Weekend At Bernie's In Iran As IRGC Now Run The Country, Use Strait As Toll Road

Here they go again—the war drums on the Potomac are beating so loudly for war against Iran that the CIA stenographers at the NYT have now confidently announced that the next attack will commence this weekend. And yet and yet. Why? The overwhelming fact of life in the year 2026 is that Iran is not […]

Futures At Session Highs After Oil Drops Below $100 On India Hormuz Transit Hopes US stock futures rebounded from their overnight selloff, and were trading near session highs after three days of losses on Wall Street as Brent slipped below $100 a barrel and investors waited to see if the war in the Middle East would escalate further. The catalyst for the bounce was news that India asked Iran to allow its tanker armada through Hormuz, which would lead to a substantial easing of the global oil shipping blockade. And while it...

Germany's "Two-Speed Europe" Proposal Is The EU's Adaptation To Great Power Geopolitics Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil recently declared that “Now is the time for a two-speed Europe. Germany, together with France and other partners, will therefore now take the lead in making Europe stronger and more independent. As the six biggest economies in Europe, we can now be the driving force.” Apart from those two, this exclusive tier will also include Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Poland. The goal is to optimize decision-making by...