Iran
Trump Got Played by Israel… And the Game Continues
Here is the non-news news flash up front — The alleged ceasefire between the United States and Iran is kaput. While there has been no official announcement stipulating that it is over, trust me, it is over. The copium in the Trump administration in...
America Last: War Abroad, Tyranny at Home—and the Theft of a Nation
“We’re fighting wars, we can’t take care of … daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”—President Donald J. Trump Every bomb dropped abroad is a bill sent home. Every war waged in the name...
Nuclear Myths Continue to Fuel Neocon Fantasies
In a recent televised rant on the Fox News Channel, the neoconservative publicist Mark Levin made the eye-opening claim that the current US-Israeli War on Iran is “every bit as important as World War Two.” Still more, according to Levin, the specter of an Iranian...
Can Trump Rein In Israel, Or Will Iran War Pause Go Up In Smoke?
Statement of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on the Two-Week Ceasefire and Negotiation Conditions
If you think the war is over, think again. Iran has not agreed to a ceasefire. They have agreed to stop retaliating as long as Israel and the US stop their attacks. So that ball is in the West’s corner. Despite the White House claim that the Strait of Hormuz is now...
Did Trump Just Threaten To Nuke Iran?
Claiming Victory, Whilst admitting Defeat: There is No Easy Way to Open Hormuz
Bloomberg: “It is arguably Iran that has secured the most significant strategic victory … There is every sign that Tehran’s ability to control the Strait is increasing” The defeats which the West keeps on having “[are] above all … intellectual.” And “not being able to...
Donald Trump’s ‘Bay of Pigs’?
What the Hell Happened with the Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran?
Iran’s air defense system succeeded on Friday, April 3, in downing a US F-15E over Iran. There is some dispute and confusion about the exact location (more about that later). The pilot and the WSO (i.e., Weapons System Officer) both successfully ejected but were...
Trump’s Easter Ultimatum: Open the (Expletive) Strait or Else
It was a few minutes past five in the morning on Easter Sunday, April 5 when President Trump, with all the élan of a drunken sailor suffering from coprolalia, mounted his social media and posted the following: Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all...
Trump Talks War for Easter Week
This past week was what many Christians regard as Holy Week, starting with celebration of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday; mourning Christ’s crucifixion and death on Good Friday; continuing with prayer and church services on Holy Saturday; and concluding...
Trump and the Phantom Dead of Iran
Not long ago, Trump and crew claimed the evil mullahs in Iran slaughtered 30,000 of their own citizens. Since that time, there has been a revision. Now Trump insists the number is 45,000. Larger numbers look better when it is the only fabrication that might be...
President Trump Admits the Iran War Offers No Oil-related Benefit for Americans
In his Wednesday evening speech to announce to the American people the continuation and potential intensification of his war against Iran, President Donald Trump conceded that as far as oil is concerned the war will bring no benefit for Americans. Instead, he said he...
Are There, or Will There Be, US Negotiations with Iran?
The short answer is “no.” Trump was confabulating when he said that he was already in negotiations with “important” Iranians. There is a back history to the US’ “negotiations narrative.” In earlier rounds of “negotiations” centred on the Ukraine conflict, Trump...
Trump Big Iran Announcement Tonight – Double Down Or Walk Away?
The War as the Trade
WSJ: UAE preparing to formally enter the war, the first Gulf state to become a combatant lobbying for a UN Security Council resolution authorising force to open the Strait of Hormuz. Emirati diplomats racing across Washington, Brussels and Tokyo. Abu Dhabi wants US...
A War No One Can Afford
Speaking as a former harbor master, operator of cargo ships, and a military specialist on the Mideast, the current war in Iran is a fool’s errand. The much-ballyhooed Strait of Hormuz is only 33 odd kilometers wide and averages only 220 meters deep. It’s a...
Will Sen. Rand Paul Bring Iran War Opposition into the 2028 Republican Presidential Primary?
Many of the often talked about potential Republican candidates to succeed Donald Trump in the presidency are supporters of Trump’s war against Iran. This includes two people at the top of many lists who are among the Trump administration’s most vocal Iran War...
A Land Invasion Of Iran?
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