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From the Straits of Hormuz to the skies over Tel Aviv, the US-Iran deal to end the war isn't a diplomatic triumph, it's a strategic defeat on the scale of Vietnam – and the world knows it.

From Obama’s $850m gravitas block to Trump’s planned vaults, these libraries mock us with self-important, self-worship.

The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the global south, says Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Chris Hedges in his latest Substack piece.

Two presidential visits to the Chinese capital for two summits with the Chinese president. Brian Green reports on two very different outcomes for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

On May Day, artist, poet and writer Gordon Liddle offers some apposite reflections on Iran and other oncoming supply catastrophes.

There is an ongoing debate about whose strategic interests the US/Israel war serves. Is the Israeli tail wagging the US dog or do the US war aims fit into a broader global power struggle? Brian Green says that US interests will prevail in the region and quite possibly at Israel’s expense.

There is an ongoing debate about whose strategic interests the US/Israel war serves. Is the Israeli tail wagging the US dog or do the US war aims fit into a broader global power struggle? Here, John Bernard argues that Israel is calling most of the shots.