Saying the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration had “fatal flaws,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said the U.S. was preparing “the strongest sanctions in history” if Tehran did not change its destabilizing ways and forever abandon its drive for nuclear weapons. In an address to the Heritage Foundation, Mr. […]
Tehran Eyes Path Ahead After U.S. Withdrawal from Nuclear Pact…
BP’s Withdrawal from Iran’s Oil Fields Signals New U.S. Front…
Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks…
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 […]
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)…
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