Oil Prices Extend Gains After Another Big Crude Draw, Cushing 'Tank Bottoms' Loom

Top military command across multiple branches and commands warned that prolonged large-scale operations were unsustainable.  The Washington Post spoke with multiple officials familiar with a bi-weekly assessment by top military officials on the status of the armed forces. The heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the commanders overseeing operations throughout Europe (EUROCOM), […]

The Great Normalization (Nobody Declared Martial Law... Yet America Began Looking Like It Anyway) Authored by Madge Waggy, There are stories that announce themselves with explosions, riots, or breaking-news headlines, and then there are stories so subtle that they quietly rewrite an entire society before anyone realizes what has happened. This is one of those stories. During the preparation of this investigation, several retired police officers, private security professionals, emergency responders, and ordinary citizens described nearly identical experiences despite living hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. None believed they were...

NATO Member Spain Closes Airspace To US Planes Involved In Iran Operations Given worsening US-Spanish relations over Washington's pro-Israel policies, this is a big step which is not entirely surprising - Spain has fully shuttered its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. This is an action significantly beyond its prior controversial policy to deny US use of jointly-operated military bases, and what has also been a long-running ban on ships transferring arms and ammo to Israel. Morón Air Base Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced on Monday, "We don't authorize either...