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With Shaky Reasoning, Trump Weighs Limited Initial Strike On Iran To Force A Deal

With Shaky Reasoning, Trump Weighs Limited Initial Strike On Iran To Force A Deal

Having amassed the heaviest US air power in the Middle East since the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion, President Trump is now considering an initial, limited s…

VW’s 20% Cost-Cutting Plan Exposes Germany’s Industrial Crisis

VW’s 20% Cost-Cutting Plan Exposes Germany’s Industrial Crisis

Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
For too long, Germany’s economy has watched political developments from the sidelines – perhaps far too long. The cost pressures triggered by the ener…

Supertanker Rates Soar As War Fears Put Strait Of Hormuz Chokepoint At Risk

Supertanker Rates Soar As War Fears Put Strait Of Hormuz Chokepoint At Risk

Brent crude futures rose to a six-month high by the end of the week, with prices trading above $71 a barrel (charts here). President Trump said Tehran has 10 to 15…

German Court Orders X To Hand Over Data To NGOs Searching For Election ‘Disinformation Or Foreign Interference’

German Court Orders X To Hand Over Data To NGOs Searching For Election ‘Disinformation Or Foreign Interference’

Via Remix News,

A Berlin appeals court has legally compelled Elon Musk’s social network X, formerly Twitter, to provide two Ge…

Spot The Odd One Out: US Defense Spending By President

Spot The Odd One Out: US Defense Spending By President

Since 1997, U.S. defense spending has moved through multiple cycles, but the long-term trajectory is upward.

This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, tracks National Defens…

Guyana Fast-Tracks Gas Expansion As Oil Cash Piles Up

Guyana Fast-Tracks Gas Expansion As Oil Cash Piles Up

Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com,

Guyana’s sights are set much higher than just being the new oil darling of the Western hemisphere. It wants to be the gas darling too. 

US Plans Sprawling Base For 5,000 International Troops In Southern Gaza

US Plans Sprawling Base For 5,000 International Troops In Southern Gaza

“The Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly,” Trump claimed in Thursday remarks during the inaugural mee…

Just When You Thought The BBC Couldn’t Get Any More Repugnant…

Just When You Thought The BBC Couldn’t Get Any More Repugnant…

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

The BBC is under fire for a headline that branded 23-year-old conservative student Quentin Deranque as a “far-right student” aft…

Danish Navy Intercepts, Detains Iran-Flagged Cargo Ship

Danish Navy Intercepts, Detains Iran-Flagged Cargo Ship

Denmark detained a container vessel previously blacklisted by Washington under last year’s sweeping Iran sanctions on Thursday, amid suspicions it was operating under a false flag.

T…

Escobar: Munich (In)Security Conference Targets Re-Colonization Of The Global South

Escobar: Munich (In)Security Conference Targets Re-Colonization Of The Global South

Authored by Pepe Escobar,

The path towards 5th Generation War will accelerate. We are entering the next stage of an “omnipresent battlefield.”

No one e…