A tale of two worlds

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that the US launched the war with Iran because President Trump had a “feeling” that Iranian forces were going to attack first. Leavitt made the comments when pressed on the claims that there was an “imminent threat” facing the US that justified the joint US-Israeli attack […]

President Donald Trump threatened a “very bad” future for NATO if its members do not provide the US with support in the war with Iran.  “It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the Strait [of Hormuz] will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there,” Trump told The Financial Times on […]

Germany's Economy Minister Urges Nuclear Rethink As Energy Prices Surge, Growth Forecasts Slide Germany’s Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has openly called for a fundamental reassessment of the country’s long-standing rejection of nuclear power, warning that heavy dependence on gas has left Europe’s largest economy dangerously exposed to repeated energy shocks. Speaking at the launch of a new international investor conference aimed at drawing foreign capital into Germany, Reiche told the Financial Times that the decision by previous governments to phase out nuclear generation has eliminated any realistic alternative for reliable baseload...