via Archive.ph excerpts below- read at link A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere. Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. […]
Globe and Mail via archive.ph Interesting author as well John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Donald Trump said he’d blow up Kharg Island. He may have blown up the bond market instead. […]
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/meeting-between-putin-us-envoys-concludes-in-moscow/4048447 A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to discuss the Ukraine conflict concluded in Moscow on Saturday. Russian media outlets, including state news agency RIA, said Witkoff and Kushner departed the Kremlin after approximately three hours of negotiations. Neither side immediately commented on the outcome of […]
Ottawa citizen David Pugliese is an award-winning journalist covering Canadian Forces and military issues in Canada A judge has ordered the release of federal records on an American initiative to settle Nazi war criminals in Canada after ruling there is no evidence that making the files public would harm relations between the two nations. The […]
U.S. Central Command launched a wave of strikes against Iran on Sept. 1, and President Donald Trump said forces are “prepared to do another one” as Iran launched retaliatory attacks Sept. 2. Speaking in the Oval Office on Sept. 2, Trump said he ended the roughly month long pause in hostilities because of sea mines. […]
Original anti war.com Hattip Chaos Cat Related Content; from 2025 below Some excerpts The base at Abu al-Duhur had been dead for thirteen years. Wrecked in the Syrian war, out of service since 2012, its runways cratered and its hangars stripped, it sat in Idlib province about 60 kilometers from the Turkish border, useful to […]
It’s coming. I told you all about it back in 2013.Remember Cyprus? Remember no more bailouts?Just bail ins or “haircuts” Fresh labels don’t change the agenda.And the Agenda is stealing your money, my money, everybody’s money.Or, if you prefer, the scum at the top will suck up all the money from below. It will all be […]
Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran. The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.
Fortune magazine via Archive.ph Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent began the week vowing an “economic onslaught” against Iran and its trading partners in a fresh bid to end the war. By the week’s end, countries with ties to Tehran had so far shrugged off the threat and analysts were left underwhelmed by the US actions. China, […]
Interesting that Ukraine continues to attack Turkish ships while Turkey’s NATO “allies” stay silent. Turkish Minute Turkey summoned Ukraine’s ambassador on Saturday over attacks this week on a Turkish vessel and a second ship sent to tow it in the Black Sea, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. The attacks took place on Wednesday and Thursday, […]