Energy Secretary Open To Suspending US Gas Tax As Pump-Rage Surges

This war is not just making energy more expensive, it’s knocking out the higher order goods the global structure of production depends on. This has already locked in dangerous shortages in critical industries like healthcare, food production, and much more.

The 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has been extended for another three weeks, according to President Trump who said high-profile meetings in the Oval Office went “very well” and ended with a plan for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to meet in the coming weeks. Israeli FM Gideon Saar […]

Once upon a time there was a magical little country named Lebanon. It was created by French imperialists out of the post-World War 1 wreckage of the Ottoman Empire as a mountainous stronghold for Levantine Maronite and Orthodox Christians. Imperial Russia sought to assert its influence as defender of Lebanon’s Christians. The British and French […]