The US is about to drive a massive stake into the South Caucasus.   A leaked claim about control of the Syunik corridor may or may not be true – but the conditions for it are rapidly falling into place.

Bats, ballads, and brutal honesty: Remembering Ozzy Osbourne.   Will the Prince of Darkness, who dreamed of light, find peace?

Fact check: Could Trump’s trade tariffs pay off the US deficit? 
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says tariffs will plug US finances, but experts say it’s unlikely.

Why this American vassal is suddenly defying its master.  
Australia has refused to go to war with China over Taiwan.

The snowflakes of information war: How the New York Times sinned by honesty.   Ukraine’s supporters are up in arms over a factual and neutral – for a change – report on the aftermath of the failed Kursk invasion.

Trump dumps a pile of MLK files. Why not the Epstein files?   
Trump releases Martin Luther King Jr’s FBI files amid backlash over withholding Epstein documents, fuelling claims of selective transparency.

Two bald men fighting over a comb: The UK–Germany ‘alliance’.   The Berlin-London ‘deal’ is a farce, but one that aligns with regions’s decline.

The age of American nuclear privilege is over.  The West fears nuclear equality – because it fears losing control.

Why Trump’s attacks on Jerome Powell are raising fears for the US economy. 
The US president’s broadsides against the Fed chair have prompted concern about the independence of the US central bank.

Source: Al Jazeera

The superhero film genre is on a decline, and so is American empire. 
The patriotic, liberal values that superhero movies embody no longer seem to resonate with a divided, pessimistic American public.  
Source: Al Jazeera