Last week, while watching Benjamin Netanyahu unveil secret information that supposedly proved that Iran is deceiving the world about its nuclear-weapons program, I had a flashback. It was to February 5, 2003, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell unveiled secret information that supposedly proved that Iraq was deceiving the world about its nuclear, chemical, and […]
BP’s Withdrawal from Iran’s Oil Fields Signals New U.S. Front…
Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks…
The Most Underappreciated Story in the Oil Market…
The world is currently watching the growing tensions in the Middle East, and oil market analysts are guesstimating just how much Iranian oil supply the renewed U.S. sanctions could stifle. Yet, the biggest story in oil markets this year may well take place far from the much-publicized tensions in the Middle East – namely China’s […]
Not Sure What to Make of This: Iraq’s International Federal Police Confiscate 31 Boxes Containing Hundreds of Thousands of U.S. Dollars in Route from Iran to Iraq…
Maverick Cleric’s Election Upset Could Rattle U.S. – Iraq Relations…
The surprisingly strong showing of a ticket backed by maverick cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraqi elections over the weekend will force U.S. officials to recalculate how best to pursue American interests in the region at an especially sensitive moment. Sadr is a ferocious critic of American policies in the Middle East, and his unexpected electoral […]
Congress Offers a Bipartisan Blank Check to Trump for War…
It may be too late. The president of the United States is now a veritable autocrat in the realm of foreign policy. He has been since at least 1945, when the last congressionally declared war finally ended. Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (among other places) were all […]
Turning on Russia by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould (Part 1/2)…
The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel last September reported that, “Stanley Fischer, the 73–year-old vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, is familiar with the decline of the world’s rich. He spent his childhood and youth in the British protectorate of Rhodesia… before going to London in the early 1960s for his university studies. There, he […]
How the Neocons Shaped America’s Russia Phobia by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould (Part 2/2)…
Thousands of U.S. Troops Amass on Syria’s Border in Jordan for Military Drill…
In what can only be described as a remarkable coincidence, thousands of U.S. Marines arrived in Jordan at around the same time the U.S., U.K., and France were organizing a direct military strike on Jordan’s neighbor, Syria. According to the Marine Corps Times, nearly 3,600 U.S. troops, including roughly 1,800 Marines with the 26th Marine […]
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