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Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran Europe now faces its ultimate ideological fork-in-the-road, which it has thus far ignored but can no longer ignore: They need to decide whether they seek a world of nations that each is sovereign over its own territory but over no other (and this would not […]
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for Syria
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for Syria A new feature from Iran gives a totally different perspective of the war raging in Syria than Western audiences are used to, explains Rick Sterling. West against East on the Syrian battle-field, in the newspapers and now on film: A new, full-length action movie, titled “Damascus Time,” […]
What’s Wrong With the United States?
What’s Wrong With the United States? Photo source jqpubliq | CC BY 2.0 Despite the myth perpetrated by United States spokespersons, the country is not, and never has been, a beacon of peace and freedom, the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’, or a democracy that is the envy of the […]
Oil Jumps Above $80 For The First Time Since Nov. 2014
Oil Jumps Above $80 For The First Time Since Nov. 2014 Two weeks after Saudi Arabia said it was targeting $80/bbl oil, this morning Riyadh got its wishes early when Brent hit the Saudi target, jumping as much as 1% to $80.18, following the latest drop in U.S. crude inventories and as traders continued to […]
DOLLAR COLLAPSE COMING: EU To DITCH The US Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil
DOLLAR COLLAPSE COMING: EU To DITCH The US Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil The dollar’s collapse is nearing. The European Union is planning to switch its payments to the Euro for its oil purchases from Iran, eliminating United States dollar transactions. Just one more nail to the US dollar’s coffin. Its collapse is all but […]
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran Europe now faces its ultimate ideological fork-in-the-road, which it has thus far ignored but can no longer ignore: They need to decide whether they seek a world of nations that each is sovereign over its own territory but over no other (and this would not […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Road to Hell in the Middle East
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Road to Hell in the Middle East It’s already long forgotten here, but the theocratic regime in Iran was really our baby. After all, in 1953, the CIA and British intelligence engineered a coup to replace a democratic government in Iran with the autocratic Shah and so gave Iranians just what […]
Lousy Deals and Turning Wheels
Lousy Deals and Turning Wheels In that long ago yesteryear of 1979, before blogging, tweeting, twerking, hacking, posting, ghosting, doxing, and all the other Internet-enabled compulsions of the present day, a gang of inflamed young men, said to be students, invaded the US embassy compound in Teheran and took fifty-two American embassy personnel hostage — […]
Iran Sanctions Threaten The Petrodollar
Iran Sanctions Threaten The Petrodollar One country must be quite pleased with the prospect of new U.S. economic sanctions against Iran’s oil industry, and this country is the largest oil importer in the world, and is Iran’s largest single oil client. When China launched its long-awaited yuan-priced oil futures last month, it did so as […]
Iran And Syria: Why Regime Change In One Means Regime Change In Both
Iran And Syria: Why Regime Change In One Means Regime Change In Both Probably the weirdest, dumbest, most annoying thing about writing on US foreign policy right now is the fact that regime change in Iran and regime change in Syria have been falsely spun into the illusion of two separate issues along partisan lines. People […]
Weekly Commentary: Disequilibrium
Weekly Commentary: Disequilibrium Much to the consternation of our allies, President Trump withdraws from the Iran nuclear deal. WTI crude adds another 1.5% (up 17% y-t-d) this week to the high since November 2014. Iran and Israel moved closer to direct military confrontation. With even 40% rates unable to staunch the bleeding, a stunned Argentine […]
Blowout Week 228
Blowout Week 228 The big news this week is Trump’s re-imposition of sanctions on Iran, which will cut Iran’s oil production to the point where, combined with cratering oil production from Venezuela, it could cause another oil price spike. We follow with our usual mix – more on Iran, Venezuela and OPEC; oil in Norway; […]
Let’s (Not) Make a Deal
Let’s (Not) Make a Deal James McNeill Whistler Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket 1875 Dr. D again. And wait, that deal was never even -legally- signed? Dr. D: I know the U.S. hasn’t followed the law in 100 years, but let’s review the Iran Deal. A “Deal” with a foreign nation is […]
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War Nearly everyone loses by President Donald Trump’s decision on Tuesday to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran’s nuclear energy program and to reinstate the “highest level” of sanctions while also threatening secondary sanctions on […]
The Coming War Against Iran
The Coming War Against Iran We’ve been through this before: the trumped-up threat from Iraq based on false evidence in 2003 is the harrowingly similar model to what is emerging for Iran in 2018, argues John Kiriakou. I spent nearly 15 years in the CIA. I like to think that I learned something there. I […]
