The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Wednesday that the US was repeating “big lies” about Iran’s nuclear program, comments that came after President Trump delivered his State of the Union address. In the address, Trump claimed he wanted a deal with Iran but that Tehran wouldn’t say “those secret words, ‘We will never […]

Mexico's Cartel Decapitation Strike Fallout: "Not The End, Just The Beginning" Mexican journalist Luis Cárdenas, listed as a journalist at MVS Noticias and a contributor to El Universal and El Heraldo de México, spoke with security analyst Oscar Balmen about the Mexican Army Special Forces' decapitation strike against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) by killing Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes. Balmen explained to Cárdenas that CJNG "is designed to survive without El Mencho." Cárdenas listed key takeaways from his discussion: The fall of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes does not mean the end...

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 […]