Gitmo and Torture Revisited

The Facts Behind China's "Gold Reset" Authored by Peter Reagan, The internet loves a reset. A “reset” takes an impossibly complicated subject and boils it down to a date, a decision and one big red button. China’s recent gold market announcements launched a veritable cottage industry of dire warnings and hysterical predictions. Over the past few weeks, my feeds have been absolutely flooded with claims that China’s brought back the gold standard. And that Beijing built a machine designed to “collapse the dollar.” Some warned that July 24 would mark “the end of gold trading” – somehow eliminating manipulation and revealing gold’s “real” price. (One...

Israel continues to carry out daily operations in which ground troops enter the Quneitra and Daraa Governorates in southwest Syria. While their presence is effectively the “new normal” in this part of Syria, in recent weeks there are a growing number of incidents of the troops not just raiding municipalities, but individual homes. Yesterday, an […]

Hezbollah Chief Rejects US-Mediated Israel Truce; Trump To Maintain Ceasefire With Iran Unless American Troops Killed Summary Hezbollah chief rejects outcome of Lebanon-Israel talks, insisting that a truce must encompass whole country. WSJ reports that the White House intends to maintain a ceasefire with Iran unless American troops are killed; oil drops also after Trump states on TS  Trump lashes out after House War Powers votes passes Wednesday evening, attacking especially four Republicans who voted in favor. Trump downplayed Iran's attacks on US bases in Kuwait & Bahrain, saying "they were slightly provoked...so they...