Oil prices are volatile and sky high as the U.S. and Israel continue to bomb and attack Iran,

killing Iranians and Americans.

Trump has said the war will end soon, but Israel just launched more attacks.

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organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, including understanding capitalism,

which is available at democracy at work.info. So as I said in the intro, Richard, oil prices have been sky high, except for when Trump

recently said this war will end, but new Israeli attacks shot prices right back up again.

So the way I'm hearing this, the way I'm reading this, the way I'm seeing this, is essentially

this administration and this Congress are working

with war criminal Netanyahu to bomb a huge and powerful adversary, starting a war that has

killed 1,200 people in U.S. Israeli attacks, including 198 women and 190 children, and now seven

American soldiers. This war has also shot oil and gas prices way up, despite that Iran and the U.S.

were in the middle of negotiations that Oman, the third party said were going well.

And despite that U.S. wasn't able to win in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Vietnam.

Is that right?

Absolutely.

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