Author: Gary Wilson

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 […]

The Treasury Department announced April 24 secondary sanctions against Hengli Petrochemical, a private Chinese oil refinery at the port of Dalian with daily processing capacity of about 400,000 barrels. Treasury also sanctioned approximately 40 shipping […]

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 […]

U Vasuki, a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), put the question plainly in Havana in October 2025: Who holds the tool? Who controls it? Whose class does it serve? More than […]

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 […]