6+ hour, 16+ min ago   (259+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (235+ words) Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Iran launches newly acquired precision missiles towards US warships in the Persian Gulf as the Trump administration’s ‘Economic D-Day’ backfires tremendously. In this Monday’s episode of The Target Stream Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh takes a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (351+ words) President Donald Trump was accused over the weekend of exploiting an energy crisis of his own creation to make the case for what he dubiously characterized as “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela, a country that the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (610+ words) scheerpost.com Pakistan’s Fresh Proposals to End U.S.-Iran Conflict Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir’s trip to Iran on August 24 has ignited new hope for a negotiated end to the the ongoing conflict in the Middle…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1218+ words) This article was originally published by Truthout Amid the destabilization and devastation caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, oil executives are raking in billions. While the U.S. war on Iran is broadly unpopular in the U.S, including among a growing…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1165+ words) Dan Steinbock Informed Comment Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not ignorance of the risks, but the political decision in Washington and Tel Aviv to gamble that coercive military…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (734+ words) I have been stunned by the number of officials from a wide variety of countries who, while hardly favoring Iran or feeling much empathy for the Islamic Republic, have privately expressed to me a huge sigh of relief over Tehran’s…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (256+ words) US President Donald Trump has been adamant that the Strait of Hormuz is open, issuing statements that run contrary to the reality imposed over the strategic waterway. Iranian missiles and drones have continued to take out tankers that seek to…...

4+ week, 15+ hour ago   (805+ words) scheerpost.com Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on Iran Is Bringing Down the American Empire “I don’t think we live in a functioning democracy—and that has been true for some time.” Hedges Six months into the disastrous U.S.-Israeli…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (392+ words) In yet another remark that triggered alarm around the world, President Donald Trump said Friday that he planned to declare the Strait of Hormuz—which Iran has blockaded for much of the past five months over his and Israel’s illegal…...