Geopolitics
DropSite News – Iran Rejects Temporary Ceasefire, Says It Has Already Laid Out Terms for Agreement
Insightful report on where the diplomatic situation is at, as Trump’s deadline nears. Read the article HERE.
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Geopolitics
AP – Israel hits Iranian petrochemical plant in massive gas field as Trump deadline approaches
Israel is desperate for even more escalation, they want to turn the Gulf into a massive inferno. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Al Jazeera – Has Trump confirmed Iran’s claim that protesters were US-armed?
Trump has given the game away. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Chris Bambery – The US has scuppered multiple opportunities to do a deal with Iran
Important context to understand the long history of US diplomatic missed opportunities which helped bring us to this disastrous point. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator. His books include A People’s History of Scotland and The […]
Geopolitics
Hossam Shaker – How bankers, bureaucrats and bystanders sustain Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Those that commit genocide today usually do so at a step or two removed from their victims. That adds a new layer of inhumanity to atrocities. Hossam Shaker is a journalist and an author who […]
Energy
Luca Manes – A Toxic Dependency: Europe’s Growing Reliance on US Gas
Europe is increasingly dependent on American LNG, but what gets little discussed is the damage this LNG production is doing to the health of Americans and the environment they live in. Luca Manes is an Italian […]
Geopolitics
TRT World – After Spain, US gets another ‘no’ as Italy denies American aircraft permission to use its base
Are European countries belatedly growing a spine? Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Al Jazeera – What’s Israel’s death penalty law that only applies to Palestinians?
If you didn’t know it already, Israel is a Jewish supremacist state. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Michael Hudson, Ben Norton – The oil shock that could break the global financial system
It’s difficult to overestimate the extent to which this war is re-making the world order. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host, The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Ben Norton is editor of the […]
Geopolitics
Chris Hedges – Making the Film ‘Palestine 36’ (w/ director Annemarie Jacir)
A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle […]