Trump’s idiotic war of aggression on Iran is spiking oil prices. Not my problem.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
War With Iran Is Turning the Energy Affordability Crisis Into a Calamity
Whether it’s pain at the pump or highway robbery in your mailbox, American consumers have little recourse when the conflict-driven surge in energy prices hits the home front.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance
Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here.
Posted inPolitics
Can Congress Stop Mad King Trump’s Mad War on Iran?
With Republicans in charge, probably not.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s Senseless Waste in Iran
Aircraft carriers and stealth bombers are expensive to use.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Blowback From an Unpopular Iran War
Trump’s Iran campaign may have the surprising effect of putting foreign policy back into the hands of American voters.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats Already Jostling to Oppose Trump’s War on Iran
In North Carolina, primary challenger Nida Allam is betting that the most credible critic of the latest joint Trump-Israel war will win.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Iraq, Iran, Irate
Saddam Hussein and Iran’s ayatollahs were horrendous leaders who inflicted horrors on their subjects, but neither posed a threat to the United States, despite claims that both were developing nuclear weapons.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What the Possibility of War Is Like for an Iranian-American
The convergence of the two authoritarian republics is unmistakable.
Posted inTAP
Will Trump Attack Iran?
It’s a far less promising military gambit than Venezuela, but Trump today is more desperate for a distraction.