Tag: Middle East
Trump’s Hormuz gamble pushes US and Iran toward wider war
Missile and drone strikes, disputed civilian deaths, and escalating threats have raised fears that tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are moving away from diplomacy and toward a broader conflict.
Trump threatens destruction of Iran as ceasefire unravels and civilian casualties...
Renewed US threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure and Tehran’s refusal to negotiate expose deepening diplomatic breakdown, legal concerns, and the human cost of escalation.
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.
10 minutes, 100 airstrikes: Israel rejects ceasefire for Lebanon, kills 250+...
Israel struck Lebanon in its heaviest and deadliest attack on the country since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began.
Artificial Intelligence vs. human stupidity
Many countries still go to war believing that God is on their side. Just as dangerous are those that believe that they will win because technology is on their side.
Iran retaliation revives scrutiny of US military bases across the Gulf
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.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy...
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
If Trump is serious about peace, Marco Rubio has to go
Rubio keeps the United States mired in wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, while pushing Trump into a catastrophic new war on Venezuela and escalating tensions across Latin America and the Caribbean.
War profits soar as global arms revenues hit record 679 billion...
Revenues surged across the United States, Europe, and Israel as wars in Gaza and Ukraine and rising geopolitical tensions fueled unprecedented demand for weapons.
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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.