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The US opposes Oman maintaining relations with Iran and wants Muscat to pick a side in the conflict. Omani neutrality has allowed Muscat to act as a mediator in the region.  The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that American and Arab officials said the White House views Oman’s neutrality as a threat. Oman’s position on Iran has become a major issue during the war.  In response to the US and Israeli surprise attack, Iran seized control of the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait, which is 21 miles at its narrowest point, sits between Oman and Iran. Tehran says that…

People may forget that Scott Bessent is probably the strongest wartime Treasury secretary going all the way back, at least to World War II. Through his Economic Fury campaign, he has slowly but surely turned off Iran’s monetary and economic spigots.  Not only the blockade of Iranian ports, which has stopped their oil sales and revenues, but also his putting an end to their shadow banking system through aggressive use and modernization of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, he has closed down their offshore bank accounts not only by freezing the accounts, but increasingly by actually…

Jimmy Lewis had dreamt of opening his own cigar lounge since college, when he noticed a gap in the Virginia market: People were driving over an hour from Roanoke to Lynchburg just to buy cigars and sit in a proper lounge. Roanoke, he thought, might have enough cigar lovers to support a lounge of its own. So, a decade later, Lewis took an enormous risk by moving his family there and trying to turn his dream into reality. That dream became the Bison Head Cigar & Lounge in downtown Roanoke. The lounge is comfortable, unpretentious, and full of easy conversation. It…

2 Types: States With Dumb and Smart Energy Laws Source link

Hegseth Goes to Asia Source link

Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is largely gone, and how that vacuum makes it easier for Washington to slide into the next conflict without friction. We dig into Iran and the so-called ceasefire: the strikes, the responses, and the familiar pattern of narrative manipulation where the U.S. can provoke, then rebrand escalation as “defense.” We also unpack the latest claims of a draft…

The God of 'Euphoria' Source link

No more socialism! For the U.S., this is particularly good news. Source link

Four activists could be sentenced as terrorists despite Palestine Action not being proscribed at the time of the incident and the High Court subsequently finding the ban unlawful, pending an appeal, writes John McEvoy. Four activists could be sentenced as terrorists this month despite not being convicted of terrorism offences. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani are among several Palestine Action activists accused of raiding an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol in 2024. They were found guilty of criminal damage earlier this month at Woolwich Crown Court, with Corner also convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent.…

I gotta be honest with you, guys. The reason Apples and I didn’t do a video for the last week is because I’ve been masking up, fitting my PPE gear, cleaning my Covaids hazmat suit. I’ve just been so scared of the Hannah virus. And, you should be too, because if you look at the numbers, Hantavirus worldwide deaths are way up in 2025 to 300 people out of 8 billion!  The Covaids crisis actors and hellth people have been waiting in the wings for a new fabricated “virus” for six years. And, it looks like their time has come. …