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As the two-week ceasefire in the Iran War entered its third day Friday, it remained unclear whether the Iranian delegation would head to Islamabad for scheduled talks with the United States. The uncertainty comes after Israel launched its largest bombing campaign yet against Lebanon. The 10-point plan to end the war, proposed by Iran and accepted by President Donald Trump Tuesday, included an end to all Israeli strikes against Lebanon. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Friday that the Islamabad talks would not proceed unless Washington halted Israeli strikes on Lebanon. The spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said that “any talks are conditional upon…
The absolute state of America in its late-stage empire era is perfectly illustrated by the weekly, sometimes daily, cultural event of checking social media to see what unhinged post the president has left for us this time. This week’s installment, as the latest deadline issued to the Iranians for total capitulation to American and Israeli demands, reads like an open confession to international courts of war crimes. Thankfully, like a number of deadlines before, it passed without further escalation. On the contrary, Donald Trump announced yet another delay to potential attacks on Iranian energy to accompany a two-week ceasefire. While…
When Labour was restored to government in July 2024 after nearly a decade and a half in the political wilderness, Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised that economic growth would be his government’s number one priority. Chancellor Rachel Reeves conducted seminars with prominent business figures, insisting that Labour understood that businesses must make profits to survive and invest. Starmer said “wealth creation” was Labour’s “defining purpose”, and private sector investment would be the “engine of growth and productivity”. Many businesses believed him. The Confederation of British Industry welcomed this social democratic party’s pragmatic approach. They were to be disappointed. The accommodation…
The graphic above illustrates the RN during WWII. The Royal Navy today by the numbers: Carriers: 2 Available: none (a littoral ship that has no blue water capability) Frigates: 7. Available: 3 Destroyers: 6. Available: 1 – HMS Dragon (broken). Naval Manpower (excluding Royal Marines): 20,000 Admirals : 40 Commodores: 90 MOD Civil Servants: 55,000 Clown Service – destroyed by politicians. 17-year old Royal Navy ship HMS Conway sits aground in the Menai Strait, North Wales. She ran aground on April 14th, 1953, when on tow to Birkenhead for a refit. *** https://www.forcesnews.com/services/navy/risk-came-fruition-technical-issue-forces-hms-dragon-port Source link
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan’s greatest fear was nuclear war. On Easter weekend 2026, neoconservative talk host Mark Levin’s greatest wish seemed to be nuclear war. On Tuesday, Donald Trump appeared on the brink of giving Levin that wish, with the president writing of Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” By Wednesday, it hadn’t happened—and Levin was fuming. If this sounds crazy or barbaric, congratulations on having a moral compass. But it’s worth examining this neoconservative, war-eager mindset and how dismissing human…
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The venerable Hispanic activist Cesar Chavez is venerated no more. After the New York Times reported that he sexually abused women and girls, the union organizer was posthumously cancelled. States and cities announced they would stop celebrating Cesar Chavez Day and many streets and plazas dropped his name. The sudden cancellation likely marks the end of attempts to turn Chavez into the Hispanic MLK. Some conservatives see something else at work here. They claim Chavez was a border hawk and imply the sexual abuse claims were a convenient way to get rid of an unreliable leftist icon. That’s the argument…
“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,” they said. His health condition is “dire.” Many are already familiar with the iconic Palestinian doctor from Gaza. But the deserved and urgent focus on his case should not end with him. Rather, it should illuminate the broader catastrophe afflicting Gaza’s health sector – one deliberately dismantled as part of the ongoing genocide that began on October 7, 2023. Palestinians and others continue to refer to the…
On March 23, CBS News published a national poll saying that two-thirds of the American people felt the Iran War was a war of choice rather than one of necessity. The war has grown even less popular since then. I have been to many public events and have talked to very many people over the last month or so and have been amazed at the strong feelings about this war. The opinions have ranged from a belief that we never should have gotten into it at all to those who express a very strong desire for us to get out…
Originally set for March, the high-stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was postponed for about “five or six weeks,” due to the U.S. focus on military operations in Iran. The delay suggests that the Trump administration grossly underestimated Iran’s resilience. The summit will take place under the shadow of the worst energy crisis since the 1970s. US-China stakes in the crisis The crisis itself illustrates the differential stakes the two major powers have in the outcome. US military exposure is high, due to its military bases and fleets in the Gulf, whereas China’s armed…