Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the U.S. Trump administration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/07/world/iran-militias-iraq-disarm-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #iraq #middleeast #iran #us #donaldtrump
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 6, 2025 https://www.byteseu.com/898061/ #Afghanistan #Institute #InstituteForTheStudyOfWar #Iran #Iraq #ISW #Libya #MiddleEast #ORBAT #report #Russia #Security #Study #UkraineProject #War
https://www.europesays.com/1973623/ Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 6, 2025 #Afghanistan #Institute #InstituteForTheStudyOfWar #Iran #Iraq #ISW #Libya #MiddleEast #ORBAT #report #Russia #security #Study #UkraineProject #war
https://www.europesays.com/1973005/ Why OPEC+ is accelerating oil production as prices tank, tariffs hit #BreakingNews:Politics #BusinessNews #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #DonaldTrump #Energy #GoldmanSachsGroupInc #Iraq #kazakhstan #OilAndGas #OilPrice #petroleum #Politics #Russia #SaudiArabia #trade #UnitedArabEmirates #UnitedStates #WorldEconomy
#Bessent said the #pandemic taught us a lesson about destruction of the #SuplyChain (and why we must encourage companies to move *here*.)
That was the DOMESTIC supply chain.
Now they are about to destroy our #IMPORT supply chain. #Round2
I'm reminded of #Dubya invading #Iraq after ignoring the threat that led to 9/11.
They learn the wrong lesson from their F-ups, and respond with an EVEN BIGGER F-up that is even MORE disastrous. 
#DisasterPresidency #TooStupidForPolitics
Every time #Israeli soldiers behead a #Palestinian child & our ruling classes accept this fact, we lose our collective humanity & slowly but surely our society proceeds toward savagery.
h/t #AimeCesaire, who said it best some 70 years ago.
When we learn about the #Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the #dehumanization, the total #domination & the exercise of arbitrary violence.
We feel the terror in our bones.
And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every single day.
" #Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of #Gaza [..] into an enclosed & possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed."
This plan "can be summed up in just two words: #concentrationcamp."
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-concentration-camp-expulsion/
https://www.europesays.com/1971198/ Oil price crashed 13% in 2 days. Will the free fall reorder the global energy landscape? #AlSalazar #BakerHughesCo. #BrentCrude #China #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #DiamondbackEnergyInc #Enverus #europe #germany #Iraq #kazakhstan #OilPrice #opec #petroleum #PresidentDonaldTrump #SaudiArabia #TradeWar #Ukraine
https://www.europesays.com/1968701/ The Dying Land: Iraq’s Environmental Emergency #baghdad #deforestation #desertification #Environment #HighTemperatures #Iraq #pollution #TheDyingLand:Iraq'sEnvironmentalEmergency #WaterScarcity
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 3, 2025 https://www.byteseu.com/891961/ #Afghanistan #Institute #InstituteForTheStudyOfWar #Iran #Iraq #ISW #Libya #MiddleEast #ORBAT #report #Security #Study #Ukraine #UkraineProject #War
https://www.europesays.com/1965975/ $1B expansion: Iraq’s Khor Mor field targets 50% production increase #$1BExpansion:Iraq'sKhorMorFieldTargets50%ProductionIncrease #breaking #Chamchamal #CrescentPetroleum #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #DanaGas #Iraq #KhorMor #oil #OilPrice #PearlPetroleum #petroleum
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 2, 2025 https://www.byteseu.com/889307/ #Afghanistan #Conflicts #Institute #InstituteForTheStudyOfWar #Iran #Iraq #ISW #Libya #MiddleEast #ORBAT #report #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaUkraine #RussianInvasionOfUkraine #RussoUkrainianWar #Security #Study #Ukraine #UkraineProject #War
https://www.europesays.com/1964776/ Iran Targets Dramatic Output Increase From Oil Fields Bordering Iraq #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #Iran #Iraq #oil #OilExports #OilPrice #OilPrices #petroleum #sanctions #upstream #WestKaroun
Still frame from #WikiLeaks "Collateral #Murder" #video, captured moments before U.S. helicopter pilots would go on to #kill #civilians and #journalists in #Iraq in 2007 while casually joking about it. #Whistleblower #ChelseaManning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, none of the perpetrators were charged
