Tehran Threatens ‘Heave Attacks’ on US Bases, Ships in Response to Strikes on Iranian Vessels

Vice President JD Vance has been questioning the assessments coming out of the Department of War about the success of the US military in Iran.  According to two senior White House officials speaking with The Atlantic, Vance has expressed skepticism about the Pentagon’s estimates about the depletion of US munitions during the war against Iran.  […]

Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future of the region would be one of wars increasingly defined by religious symbols: i.e. Al-Aqsa versus the […]

"Just Another Dip Investors Will Buy": Futures Drop, Oil Rises On Renewed Iran Tension US futures whipsawed and crude oil spiked higher as tensions flared up again in the Middle East, taking the focus off a run of strong earnings by megacap tech companies. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.2% from Friday's record highs, falling as much as 0.5% just minutes earlier after Iran’s Fars agency claimed two missiles hit an American patrol boat, before erasing most of the declines after the US denied a...