By Erwin Chemerinsky, Reposted from NY Times, April 27, 2026 President Trump’s war with Iran is almost certainly illegal: Congress hasn’t declared war or authorized it by statute, and it wasn’t precipitated by an imminent attack or a national emergency. If the war continues through Friday without congressional approval, it will clearly be illegal, having passed […]
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(WCTW) The Oil Market Breaking Point Is Here
This article is public. HFI Research Apr 19, 2026 (In Part: Please read “The Oil Market Breaking Point” article. In our write-up published on March 25, we outlined a range of scenarios and explained that the oil market’s breaking point would be mid-April. We are now past the breaking point. From this moment forward, the […]
Postponing the World’s Financial Winter – For How Long?
Iran’s MAD Standoff with the Rest of the World Michael Hudson • April 17, 2026 Announcing that “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Donald Trump threatened on April 7, 2026 to destroy “every bridge in Iran” and “every power plant … burning, exploding, and never to be used again.” His intention to continue committing war crimes is […]
Team Netanyahu/Trump Sinks Iran Talks; Kushner Beefs Up Rap-Sheet
Ilana Mercer • April 15, 2026 <snip> I’ll make this very simple. Against the Islamic Republic, victim of the US-Israel’s untrammeled criminality, the president’s men have committed the most egregious crime, the crime of aggression, categorized as such in international customary law—and in all systems of law, codified and uncodified. By violating Iran’s territorial sovereignty and denying that country’s […]
Mark Levin and Jonathan Pollard Push for Nuking Iran
Chris Menahan InformationLiberation Apr. 12, 2026 Fox News host Mark Levin and US-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard are both pushing for their respective governments to use nuclear weapons against Iran. Levin and Pollard are connected through Levin’s stepson, David Milstein, who the New York Times revealed in Nov 2025 held a “friendly” secret meeting with Pollard […]
Iran’s Economic Samson Options
Bruce O’Hara Apr 12, 2026 If any of Iran’s oil or gas facilities are attacked, Iran can take out oil and gas production facilities across the Gulf States. (Lord knows, it doesn’t take much to set oil facilities ablaze) They’ll start with facilities that are co-owned by American corporations like Exxon. Israel has only two oil […]
Pope Leo XIV speaks per U.S.-Israeli War
“Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. […]
Iran must not repeat Libyan mistake of trusting US – ex-Gaddafi minister
RT April 10, 2026 Iran should not repeat the mistakes of Libya, which paid a heavy price for trusting the West, the North African country’s former information minister, Moussa Ibrahim, has warned ahead of the talks between delegations from Washington and Tehran. The first direct meeting between the sides since the US-Israeli attack on Iran […]
Trump on Iran: ‘A whole civilisation will die tonight’
Aljazeera April 7,2026 By Ali Harb Increasingly angry US president escalates threats against Iran as his Democratic rivals rebuke him as ‘sick’ and ‘genocidal’. President Donald Trump has suggested the United States will destroy Iranian “civilisation” if Tehran does not open the Strait of Hormuz and submit to his terms. About 12 hours before the Tuesday night deadline […]
White House denies considering nuclear strikes on Iran
TRT World April 7, 2026 The White House has denied that remarks by Vice President JD Vance about military “operations” in Iran had contained any suggestion of a US nuclear strike against the Islamic Republic. After Vance said US forces have tools they “so far haven’t decided to use” to enforce a dramatic ultimatum from […]
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