Europe’s oil shock was sold as a tragic consequence of the war on Iran and chaos in the Strait of Hormuz. The story was simple. Blame Tehran, blame geography, tell Europeans there was no choice but to pay. Yet official documents quietly admit that the EU’s direct dependence on Hormuz is limited and that […]
Gaza did not become a laboratory of expulsion overnight. It was turned into one by planners, brokers, generals, travel agents, and politicians who looked at a trapped Palestinian population and saw not families rooted in a homeland, but a demographic obstacle to be thinned, rerouted, and erased. The history is […]
This week, Israel launched an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, prompting an Iranian retaliatory attack against Israel’s secretive nuclear facility in Dimona. At the same time, reports began circulating in US media claiming the Iranians fired two ICBM’s at the US base Diego Garcia located in the southern Indian Ocean, […]
This report is not a neutral wargame. Look at it as a forensic analysis of a war that is already illegal, already underway, and already being shaped by the kind of desperation that only great empires show when they feel their grip on the world slipping. The US‑led bombing campaign […]
For weeks, Western media have been selling audiences a familiar fantasy. Viewers are told the United States is preparing a decisive “battle for the Strait of Hormuz” in which elite Marines, airborne units and special forces (SOF) will smash Iranian defenses, escort tankers through and restore “freedom of navigation.” The […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is the US Empire finally collapsing? While all eye are on the Trump and Israel’s war on Iran, a shift in the global order is happening right before our eyes. Discover how a rapidly changing global order, BRICS, and powerful new alliances are dismantling Western hegemony before our eyes. In this extended […]
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 […]
“We have lost control of the seas to a nation without a navy, using pre-World War I weapons, laid by vessels that were utilized at the time of the birth of Christ.” Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, who wrote these words, learned this the hard way at Wonsan Harbour in 1950, when he realised the US […]