1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (335+ words) Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (951+ words) ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence. Washington is rapidly losing power and status in the Middle East, a decline…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (298+ words) The US Central Command released video of the strikes: CENTCOM Destroys 3 IRGC Oil Tankers After Iran Targets 2 U.S. Navy Warships The US sinking of an unarmed Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman appears to be a war crime. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (320+ words) Still, none of that was broadcast publicly to the entire world. It simply came out later. Donald Trump, however, represents a first when it comes to so many things and that includes a recent violent form of presidential cursing in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1049+ words) Melanie O’Brien, The University of Western Australia The Trump administration has consistently viewed itself as being above international law. Not only does it claim international law doesn’t apply to the United States, it has imposed sanctions on officials of the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1175+ words) Singapore (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not ignorance of the risks, but the political decision in Washington and Tel Aviv to gamble that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (237+ words) ( Tom Engelhardt Substack ) – Hey, Donald Trump couldn’t have made it clearer that he wanted to go to war with Iran, could he? “I Want to Give Them Every Last Chance Before Decapitation” The truth is that Donald Trump’s brain, returned…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (890+ words) By Nima Shokri, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg (The Conversation) – Oil slicks moving along Iran’s southern coast have reached the Hara mangrove forests of Qeshm Island. Iranian authorities say the extent of the contamination is still being assessed…...