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"Back in March, when the Trump administration and the Israeli government initiated their attack on Iran, it didn’t take a prophet to foresee the potential for an energy disruption due to the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked off to at least some extent. With over 10 million barrels a day worth of oil blocked at its peak, along with 20 percent of the global economy’s liquefied natural gas (LNG), the blockade has caused the greatest energy supply disruption in history. At the start, some analysts were predicting oil could go as high as $200 a barrel. Instead, oil jumped to a peak of $103.90 sixteen days into the war and settled below that mark in the months after. More"

"Settler colonialism is a fairly common phenomenon, both ancient and modern, as the unhappy history of the indigenous people of Palestine testifies. The first Israelite settler invasion of their country occurred some 3500 years ago.[1] “When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,” God commands Moses to instruct the people of Israel, “you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you…; you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess” (Numbers 33-50-53). The latest invasion, Zionists would claim by the same people “returning home,” began at the turn of the twentieth century and is ongoing. More"

"Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, recently warned of the increasing environmental damage caused by the U.S. war, drawing attention to oil contamination in the Persian Gulf that has begun washing up on Iranian shores. “This incident is only one visible example of the extensive pollution — both overt and concealed — that has degraded the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman,” he wrote on X. “Who bears responsibility for compensating these damages? Is it the nations that consume the inexpensive energy exported from our region, the shipping insurers, or the aggressors and their partners who have transformed the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman into a theater for military operations and the testing of highly destructive weaponry?” More"

"There is a very real and increasingly noisy meeting point between parts of the American MAGA right, several European far-right parties, and positions which, whatever their motivation, increasingly favour catering to Moscow. Remarkably, this is right at a time when—according to one or two current and former US officials openly viewing Putin as misled by his advisers—CIA chief John Ratcliffe Globemastered his way to Moscow to tell Russia it needed to cut a deal with Ukraine before it was too late for them. That, at least, was one reported view. More"

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