Ok, right up front I want to make it clear that this post is simply an extended riff on the same theme I have been fixed upon in my three previous offerings. So, if a bit of repetition annoys you, feel free to just ignore the following somewhat rambling observations –...
Iran
Trump: ‘Very Bad Things are Going to Happen.’ Netanyahu Wants the U.S. to Destroy Iran.
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
In my article, “The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the U.S. Economy,” I reminded readers of how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been behind the push for America to destroy Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Iran. I reviewed the severe...
Three Months In, Trump Already a ‘Wartime’ President
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 31, 2025 | The Liberty Report
The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the US Economy
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel is currently in turmoil, marked by widespread protests demanding Netanyahu's resignation. Critics accuse him of prolonging war for political gain, while his dismissal of top security officials and ongoing attacks on the judiciary have further intensified the...
Trump and Putin Begin Addressing Cumulated Geo-strategic Debris… Amidst Trump’s Ultimatum to Iran
by Alastair Crooke | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The phone call on 18 March between Presidents Trump and Putin has happened. It was a success, insofar as it allowed both sides to label the result as “positive.” And it did not lead to a breakdown (by virtue of the smallest of concessions from Putin – an energy...
Scorch Marks in the Sand
by William Schryver | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS ... I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Oh,...
Trump Hypes up Tensions with Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The US...
Netanyahu To Rubio: Let’s ‘Finish the Job’ Against Iran
by Tyler Durden | Feb 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, after which they gave a joint address before reporters in Jerusalem. This is Rubio's first Middle East visit since becoming America's top diplomat. He...
Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden...
Will Marco Rubio Be Trump’s Blinken?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 15, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Trump, Iran and the Obama Strategic Blueprint
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing – so the mechanics of the Middle East lie similarly exposed and broken. All the region is in play – Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Iran. The...
Sanctions – Trump’s Only Old/New Iran Policies
by Moon of Alabama | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
I had missed this Friday news item on Iran: Trump's Ukraine envoy says world must reinstate 'maximum pressure' on Iran PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The world must return to a policy of 'maximum pressure' against Iran to turn it into a more democratic country, U.S....
Iran: America’s Next War Of Choice
by Douglas Macgregor, James Carden | Dec 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Peace is not at hand in the Middle East, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu remains determined to expand the war. Syria’s de facto partition into Israeli and Turkish territories is the prelude to wider war with Iran. As the Times of Israel reported last week, the...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lies
by Adam Dick | Dec 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving. That joke is apropos for the new English language video monologue that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released Thursday, and which Netanyahu said in his first words spoken is directed to the...
Winners and losers in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood...
Erdogan’s Idlib Shock Shadows ‘Kursk’
by Alastair Crooke | Dec 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Doomsters” is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the “dark side to events” (a vice quite prevalent during the Soviet era). Marat Khairullin, a highly respected Russian military analyst, says, “Today, a network of mercenary...
The Counterinsurgency is ‘On’ – Against Trump’s ‘Storm’
by Alastair Crooke | Nov 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
“The Deep State whispered to Trump: “You cannot withstand the storm.” Trump whispered back: “I am the storm.” The war is on. The Deep State has launched a war of disruption to disable Trump’s “storm.” Last week’s ATACM strike was but one part to an inter-agency...
Trump and the Storm of the Century
by Douglas Macgregor | Nov 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
The fear in many nations’ capitals is that President Donald Trump’s return to Washington might make Israel feel more confident in attacking Iran. According to Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, “There is no world leader Trump...
If Trump Didn’t Send Musk to Talk with the Iranians…He Should!
by Ron Paul | Nov 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
One of the most encouraging and promising things President-elect Trump said in his post-election acceptance speech was, “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars…” We all understand that campaign promises often have a short shelf life after the election is...
Has Trump Derailed a Deep State Plot to Attack Iran?
by Larry C. Johnson | Nov 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
I believe that the FBI’s announcement on November 8 — three days after Trump’s victory — of an alleged Iranian plot to kill an Iranian American journalist was part of an intelligence information operation to manufacture a casus belli to attack Iran. I wrote...
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