President Donald Trump was quick to try and separate himself from Israel’s decision to attack Iran’s South Pars gas field, the largest in the world, which was seen as a significant escalation – posted on social media shortly after the strike that he “knew nothing about this particular attack.”
President Donald Trump finds himself in a quagmire inside Iran that has already killed thousands of people and sent energy prices skyrocketing in the U.S., and his response has been to put on a tough-guy act to hide his growing desperation, WSWS wrote last week.
The decision to go to war with Iran is extremely popular among the Israeli population, according to recent polls, as the media sells the war to the public as a heroic military feat.
Israel’s Mossad presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a proposal before the war broke out with Iran that laid out ways to foment new anti-regime protests in the country that have so far failed to materialize, according to a report.
The missile that injured dozens of civilians in Bahrain was likely fired by a U.S. Patriot battery, which contradicts early claims that the Iranian military resorted to targeting civilians, raising the possibility that the incident was a false flag attack to rally Gulf states against Iran.
Cintas, which supplies businesses with uniforms and maintenance items such as floor mats and mops, will pay $310 a share for Unifirst, a smaller uniform competitor.
The German economy, still struggling to rise out of the recession that gripped it through 2023 and 2024, “had a very weak start to the new year,” Carsten Brzeski, ING’s chief global macroeconomist, wrote to clients last week.
On 13 March, China’s parliament rubber-stamped the Communist Party’s plan to bet the country’s next five years on achieving global dominance in technologies including AI and robotics, both of which are expected to erase millions of jobs.
Nations in the Middle East are losing $600 million a day that tourists would spend if they were still visiting, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).
After squeezing out a 0.1-percent expansion in December, Britain’s economy showed no growth in January, the Office for National Statistics announced last week.