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Israeli leaders are watching events in the Strait of Hormuz closely and preparing to strike Iran. Israel has been pushing for the US to abandon the diplomatic process and greenlight renewed attacks on Iran. On Sunday, Trump announced “Project Freedom” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The operations call for the US Navy to assist vessels out of the Persian Gulf. Tehran has said that it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the US and Israel end the war and lift the blockade of Iranian ports. Remarking on the situation, an Israeli official told Ynet that Tel Aviv…
Image by Mick Haupt. Americans have seen this pattern before. A president moves toward war. Intelligence is stretched. Foreign allies make the hardest push. Friendly media turn selective images into political permission. Then ordinary people pay the price. That is why the debate over Trump’s attack on Iran should not be reduced to one man’s impulse. It was meant to deceive. On one side was a long-running campaign by Benjamin Netanyahu to frame Iran as a problem to be solved militarily, not diplomatically. On the other was an information ecosystem that tried to present military escalation as if it were…
Budget carrier Spirit Airlines officially shut its doors Saturday, laying off its employees and cancelling all flights after rising fuel costs pushed the struggling company over the brink. The price of jet fuel has spiked since the American–Israeli war on Iran started in late February, leaving Spirit—which had already declared bankruptcy twice in less than two years—unable to sustain its business operations. “The sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks ultimately has left us with no alternative but to pursue an orderly wind-down of the Company,” CEO Dave Davis said in a statement released Saturday. Davis added…
After law enforcement prevented a shooter from entering the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — the third attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in less than two years — commentators sparred over how common political violence has become, and who was more likely to support it. Conservative broadcaster Ben Ferguson drew criticism from his fellow CNN panelists when he said April 27 that more conservatives will be killed “if the Democratic Party doesn’t wake up and realize that words had meaning and they light the fuse.” “Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate,” Ferguson said.…
As a New Republic reader, you’re well aware that 2026 is a midterm year. Source link
The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, barring racial gerrymandering, has many on the left feigning vapors, despite the predictions of many of us that this result was likely. Source link
The federal government built a system that let unvetted ‘experts’ feed partisan analysis directly into ‘domestic terror’ work products. Source link
F-35 Lightning on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Derek Kelley. “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, as only one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1946 The unusually peaceful end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union did not bring us peace. Instead, the world has faced endless regional and ethnic wars, terrorism, and other human disasters. This situation helped create a unipolar world, enabling the United States to use military…
Supreme Court Trusts Americans, I Don't Source link
When President Donald Trump struck a trade deal with the European Union in July, officials on both sides stressed how it would ensure long-term stability to trans-Atlantic trade. The Trump administration called the deal a “generational modernization of the transatlantic alliance.” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it “restores stability and predictability” by locking in 15 percent tariffs on most European goods exported to the U.S., while most American imports to Europe would be exempt from tariffs. In other words, Trump got what he wanted out of that deal: A reduction in tariffs on American exports and the…