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Last week President Donald Trump delivered an address on the Iran war to the American people. In only 19 minutes, he presented Americans with at least eight fabrications. Since I’ve been hearing war-supporting commentators repeating those false claims this week, I’ve decided to provide a helpful dissection of them below. #1. Operation Epic Fury targeted “the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.” Trump has frequently repeated this misleading claim before, most recently in his February 28 video making his case for his war on Iran. Trump made this claim in his speech without evidence and in contradiction of the…
Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken time away from running the country’s third-largest state to talk ancient history—literally. Those seeking perspective on troubling current events are better off for this trip down memory lane. The colloquy started on March 30, when DeSantis X-ed (tweeted) out praise for The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. “Looks like a volume worth having, especially as we approach America 250,” DeSantis X-ed, adding, “The Founders were products of the Western tradition and they looked to its entire history—from the ancients to the Enlightenment and everything in between—for inspiration and guidance in justifying…
On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to declare that “a civilization will die tonight.” By 8 p.m., the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran had begun. Whether the ceasefire holds (or even takes hold) is already in question—Iran and the U.S. appear to be offering contradictory accounts of what the 10-point plan they allegedly agreed to actually says. The best hope that it might stick comes from Israel, where TV presenters who spent Monday salivating over a clock counting down the minutes and hours until Trump’s planned genocide of Iranians were left confused and outraged…
In a brief statement Thursday, Melania Trump denied having a substantial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, using her rare public statement to reject what she called “false smears” and fabricated images circulating online. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Speaking briefly at the White House, the first lady said she first encountered Epstein in 2000 at an event she attended with Donald Trump and said she had no knowledge at the time of his criminal conduct. She also said Epstein did not introduce her to her future husband and described a previously disclosed 2002…
The U.S. inflation rate increased sharply in March, according to the latest report by the Bureau for Labor Statistics. The energy shock from the Iran war pushed consumer prices to their highest level in nearly two years, with the Consumer Price Index rising 3.3 percent from a year earlier, up from 2.4 percent in February, in line with economists’ projections. Energy prices surged 10.9 percent from the previous month, led by a 21.2 percent jump in gasoline, the biggest monthly increase since federal tracking began in 1967. Brent crude climbed from $73 a barrel before the conflict to $95.88 on…
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Image by Hasan Almasi. The knives are out—and this time, they are not aimed at Tehran, but at Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the ever morally flexible Chris Christie moved quickly. The former New Jersey governor and longtime Republican insider, speaking on CNN, did not merely criticize Trump; he used the moment to indict establishment Republicans for enabling him in the first place. What was once quiet discomfort has now hardened into open political distancing. CNN, for its part, framed the outcome through a language of selective humanitarian concern—invoking the plight of the Iranian people as victims of their…
Photograph Source: US Air Force – Public Domain The energy analyst known as Doomberg recently remarked on the Decouple podcast that ‘all wars are energy wars.’ From the decisive role energy access plays in combat itself (think oil in World War II), to its infrastructure being an inviting target, and its spillover effects for the global economy, it is hard to argue with that sentiment. Since the U.S. and Israel began this war with Iran, there has been the Israeli attack on Iran’s piece of the South Pars natural gas field, Iran’s drone attack at the Ras Laffan Industrial City…
Image by Logan Voss. “Why do you think you can stop a $1.2billion University of Michigan and Los Alamos project?” was the first Instagram message we received at the launch of the Stop the Data Center campaign in Ypsilanti, Michigan. For us, the question was not “why?” but “how?” Our campaign is built against an exceptional and horrifying facility right in our backyards. We have had some huge wins in recent months through the connections within our community and through connections with other site fights and AI resistance efforts nationally and internationally. Site fights cannot win solely by the power…
NA Earlier today, a three-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade (CIT) heard oral arguments in two cases challenging Donald Trump’s massive new Section 122 tariffs – one filed by the Liberty Justice Center (LJC) on behalf of two small businesses harmed by the tariffs, and another filed by 24 state governments. After Trump’s previous International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs were invalidated by the Supreme Court, in a case I helped litigate, along with LJC, Trump tried to use Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act to impose sweeping 10% tariffs on almost all imports (administration officials…