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While Americans confront the highest fuel prices in years after the U.S.-Israel war on Iran disrupted global oil markets, fossil fuel giants are reporting surging profits, expanding stock buybacks, and prioritizing shareholder payouts over increased production.

As Washington and Tehran discuss a possible framework to end nearly three months of conflict, new military exchanges, competing narratives, and disagreements over sanctions, regional security, and Israel’s role reveal how fragile any potential agreement remains.

If the American people and the world can find the political will, this U.S. and Israeli defeat by Iran presents us with a chance to move U.S. foreign policy in a more peaceful direction.

The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on...

The War Against Iran, Up Close and Personal (and All Too Far Away).

Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.

The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.

Testimony from Israeli soldiers and the mother of a slain hostage has intensified scrutiny over battlefield orders in Gaza, the killing of Israeli captives waving white flags, and whether military directives encouraged indiscriminate lethal force during operations in Shujaiya.

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?