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One of the biggest obstacles to peace negotiations with Iran is history. Three quarters of a century of experience with the United States has taught Iran caution, starting with the 1953 betrayal that took out the popular and democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in a U.S. supported coup. During the current rounds of war and negotiation, American perfidy has repeatedly interrupted talks with missiles. “Due to the experiences of the two previous wars, we have no trust in the opposing side,” said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iranian Parliament and one of the leaders of the Iran negotiating team. “The…
Elon Musk. Photo: Brazil Department of Communications. Last week’s SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, despite the fact that the company has lost tens of billions of dollars since it was founded almost 25 years ago. Shares of the company climbed steadily after markets closed on Friday, pushing its market cap to $2.2 trillion. The public conversation about Musk’s vast wealth often obscures the fact that he is actually a very fancy welfare recipient, having taken billions of dollars from the public coffers by even the most conservative measures. In reaction to the news, Oxfam America’s Nabil…
“I’ve got a message for Elon Musk,” said Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, at the last Labour Party conference. “Get the hell out of our politics and our country.” It is hardly surprising that the left-wing Net Zero Secretary should be taking issue with the world’s richest man. However, the right-wing Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, is upset with Musk too. He has called for the X boss to remove deepfake videos showing him physically attacking the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, seemingly in the BBC Question Time studio. And Nigel Farage has more important reasons…
Rep. Mike Collins will face off against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in November as Republicans look to Georgia to deliver a key GOP victory that could determine control of the Senate. Source link
As the fragile ceasefire hangs over the Middle East, two longtime allies who once seemed inseparable are now locked in a tense standoff. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, launched this war with what looked like perfect coordination. But roughly a hundred days later, it has become a messy arena of personal friction, clashing strategies, and a very public tug-of-war over how – and when – it should end. Trump wants a quick victory and a deal he can sell as a historic win back home. Netanyahu sees the conflict as a…
The final moments of Henry Nowak, the 18-year-old Anglo-Polish student murdered by a Sikh in the English city of Southampton in December, constituted an exercise in double standards. Confronted by the twin sights of an unarmed white boy lying bleeding to death on the floor, and a brown boy with a knife claiming to have been the victim of a racial assault, attending police officers (themselves all white) chose automatically to believe the brown boy, handcuffing Henry rather than immediately calling for an ambulance. One cop’s weary response to Nowak’s repeated gasps that he had been stabbed—“I don’t think you…
“Following intensive talks, we are pleased to announce that the Peace Deal between the United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran has been REACHED.” The Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s statement this week confirms a cessation of hostilities between Washington and Tehran, to be formalized on June 19 in Geneva. Vice President J.D. Vance is expected to sign the deal alongside Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf—the man with whom he negotiated in Islamabad during the first U.S.–Iran talks at this level since 1979. Intriguingly, both Vance and President Donald Trump on Monday said a deal had already…
Billionaire Rick Jackson defeats Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial runoff, the Associated Press reports today. Source link
How the Iran war will transform America’s military role. Source link
Since illegal immigration is an “invasion,” Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told reporters in May 2025, the Trump administration was “actively looking” at suspending the writ of habeas corpus to facilitate its mass deportation campaign. It turns out that Miller was not just spitballing: According to recent reporting by The New York Times, his comment reflected a serious internal debate about whether to unilaterally override the ancient principle that people nabbed by the government have a right to challenge their detention in court. That episode is alarming insofar as it illustrates the Trump administration’s disregard for civil…