President Donald Trump said he is moving closer to ordering a massive attack on Iran. He also said the US does not currently need Israel’s assistance to wage the war. “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a...
A 500% tariff on anyone who does business with Russia sounds like “strength” until you follow the blast radius. We walk through the revived Graham sanctions bill and why secondary sanctions can punish far more than the intended target, from US partners and global...
Updated casualty figures from Iranian strikes on US bases in the Middle East last week have increased. Three US soldiers were killed at a US base in Jordan that was hit by an Iranian missile. Additionally, an American was killed in Iraq while attempting to destroy...
President Donald Trump plans to sign a nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that will provide the Middle East kingdom with access to nuclear technology from the US, with limited inspections. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the White House is prepared...
President Donald Trump said that he would order strikes on Iranian bridges and power plants in response to attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether...
The official story is simple. The timeline is not. We take a hard look at the reporting around Senator Lindsey Graham’s death and ask a basic question that gets skipped too often in political news: does the schedule even work. With Larry Johnson back on the show,...
The US intelligence community has briefed President Donald Trump that bombing Iran is unlikely to change Tehran’s positions in negotiations to end the war. Last week, the US resumed major military operations against Iran, including bombing civilian infrastructure....
Israeli Finance Minister Betzel Smotrich said that Tel Aviv was not interested in rejoining the war against Iran. Multiple outlets have reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced President Donald Trump to start the war. “The State of Israel...
President Donald Trump suggested he would relaunch his war on Yemen if Ansar Allah follows through on its pledge to prevent Saudi shipping through the Bab al-Mandab. Last year, Trump ordered a massive bombing campaign against Yemen in an effort to break Ansar...
Calling it a “lab leak” makes the story feel tidy, but the real scandal might be the system that makes lab-origin disasters plausible in the first place. We sit down with independent journalist Sam Husseini to unpack gain-of-function research, why “potentially...
Ansar Allah announced that Yemen will begin preventing Saudi ships from transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Riyadh has relied on its Red Sea ports to export oil following Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the Yemeni Armed Forces said it was...
President Donald Trump posted a poll that found over 60% of Americans support the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the US and Iran last month. Last week. Trump said he “couldn’t care less” that Iran terminated the MOU. When asked by Big Data Poll if they...
