US Sends Thousands More Troops to Middle East, Considers Ground Ops in Iran

Escobar: The Long And Winding Petro-Gold Road Authored by Pepe Escobar, The 15-point plan that Team Trump presented to Iran is already D.O.A. It’s an imposed capitulation: a surrender document disguised as “negotiation”. The non-plan plan – imposing demands while begging for a one-month ceasefire – includes zero uranium enrichment on Iranian soil; full dismantlement of Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow installations; all enriched uranium out of Iran; the missile program extremely restricted; no funding for Hezbollah, Ansarallah and Iraqi militias; the Strait of Hormuz totally opened. All that in exchange for a vague “cancelling...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has once again vowed that there will eventually be Jewish settlements in Gaza, saying that “in the end,” Israel will occupy and settle the Palestinian territory, according to The Times of Israel. Smotrich, who also holds a minister position in the Israeli Defense Ministry, said that he expects the US […]

US Southern Command announced on Monday that its forces blew up yet another boat it accused of running drugs, killing three people. The command said the boat was targeted in the Caribbean Sea and described the people it killed as “narco-terrorists,” a term used by the Trump administration to justify conducting extra-judicial executions at sea […]