With the demise of diplomacy, the conflict has moved from the realm of strategic calculus and realism into one of psychological conditioning. Thursday’s diplomatic negotiations (26 Feb) – for all the panglossian noise from mediators and negotiators – confirmed the essential impasse. The U.S. demands presented to…
Ten hours. That’s what it took for Iran to: put the Empire of Chaos, Plunder and Permanent Strikes under siege all across the Gulf. bomb 27 major US military bases, relentlessly – inflicting extensive damage. determine that all US and Israeli assets and interests in West Asia are…
Increasingly over the decades, British politicians have spewed anti-white, anti-male and anti-British vitriol. In a video message at the end of last year, Rupert Lowe, Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth and founder of Restore Britain, took a refreshingly different tack. “To the young white men who…
President Donald Trump’s war with Iran is widely unpopular with the American people. According to a Reuters poll conducted on Sunday, only 27% of Americans support the US attacking Iran. 43% of Americans oppose the war. Trump ordered the war on Iran on Saturday morning. The…
Former US House Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday urged Vice President JD Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to speak out against the US war against Iran, citing their previous opposition to a conflict with the Islamic Republic. “[Vance] and [Gabbard] you both need…
The Iran intervention could well turn into an open-ended misadventure. n the wake of the 1991 Gulf War victory, then-President George H.W. Bush rode on a wave of public opinion that would not carry him to reelection. Celebrating the recent victory in Kuwait, he uttered one of…
The warnings came, but most chose to ignore them, convinced that Trump was bluffing and using the military threat as a bargaining chip, typical of a bully with little or no diplomatic ingenuity. Very few commentators, including the author, could truly believe that Trump would be foolish enough…
The failure of Putin and Xi to stand up for their countries in the face of Washington’s aggression has convinced Trump that he can act with impunity anywhere in the world. Remember, Trump said words to the effect that he can do whatever he wants. Trumps words reminded me…
Bibi Netanyahu has again salvaged his prime ministership, and the hapless Donald Trump hopes the markets won’t move too badly this week. After all, his advisors and partners told him this would be easy, and good for his presidency. A cakewalk, if you will. Israel will do the…
The FBI watches law-abiding Americans with few limits and may share its dirty dossiers with whomever it chooses using a little-known investigative tool called “assessments,” records obtained by Racket News show. The G-Men often fish for criminal behavior for years — much longer than the FBI has…
