling Russian positions in Eastern Ukraine and deep inside Russia or is that just Ukraine propaganda?

 

Russia Is Building Tomorrow’s War Machine

By Kateryna Bondar

Ms. Bondar is a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Professor John Mearsheimer commenting on Iran considers Trump to be in a hopeless position trying to resolve his and Bibi's colossal blunder yet considers Putin to be the eventual winner in Ukraine despite losing 30,000 thousand soldiers every month and no territorial gain.  Am I getting duped by on Ukrainian propaganda?      

Reopening Hormuz is a loser proposition that Trump ought to offload on Congress that does not give him the War Powers to continue

 

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz Is Now Job One in the Iran War

By 

Reuel Marc Gerecht

 and 

Ray Takeyh

Updated April 29, 2026 5:09 pm ET

The widespread use of common AI models could increase market correlations and amplify stress, and the institutions charged with safeguarding financial stability have identified this risk, but may be monitoring the wrong actors.

 

I Built an AI Trading Platform in Six Days. That’s Terrifying.

April 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT

By Darri Eythorsson

Darri Eythorsson is a computational hydrologist and research associate at the University of Calgary. He is the lead architect of SYMFLUENCE, an open-source hydrological modeling framework.

Zelensky has his eye on the World's oil crisis by letting Russia export crude but still pounds Russian refineries supplying domestic needs

 

Russia Ships the Most Crude in Over a Month as Port Attacks Ease

Ukraine’s drone strikes switch back to refineries, allowing Moscow to boost seaborne flows

By Julian Lee

April 28, 2026 at 7:54 AM EDT

Trump has a wonderful out on Iran by blaming the withdrawal on Congress

 

By Week’s End, Trump’s War Will Be Plainly Illegal

By Erwin Chemerinsky

Mr. Chemerinsky is the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.