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Nov 14, 2026 - World

Independent journalist Caitlin Johnstone ridiculed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after he vowed on live television Friday that alleged Iranian death threats would not intimidate him.Appearing on CNBC, Bessent confirmed reports that he had left his home for a military base on Secret Service instructions amid the U.S. war with Iran. “F the Iranian leadership,” Bessent said, which Johnstone likened to a “little kid describing something he heard a grownup say.”Bessent argued the threats showed that Operation Economic Outcast — Treasury’s campaign against those doing business with Iran, launched in August — is succeeding, and he compared Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to “a dangerous cornered animal.” He also noted that U.S. troops in the Gulf and President Donald Trump routinely face death threats. Tehran has denied plotting attacks against officials on U.S. soil, according to Arab News.In an analysis published on Substack Friday night, Johnstone argued that it was “hilarious to see this mummified bureaucrat posturing as a tough guy for the cameras and acting like he’s being unjustly targeted by an evil regime.”“You don’t get to start an unprovoked war of aggression, assassinate the leaders of a sovereign nation, massacre schoolchildren, deliberately target civilian infrastructure, deliberately immiserate the entire population with the goal of provoking civil war, and then posture as an innocent widdle victim if you get back what you dished out,” Johnstone wrote.Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald issued a similarly brutal condemnation of Bessent’s commentary.“Oh my god I started a war against a country and killed their leaders and blew up their schools and bridges and massacred their kids and now I am morally outraged that I feel [scared] and moved to a military base because of what they might do in response,” Greenwald mockingly wrote in a social media post on X.At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Bessent credited U.S. sanctions with collapsing Iran’s economy, calling the effort “economic statecraft. No shots fired.” Weeks later, he told the Senate Banking Committee that Treasury had engineered a dollar shortage that tanked Iran’s currency and helped drive protesters into the streets. Iran’s crackdown on those protests left at least 7,000 people dead, NPR reported.

Nov 14, 2026 - World

People around the world have contended with unprecedented weather events and their fatal effects caused by the climate catastropheAfter the world’s hottest summer since records began in 1850, the death toll from extreme weather in 2026 is already in the high tens of thousands. That is a conservative estimate and is certain to rise much higher.As Cop31 continues and scientists warn that climate breakdown may be accelerating, the Guardian looks back at a year of droughts, fires and floods as a reminder that, unless the world takes urgent action to cut emissions, this disastrous year will be one of the best of the rest of our lives. Continue reading...

Nov 14, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump has had a lot to say about his thinking on the way ahead in the Iran war since Republicans were trounced in last week's midterm elections.

Nov 14, 2026 - World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. has raised the idea of a new postwar security framework for Europe

Nov 14, 2026 - World

Prime ministerial hopeful calls Arab minority ‘an integral part of the Israeli story’ as he seeks to form governmentIsraeli prime ministerial hopeful Gadi Eisenkot condemned a “racist and aggressive campaign of delegitimisation” against the country’s Arab citizens, after the caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Arab parties of electoral fraud without evidence.Netanyahu has repeatedly targeted Arab parties and Palestinian citizens of Israel after his party received a disappointing electoral showing, accusing them of manipulating the election and being linked to Hamas. Israeli electoral authorities have rejected these claims as not being backed by evidence. Continue reading...