Iraqi PM Sets New June 2027 Deadline To Disarm Resistance Factions

Mideast Chaos Sends Supertanker Rates Soaring To $800,000 A Day Supertanker rates on the Baltic Exchange's benchmark Middle East-to-China shipping route have surged to a staggering $800,000 a day. With US forces having destroyed five Iranian-linked tankers and Tehran threatening further escalation in recent days, prospects for near-term stabilization remain limited. The freight surge signals that crude oil and refined products continue to flow but are becoming increasingly costly to transport out of the Gulf region to global markets. According to Bloomberg, US Gulf-to-Asia shipments on very large crude carriers average...

Lavrov Soberly Acknowledged The Challenges Posed By Trump 2.0 Authored by Andrew Korybko, He calmly acknowledged that it’s now more difficult for Russia to advance its foreign policy goals due to the US’ renewed attempt to dominate the global economy through coercion and force, but he still believes that BRICS will play a pivotal role in furthering the global systemic transition to multipolarity. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently gave an interview to TV BRICS about their namesake organization and its role in the global systemic transition. He began by contextualizing the present moment in...

photo credit: Serkan Ash We all watched with nearly uncontainable curiosity as last week, Tucker Carlson hosted Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Joe Kent, and their spouses at his Maine home.  They were done with MAGA after the Epstein fiasco, the Iran war, and too many other betrayals. Tucker even said he’s done with the […]