Long live Iran

In case anyone is wondering, in the current conflict my support is for Iran in a similar way as I have supported Ukraine (after the Russian invasion). There can be no doubt that the USA and Israel are the aggressors in the current war and that any threat to world peace lies primarily at the door of Israel and the USA. I give no credibility to the notion that Iran is an imminent existential threat to Israel, much less to the USA. Hence the attack on sovereign Iran and the assassination of its political leader and others (no matter how bad any of them were) cannot be justified. Neither Israel nor the USA was acting with the welfare of Iran's 92 million people in mind.

US Supreme Court rejects Trump tarriffs

Demonstrating a major shift in SC policy, by a 6-3 ruling the USSC has outlawed the Trump tarriffs. Given the fact that legal rulings are often more the product of naked self-interest than legal logic or reason - with the current Supreme Court possibly more flagrant than any predecessor - this ruling suggests that Trump's days of political dominance are now numbered. It may be that a significant majority of the SC justices have realized, at long last, that they've hitched their future to an aging and ailing donkey.