UN Report: Reasonable Grounds to Believe US Committed War Crimes in Iran

Skyfall: Fitch Downgrade Sends Legacy Paramount Bonds To Record Low As Merger Closes Last week, when we documented how Paramount's record bond offering cratered before the ink was dry, we flagged one line from the Bear Traps chat as deserving extra attention: "Paramount's existing unsecured bonds? Primed." Today, with the $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover officially closed and the combined company (now simply "Skydance", although "Skyfall" is certainly more appropriate) open for business, Fitch made it official. In a rating action timed to the close, Fitch cut Paramount Skydance and...

Netanyahu To IDF: 'Overthrow The Iranian Regime' Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that his directive to the Israeli military is to "overthrow the regime in Iran" as he continues to ramp up his rhetoric in the days before the October 27 Israeli elections. "My directive to the IDF, the Mossad, and the defense establishment… is to overthrow the regime in Iran," Netanyahu told a group of graduating IDF officers, according to The Jerusalem Post. via ReutersThe Israeli leader went on to claim that Iran’s...

Tehran delivered to Washington via Pakistan in early April, a formalized demand for the withdrawal of US combat forces from military bases across the region. It sat in a package alongside the lifting of all sanctions and UN resolutions, the release of Iranian assets held overseas, reparations, and Iran’s right to nuclear enrichment. Instead of […]