“In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.” A broker for Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly tried to make a “big investment” in a bundle of weapons stocks just weeks before the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, an unpopular assault that Hegseth has aggressively championed. Citing three unnamed people familiar with […]
“Republicans in Congress want to cut Americans’ healthcare to pay for more war in Iran. Let that sink in.” “Republicans won’t think twice about *literally* sacrificing you to get their way.” That’s how Democrats on the US House Ways and Means Committee responded to Axios’ Monday reporting on congressional Republicans considering more healthcare cuts to help fulfill President Donald Trump’s request for $200 billion to continue partnering […]
After Trump threatened to “obliterate” Iranian power plants, one Democratic congressman said that “his worsening instability is a clear and growing threat, not only to the American people but to the world.” Democrats in Congress sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian […]
“Sounds like Trump preparing himself an off-ramp and trying to dump the Hormuz mess on others,” said one observer. President Donald Trump on Friday continued to send contradictory messages on his plans for the US-Israeli assault on Iran, declaring that he is not interested in a ceasefire but is nevertheless considering “winding down” the three-week war, […]