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A Masterclass in Talking Past Each Other and Missing the Real Question. · Geert Vanden Bossche · I watch with growing dismay how vaccine zealots and vaccine critics continue to argue stubbornly, often bitterly, in an endless attempt to prove each other wrong. To an outside observer, the spectacle has become increasingly absurd. Both sides appear convinced they are defending science, yet they largely talk past one another. · The…

Trump might be receptive to Putin’s speculative peace plan for ending the Gulf and Ukrainian Conflicts at once in order for the global energy market to recover in time for early November’s midterms. · Andrew Korybko · Trump and Putin spoke for the first time this year on Monday in a conversation that touched upon the Third Gulf War, the content of which Putin’s senior aide Yury Ushakov described as “very substantive” and “useful”, among other…

Alex Krainer · To defeat U.S. and Israel, Iran does not have to win the ongoing war in the Middle East. They only need to survive and it looks like they are more than surviving. This shouldn’t surprise anyone paying even casual attention to the events. · According to The Washington Post, US intelligence community produced a classified assessment of the situation shortly before the US and Israel launched their military operations…

Published by Tyler Durden - Via Rabobank, · Anybody thinking US payrolls, even at -92K, matters much in the current environment is probably at the head of the queue to be replaced by an AI soon. That data series is always volatile and 2.5m undocumented workers are estimated to have left the US since Trump was re-elected: 394K foreign-born workers lost their jobs in the reported month while the native-born series rose 877K, albeit after a…

He hopes to prove Ukraine’s worth in defending against Iranian drones so that NATO’s Eastern Flank then agrees to his earlier proposal for swapping some US troops with Ukrainian ones to defend against Russian drones as the quid pro quo for the bloc deploying troops to Ukraine after the conflict ends. · Andrew Korybko · Zelensky confirmed in an interview with the New York Times that he dispatched Ukrainian drone experts and interceptor drones …

Trump's "we will remember" post wasn't aimed at Starmer — it was aimed at the City of London. Lloyd's engineered oil spike, Chatham House's legal theatrics, and the offshore laundering network are all under assault. The special relationship is over. · Barbara Boyd · Barbara Boyd argues President Trump’s Truth Social post aimed not to humiliate Keir Starmer but to warn the City of London, claiming Britain stayed out of the Iran…

What was the godless imperial power in John's Revelation of the end of the world? · John Leake · John of Patmos, the author of the Book of Revelation, was a Jewish Christian who was probably from Galilee. Long identified as John the Apostle, modern scholars now believe he was a different man. Aramaic was his native language. but like John the Apostle, he wrote his contribution to the New Testament in Greek. · The Gospel of John is…

Key Markets report for Monday, 9 March 2026 · Alex Krainer · President Trump’s war of choice against Iran has focused the world’s attention on the strategic importance of the region, like nobody’s ever seen before. · Even casual consumers of the news flow knew that a large chunk of the global oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz and that any disruption to maritime traffic there would send the oil price soaring well into…

Gold is being sold to meet margin calls, but a tweak to margin requirements is being seen by some as a signal for gold to be the pressure valve By Henry Johnston, a Moscow-based writer who worked in finance for over a decade https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/henry-johnston/ · ©  Getty Images/Oselote · [RT] The moment we all wondered about has come. Oil has surged past $100 per barrel and markets are coming under serious…

The Israeli army says it will target Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s successors amid the ongoing war in the Middle East · FILE PHOTO. ©  Global Look Press / David Silverman · [RT] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has threatened to assassinate anyone who replaces the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader. · Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials were killed in the first wave of US‑Israeli airstrikes…