According to AFRICOM, one strike targeted al-Shabaab and the other targeted ISIS US Africa Command announced on Saturday that its forces launched two more airstrikes in Somalia as the Trump administration continues to bomb the country at a record pace, an air campaign with virtually no media coverage of the conflict in the US. AFRICOM […]
Supply chain constraints are inevitable during wartime. Shippers are actively avoiding the Strait of Hormuz that connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea amid the Iranian nuclear tensions. This is a significant disruption as around 20% of global oil is funneled through this passageway. Oman’s Musandam Peninsula hosts a narrow passageway with Iran that […]
As argued in a report published by Foreign Policy and authored by Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, the coordinated strikes by the US and Israel on Iran’s nuclear facilities are not merely focused on the physical sites or centrifuges, but rather aim at regime change, and this […]
Colonel Nathan McCormack, a Pentagon official, was dismissed from his role at the Joint Chiefs of Staff due to social media posts in which he labeled Israel a “death cult,” and described Netanyahu and his administration as “Judeo-supremacist cronies,” and raised doubts about whether the United States is genuinely acting as a proxy for Israel. […]
QUESTION: I was watching a show that said Iran is peaceful and that a lot of Jews live there who fled Poland in World War II. Is this correct? What does your computer show as the outcome of this Middle East War? VD ANSWER: That statement used to be correct. Approximately 8,500–9,000 Jews remain in Iran (down […]
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” —Marcus Aurelius You must have noticed by now how this Fourth Turning bidness disorders the collective mind. The churning zeitgeist is hard on the nerves, while something strange is birthed […]
Events are moving so rapidly in the Middle East now that it is almost impossible to keep up with it all. We are literally watching history in the making, and our world is going to be a much different place once this is all over. There are some allies of President Trump that are absolutely […]
The American people do not want war. The Iranian people do not want war, nor do the Russians, Ukrainians, or Israelis. Politicians lead nations on paths of death and destruction. The military-industrial complex succeeds, the neocons succeed, governments topple one another in search of power—but the people always lose. King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who defeated […]
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh There is a good […]
A week ago, Pakistan informed the United Nations Security Council during an emergency session held on Friday, 13, that Israel’s attacks on Iranian nuclear and military installations represent a “grave danger and a serious threat” to the peace, security, and stability of the entire region and beyond. In his statements, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan […]