Author: Eric ZUESSE

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Might US Losing Hormuz End The US Empire Like Britain’s Losing The Suez Canal Ended The British Empire?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCGF7gbwBc “The Suez Crisis stopped the British Empire. Will Hormuz defeat the US? | Laleh Khalili | Deja Vu” interview of Laleh Khalili, author of (2020) Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and the even better (2025) Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy […]

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Should Israel Be Expelled From The U.N.?

The slam-dunk legal argument that the answer to that question is yes, and that unless it’s done, the continuing failure to do it “would show that international legal norms, and rules of the UN binding member states, are applied on the basis of double standards: specifically, that states allied to powerful Western […]

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The US-Iran Deal Is Now Dead

On June 29th, the Times of Israel headlined “Hezbollah-allied Lebanese parliament speaker says deal with Israel ‘will not pass’”, and this is like if John Thune the Senate Majority Leader were to announce that a treaty which had been negotiated by the U.S., President would not pass in the U.S. Congress (specifically in […]

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Russia Is Winning The Drone War In Ukraine

The following is from the lone neutralist website in the Ukrainian language, strana.ua, which is blocked in both Ukraine and Russia, but is nonetheless either #1 or #2 as the most frequently visited online news website by Ukrainians: https://stranaua.media/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html https://stranaua-media.translate.goog/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html?_x_tr_sl=uk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://archive.ph/EGIUb “The Day at the Front: Russians in Konstantinovka” 22 […]

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Bürgenstock U.S.-Iran Negotiations Seem Heading To Failure

On Sunday, June 21st, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, met in Bürgenstock at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, with Iran’s delegation, headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to finalize the U.S.-Iran 14-point peace deal that was signed on Wednesday, June […]