Thousands More Marines Headed To Middle East as Trump Considers Ground Operations in Iran

Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, launched significant strikes on Thursday targeting Saudi-backed forces inside Yemen. Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Ansar Allah-led Yemeni Armed Forces, said that drone attacks targeted “Saudi enemy gatherings and vehicles on several fronts” but didn’t specify exactly where the operations were carried out. Saudi media reported that […]

Give Them An Inch... By Bas van Geffen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank Talks between Iran and Oman on the reopening of Hormuz are reportedly inching ahead, as Iran continues to give the US the silent treatment. Negotiators said that a deal to establish a safe shipping route was close, but Iran may now be exploring just how much it can extract from the US in return. Last week, Iran had already said that any deal with Oman would be contingent on the US lifting its blockade of Iranian ports. On...

America wants peace. Israel wants war. The great majority of Americans want an end to the war against Iran. The great majority in Congress just want more contributions from the Israel Lobby and its supporters. Now, most members of Congress are really squirming. They know that most of their constituents are fed up with foreign […]