OPEC+ Approves Another Oil Output Increase As Hormuz Exports Start To Recover

No week goes by in Washington without another display of Trumpism, i.e. the expressed desire by the president to turn our constitutional republic into an expression of Trump-world that honors and glorifies, as he put it recently, “me.” Trumpean conceit has included his Tr(i)ump(hal) Arch in Arlington, his bid to rename the Kennedy Center, his […]

The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base inside Gaza, the Guardian reported on Thursday, citing contracting records from the so-called “Board of Peace.” The report said that the base would take up more than 350 acres of land in southern Gaza and is envisioned as a future base for the international […]

One day after Israeli attacks killed 14 in Lebanon, the narrative of the ceasefire being “intact” seems less and less credible, with reports of continued escalation against southern Lebanon, and new rounds of Israeli strikes reported in the Bekaa Valley to the east. Strikes were reported against the towns of Kfara and Qleia in southern […]