Ras Laffan burns, Hormuz chokes, and Trump’s envoy tells Europe to sign a $750 billion energy pact or lose its lifeline. Documents show this “shock” was structurally prepared in advance. Trump did not need to say the quiet part out loud. His ambassador did it for him. As Europe reeled from the […]
President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States has engaged in “very strong talks” with Iran and reached “major points of agreement” that could end the war, which Iranian officials have firmly denied.He then claimed that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spoke with a leader in the Iranian regime […]
It is being reported that Trump has delivered an ultimatum to the Gulf States that “If you want the war to continue – 5 trillion dollars. If you want it to end – 2.5 trillion dollars.” Omani journalist and international relations researcher Salem Al-Jahuri, on BBC Arabic, confirms reports of […]
Forced into a humiliating U-turn amid a potential global economic meltdown, the Trump administration announced today that it may remove sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the move to free up 140 million barrels of oil was aimed at preventing China […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing for a potential nuclear disaster as U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities intensify, raising fears of radioactive fallout and long-term health consequences. Hanan Balkhy, WHO’s regional director for the eastern Mediterranean, warned that a nuclear incident—whether from an attack on a reactor or […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire “My God, we wouldn’t continue our guarantee of West Germany if they started manufacturing nuclear weapons, which is really of vital importance to us compared to our position in Israel.”President John F Kennedy, on Israeli nuclear ambitions, 1963(Source: National Security Archive – “Battle of the Letters, 1963” and […]
What we are witnessing in Cuba right now is the same failed policy recycled once again, dressed up under a different administration, with the same predictable outcome. The power grid collapsed, millions were left in the dark, food supply chains broke down, and the government blamed the United States while […]
Editor’s Note: Doug is a longtime member of a dinner club in Buenos Aires called The Round Table. The over 100 years old group is composed of eight Argentines, eight Englishmen, and eight Americans. Every month, one of them gives a paper on a subject they’re knowledgeable about and, after discussion, […]
ince the US/Israel began their war – sorry, their “targeted, limited, combat operation” – hard facts have been hard to come by. In a more than usually cloudy combat narrative, we’ve been told that Iran is winning AND losing, depending who you ask. It’s a regime change war, but also it isn’t. […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Iran did not formally close the Strait of Hormuz, but through the IRGC Navy and its Naval Basij, it has built a distributed maritime deterrent capable of making insurers, shippers, and foreign militaries behave as if the old freedom of passage is already gone. Iran says […]