The War Against Iran, Up Close and Personal (and All Too Far Away)
The story Washington wants you to believe is simple. The Iran war broke the Persian Gulf’s economy, and the US is throwing its allies a lifeline. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) called the proposed UAE dollar swap line a financial backstop. The Financial Times (FT) called it a rescue. CNBC called it a bailout. The real question is who gets access to the Fed’s gates, and on what political terms.
The Tisza leader campaigned as ‘Orbán 2.0,’ but days into office, he launched a Tusk-style parliamentary coup, purging conservatives, shutting down state media, and surrendering to Brussels on migration and foreign policy.
Tucker Carlson, like any genius in the media world, has an uncanny knack for zeroing in on men and mice who have something ‘original’ to contribute. His interview late February with the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, an ex-Baptist minister and Donald Trump loyalist in the Republican Party, was one such fascinating encounter.
Social media panic is barely disguised mainstream media self-defense.
Israel pursues its own interests; can America?
The United Arab Emirates says it has dismantled an Iran-linked “terrorist organisation” targeting the Muslim Shia community of the UAE. But the evidence made public so far tells a different story — one that raises serious questions about whether these arrests are part of a widening crackdown on dissent against the US-Israeli backed war against Iran which the UAE is involved in, masked as counterterrorism.
