Persistent Delusion Among the American and NATO Defense Establishment

The US has issued several hardline demands for Iran and is offering minimal incentives for Tehran to agree to a deal. President Donald Trump is threatening to attack Iran if Tehran does not sign an agreement that rolls back its nuclear program.  According to the Wall Street Journal, the US is demanding that Iran dismantle […]

Cantor Fitzgerald Slammed Over Tariff Trades Which Never Happened In retrospect, if only Cantor Fitzgerald was called PolyCantor, none of this would have happened. Ever since September, the upstart online betting marketplace PolyMarket has been offering traders the opportunity to make money by betting whether the US Supreme Court would rule in favor or against Trump's tariffs, with millions of bets placed for either outcome (of course, we learned the outcome at 10am ET on Friday, when a 6-3 majority - including two Justices selected by Trump - voted against the...

Phantom Ayatollah? Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office Amid widespread reporting that Iran had long ago moved into a emergency wartime decentralized command among autonomously-acting units, serious questions persist as to the role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, longtime leader Ali Khamenei. What's clear is that the new, younger Khamenei - who may have been wounded in the early days of US-Israeli strikes, hasn't been seen in any public way, not even on TV, throughout the war. There have not so...