Nation Topics - Persian Gulf | The Nation

How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

What history should teach us about blockading Iran.

How the big energy companies plan to turn the United States into a third world petro-state.

Why twenty-first century oil will break the bank—and the planet.

From liberation to assassination, in three quick rounds.

Why closing the Strait of Hormuz could ignite a war and a global depression.

What if the role of the new US special operations team at work near Iran were reversed?

The three top hot spots of potential conflict in the coming Geo-Energy Era.

How two wars in the Greater Middle East revealed the weakness of the global superpower.

The proverbial bogeymen of our world—Osama, Saddam, Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad—are clearly meant to act like so many mini-black holes absorbing all our fears.  But they won’t save the West from its decline, or the former sole superpower from its comeuppance.