US crude drops below US$20 a barrel as broken market drowns in oil

SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) – Crude dropped to its lowest in 17 years on Monday (March 30) as coronavirus lockdowns cascaded through the world’s largest economies, leaving the market overwhelmed by cratering demand and an unmanageable surplus. Futures in London fell as much as 7.6 per cent to their lowest since November 2002 while also slumping in […]

Netanyahu aide reportedly tests positive for coronavirus

Prime minister met with adviser on ultra-Orthodox affairs Rivka Paluch on Thursday, raising concerns he may have been exposed to the virus By TOI staff 30 March 2020, 1:59 am t   An adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who met with the premier on Thursday has reportedly tested positive for the novel coronavirus, raising concerns […]

North Korea Tests ‘Super-Large’ Rocket Launcher, Test Appears Successful – Reports

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The two short-range projectiles fired by North Korea on Sunday were a test of a ‘super-large’ multiple rocket launcher, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reports. “The test-firing was successfully carried out,” Yonhap said on Monday, quoting the North Korean Rodong Sinmun newspaper. According to the North’s official newspaper, the Sunday test […]

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq debate best way to defeat US

While these groups say they are ready to fight the Americans, leaders are reticent to show their faces in public, fearing US drone strikes. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MARCH 29, 2020 11:53 Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq are at a crossroads amid rising tensions with the US. Over the weekend several activists affiliated with Asaib Ahl […]

US tells citizens wishing to leave Israel to act quickly

US embassy warns citizens in Israel that their options for exiting the country are dwindling. Nitzan Keidar , 29/03/20 The United States informed its citizens of restrictions on leaving Israel and urged those who wish to leave to do so at their earliest convenience. “As of today, the only available commercial flight departing from Ben […]

Arab world on verge of collapse as Gulf States blame Iran

With the Arab world enveloped in a struggle for survivual, local regimes’ biggest fears are coming to fruition. Eitan Divinsky , 29/03/20 20:11 According to a report that appeared in Israel Hayom today, The Arab world has seen its fair share of the international scourge known as coronavirus. It’s enough to take a look at […]

59–The 75 Day Interval

Now that the Devil, Satan also known as the serpent, or here in chapter twenty-seven as leviathan has been subdued the Millennial Kingdom almost ready to start. God placed him in the abyss for the entire thousand-year period of the Messianic Kingdom. Our Lord now begins, In that day to describe His chosen people in terms […]

The US-led Coalition has now left three bases in Iraq: Qaim, Q-West and K-1

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The US-led Coalition handed over an area of K-1 Air Base on Sunday, the third post in a week handed over to Iraqi Security Forces. This is officially part of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) “repositioning” in Iraq. It comes amid tensions with pro-Iranian groups, and […]

ANALYSIS: Iranian axis in Iraq preparing for war with US

Iran is not scaling back support for terrorists across Middle East despite astronomic death toll within the Islamic Republic from COIV-19. Yochanan Visser , 29/03/20  As Iran is still figuring out how to deal with the huge coronavirus crisis in the Islamic Republic and tries to hide the full scope of the pandemic, it continues […]

German minister commits suicide after ‘coronavirus crisis worries’

<!– –> Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday. PHOTO: FILE FRANKFUT AM MAIN:  Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said Sunday. Schaefer, 54, was […]