Economics
Month: July 2026
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye: US launches renewed strikes on Iran as ceasefire collapses
Tehran targeted several US bases and infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait, while Washington said it hit around 90 targets across Iran Read Article HERE Photo: Screengrab – Bahrain this morning
Geopolitics
Larry C. Johnson: Trump Declares MoU With Iran is Dead
The drama over the Strait of Hormuz escalated on Wednesday with Donald Trump declaring the MoU with Iran is dead and vowed more attacks on Iran. Trump continues to insist that Iran has no right […]
Economics
German Foreign Policy: EU/China – A sign of weakness
EU postpones resolution on trade dispute with Beijing until October and backs off punitive tariffs. Simulation by experts of an escalation confirms that China would win Read Article HERE Photo: Wikipedia
Economics
The Cradle: Saudi Arabia blocking payments to Emirati banks
The two Gulf states have been embroiled in a rivalry for several years, particularly in Yemen and over the situation in Sudan Read Article HERE
Geopolitics
Alastair Crooke – MoU stacked in holding pattern as U.S. pivots to Plan ‘B’
With Hormuz still squeezed and White House factions at war, who’s really playing whom? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation […]
Geopolitics
Francesca Albanese, Chris Hedges – ‘When the World Sleeps’
United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her new book, “When the World Sleeps”. Transcript Chris Hedges: Francesca Albanese, the […]
Geopolitics
Aurelien – Because We Say So…Full of “beliefs”, empty of anything else.
The West has killed its own soul and is not even aware of it Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week, we looked at some of the more practical and structural […]
EU politics
Ewald Engelen – How critical thinking stops when a London-based thinktank talks – about the wondrous resurrection of the European dronescare
How corprations and governments give their lobbying and influence an aura of respectability by using think tanks as a front and how this is supported by corporate and state media Ewald Engelen is Professor of […]
Geopolitics
Politico – Rutte to NATO: Admit it — Trump was right
These are our European overlords – buffoons that have little understanding of the world and are happy for us to be paying through the nose for American weapons, and whom we cannot kick out at […]