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[ad_1] With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win. The Iran War Is the Greatest Strategic Blunder in U.S. History Joshua Scheer Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has branded the Trump administration’s new campaign to strangle Iran “economic D-Day.” John Mearsheimer calls it what it really is: a desperate Hail Mary from an empire that has run out of military options. Speaking with Chris Hedges, the University of Chicago political scientist argues that Washington’s effort to cut Iran off from global trade is…

[ad_1] Cuban companies will be able to trade directly with foreign entities, a senior Cuban trade official told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview in Havana. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Ibrahim Al-Marashi The Conversation The Red Sea often makes headlines as the launch site for attacks on oil tankers and infrastructure by the Houthi rebels, a political and religious group that controls much of the northern and western areas of Yemen. But the history of this vital shipping route was once defined by the passage of another dark, liquid source of energy: coffee. The Yemeni port of Mocha built its fortunes largely on coffee cultivated in Yemen’s highlands and shipped from its port to markets across the Middle East, Europe and beyond. Merchants from Arabia, India, Africa and Europe passed through…

[ad_1] For too long, Venezuela has confused maintaining its sovereignty with keeping its oil in the ground even if its vast oil reserves produced neither investments nor collective well-being. But true sovereignty means establishing rules that turn those resources into prosperity for Venezuelans, including with international partners. That’s how to judge the oil deal announced by the governments of the U.S. and Venezuela. The transaction has not been fully disclosed. Reports indicate that it is a long-term energy partnership between the two governments structured with private capital and operators to develop 17 oil fields with an estimated proven potential of…

[ad_1] By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools, and libraries in Minnesota. Free speech groups across the country are sounding the alarm over the Trump administration’s surveillance of social movements in Minnesota and the prosecution of the Minnesota 15, a group of activists from Minneapolis-St. Paul who face federal conspiracy charges after organizing protests against brutal immigration sweeps earlier this year.  President Donald Trump and his allies in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice Department have targeted the First Amendment-protected…

[ad_1] Date of discovery: Aug 30, 2026Location of sighting: Earths SunSource: NASA sun images Now I decided to search some new filters for the sun and found this interesting one that increases the details and makes things more focused. I instantly saw the unusual matrix type UFO images appearing around the edges of the sun. It made no sense, but there they were in NASA images. Each image is 1 second long so the images change every 15 minutes so 1sec = 15min. These strange objects with geometric shapes were not just clear, but incredibly focused and reflecting the light and…

[ad_1] Brooklyn Crawford, People’s World. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in collaboration with the AFL-CIO, has launched a nationwide campaign calling on teachers, parents, and communities to boycott Target for back-to-school shopping. The union cited Target’s refusal to condemn ICE for its illegal assaults on communities across the country over the past year, particularly in Minneapolis, where January’s “Operation Metro Surge” led to the murders of two people, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents. “We gave Target ample time to stand with the communities in which they operate and help their neighbors,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten,…

[ad_1] In 1919, John Maynard Keynes left the Paris Peace Conference convinced the Allies were making a blunder of historic proportions. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, he prophesied that the terms imposed by the victors were so punitive they would wreck the defeated Germans’ economy and set the stage for another world war. He was right, and there is a lesson here for President Trump’s war with Iran. Supporters of U.S. militarism frequently rely on the Munich analogy to justify Middle Eastern wars. The argument goes like this: Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement in 1938 emboldened Hitler to amp up…

[ad_1] Culture Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition The terms of bureaucratic discipline drift ever further from the actual usages of the English language. A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as discriminating persons, he would have succeeded. I suppose that it would now be as impossible to return the word discrimination to the sense in…

[ad_1] Conservative intellectuals have spent the past month fiercely debating the “common good.” On one side are those who believe that government policy should operate on this principle (however it’s defined). On the other side are those who warn that it threatens individual liberty.  The debate inspired dozens of articles and tweets on the topic, illustrating some of the bitter divides on the right during the second Trump administration. But for all the attention paid to the common good, a key factor was left out of the debate: the actual opinions of Republican voters. If anything, the much-derided sentiment of…