Today’s Iran war update: rumors of US force deployments as oil and gas price rises threaten the global economy and Mr. Market’s mood.
Read more...Turkish officials say they share Iranians pain but Tehran should show “greater flexibility” as Ankara discusses “buffer zone” in Iran to counter US-armed Kurds.
Read more...Trump looks even more caught than ever on the horns of his Iran war dilemma.
Read more...New Delhi sells out Russia and its own working class as part of India-Middle East-Europe [digital] Corridor that aims to fortify a new American-Israeli hegemony..
Read more...How the porky US military machine is also stretched thin, and what that implies for an Iran conflict.
Read more...Yet another example of BRICS boosters being way out over their skis.
Read more...Washington envisions the Caucasus as stepping stone into Central Asia, but it’s China that remains in dominant position there with both sides ironically working to strengthen same trade corridor.
Read more...Moscow and Tehran hold economic upper hand in the region, but current ruling groups in both Armenia and Azerbaijan are no longer responding to rational and mutual national interests.
Read more...On the Iran front, the US is taking steps that do not look like mere posturing. Many experts, including ones in Iran, think war is nigh.
Read more...Did the success of former Nazi officers in landing key positions in NATO help explain NATO’s Russia hostility even after the USSR fell?
Read more...More truth nuggets about Ukraine’s desperate position are appearing in the Western press, but the level of denial is still high.
Read more...While Trump’s “armada” gets the attention, Türkiye plays major role in bringing hostile actors to Iran’s borders.
Read more...What was Modi thinking? Even though Trump is surely exaggerating what his deal amounts to, it looks like a big climbdown for India.
Read more...A rich discussion of how industrial capitalism evolved into imperialism and how its impulses and contradictions are creating more fractures.
Read more...Many factors point to the value, one might even say necessity, of Trump going TACO on Iran soon. But what might happen then?
Read more...