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www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/02/1...
How wind tech could help decarbonize cargo shipping
Wind is an underutilized resource that has the potential to steer the notoriously dirty shipping industry toward a greener future.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Are We Getting Stupider?
Stupidity is eternal—and more complex than we think.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
Opinion | How My Retirement Savings Are Betraying America
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December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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lawliberty.org/book-review/...
Herodotus the Storyteller – Matthew K. Reising
Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the father of history can help us recover our humanity and address our partisan ailments.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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lawliberty.org/book-review/...
Interpreting the New Right – John G. Grove
A new book comes at an opportune time but fails to offer much beyond scolding.
lawliberty.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
CDC vaccine panel chair compares team to 'puppets on a string'
The newly appointed chair’s comments were overheard Friday during a break in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ proceedings.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Trump hails vaccine panel’s hepatitis B vote as ‘very good decision’
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-th...
Is This The End of the Free World?
Trump wants to MAGAfy Europe, too
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December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Hegseth’s ‘who cares?’ doctrine is finally taking heat
In U.S. history, war crimes have been rare. Accountability is needed to keep them that way.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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www.swcs.mil/Special-Warf...

Transforming the ‘ARSOF Advantage’ Lines of Effort with Enhanced Mesh Network Technology
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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vaberet.substack.com/p/the-bridge
The Bridge
Technology and Partner Capacity in Irregular Warfare. As the global competition intensifies, Special Forces must become the bridge between America’s technological ingenuity and its human allies abroad...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/08/r...
Texas becomes the first state to buy bitcoin as more states eye cryptocurrencies • Ohio Capital Journal
Texas recently became the first state to make a major investment in cryptocurrency with the purchase of about $5 million worth of bitcoin. The state comptroller’s office, which manages financial trans...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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www.wsj.com/world/china/...
See How a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could Unfold
An amphibious invasion would be one of the toughest military operations to pull off. This analysis shows why.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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www.airandspaceforces.com/golden-dome-...
Golden Dome Details Begin to Emerge
The Golden Dome air and missile defense shield will have some “operational capability” in 2028, Space Force Gen. Michael A. Guetlein said.
www.airandspaceforces.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time
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December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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UAE-Backed Forces Expand Control in Southern Yemen - The Soufan Center
Last week’s sudden seizure of additional territory in Yemen’s oil-rich Hadhramaut region by the Hadrami Elite Forces, a faction of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), marked the first ...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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December 7, 2025
“I think it’s really important that this video be made public,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said today on Face the Nation. Himes was referring to a video of the September 2 U.S. military strike on...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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theintercept.com/2025/12/05/b...
Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
theintercept.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 7, 2025
The Kremlin positively reacted to the National Security Strategy (NSS). Dmitry Peskov stated that it is "largely consistent with the vision."
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December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Column | A line in the sand moment for Europe and the U.S.
The release of the U.S. National Security Strategy landed like a grenade in Brussels, underscoring the depth of ideological vehemence within the White House.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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interpopulum.org/special-oper...
Special Operations Executive: Psychological Warfare Burma 1942-1945 by Alfred Trutwein and Richard Duckett Reviewed by: Tim Pappa
ISBN: 979-8411286298, Self-Published, February 2022, 225 pages, $17.16 (Paperback) Reviewed by: Tim Pappa, Federal Bureau of Investigation (former), Washington, D.C., USA This rare diary of a psycholo...
interpopulum.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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www.canada.ca/en/army/serv...
21.2 - Book Review - Urban Operations - Canada.ca
Canadian Army Journal
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December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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digitalcommons.fiu.edu/jgi_research...
A Strategic Opening: Fighting Haiti's Criminal Insurgency
territorial control, degrading state authority, and evolving into what Max G. Manwaring defines as “third-generation gangs,” criminal-insurgent hybrids that challenge the state’s monopoly on force. As...
digitalcommons.fiu.edu
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
The West must respond to Russia’s rapidly escalating hybrid warfare
Russia's hybrid war against the West is escalating rapidly and requires a far firmer collective response, writes Doug Livermore.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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www.kyivpost.com/post/65293
NATO Warns It May Hit Russia First as Hybrid Attacks Intensify
NATO is weighing a more proactive response to Russia’s hybrid attacks, including cyber strikes, sabotage and airspace violations, with officials even considering a potential “pre-emptive strike.”
www.kyivpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM