In the endless parade of Fox News neocons, Ari Fleisher, the press secretary who helped George W. Bush gaslight the American people into the Iraq War, explained recently that while Donald Trump appears to have desisted from fresh attacks on Iran, he’s merely buying time, “waiting to get the correct military options in place.” Stating the obvious was only a prelude to war fomenting. Fomenting is always next. Fleischer offers up the latest regime-change rationale, today’s equivalent of the old Iraqi WMD lies: “Iran is responsible for killing more Americans than any other nation that is in...

Once again, the U.S. global military empire is the father of the fear that it propagates. And this time it’s right here in our own backyard. Just as freezing Russia’s dollar assets has encouraged foreign central banks’ gold accumulation and driven global de-dollarization, leading to President Donald Trump’s veiled threats against those that turn their back on the weaponized dollar, sanctions on Venezuela’s oil production and markets made certain the growing presence of Iran, Russia, and China in our hemisphere. By restricting Venezuela’s access to U.S. capital markets and halting oil imports...