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Mar 13, 2026 5 min read

US promise to escort Hormuz tankers is more market theatre than military plan

Treasury's pledge to escort tankers when "militarily possible" calms markets; the Navy is not yet ready, and the gap is…

World Desk

4 min read

Oil traders quietly bet Hormuz risk will enrich a few and squeeze everyone else

Hormuz volatility is rewarding hedge funds and energy majors while consumers and import-dependent economies absorb higher prices and rationing.

Business Desk

4 min read

Hormuz escort plan shows how close US and Iran already are to a misfire war

U.S. escort plans would put Navy ships and Iranian forces in the same narrow, mined waterway—one misread blip away from…

World Desk

4 min read

Billy Joel’s illness exposes how brutally the music industry treats aging legends

Billy Joel's NPH diagnosis and cancelled tours expose how little protection even superstars have when illness meets an industry built…

Entertainment Desk

4 min read

Alexa Ray Joel’s career proves music nepotism still demands a brutal emotional tax

Behind the Billy Joel health headlines, his daughter is building a career in the shadow of his legacy and illness—music…

Entertainment Desk

6 min read

Winnipeg plasma deaths show regulators still treat donors as data points, not patients

Two people who died after donating plasma at for-profit centres in Winnipeg have forced Health Canada and provincial officials to…

Science Desk

6 min read

Quebec’s stalled lithium project reveals who actually profits from green subsidies

When Rio Tinto and its partner slowed construction of a lithium processing plant in Bécancour, Quebec, they framed the move…

Environment Desk

6 min read

Kharg Island war talk shows how fragile the world’s oil addiction really is

Talk of seizing Iran’s Kharg Island has taken a technical-sounding energy story and turned it into a stress test of…

Business Desk

6 min read

Why banks like JP Morgan quietly game out war plans for oil chokepoints

When JP Morgan warned in March 2026 that a U.S.-Israeli move to seize Iran’s Kharg Island could send the oil…

Business Desk

5 min read

Kharg Island scenarios prove climate plans still ignore the next oil shock

When JP Morgan warned in March 2026 that a US-Israel seizure of Iran’s Kharg Island would worsen the global oil…

Environment Desk