My Thoughts on the Iran Situation

Troy Southgate Jun 18, 2025 SOME years ago I wrote a 300-page biography of Ruhollah Khomeini, as I wanted to present the political. social and economic aspects of Revolutionary Iran as I saw them during the 1970s and 1980s. With modern-day Tehran currently trading blows with the genocidal […]

California’s Zombie Bullet Train

June 18, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, Nearly two decades ago, a futuristic 800-mile connection from Los Angeles to San Francisco was sold to California voters. It was supposed […]

‘Unconditional Surrender’

‘Unconditional Surrender’ Plus: how many Iranians are there anyway, polling shows minimal support for a war with Iran, and more… CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI Israel says it struck more Iranian nuclear sites Wednesday morning. The Israeli military has said that 50 of its warplanes struck targets across the Iranian capital of Tehran, including […]

Trump’s Iran Lies EXPOSED!

ran is in a vulnerable spot for a variety of reasons, and Israel sees this as a stars-aligning moment to decapitate the Iranian state. But if the U.S. helps out, we’ll face the same questions we did with Iraq and Afghanistan: Who will run the place? As Tucker […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 6/18/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Electroneum, Presearch, World Mobile Token, Gains Network, Fuel Network and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio June 18th, 2025   Volatility […]

Israel Attacks Iran

Why Israel attacked Iran, why President Trump might bring US forces into the campaign, and why discourse on the nationalist right has grown so wild and embittered. Yoram Hazony Jun 17, 2025 In the early hours of Friday, June 13, Israel began directly striking the Iranian nuclear program […]

Two Senile Retards Fighting

America Should Disengage from the Middle East Bronze Age Pervert Jun 17, 2025   I think the kinds of people who like “geopolitical” commentary are like old men at Balkan cafes who want to slam their umbrellas or canes on the pavement while screaming to each other about […]

MAGA Has Reached a Crossroads in Iran

By Ross Barkan, a political columnist for Intelligencer June 17, 2025 27 Comments Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Marjorie Taylor Greene, as usual, was furious. “Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA,” she posted on X. “We have […]

Israel and Iran’s Death Struggle

Actors Trapped In A Drama Scripted by History Tim Pendry Jun 17, 2025 Perhaps we should be talking of a ‘Crisis of the Week’. Something new appears almost mechanically, indicating perhaps the extent of a far more systemic global crisis where all the players operate like clockwork automatons. […]

Grand Martial

This week for the NYR Online, Linda Kinstler writes a dispatch from the “Army Birthday Festival,” the military parade in Washington, D.C., that Donald Trump convened last weekend to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the army’s founding and, as it happens, the seventy-ninth anniversary of Trump’s birth. [It] had […]

‘Evacuate Tehran’

‘Evacuate Tehran’ Plus: A bipartisan effort to prevent American involvement in the war, ICE workplace raids to begin again, and more… ERIC BOEHM President Donald Trump warned Iranians to “immediately evacuate Tehran” in a Monday afternoon post on Truth Social, raising the prospect of a major escalation in the ongoing war […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 6/17/2025

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DEBATE: John Mearsheimer & Yoram Hazony on Israel vs. Iran

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sits down with John Mearsheimer and Yoram Hazony to discuss the Israel-Iran conflict. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/debat… Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page In this two-part UnHerd TV episode, Editor-in-Chief Freddie Sayers delves into the volatile Iran-Israel crisis, presenting contrasting, thought-provoking analyses from […]