The failure of the United States and Israel to defeat Iran after nearly 40 days of continuous bombing, utilizing the full conventional offensive potential of two of the world’s largest and most modern air forces, is more than merely a military humiliation. The defeat of American-Israeli hegemon by Iran…
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald worry Congress will reauthorize a controversial intelligence tool. For nearly two decades, Congress has obediently renewed one of the federal government’s most expansive and unconstitutional domestic surveillance authorities, typically with total bipartisan enthusiasm, little floor debate, and even less public attention. Last Thursday morning,…
Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war,Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;Th’ Angel of Fate turns them with mighty hands,And casts them out upon the darken’d earth!Prepare, prepare!— William Blake, “A War Song to Englishmen” (1783) The world is nothing but a smoking, vaporized ruin. To…
According to research at Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs, Washington’s 21st century wars in behalf of the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel have cost American taxpayers about 10 trillion dollars. Twenty-five percent of the US national debt, the interest cost of which is approaching one trillion…
The war of choice on Iran by the US is not only redefining geopolitics but also interfering with, destabilizing, and reorienting what The Cradle described in June 2022 as The War of Economic Connectivity Corridors; arguably the key geoeconomic paradigm of Eurasian integration in the 21st century. From east to…
When creating a short list of nefarious NGOs that manipulate government policy and socially engineer public opinion, the Southern Poverty Law Center is usually near the top. The group has been fading in influence due to excessive exposure, with new and less visible left wing NGOs taking it’s place. …
Keir Starmer is a man without integrity, without principle, without loyalty, without honesty. We could add more – charisma, competence – but the point is simpler than that: there is nothing to recommend him, or his premiership. He is a void. A political non-entity. A frontman – nothing more…
I’ve been harping on this theme for a while. In particular, I’ve been arguing that, at this point, the disaster is baked in. The only question is, How bad does it get if Trump continues his crazy war? This is especially pertinent because Iran has made it clear that…
Nothing significant is expected to change, and the symbolism of a Russian-friendly leader returning to power just as another in Hungary was deposed balances out the outcome of these two “battles”. Former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria coalition won an astounding 44.7% of the vote in Sunday’s latest…
Here is a salient place to start regarding the economic impact of the Donald’s misbegotten war on Iran: To wit, approximately 7 billion ton-miles of freight moves by truck each and every day in the USA, which heavy truck fleet consumes upwards of 2.9 million barrels per day (mb/d) of diesel fuel. Alas,…
