Trump Says He Wants To Invade Iran’s Kharg Island To ‘Take the Oil’

MbS Begs Trump For Bigger Anti-Houthi Intervention, As Over 100 US Advisers On Ground We've been documenting the Houthi rapid advance along Yemen's western coast, as the Iran-aligned rebel group closes in on owning more vital Red Sea chokepoint coastal real estate. As of Friday, after having the day prior entered the strategic port of Mocha, it is being widely reported including in Al Jazeera that the Houthis have taken control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline. This gives the group, and by extension Tehran, immensely greater leverage over the Bab al-Mandab Strait and...

Heat Mortality Surges In Europe Heat-related mortality in Europe has surged over the last couple of decades. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, according to the latest available data published by the Lancet Countdown 2025 Report, between 2012 and 2021, 5.5 people per 100,000 population died of heat-related causes per year on the continent. This is almost double the annual rate observed between 1992 and 2021. You will find more infographics at Statista Similarly rapid surges were observed over the same time period in Asia-Pacific as well as in the Americas. However, heat deaths stayed on...

The Samson Option, Israel’s doctrine of last-resort nuclear retaliation, is no longer a theoretical contingency. At the end of seven weeks of war in the Persian Gulf, the conditions that might trigger it are not emerging; they may already be present. What began as a joint US/Israeli campaign for regime change and decapitation of Iran’s […]