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Iran, the presidency-killer: Is Trump being carterized?
Trump may be imprisoned in his own Rose Garden, helpless before a new round of Iranian hostage-taking, as a Blue Tsunami swells to take down large numbers of Republican House and Senate candidates.
How Iran won the Iran War
It is a pyrrhic victory in many ways, since Iran has new enemies among its neighbors and it has lost industrial capacity. But it is a victory of sorts.
Could Trump’s diversion of Venezuelan oil to US save the Iranian...
This substantial gain for the Islamic Republic, however, will only help it weather the current political crisis if it manages to survive until April or May.
Global battle royale at COP30 between fossil fuel producers and green...
The battle royale between the two may prevent COP30, hosted by Brazil, from issuing any joint communiqué or “cover letter.”
Trump pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely...
How likely is it that these investments will rise by hundreds of billions of dollars in 4 years?
America may have invaded Iraq for its oil, but solar power...
The vogue for solar is sweeping other areas of Iraq, too, such as Kurdistan, where the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is also increasingly committed to solar.
Scientists prove extensive Viking silver trade with Abbasid Empire from British...
The team can now date the influx of silver coinage into Viking realms from the Muslim empires of the Middle East much earlier than had previously been thought.
Why did the Saudis invest $2 bn with Jared Kushner?
What do canny observers from the Middle East say about Saudi motives here?
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
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.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.