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Iran, Oil and a Hawkish Fed: Why the Dollar Is Winning the Week and Losing the Decade
TODAY'S NUMBERS 99.73 Dollar Index (DXY) · 4.81% US 10-year Treasury yield · $4,304 Gold, per ounce All three are rising together — the...
Regime Change, Itemized: Inside the Venezuela Oil Deal
The 65-billion-barrel Venezuela oil deal is not proof that regime change was sold with a resource contract attached as its explicit precondition — the...
Six Months, Five Mediators: The Diplomacy of the Iran War
On 28 August, six months to the day after American and Israeli aircraft opened the war on Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that...
Is BRICS Really Ditching the Dollar? What the Data Shows
BRICS de-dollarization is real but narrow: it is happening bilaterally, mostly under Russia and Iran's sanctions duress, while the instruments meant to make it...
The West Bank’s Ultra-Apartheid (and the Collusive International Silence)
Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, land seizure, economic strangulation, settler violence and forced displacement.
With the collusion of the...
Iran’s Kharg Island: The Strategic Hub at the Heart of Its Oil Industry
Oil prices increased due to rising tensions involving Iran, sparked by a U.S. President Donald Trump's claim regarding Kharg Island oil hub, which an...
Rare Earth’s New Middlemen: Why Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam and Morocco Can’t Escape Dependency
On 1 July, China's Ministry of Commerce quietly turned rare earth export control from paperwork into something closer to a criminal exposure. MOFCOM Announcement...
Canada Backs $116 Billion Global Defence Bank to Finance Allied Rearmament
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney supports a new global defense bank called the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), which aims to help allied...
Is Russia’s Hybrid Campaign Against Europe Bigger Than Anyone Confirmed Until Now?
More than 150,000 Moldovans is the kind of figure that can distort a story as easily as it clarifies one. It suggests a hidden...
NATO Has No Article for This: What Greenland Reveals About Alliance Law’s Blind Spot
On 11 February, NATO launched Arctic Sentry — Swedish Gripen jets patrolling Greenlandic airspace, German Eurofighters overhead, nine flags behind a single new command....