A professor makes a $500 campaign donation and suddenly gets cast as the “most important man in America” pulling congressional strings. That absurd story is the perfect doorway into what we really care about here: how narratives get manufactured, why propaganda...
A semi-official Iranian outlet reported that Tehran is demanding that Washington agree to release $24 billion in frozen funds as part of an agreement to end the war. According to an official speaking with Tasnim, Iran is requesting that half of the funds, $12...
US Central Command said reports that the Navy is escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported speaking with US military officials who said the Navy quietly resumed the operation to escort ships through the...
A top US military official told their European counterparts that Washington plans to provide NATO with fewer warplanes, drones, and refueling tankers. The German outlet Der Spiegel reports that Department of War official Alexander Velez-Green briefed high-ranking...
Trump’s China summit gets sold as strength, but the details tell a different story. We dig into what the U.S. says it achieved versus what China actually signals afterward, especially on Iran and regional security. From our seat, the big issue is leverage: if...
President Donald Trump conditioned the Iran peace deal on several Muslim nations joining the Abraham Accords. The Accords are a series of agreements that gave incentives to Muslim nations to improve relations with Israel. “Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that President Donald Trump agreed that any peace agreement with Iran must include Tehran abandoning nuclear enrichment. “President Trump and I agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate the nuclear...
President Donald Trump said that there was progress in talks with Iran towards a peace agreement. “The negotiations are proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner, and I have informed my representatives not to rush into a deal in that time is on our side,”...
A senior Israeli military official said that the peace proposal being discussed by the US and Iran is a bad deal for Israel. Ynet reports a senior official in the IDF said that the peace proposal being negotiated between the US and Israel would be “a bad deal for...
The US fired hundreds of its most advanced interceptors to protect Israel from Iranian missiles during the first five weeks of the war. According to a Department of War assessment described to The Washington Post, the US used 200 Terminal High Altitude Area...
The US intelligence community believes that Iran is reconstructing its military facilities at a surprising pace. CNN reported on Thursday, speaking with four US officials familiar with intelligence that indicates that Iran has rebuilt its military production...
President Donald Trump said he was giving Iran one more opportunity to submit a workable proposal to end the war. “We’d have to open the [Strait of Hormuz]. That would open immediately,” the President told reporters on Wednesday. “So...
