News and Analysis 2/28/26

The war is on:

The U.S. has allocated “a third of active U.S. Navy ships and a potentially even greater share of U.S. air power back to the region … at a time when the U.S. is also supposed to be deterring threats from much stronger powers — China and to a lesser extent Russia”:

Condemned “as a blatant violation of international law[,] … , the move … sets a dangerous precedent, given that it de facto legitimizes unlawful Israeli control over these areas – blurring the lines between occupied land and sovereign territory”:

“Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi … suggests Iran has agreed not to store any nuclear fuel, but not necessarily to stop enriching entirely” …

… which “falls short of the administration’s demand for “zero enrichment”:

The “memo came after Mike Huckabee’s remarks about Israel sparked alarm inside White House”:

The pot calls the kettle black:

“U.S. immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel. Now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets”:

“This genre of hip hop … draws both on progressive rap produced in the United States and elsewhere, and on traditions of improvised and folk poetry in Arabic, … and the percussiveness and lyricism of Arab music”:


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