Self-evidently, the news has been overwhelmingly focused on Washington’s current endeavor to unload $200 billion of imperial destruction upon Iran and its neighbors around the Persian Gulf. Well, and also upon all other users of petroleum products, LNG, LPGs, nitrogen...
Originally set for March, the high-stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was postponed for about "five or six weeks," due to the U.S. focus on military operations in Iran. The delay suggests that the Trump administration...
On March 23, CBS News published a national poll saying that two-thirds of the American people felt the Iran War was a war of choice rather than one of necessity. The war has grown even less popular since then. I have been to many public events and have talked to very...
“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,” they said. His health condition is “dire.” Many are...
In Seoul, there are quiet conversations about what the war in Iran means beyond the oil shortages and economic crises. The gravest concern is that U.S. action has established a precedent: contested regions where continental and maritime powers collide can be...
Editor's note: This article was written before the announced ceasefire Tuesday night (4/7/26). The war on Iran and the war in Ukraine have also been wars of words. Those words, like the events they are words about, have been war crimes. In the past weeks, the wars of...
If you wanted to indulge in partisan spin you could wax hotly about the Donald’s Easter morning desecration of the office of the presidency. His meld of profanity, blasphemy and bellicose madness all rolled into a single social media post could surely calls forth at...
$1.5 trillion. With a “t.” That’s how much US president Donald Trump wants Congress to appropriate for military (falsely called “defense”) spending in 2027. And that number — there’s no other way to put this — is insane. The only proper date for such a spending...
Included at the end of this article is a simple guide to lobbying your Members of Congress including contact info and a basic script. – Please contact them today! Up to 15,000 of the 50,000 American troops in the Middle East region are being positioned to participate...
Following President Trump’s address to the nation on Wednesday about the Iran War, stock markets suffered losses while oil prices rose. The decline in stocks and increase in oil prices reflected disappointment over President Trump’s failure to articulate a plan to end...
