Indigenous Nonsense

The US War Department said on Tuesday that US forces boarded an Iranian-linked tanker in the Indian Ocean as the US continues to enforce a blockade against Iran, despite it being a major obstacle to peace talks. The Pentagon said that the tanker, the Tifani, was carrying Iranian oil and was previously sanctioned by the […]

Nobody Knows What Will Happen Next By Michael Every and Bas van Geffen of Rabobank Ceasefire Yesterday, the US and Iran threatened to, respectively, “destroy Iranian civilisation” with “new tools” and other countries in the Gulf with old ones. Ahead of the 8PM deadline that Trump had set for “Bridge and Power Plant Day,” US and Israeli forces reportedly already destroyed some bridges and other infrastructure. Washington and Tehran struck a last-minute, two-week ceasefire – provided that the Strait of Hormuz is fully reopened. Notably, this was after China leaned on Iran to...

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 […]