- — NATO Allies Adopt Evasive Policies on US War in Iran
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at 4/16/26 6:00pmTrump administration officials are discovering that a daunting number of longstanding U.S. allies and security clients are adopting hedging policies or even openly opposing Washington’s decision to wage war against Iran. That sobering reality has become even clearer over the past week than it was during the earlier stages of the armed conflict. On April []- — The Winner at the DNC’s Latest Meeting? Israel, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
- at 4/16/26 6:00pmIn the aftermath of last week’s big meeting of the Democratic National Committee in New Orleans, supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance have been quite content. “We’re pleased that the DNC Resolutions Committee rejected a set of divisive, anti-Israel resolutions,” the president of Democratic Majority for Israel said. The CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of []
- — The Collapse is Real – Lebanon Ceasefire Marks a Historic Strategic Defeat
- at 4/16/26 6:00pmA ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the product of American diplomacy, nor Israeli strategic calculation. It was imposed – largely as a result of sustained Iranian pressure. Washington, Tel Aviv, and their allies – including some []
- — Why the Donald Is Up Shit’s Strait Without a Paddle
- at 4/16/26 5:51pmYou could say the impending stagflationary tsunami serves him right because Trumpy is an arrogant, clueless know-it-all, who basically knows practically nothing at all. At least with regard to the manifold issues of prosperity, constitutional governance and war peace now plaguing the nation. Thus, he was saying quite militantly before February 28th that there []
- — The Impact of the US/Israel-Iran Crisis on Asia
- at 4/15/26 6:00pmAt the peak of the crisis, oil surged to $110–116/bbl. But it remains volatile at $90–100 after ceasefire pause. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) took an even harder hit. Oil price surged more than 50%, but LNG soared as much as 143% a 3-year high. In Asia, supply risk is significant because 20% of global []
- — The Right the Courts Forgot: When Checks Fail, the People Must Have a Voice
- at 4/15/26 6:00pmThe President is committing lives and treasure to war. Congress has not authorized it. And no citizen has any legal standing to object. That is not a constitutional republic operating as designed. It is one operating as though the founding document does not mean what it says. A Distinction the Courts Refuse to Make Not []
- — American Heresy
- at 4/15/26 6:00pmhe makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized []
- — Purge the Neoconservatives
- at 4/15/26 12:20pmReprinted with permission from The Realist Review. There is a saying often repeated in circles critical of the foreign policy establishment: “Whoever gets elected, you always get John McCain”. You’re especially likely to hear it when a president turns into a war hawk after explicitly campaigning against regime change, military adventure, and even entangling alliances. []
- — Modi’s Silence: How India Submits to Washington Taking Everything
- at 4/14/26 6:00pmIn early March, a U.S. submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. The ship, a frigate called the IRIS Dena, had been docked at an Indian port just days earlier – an invited guest at India’s flagship multinational naval exercise. It had participated in a ceremonial parade attended by India’s president, Droupadi Murmu. []
- — Ending Israel’s War on Peace
- at 4/14/26 6:00pmA two-week ceasefire has partially halted the Israel-US war on Iran. The war accomplished precisely nothing that a competent diplomat could not have achieved in an afternoon. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and it is open again now, but with more Iranian control. Meanwhile, the chaos continues. Israel is intent on []
- — Orange Jesus, the Dual SOH Blockade and the Stagflation Ahead
- at 4/14/26 6:00pmWhen it comes to economics, the Donald is truly a knucklehead. So he is now preparing to monkey-hammer the entire $105 trillion global economy by putting a US naval blockade on top of the Iranian blockade. The latter, of course, has already ground normal traffic of 115 ships per day through the Strait of Hormuz []
- — After Iran: Is This the Unraveling of the US-Israeli Order?
- at 4/14/26 6:00pmThe knives are out – and this time, they are not aimed at Tehran, but at Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the ever morally flexible Chris Christie moved quickly. The former New Jersey governor and longtime Republican insider, speaking on CNN, did not merely criticize Trump; he used the moment to indict establishment Republicans []
- — Blockading the Blockade?
- at 4/13/26 6:00pmPresident Trump was presented with a great opportunity on Saturday to take the off-ramp from his war on Iran. After threatening Iran that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump managed to get a two week pause in the war with the intervention of the Pakistani government. A window opened to end this illegal war. []
- — How Many People Have the US and Israel Killed in Iran?
- at 4/13/26 6:00pmAfter the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is more fragile than ever, and now seems likely to give way to a new phase of the war. The ceasefire and talks have failed to end Israel’s devastating attacks on Lebanon or to negotiate international access to the Strait of []
- — Congress’s To-Do List as it Returns to Washington
- at 4/13/26 6:00pmReasonable people wonder if it was a coincidence the escalation (and now fragile ceasefire) of the massively unpopular, senseless, illegal US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran occurred while Congress was away from Capitol Hill for two weeks. Maybe so, but speculation aside, it soon won’t matter, as Congress returns to Washington to resume legislative business []
- — The Art of Failure
- at 4/13/26 6:00pmDonald Trump sold himself to the American people as the ultimate dealmaker during his first run for President. He argued that Obama’s poor negotiating skills had impoverished the American people, and he would Make America Great Again by getting tough with both allies and adversaries. The American people bought the narrative and elected him over []
- — Nuclear Myths Continue To Fuel Neocon Fantasies
- at 4/12/26 6:00pmMark Levin is a fool, but he is hardly the only one.
- — The Market Law of One Price – How the Donald Bombed Energy Consumers, Too
- at 4/12/26 6:00pmThe Donald plunged into one hell of a hornets nest when he took the bait from Bibi Netanyahu and launched an all out “kinetic” war on Iran (as distinguished from the brutal economic war Washington has been waging for decades). But now that the gasoline pump price has breached $4/gallon and is heading higher, he’s []
- — The Lebanon Conspiracy: Massacres, Negotiations, and a New Order
- at 4/12/26 6:00pmIsrael’s latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut moves in step with US-Israeli efforts to isolate Hezbollah and weaken Iran’s negotiating position. In a previous article, we examined the seven messages that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to communicate through []
- — America Needs a Regime Change
- at 4/12/26 6:00pmThe American people need the Iran war like a fish needs a bicycle. For our politicians and permanent bureaucrats, it’s a different story. The political class, adrift after the Soviet Union fell, needed a new animating mythos. Neoconservatives taught them to experience preemptive war against tinpot tyrants as a civilizational crusade. The Middle East – where Americas []
- — Why Trump’s Cuba Plan Won’t Work
- at 4/9/26 6:00pmIt is clear that the US wants to conduct some kind of regime change operation in Cuba, egged on by Republican and Democratic hawks, though polling indicates it is not popular within the US, Cuba, or the international community. Figures like Marco Rubio have said that Cuba will need to open their economy up, in []
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