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China has directly challenged the U.S. sanctions campaign against Iran, ordering all Chinese firms and individuals to ignore U.S. penalties targeting five oil refineries accused of buying Iranian crude. China’s Ministry of Commerce invoked its […]

The petrodollar system took shape in the 1970s, sealed by Henry Kissinger. Saudi oil would be sold in dollars, Washington would protect the brutal Saudi monarchy, and Gulf oil profits would flow back into U.S. […]

The USS George H.W. Bush did not take the direct route to the war zone near Iran. The nuclear-powered supercarrier left Norfolk, Virginia, on March 31, then sailed more than 11,000 miles around the Cape […]

For 55 years, Washington had a power no other government had. It could buy from the world, borrow from the world and wage war around the world with dollars it controlled. Other countries needed dollars […]

Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on April 7. The company described the model as too powerful for general release. It said Mythos had discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems and web browsers. […]

On April 19, U.S. forces boarded and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz. In the days that followed, Iranian forces seized cargo vessels attempting to transit the Strait without authorization. On […]

The United Arab Emirates has asked Washington for a financial lifeline — and threatened to start selling oil in Chinese yuan if it does not get one. That is a contradiction of Trump’s war on […]