Tom Engelhardt: America’s Groundhog Day Wars
A look at how long and how deeply the US has been mired in its many wars.
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Emerging Markets Swoon as Turkey Wobbles
A high level look at the upheaval in Turkey.
Read more...Trump’s Illegal Economic Sanctions Against Iran Start Up
With its newest sanctions, the Administration ratchets up its “regime change in Iran” strategy. Not a good look.
Read more...Can Trump, Israel, and Gulf Allies Get Putin to Turn On Iran?
Trump will meet this week with Putin in Helsinki. But despite talk of a “grand bargain” that enlists Russia in helping the US-Israel-Saudi-UAE front against Iran, don’t expect it to happen, says professor Rami Khouri in this Real News Network interview.
Read more...Iran Sanctions Are Different This Time
The Trump administration is trying to replicate the Obama-era Iran strategy of shutting down Iranian oil exports as a way to pressure the regime into making a series of concessions. But there are several reasons why Trump may not succeed.
Read more...Iran Threatens To Close the Strait of Hormuz
Yves here. A map of the Strait of Hormuz and environs seemed a useful addition. The danger, as the article insinuates, is that if things got that far, a conflict over the Strait of Hormuz would escalate into a full-scale conflagration. By Dr. Cyril Widdershoven, a long-time observer of the global energy market. Presently, he […]
Read more...Ilargi: Migration Blowback
On misdirected anger over migration policies.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Is Anti-War Fever Building in the U.S.?
Will the American public make politicians address the cost, immorality, and futility of our war machine?
Read more...Paul Jay on Trump’s Iran War Agenda and Liberals’ Korea Peace Panic
The Real News Network’s Paul Jay contends that Trump and his team are focused on Iran as they carry out the Project for a New American Century plan.
Read more...The War Nerd: Anglo-American Media’s Complicity in Yemen’s Genocide
Yemen starves….and why the Western media looks the other way.
Read more...Israel and Palestine: A Story of Modern Colonialism
The foundations of Israel are rooted in a colonial project that has modernized its face but continues to subject Palestinians to military occupation, land dispossession and unequal rights.
Read more...There’s No Getting Around Iranian Sanctions
A discussion of the how Europe’s efforts to buck the US sanctions against Iran may play out.
Read more...Ilargi: Iran – Let’s (Not) Make a Deal
And about that Iran deal….an elephant in the room the media and punditry are conveniently ignoring.
Read more...Congress Offers Bipartisan Blank Warmaking Check to Donald Trump
Major Danny Sjursen chronicles the sorry history of Congress ceding its check on war-making powers.
Read more...China’s Bid To Assist Assad In Syrian Reconstruction Is About Security and Profit
China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
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