In a stunning turn of events Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced a breakthrough agreement with America’s NATO allies to deploy a “massive” Anglo-French armada to force open the Strait of Hormuz and escort ships through the world’s energy choke point now controlled by Iran. Under the terms of the deal, France and the UK will […]

Don’t be distracted by Donald Trump’s increasingly gymnastic contortions over his Iran war which he alternately declared over just the past week “already won” yet requiring $200 billion in additional funding and the now subject of “very good and productive talks regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.” Just […]

As President Trump’s war on Iran enters its third week, here are five points about Tehran’s predictable—and predicted—closure of the Strait of Hormuz: 1. The Wall Street Journal reported that “Trump knew the risk of Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He still went to war.” The President brushed off the warning from Joint Chiefs […]

Tragic and horrifying accidents happen in the fog of war. Over the past 30 years, the United States has often offered apologies or even cash to the innocent civilian victims of its military strikes gone wrong. Washington expressed regret and paid compensation during the 1999 Kosovo campaign, after the controversial 2001 collision between an American […]

President Trump on Monday seemed shocked—shocked!—at the rapidly growing economic fallout from his war on Iran. U.S. gasoline prices spiked and markets wobbled as  Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE and Iraq announced steeps cut backs on oil and natural gas production. With the Straits of Hormuz effectively closed, France dispatched warships to the region […]

Few tears will be shed if the brutal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is consigned to the dustbin of history. But President Trump’s call for the Iranian people to “keep protesting” and “take over your institutions” because “HELP IS ON ITS WAY” is doubly dangerous. If Trump’s promise of help is kept, the […]

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When Donald Trump addressed an unprecedented gathering of America’s military leadership on Tuesday, he was making his most fervent supporters darkest fears come true. Promising to deploy American troops to cities around the nation in order to “straighten them out one by one,” Trump urged the assembled generals and admirals to use those locations as […]

If the shocking news that President Trump fired U.S. Attorney for Eastern Virginia Erik Siebert sounds oddly familiar, it should. As you may recall, in 2006 and 2007, the Bush administration engaged in a political purge of 9 U.S. prosecutors which a 2008 DOJ Inspector General’s report labeled “arbitrary and “fundamentally flawed.” But as it […]

Just six weeks after firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) over a disappointing monthly employment report, President Donald Trump learned the American job market is even weaker than he thought. In its much more thorough annual jobs assessment released today, BLS revealed that the U.S. created 911,000 fewer jobs in the […]