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#Oil Hits $100 a Barrel as Turmoil Intensifies in #MiddleEast

The cost of #crude has risen 40% since the start of the #war in #Iran, pushing up the price of #gasoline, #diesel & other refined #fuels.

#economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #energy #EnergyCrisis #Trump #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #ForeverWars #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #USpol #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/business/brent-oil-100-barrel-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1._1A.TaEQ.4QhGmd5ecrsh&smid=nytcore-ios-share

House Republicans’ Absences Could Lead to Trump Losing Key War Powers Vote

📰 Original title: House GOP’s 'attendance problems' threaten Trump with 'high-profile defeat' – and soon

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#politics #housegop #trump #warpowers

#Defense Secy Pete #Hegseth & #JointChiefs of Staff Chair Gen #DanCaine have begun a briefing at the #Pentagon, to discuss the #US #war with #Iran.

Yesterday, #Trump declined to say if the “ceasefire” between the US & Iran remains in place, after both sides fired shots in the #StraitOfHormuz.

Iran has attacked US forces >10 times since the ceasefire went into effect, but that is “below the threshold” for the US to restart combat ops, Gen Dan Caine said Tues.

#IranWar #law #Congress #WarPowers

Oh, please.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5858291-live-updates-donald-trump-iran-war-clock-dhs-funding-midterms/

#foreignPolicy #DonaldTrump #executiveOverreach #Iran #IranWar #TrumpAdministration #USCongress #war #WarPowers #WarPowersAct

Why should a failure to block something amount to a tacit approval? To me, that is an argument from silence, a fallacy, and this war of choice in Iran remains unauthorized by Congress (see https://reason.com/2026/04/16/congress-declines-again-to-rein-in-trumps-iran-war/). Even more ludicrous is why Congress—who decides on which wars to wage—requires a two-thirds majority to overrule a president's veto on a war powers resolution (see INS v. Chadha).

#executiveOverreach #foreignPolicy #Iran #IranWar #TrumpAdministration #USCongress #WarPowers

Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at CSIS, said if the #military has fired >800 #Tomahawks against #Iran, “that would be about a quarter of the total inventory & would leave a large gap for a conflict in the Western Pacific.” His think tank assesses that the Navy may have had as few as 3,100 Tomahawks on hand at the start of the #war a month ago.

“It would take several years to replenish,” Cancian said.

#kakistocracy #idiocracy #TrumpsWar #Trump #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Trump’s Iran Strike Bypasses Congress—A Constitutional Crisis Unfolds

Trump’s strike on Iran bypassed Congress, risked global oil shocks, and reignited impeachment calls over executive war powers.

Class Warfare’s Global Genocide: How Trump, Netanyahu, and Elites Drive Endless War

Wars in Gaza, Iran tensions, and sanctions on Cuba reveal a global system where elites preserve power at the expense of ordinary people. The public must confront the truth behind these conflicts.

#Trump finally entered the East Room of the White House 45 minutes late to give his first public remarks about the war he’s launched on #Iran. His chief of staff, #SusieWiles & #JointChiefs Chair Gen #DanCaine are there.

Trump said the #US #military “continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran.”

#war #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/8182…

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Sen. #TammyDuckworth (D-IL)∶ If it's true that we are not at #war with #Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime #AlienEnemiesAct?

#MarcoRubio∶ That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger

Duckworth∶ It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?

Rubio∶ No.

#geopolitics #law #immigration #DueProcess #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #oil #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

Where many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, caveated or outsourced to #legal abstractions about the #UNCharter, European leaders on Tuesday came out with uncommonly forceful rebukes about the #Trump admin’s greediness on #Greenland.



#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw