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Trump On Hormuz Blockade: "We're Like Pirates - And It's Very Profitable"
Trump On Hormuz Blockade: "We're Like Pirates - And It's Very Profitable"
Rare agreement with Iranian officials? President Trump has newly said the US Navy is acting "like pirates" as he described an operation about seizing a ship amid the ongoing blockade of Iranian ports.
"We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business," Trump told a large audience at a rally in Florida on Friday. "We’re like pirates," he added as the crow...
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IRGC Launches New Strikes On Kuwait After US Attacks: "Until The Last American Soldier Leaves"
IRGC Launches New Strikes On Kuwait After US Attacks: "Until The Last American Soldier Leaves"
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Iran overnight initiated fresh attacks on neighboring Kuwait and even released video showing footage of a ballistic missile launch.
The US bombed radar & drone sites in Iran in response to the Iranians having shot down a US drone over the weekend. Reports of foreign jets over Iranian airspace.
Iran negotiator Ghalibaf charges US with breaking the ceasefire: "the naval blockade and escalation of war crimes in Lebanon" were "clear evidence of US noncompliance with the ceasefire."
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May 18, 2026 / Tyler Durden
UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador's Links To Sex Traffickers: Report
UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador's Links To Sex Traffickers: Report
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The UAE paid New York-based reputation management firm Terakeet more than $6 million to bury a 2017 report revealing that the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had ties to sex workers and traffickers, according to a New York Times (NYT) report published on Sunday.
The campaign was designed to push the Intercept report out of public sight on Google search results. According to Foreign Agents Registration Act records cited by the paper, Terakeet's work for the UAE began in...
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Jun 20, 2026 / Jason Ditz
‘Ceasefire’ Fails to Slow Israeli Onslaught Against Lebanon
Friday morning’s attacks by Israel on Lebanon killed so many people they ended up postponing the US-Iran peace deal signing in Geneva, and the US and Qatar scrambled to announce Israel had agreed to yet another “ceasefire” with Hezbollah. The problem underpinning this was that Israel had already agreed to multiple ceasefires, and there was […]
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