UK’s Keir Starmer reiterates that his country wants no part of the blockade of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. 
Oil prices and other commodities are surging back to levels before the ceasefire with the potential of the cost of petrol to double, the failure of the talks attributed at least in part to Israeli pressure wanting the fighting to continue until they’ve finished the job decapitating Hezbollah, a claim put forward during the war in Gaza despite evidence to the contrary like Trump’s boasts of eliminating the capacity for Tehran to respond militarily or conduct nuclear research and development and looking for any pretext for walking out. Following Leo XIV’s criticism of warmongering, Trump launched into an extraordinary attack on the Pope, accusing him of being bad at his job and to “stop catering to the Radical Left” adding he is weak on crime and does not want a spiritual leader who thinks that it is acceptable for Iran to pursue its nuclear ambitions.
synchronoptica
one year ago: standing up to Nazis (with synchronopticรฆ), Freelandia airlines, a new music video from OK Go plus a bleak series about incel culture
thirteen years ago: eurozone instability plus a visit to Bad Soden-Salmรผnster
fifteen years ago: quantitative easing
sixteen years: the right to be forgot
