The Bogus Blockade Claim of the US Department of War

A US official said that the White House is preparing for a massive, weeks-long attack on Iran.  According to a US official speaking with Axios, President Donald Trump is prepared to start a war with Iran that will be much broader in scope than the 12-day conflict that Israel and the US waged against the […]

Gold At $155,000 An Ounce Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The fellas over at Zero Hedge put up a Tweet last week that floated a wild monetary thought experiment: they said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could theoretically “buy back” our roughly $40 trillion in U.S. government debt using cash from the Treasury General Account. There would just be one small detail standing in the way…the government would first have to re-mark its gold reserves to somewhere around $155,000 per ounce. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it probably sounds outright insane. But the basic...

US military officials are considering deploying a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support the war with Iran and potentially take part in an operation aimed at seizing control of Iran’s Kharg Island, The New York Times reported on Monday. The troops would come from the 82nd Airborne’s […]