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Aram Roston

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13
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Aram Roston

    Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors (opens the original)

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    Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentagon defense board raises conflict of interest concerns By installing the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to advisory roles in a Pentagon project about the future of warfare, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, bestowed extraordinary influence on two of Maga’s most significant campaign donors – and both men own companies that benefit from federal defense contracting. The new project, which Hegseth dubbed “Project Meri

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Aram Roston

    The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’ (opens the original)

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    The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented Donald Trump has long coveted the oilfields of other nations and declared an agreement with Venezuela to be “the biggest oil deal in world history”. But the deal, reached after the US seized Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, is almost certainly doomed to collapse amid a wide array of legal and logistical issues, a Guardian investigation has found. The U

  3. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Aram Roston

    Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm (opens the original)

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    Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m The top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial intelligence policy, who reaped profits earlier this year of up to $24m selling his private investment in Elon Musk’s AI company, has now sold his holdings in another AI company for between $5m and $25m, according to records seen by the Guardian. (Federal financial records show ra

  4. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Aram Roston

    Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal (opens the original)

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    Exclusive: Experts and former officials say accounts are running dry, and funding a war with no clear endgame is the main challenge Donald Trump’s war on Iran has driven the US military into a severe financial crisis, with the US navy forced to transfer money from its payroll and other sources to cover the costs of combat, according to documents seen by the Guardian, and interviews with navy officials, contractors and defense analysts. The US-Israeli operation, which has depleted US munitions

  5. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Aram Roston

    Crypto bank part-owned by Trump family offers depositors way to ‘gain favor’ with White House, experts say (opens the original)

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    Democrats have called World Liberty Financial Trust Company a stark example of corruption but officials claim there is no insider dealing Two fundamentals underpin the business model of a new crypto bank partly owned by the Trump family. The first is that there is almost no risk it can lose money, according to cryptocurrency experts – and the second, they say, is that the sole logical motivation for depositors to put in their funds is the prospect of a financial connection to a US president an

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