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This report details the global fuel shipments that fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It tracks over 21 million tonnes of crude oil and refined fuels delivered to Israel between November 2023 and October 2025, including jet fuel used for military aircrafts....
This report details the global fuel shipments that fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It tracks over 21 million tonnes of crude oil and refined fuels delivered to Israel between November 2023 and October 2025, including jet fuel used for military aircrafts....
Middle Eastern adversaries (click here) are negotiating a way to bypass the Strait of Hormuz
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Trump has a pattern of behavior.
By Jasim Al-Azzawi
...In the 2015 Republican primary, (click here) he faced 16 rivals and the presumptive favourite, Jeb Bush, scion of a dynasty.
Trump reduced him to two words: “low energy”.
Bush never recovered. He turned on Marco Rubio next, mocking his height and his sweat.
Rubio hit back hard.
“A con artist is about to take over the Republican party,” he warned, calling Trump “erratic” and unfit to hold “the nuclear codes”.
It did not matter. Trump won anyway. Rubio, having called him a con man, is now his Secretary of State.
This is the pattern of the Trump era in miniature: the insult, the outrage, the surrender.
The pattern holds abroad, too.
When Iran refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz this spring, Trump did not send a diplomatic cable.
He posted on Truth Social, threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges, and told Tehran’s leaders to open “the... Strait, you crazy (pejorative title)”.
Weeks later, the US president was condescending about Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
This is not diplomacy. It is dominance theatre, performed for an audience that has learned to applaud...
...A growing body of clinicians has tried, for a decade now, to name what they are watching.
Yale-trained forensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee organised dozens of colleagues to warn that Trump showed signs of “malignant normality” – a society persuaded to accept a leader’s false reality simply because he insists on it.
The diagnosis itself is older than Trump. It was coined by Erich Fromm, the German psychoanalyst who fled the Nazis, to describe Hitler and Stalin: grandiosity fused with paranoia, sadism, and an absence of conscience.
Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg later refined the concept.
Harvard historian Elizabeth Lunbeck reached an even harder conclusion: Trump’s narcissism is not an obstacle to his power. It is the source of it.
“His narcissism is a resource for – not an impediment to – his electoral and political success,” she wrote.
Lord Acton said it more simply, a century earlier: power corrupts.
This is where the American story stops being merely American. A president freed from electoral accountability – a second term, no re-election to fear – is a president freed from the last check that mattered....
...In the 2015 Republican primary, (click here) he faced 16 rivals and the presumptive favourite, Jeb Bush, scion of a dynasty.
Trump reduced him to two words: “low energy”.
Bush never recovered. He turned on Marco Rubio next, mocking his height and his sweat.
Rubio hit back hard.
“A con artist is about to take over the Republican party,” he warned, calling Trump “erratic” and unfit to hold “the nuclear codes”.
It did not matter. Trump won anyway. Rubio, having called him a con man, is now his Secretary of State.
This is the pattern of the Trump era in miniature: the insult, the outrage, the surrender.
The pattern holds abroad, too.
When Iran refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz this spring, Trump did not send a diplomatic cable.
He posted on Truth Social, threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges, and told Tehran’s leaders to open “the... Strait, you crazy (pejorative title)”.
Weeks later, the US president was condescending about Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
This is not diplomacy. It is dominance theatre, performed for an audience that has learned to applaud...
...A growing body of clinicians has tried, for a decade now, to name what they are watching.
Yale-trained forensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee organised dozens of colleagues to warn that Trump showed signs of “malignant normality” – a society persuaded to accept a leader’s false reality simply because he insists on it.
The diagnosis itself is older than Trump. It was coined by Erich Fromm, the German psychoanalyst who fled the Nazis, to describe Hitler and Stalin: grandiosity fused with paranoia, sadism, and an absence of conscience.
Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg later refined the concept.
Harvard historian Elizabeth Lunbeck reached an even harder conclusion: Trump’s narcissism is not an obstacle to his power. It is the source of it.
“His narcissism is a resource for – not an impediment to – his electoral and political success,” she wrote.
Lord Acton said it more simply, a century earlier: power corrupts.
This is where the American story stops being merely American. A president freed from electoral accountability – a second term, no re-election to fear – is a president freed from the last check that mattered....
