Rick Shenkman

Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.

Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.

Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.

New disclosures raise questions about whether highly restricted national security materials were kept for private advantage.

Today I'll survey several factors feeding this unfolding fiasco.