The city of Tehran is being poisoned by a toxic cloud of smoke from the Israeli bombing of oil depots: Iran’s capital was engulfed in a cloud of toxic smoke that unleashed black rainfall dozens of miles away on Sunday after overnight Israeli strikes on several fuel...
The president and the Israeli prime minister launched a criminal war of aggression yesterday: The U.S. and Israel said they launched an attack on Iran, which retaliated with strikes on Israel and targeted U.S. bases. President Trump confirmed major combat operations...
The Financial Times’ report on the approaching U.S. attack on Iran opens with this line: As oil prices surge and Donald Trump orders one of the largest American military build-ups in the Middle East since the Iraq war, negotiations between the US and Iran increasingly...
Ilan Goldenberg and Nate Swanson make their case for regime change in Iran done the “right” way. This part stood out to me for its sheer incoherence: Washington should also support the Iranian opposition carefully and patiently. Rather than a compliant government...
The president’s insane Greenland obsession won’t die: President Trump called for negotiations for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, saying it was vital to secure North America. The U.S. has never needed to own Greenland to secure North America, and there is nothing to...
Hal Brands makes a bizarre comment in a bad column about a possible attack on Iran: Helping Iranian protesters prevail would show that the pursuit of nuclear weapons endangers rather than strengthens rogue regimes. Bombing Iran in response to a crackdown on protesters...
The president starts off the new year with more threats against Iran: Donald Trump has warned Iran that the US will come to the “rescue” of protesters if Tehran responds violently to the largest nationwide demonstrations the Islamic republic has faced in several...
The president boasted last week about a covert attack on Venezuelan territory that took place earlier this month. The Wall Street Journal reports: Trump’s willingness to disclose the activities of the CIA without naming the agency is far different from the practices...
The military has murdered eight more people on the president’s illegal orders: The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is...
The Trump administration released its National Security Strategy (NSS) last week. There is limited value in trying to make sense of Trump’s foreign policy by looking at strategy documents when the president largely just makes things up as he goes and often makes...
