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Risk faced by supertankers in Strait of Hormuz is making oil shipping more expensive than space flight

From elsewhere — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:30:10 +0000

Bloomberg reports: As US President Donald Trump threatens renewed attacks against Iran, Tehran’s intermittent strikes on commercial vessels have left the two sides locked in a painful economic standoff. For Iran, the US blockade of its oil exports has snuffed out a key part of its military funding and severely hobbled the $300 billion economy, with only a tiny fraction of the prewar 2 million barrels per day are leaving the country via land routes. And for the US, the...

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Gulf states must rethink trillion-dollar defence in light of U.S.-Iran war, IISS reports says

From elsewhere — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:46:29 +0000

The Guardian reports: Gulf states are going to have to reconfigure their trillion-dollar defences given the damage inflicted on their economies and the questionable continued value of US bases in the face of Iranian attack, according to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The report says that in the weeks before the 8 April ceasefire, 12 regional states, overwhelmingly in the Gulf, faced 4,670 Iranian one-way attack drones and more than 1,400 ballistic missiles. Nearly half were...

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Trump claims Iran war will end ‘when I want it to’ as costs reportedly balloon to $47 billion

From elsewhere — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:19:36 +0000

CNBC reports: U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his claim that the Iran war will end “whenever I want it to,” but insists that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Speaking at a rally in Lubbock, Texas, Trump said “Somebody asked me before, ‘When will the war in Iran end?’ I said, ‘Whenever I want it to end.’” Trump said it “would be very quick, but we have to have an end properly,” with a “total statement” that Iran would...

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How Trump is profiting from the war in Iran

From elsewhere — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:12:02 +0000

CBS reports: As President Trump boasts about how much money the U.S. oil and gas industry is making from the war with Iran, the president’s personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5 million and $81.6 million, compared with $12.6 million to $46 million at the end of 2025, according to a new report by Democrats on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. The stocks the president holds have increased in value by an average of 43% since...

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Israelis risk nuclear annihilation if they don’t re-elect him, Netanyahu warns

From elsewhere — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:11:44 +0000

The Guardian reports: Benjamin Netanyahu has resorted to increasingly alarmist rhetoric and reportedly put pressure on Israel’s military to take action against Iran as his far-right coalition narrowly trails in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s close-run elections. The Israeli prime minister posted an AI-generated image of a nuclear mushroom cloud destroying Tel Aviv, telling Israeli voters to choose him or risk nuclear annihilation. “Anyone who cares about their own physical existence, that of their family, and their loved ones should...

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What cooperatives for an anticapitalist peace look like

From elsewhere — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:10:36 +0000

Azize Aslan writes: When I was seven years old, my family was forced to flee escalating violence. We left Bakur – a Kurdish region in what is currently southeastern Turkey – for a city further west, where we worked in Turkish fields, living in a tent until we could save up to rent a house on the city margins, in a neighbourhood with no electricity or road access. Those are some of my earliest memories of everyday violence against people...

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The war in Iran enters a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel

From elsewhere — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:58:18 +0000

The New York Times reports: Inside the Trump administration, officials are expressing fears that Iran is in the “advanced stages” of planning attacks against U.S. officials. More than 6,000 miles away, the Iranians appear convinced that Israel and the United States are preparing to unleash their third major attack in 16 months, a final push to force Iran to surrender to U.S. demands. The conflict in the Middle East has entered a new phase in which a maelstrom of factors,...

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Iran has ramped up efforts to target U.S. personnel, intelligence memo warns

From elsewhere — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:36:32 +0000

Reuters reports: Iran has ramped up efforts to target US personnel, and lethal plots by Tehran against American citizens have reached “advanced stages”, a senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a memo seen ‌by Reuters. The alert from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton came after Washington scaled back staffing at its mission in Saudi Arabia earlier this week in response to intensified attacks by Iran-allied Houthi forces. Those attacks on one front of the nearly eight-month-old...

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The CIA director in the middle of Trump’s deeply conflicted Ukraine policy

From elsewhere — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:17:53 +0000

Shane Harris writes: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have never enjoyed a warm relationship, or even a stable one. But last week, it hit a new low. Trump called on the Ukrainian people to elect a new president, describing Zelensky as “more difficult to deal with” than Vladimir Putin. He accused Zelensky of prolonging Ukraine’s war with Russia. “He says he wants to settle, but he doesn’t,” Trump told Newsmax, without mentioning that it was Putin who started the war...

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Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine

From elsewhere — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:26:29 +0000

Kyiv Independent reports: Ukraine’s military Starlink service is still operating at a speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour, a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. The official’s statement contradicts claims quoted by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which reported on Oct. 22 that Starlink functionality was back to normal in Ukraine following a phone call between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump called Musk on Oct. 21 to request he lift restrictions...

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