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The D Brief: Israel, Iran trade strikes; Golden Dome, questioned; F-35 engine delay; Russian recession?; And a bit more.
Neither Israel nor Iran are backing down after more than a week at war. An Iranian missile attack wounded more…
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European Nations Lead Push for De-Escalation in Israel-Iran War
by Bloomberg | A.Odenheimer, E.Najafizada, A.Gardner & S.Adghirni Friday, June 20, 2025 | 11:09 AM EST Talks aimed at de-escalating the…
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The Climate Costs of War
Environment / June 20, 2025 Scientific analyses show that the Ukraine and Middle East wars have unleashed staggering amounts of…
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Those Sometimes-Trump Neocons Are Returning to the Fold Over Iran
As the president backs Israel’s long-awaited war with Iran, his neoconservative critics find themselves in an awkward position. Never-Trumper Bill…
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Israel’s Economic Preparedness in a Time of War: A Conversation with Noach Hacker
On the back of a protracted conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel is now engaged in an open…
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The Time to Stop Donald Trump’s Iran War Is Now!
America’s TACO president needs to fear popular backlash as much as he does hawks. People march in Times Square during…
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Samuel Charap: Russia Policy in Retrospect
Listen and subscribe on the following platforms: Read the Full Episode Transcript Peter Slezkine, Host: I’m Peter Slezkine, Director of…
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Lebanon: Hezbollah’s War Abstention Signals Political Opportunity
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 As Israel and Iran’s military confrontation enters its second week (MEES, 20 June), one mainstay…
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Iran Conflict Exposes Israel’s Energy Vulnerabilities
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: Peter Stevenson Despite the shuttering of two of its three gas fields, Israel has…
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Egypt Staves Off Blackouts Amid Resumption Of Israeli Gas Imports
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: Peter Stevenson Industrial gas users went offline this week as Cairo prioritized flows to…
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Middle East Tanker Rates Soar Amid Israel-Iran Conflict
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: James Marriott Although no Gulf oil infrastructure has been targeted in the first week…
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Israel Sends Warning To Iran With Gas Strike
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: Jamie Ingram The damage from this week’s Israeli drone strike on Iranian gas assets…
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Oil Markets Welcome Trump Pause On Iran
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: Jamie Ingram Crude oil and refined products have continued to flow from the Middle…
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IEA Forecasts Peak Demand by End of Decade
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: Jamie Ingram The IEA sees Opec+ market share suffering further through the remainder of…
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Israel-Iran Conflict Puts Spotlight On Hormuz Bypass Pipelines
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: Jamie Ingram As concerns over the risk of an escalation of the Israel-Iran conflict…
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Trump To Decide On Potential Iran Strikes ‘Within Two Weeks’
20 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 25 By: Jamie Ingram US President Donald Trump has appeared to back away from plunging the…
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AAA Sees Record Number of Americans Traveling Domestically July 4th Week
The American Automobile Association is expecting a record number of Americans to travel within the U.S. during the Independence Day…
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The Next War Won’t Target Cities, It Will Target Choke Points.
OPINION — In the age of strategic disruption, critical infrastructure is both the terrain and the target. The West’s optimization…
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Maersk temporarily suspends vessel calls at Israel’s Port of Haifa amid Middle East conflict
Maersk has announced a temporary suspension of vessel calls and cargo acceptance at the Port of Haifa, Israel, due to…
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5 Things to Know Before the Stock Market Opens
U.S. stock futures are ticking lower and Brent crude prices are down 2% after President Donald Trump holds off on…
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Trump delay of Iran bombing decision by two weeks puts U.S. markets into holding pattern
Trump’s two-week delay on an Iran bombing decision has generated uncertainty that is holding investors (and businesses) back from making…
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Goldman Sachs reports 65% chance that U.S. will intervene in Iran—and says OPEC will be key buffer in oil volatility
Questions are continuing to mount about how far tensions in the Middle East will spiral, with President Trump refusing to…
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Before Sitaare Zameen Par, How Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par Made India Wake Up And Take Note Of Dyslexia
As Sitaare Zameen Par hits the theatres, it is worth reflecting on the legacy of its original spiritual predecessor, Taare Zameen…
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The art of debate, as not demonstrated by Senator Ted Cruz
Good morning. As I listened to Sen. Ted Cruz talk to Tucker Carlson about the case for regime change in…
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Trump says U.S. businesses can’t afford all these holidays costing ‘billions of dollars’ as Americans mark end of slavery with Juneteenth
President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once…
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Trump Signals Holding Off Iran Strike to Give Diplomacy Time
President Donald Trump will decide within two weeks whether to strike Iran, his spokeswoman said, as Israel hit more Iranian…
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Iran Is ‘Not A Trustworthy Regime,’ Says Former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster
About Hoover About Hoover Located on the campus of Stanford University and in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution is the…
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Abbas Milani: Dissecting The Strength Of Iran’s Regime And Trump’s Wait-And-See Approach To The War
About Hoover About Hoover Located on the campus of Stanford University and in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution is the…
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Subverted By Drones
Hargrove Hoover Fellow Jacquelyn Schneider is the co-author, with Julia Macdonald, of The Hand Behind Unmanned: Origins of the US…
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When supply shocks to essential inputs spur innovation: Lessons from the global rare earths disruption
In recent years, the strategic use of trade and industrial policy tools – such as export restrictions – has fuelled…
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Geopolitical Premium Keeps Oil Elevated
by Bloomberg | Robert Tuttle, Alex Longley | Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 3:49 PM EST Oil edged higher, paring earlier…
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Discussing US Involvement in the Israel-Iran Conflict: Rubin on India Today
Senior Fellow Michael Rubin joins India Today to discuss the implications of potential US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict. Part…
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Israel-Iran War: Day 7 Energy Impacts
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India May Cut Oil Product Exports If Strait of Hormuz Is Blocked
by Bloomberg | Rakesh Sharma | Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 11:30 AM EST India is preparing to source crude oil…
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This week, I thought a Q&A might be a better format for a useful conversation about Iran. And below, you’ll…
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If diplomacy and Israel’s efforts fall short, Trump should bomb Fordow to end the war
The Israel-Iran war is coming down to a single question: What should be done about the hardened Iranian nuclear facility…
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What Can We Learn from Israel’s Attack on Iran
Israel’s swift strike on Iran was marked by precision and maximum surprise. While it has secured significant gains including degrading…
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Israeli defense minister says Iran’s supreme leader ‘should not continue to exist’ after Iranian missiles wound 240
BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister threatened Iran’s supreme leader on Thursday after the latest missile barrage from Iran damaged the…
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How to arm a pacifist: Lessons from Ukraine for the EU’s defence
Summary The success of the EU’s rearmament hinges on its leaders learning lessons from Ukraine. They will have to direct…
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Enough is enough: Europe needs to oppose Israel’s aggression
Israel’s war of choice against Iran is quickly approaching the point of no return. If the United States joins the…
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What to expect from the conflict between Israel and Iran
Mark Leonard welcomes Ellie Geranmayeh and Eran Etzion to unpack the latest developments in the conflict between Iran and Israel…
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US Officials Plan for Possible Strike on Iran
Senior US officials are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in coming days, according to people familiar…
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Iran’s Economic Infrastructure: Significance, Distribution and Implications of Targeting
Iran has a wide range of productive, financial, service, industrial and agricultural infrastructure. The military targeting of this infrastructure can…
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India’s Foreign Policy Priorities for Viksit Bharat Vision 2047
As India sets its sights on becoming a US$30 trillion economy by 2047 under the Viksit Bharat (Developed India) initiative,…
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The European Union Watches from the Sidelines
As in the Gaza crisis, so too in the crisis with Iran, the European Union is watching the events unfold…
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The Space–Nuclear Nexus in European Security
The independent resource on global security The space–nuclear nexus is prominent in today’s European security environment, amid shifting alliance dynamics…
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New EU and US energy sanctions are needed to disarm Putin’s war machine
Europe and the United States are currently preparing ambitious new sanctions measures targeting Russia’s lucrative oil and gas exports, which…
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Trump’s decision on whether to bomb Iran could have knock-on effects for his fight against the Fed
With the Fed’s interest rate decision out of the way and a national holiday for the U.S. stock markets, investors…
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Security in an Era of Change: The Role of States
On June 18, as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum-2025, the Valdai Club hosted…
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DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez: The Trump administration is ‘very aggressive in trying to change the trajectory of health care’
Good morning. It’s easy to find CEOs complaining about the state of things in Washington, D.C., but I recently spoke…
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It’s Economics, Not Speculation
Call it a perfect storm. When Israel attacked Iran, oil industry firms were caught with low inventories due to their…
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Iran, Israel, and the Crisis of Legitimacy
June 19, 2025 An interview with Richard Falk. People survey the damage in Nobonyad Square in Tehran, Iran after Israeli…
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Families in Tehran Have Been Shattered
June 19, 2025 Israel’s assault on the Iranian capital has brought destruction and grief to civilian neighborhoods. People look over…
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Expansion in the shadows: The dangers of Israeli aggression in the West Bank
The intensifying conflict between Israel and Iran has captured the world’s attention. But as missiles pound Israel and Iran and…
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US Officials Prepare for Possible Strike on Iran
by Bloomberg | S. Lai, S. Mohsin, C. Lucey & J. Wingrove | Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 3:06 AM EST…
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India and Pakistan are on a global charm offensive, but is it worth listening?
In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world…
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Israel Cleared the Way, But Only Trump Can End Iran’s Nuclear Program
President Donald Trump has set the terms for Iran to end the military conflict over its nuclear program: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”…
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“Current Leadership Is Doomed”: Dr. Abbas Milani Predicts That “Foolish” Khamenei’s Days Are Numbered As Iranian Leader
About Hoover About Hoover Located on the campus of Stanford University and in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution is the…
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H.R. McMaster On Middle East Conflict: US Oftentimes “Undervalue The Ideological Drivers Of The Iranian Leadership”
About Hoover About Hoover Located on the campus of Stanford University and in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution is the…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Israel-Iran War Will ‘Be For Naught’ If The Regime, Nuclear Program Survive
About Hoover About Hoover Located on the campus of Stanford University and in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution is the…
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Trade Tehran’s Top Priority for Trump’s Sole Objective
After Israel’s initial attacks on Iranian nuclear and missile sites achieved some success, a chorus of public commentators, Congressional leaders,…
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Restraint with Iran Serves US Interests
The past week’s missile exchanges between Israel and Iran have placed the United States at a crossroads—it can militarily join…
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Spare Oil Production Capacity Plentiful, With Caveats
Copyright © 2025 Energy Intelligence Group All rights reserved. Unauthorized access or electronic forwarding, even for internal use, is prohibited.…
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Oil Markets Stay Cautious on Mideast Escalation
Copyright © 2025 Energy Intelligence Group All rights reserved. Unauthorized access or electronic forwarding, even for internal use, is prohibited.…
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PIW Market Indicators
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Trump Weighs Direct U.S. Military Involvement Against Iran
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at whether the United States will attack Iran, Washington expanding its travel…
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U.S. Inches Closer to Direct Conflict With Iran
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Where Does India Stand on the Israel-Iran Conflict?
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The ongoing Israel-Iran conflict tests India’s strategic autonomy, Indian Prime…
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Nervous Eyes on Energy, Shipping Assets Amid War Threats
Copyright © 2025 Energy Intelligence Group All rights reserved. Unauthorized access or electronic forwarding, even for internal use, is prohibited.…
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Stocks are flat, as the Fed’s latest forecast flirts with stagflation
Interest rates were largely a settled matter. Instead, investors turned their attention to the Fed’s economic forecasts for the year. …
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The Many Ways U.S. Involvement in the War on Iran Could Go Badly
Trump initially showed caution but now seems to want the credit. Howard FrenchHoward W. French By Howard W. French, a…
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Reflection and Use of the Iran-Israel War in the South Caucasus
PSCRP-BESA Reports No. 135 (June 18, 2025) Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran’s ballistic missile attacks on Israel have made…
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F-35 engine upgrade hits delay, casting doubt on timeline
An F-35 Lightning II jet from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. U.S. Air National Guard PARIS—A key milestone for the…
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Middle East Tensions Keep Oil Volatile
by Bloomberg | Julia Fanzeres, Catherine Cartier | Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 3:41 PM EST Oil edged higher after a…
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Einstein’s Definition of Insanity: Repeating the Pakistan Mistake on Iran
Key Points and Summary: President Trump’s reported lunch meeting with Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir to discuss a potential U.S.-Pakistan alliance…
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US Petroleum Data — Week Ending Jun. 13, 2025
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Israel’s Long Road to Regional Dominance
Israel is nearing the end of a remarkable, half-century-long arc of history in which it first established military dominance over…
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Is Trump Embracing a Regime Change Policy?
Over the past decade of his political career, President Donald J. Trump has consistently railed against what he cast as…
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On Iran, It’s Trump vs. MAGA
Donald Trump is besieged on several fronts. His Ukraine policy has failed, as has his alliance with Putin and his…
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The Limits to China’s Ties With Iran
Geopolitics Copyright © 2025 Energy Intelligence Group All rights reserved. Unauthorized access or electronic forwarding, even for internal use, is…
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Tehran’s Ultimate Test
The Big Picture Copyright © 2025 Energy Intelligence Group All rights reserved. Unauthorized access or electronic forwarding, even for internal…
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Amid Crisis, A Lesser-Told Story of US-Iran Similarities Holds Some Hope
OPINION — As experts studiously debate what the latest Israel-Iran fighting will lead to, including a possible Iranian collapse, one…
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Intelligence Window Might Have Been a Factor in Timing of Israeli Attack on Iran
When Israel attacked Hezbollah last September with exploding beepers and a broad assassination campaign, one thing that dictated the timing…
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The Fed holds interest rates steady and forecasts two rate cuts for 2025
Investors were treated to another predictable Fed meeting. Interest rates remained the same, which had been all but a certainty in…
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What Would It Take to End the Regime in Iran?
Israel’s bombing campaign has sharply escalated an internal shadow conflict that has simmered for decades. While Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon…
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Why Palo Alto Networks is focusing on just a few big gen AI bets
To help figure out how AI will make its workers more productive, cybersecurity provider Palo Alto Networks polled every one…
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Iran Now Must Drink ‘A Chalice of Poison’
Key Points – While Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” has degraded Iran’s nuclear program, the question of regime change versus denuclearization as…
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Will Israel-Iran Conflict Disrupt Energy Markets?
Security Iran Jun 18, 2025 Israel has targeted Iranian gas facilities, but a strike against oil infrastructure would be far…
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Iran’s Nuclear Pursuit and the Pakistani Example
If Israel succeeds in destroying Iran’s nuclear program, it would do the world a favor. Those who argue that Israel…
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AIPAC Demands Democrats ‘Stand With Israel’
This is a collaboration with Drop Site News, an independent news site about politics and war. The American Israel Public…
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At Least We Are Many: Resisting the Drums of War
Israel’s assaults on Iran are attacks from an actively genocidal nuclear state on an already oppressed people. We must oppose…
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Pro-Israel group hacks Iranian crypto exchange for $90 million—but throws away the money
Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have spilled over into the crypto industry. On Tuesday, Nobitex, the largest crypto exchange…
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The D Brief: Will US strike Iran?; China’s orbital gray zone; Army’s artillery production; Europe’s fighter-jet spat; And a bit more.
Escalation watch: Iran is reportedly ready to strike U.S. military bases in the Middle East should President Trump decide to…
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Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide: Ukraine must emerge from war independent—including its energy
Watch the full Global Energy Forum On Tuesday, the European Commission unveiled a plan to entirely stop its use of…
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Dispatch from Jerusalem: Inside Israel’s bunkers as Iran war erupts
MENASource June 18, 2025 • 10:27 am ET Sarah Zaaimi JERUSALEM—As the El Al gate agent smirked and handed my…
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Israel’s War With Iran Isn’t One Conflict. It’s Three.
The struggle between Iran and Israel isn’t one war. It is three globally significant wars all at once. Israel is…
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Khamenei Tells US that Iran Won’t Surrender to Israel
by Bloomberg | Eltaf Najafizada | Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 9:42 AM EST Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said…
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The Danger of Cornering Iran
Deepening the military achievement in Iran may pose a threat to the stability of the Iranian regime. In response to…
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War, tariffs and Trump: What the FOMC will be thinking as they finalize their base rate decision today
If the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) were hoping to meet with some greater clarity this month, they will be…
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5 Things to Know Before the Stock Market Opens
U.S. stock futures are little changed ahead of today’s Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, with the central bank expected to keep…
