The U.S. Treasury Department has temporarily allowed trade in Iranian oil, according to Bloomberg - and it represents an extraordinarily large concession to Tehran. The exception is set to last 60 days and permits the production, transportation, sale, and purchase of Iranian oil, oil products, and petrochemicals. According to Reuters, it may... (translated)
Iran can perfectly enrich uranium as long as it is at the level specified in the 2015 agreement under enhanced IAEA controls; a limit it has respected until the violation of the agreement by the United States. (translated)
Countries supporting Ukraine have declared the allocation of 1 billion dollars for the supply of weapons under the PURL program, reported after the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. (translated)
Alan Greenspan bade us farewell today. A man who was celebrated as the central bankers' central banker based on the conviction that markets are divine and volatility is a virtue. His epitaph? A singular, glorious confession: “I found a flaw in my model of the world.” A flaw, he #AlanGreenspan #CentralBanking #MarketVolatility #US
At a time when Donald Trump is suffering a painful setback against Iran, his administration is achieving strategic successes in Latin America, a region he seeks to transform into the "backyard" of the United States. Between realpolitik and imperialist nostalgia, is Trump reinventing himself? (translated)
A UN report has revealed that Myanmar's military killed over 700 civilians, including women and children, during a six-month election period last year, emphasizing the ongoing violence and suffering in the country following the 2021 coup and civil war. #MyanmarCrisis #HumanRightsViolations #CivilianCasualties
The Persian comedy continues. Iran and the USA opened the Strait of Hormuz. Bibi went crazy and ordered to bomb Beirut to break the agreement. Iran threatened to close the strait. His Excellency Donald Trump got angry and threatened Israel to cut relations, and warned Iran that if it closes, then... (translated)
Across the Barbed Wire: Cuba, Sanctions, and Survival. In part three of this mini-series exploring Western-backed and Western-involved conflicts from the other side, we turn our attention to a country shaped by decades of sanctions and a tightening US embargo. Liz Oliva #Cuba #Sanctions #Survival #CU #US
DEEP-FRIED ARIA and blah blah blah.... What does Ceccardi say about the United States, which has just bombed Iran for 45 days without being provoked, causing thousands of deaths and destruction worth hundreds of billions (according to Trump) and the rise in the cost of gasoline and diesel? (translated)
There is a certain elegance in the fact that @jackfairweather, author of “The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz”, will now lead the Pilecki Institute’s branch in New York. Fairweather not only knows Pilecki’s story better than almost #JackFairweather #TheVolunteer #PileckiInstitute #US
Schools in Montgomery County, a wealthy liberal suburb of Washington, have been forced to allow opt-out from LGBTQ indoctrination of children after losing a court case. And this is what their representation looks like now at the Pride march. (translated)
Despite escalating threats from President Trump, significant progress was made during 18 hours of talks in Switzerland, where the US and Iran agreed on a mechanism to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and maintain a ceasefire in Lebanon, marking a constructive step toward a more comprehensive agreement. #StraitOfHormuz #USIranRelations #Diplomacy
Thousands of people across Europe will die this week from extreme heat because of #aircophobia—a mix of cultural resistance to air conditioning, climate austerity, and degrowth ideology. In the southern United States and countries like Japan, air-conditioning penetration in https://t.co/7pbZ0IZkR6 #ExtremeHeat #AirConditioning #ClimateCrisis #EU #US #JP
The biggest impact on global wheat production will come from lower yields in the United States. The USDA forecasts a decrease of as much as 12 million tons, resulting in higher grain prices. These will be the lowest yields in over 50 years, as crops have suffered due to drought in the Great Plains. (translated)
Alan Greenspan, the most famous chairman of the Federal Reserve in the history of this institution, has died at the age of 100. (translated)
Sovereign AI. Both America and China increasingly see it as a matter of national security. And governments will want stakes in key companies. For Europe, which has almost nothing of its own in AI, this is a very dangerous development. (translated)
Normally one would have to pay a lot of money to a discreet professional to be humiliated this badly. Watching Trump and his aides sell the deal is in some ways as humiliating as the deal itself. The humiliation is the point. Iran got the United States to sign a document that (translated)
The background of Tulsi Gabbard's political career from the actress was known. Now WaPo had obtained a significant batch of guidelines that Gabbard had received from the cult over the years. (translated)
