What The Endgame in Gaza Means For Middle East Security And Oil Prices
Netanyahu plans another aggressive incursion into Gaza, intended as a Final Solution of sorts. Is a retaliatory oil embargo a real risk?
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How Long Until You Lose Your Constitutional Rights?
Trump adviser Stephen Miller is talking about suspending habeas corpus due to “invasion.” Whether that happens or not, we’re still seeing constitutional rights continue to erode as the “War on Terror” comes home.
Read more...Trump Doubles Down on Gaza Cruelty With Threat to Cut UN World Food Programme Funding if the UN Rejects US Scheme (and a BRICS Note)
Another US disgrace in the form of a threat against the World Food Programme to advance a US son-of-floating pier scheme to feed Gazans.
Read more...Meet the People Profiting from US Military Aid to Israel
A genocide backed by economic interests is a big problem involving powerful actors. However, many people are taking action to affect the status quo.
Read more...Karma Arriving? Times of Israel Frets Over Trump Abandonment With Houthis and Perhaps Even Iran
Is Trump leaving an overextended Israel to its own devices with his Yemen deal and Iran talks?
Read more...Chokepoint Crazy: The U.S. Bombs Both Sides of Gulf of Aden and Considers Setting Up Shop in Somaliland
Bombs fall on Yemen. Bombs fall on Somalia. The US considers recognizing Somaliland in desperate attempt to dominate Red Sea.
Read more...Accident or Attack? Explosion at Iran’s Busiest Commercial Port Will Reverberate Beyond Bandar Abbas Either Way
Explosion likely to exacerbate existing problems with the Iranian economy, which include high inflation that is hitting food prices particularly hard and weak economic growth due to sanctions
Read more...Scholars Under Fire
An in-depth look at pressure campaigns against scholars.
Read more...AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers
An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.
Read more...Trump Back on Track to Failed Iran Negotiations and Likely War
After only one US exchange with Iran, new noises from Witkoff and others show the US upping its demands to a level not acceptable to Iran
Read more...‘Only Hellfire’: Israel Says Lifesaving Aid, Troop Withdrawal Off the Table for Gaza
Israel defense ministers are chuffed about their genocide and and war crimes, now via starvation.
Read more...Here’s What’s in the New Rough Draft U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal
A purported list of proposed US terms for its negotiations with Iran looks to go well beyond what Iran could accept.
Read more...Pulling the Rug Out from Under China’s Clean Tech Strategy
China went all in on clean energy technology in recent years, but the economic war by the West and other developments now pose challenges to that gamble.
Read more...US-Iran Negotiations: Why an Agreement Looks Unlikely
Happy endings look remote with the US attempt to escalate against Iran and bully them into a “deal”.
Read more...‘Greater Türkiye’ Faces Major Headwinds Abroad and at Home
Restless nationalists play role in protests at home while Türkiye runs up against US-backed Greater Israel in Syria. The great unknown: will the millions of Takfiris in Türkiye step into the ring?
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