Monthly Archives: March 2026

March 31, 2026

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Invulnerable Golden Dome
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Michael Hudson and Steve Keen: How the Global Crisis Will Unfold
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/31/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Iran War: Trump Threatens Destruction of Iran Electric Generation and Oil Wells Even as WSJ Reports Temporary TACO on Trying to Force Open Strait of Hormuz
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• Where Does Russia’s Just-in-Time Energy Lifeline Leave Cuba?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Five Reasons Why the US Declined To Enforce Its De Facto Blockade on Cuba for Russia
  by Yves Smith 5:24 am

March 30, 2026

• Coffee Break: Moral Imbeciles Lead U.S. to War
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Drillers See Triple-Digit Crude and Hit the Brakes
  by Yves Smith 10:49 am

• Links 3/30/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: US/Israel Escalation and Forceful Iran Retaliation Continue as Trump Says He May Take Iran’s Oil and Pakistan Hosts Talks With Nobody; Mr. Market Finally Waking Up as Brent Rises to $115
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Europe Tries Magical Thinking with Algerian Gas—Again 
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

March 29, 2026

• Links 3/29/2026
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• Iran War: More Signs of a Long Conflict and Resulting Severe Economic Damage
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Silence (Chinmoku) (1971) Run Time: 2H 9M Plus Jazz!
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Beavers Can Turn Streams Into Carbon Stores – We Measured How Much
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

March 28, 2026

• Links 3/28/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Iran War: More Escalation – US Strikes Iran Steel Plants, Israel Sends Third Missile at Iran Nuclear Plant; Yemen Joins War
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Book Review: How Genetics Shapes Our Ideas About Vice and Blame
  by Yves Smith 6:28 am

March 27, 2026

• Coffee Break: East Asia and the War in West Asia, RIP Metaverse, Cetacean Doulas, and Social Sycophancy
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• The Controversy Over Deep-Sea Mining, Explained
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/27/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Trump Faffs About, Extending Deadline for Strike Threat by 10 Days as US Military and Energy/Materials Shortfalls and Shortages Expected in Weeks; Iran Allows Transit of Trapped “Friendly” Ships
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Trump Administration’s Supposed “War” on Latin America’s Drug Cartels Has a New Name: “Operation Total Extermination”
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Two Verdicts in Two Days: How American Courts Are Rewriting the Rules for Big Tech and Children
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

March 26, 2026

• The War on Iran Cannot Be Explained by Material Interests Alone
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Australia’s Fuels Dependence Turns Into a Crisis
  by Yves Smith 9:59 am

• Links 3/26/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:59 am

• Iran War: Accelerating Economic Damage Creates Urgency on Strait of Hormuz Closure; Shambolic US Assault Preparations Continue; Iran Demands Recognition of Sovereignity Over Strait; Houthis Set to Strangle Red Sea Traffic if US Makes Ground Attack
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Satyajit Das: The Modern ‘Share the Scraps’ Economy
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• How the US Became an International Serial Killer
  by Yves Smith 2:56 am

March 25, 2026

• Coffee Break: OpenAI, Sora, Iran, the Ellison Empire, and Maybe a Recognition Event?
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/25/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Mainstream Media Starting to Acknowledge Potential Iran Victory as Trump Flails About, Readying Ground Assault; EU Reversal on Russia Oil Sanctions, Emergency Actions in Asia, Even China, Shows Accelerating Economic Damage
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Clearing the Air: Fifty Answers to Our Climate Questions
  by KLG 6:39 am

• Concentration Camps, US Style: Dehumanization for Fun and Profit
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

March 24, 2026

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Cheap Guidance and Big Consequences
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Economic Questions: The Robert Nozick Question
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/24/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Iran War: US/Israel Attacks Near Iran Energy Infrastructure; Temporary TACO as Boots on the Ground Moves Continue? Postol on How Iran Nukes Israel in Retaliation and the Horrific Consequences; Gulf States Double Down on Loyalty to US
  by Yves Smith 6:56 am

• Spanish Government Intensifies Criticism of US-Israeli War on Iran As Trump Mulls Withdrawing US Troops from Spanish Bases
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• The Economic Consequences of a Low-Skilled Immigration Sudden Stop: Evidence from Korea’s Guest Worker Programme
  by Yves Smith 4:55 am

March 23, 2026

• Coffee Break: Trump’s TACO Designed to Manipulate Markets
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Claims About Genetic Superiority Ignore the Real Drivers of Human Inequality
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• Links 3/23/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Trump’s 48 Hour Deadline Approaches; Soldiers Fearful as Lindsey Graham Calls for Their Sacrifice; Complacency in Face of Intersecting Shortages, Like Food and Plastics
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• War Widens to the Caspian. Why Isn’t Iran Attacking Azerbaijan? 
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Boomerangs of Empire: Latin America as Colonial Laboratory
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

March 22, 2026

• Links 3/22/2026
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• Iran War: Trump Issues 48 Hour Unhinged Ultimatum to Iran; Iran Vows Mass Destruction Countermeasures; Israel Takes Hit to Dimona Area, Other Blows After Second Firing on Iran Nuclear Reactor Site ; More Warnings of Deep Damage from Strait of Hormuz Closure, LNG Reduction Effects
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Solaris (1972) Run Time: 2H 47M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Apocalypse Now— West Asia Edition
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

March 21, 2026

• Links 3/21/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Iran War: Trump Escalates via Preparation for Ground Assault; Israel Takes More Pounding, Husbands Air Defenses; Coming Helium, Jet Fuel Shortages; Prospects for Vastly Higher Oil Prices
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Michael Hudson: Iran, Israel, and World War III
  by Yves Smith 4:13 am

• Many ACA Customers Are Paying Higher Premiums. Most Blame Trump and Republicans, Poll Finds.
  by Yves Smith 2:08 am

March 20, 2026

• Coffee Break: Breaking American Science, COVID Undercount, Food Politics, St. Patrick, and a Brief Diversion
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Manure-to-Energy Project Touted as Climate Fix Emits Thousands of Tons of Methane
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/20/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Even as Breakdowns and Lasting Damage Mount, Denial, Normalcy Bias, and Arrogance of the Belligerents Will Produce a Long and Highly Destructive War
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Will World’s “Most Zionist President”, Javier Milei, Deploy Argentina’s Navy for Trump’s Kamikaze Strait of Hormuz Mission?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

March 19, 2026

• The Epistemic Break of the Iran War
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Tall Buildings Lead to More Compact and Productive Cities
  by Yves Smith 9:56 am

• Links 3/19/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Leap Up Escalation Ladder with Israel//US Attack on Iran Gas Field, Nuclear Plant, Iran Retaliation on Qatar Gas Facilities, Other Energy Infrastructure Across Region; MSM Initial Under-Reporting Not Blunting Surge in UK, EU Gas Prices;
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Trump FBI and IRS Team Up to Probe US Nonprofit Groups for ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Links
  by Yves Smith 3:05 am

• Rifling Through the Evidence: Uncertainty in Firearms Analysis
  by Yves Smith 2:26 am

March 18, 2026

• Coffee Break: Silicon Valley Accelerationists Take On the World and Everyone in It
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• AI-Powered Robot Dogs Guarding Reviled Data Centers Is Where We Have Arrived
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/18/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Iran War: Joe Kent Resignation Bombshell; US Deploys Bunker-Busters Near Strait of Hormuz; Iran Makes Retaliatory Strikes on Israel, Across Gulf for Ali Larijani Assassination; Real World Oil Prices Diverge from Paper Oil
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• What Does Europe Do Now? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• “Regime Tweaking” In Cuba Is The Most Realistic Outcome Of Its US-Instigated Crisis
  by Yves Smith 2:35 am

March 17, 2026

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Distributed Deterrence
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/17/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Iran War: No Uptake to Trump Plea for Help With Opening Strait of Hormuz; Israel Claims Assassination of Iran Security Chief; Iran Clarifies That Friendly Countries Can Transit, Strikes UAE Terminal at Fajarah, Trump Delays Xi Summit
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Palantir Faces Growing Backlash in UK Following Mandelson-gate Scandal
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Causal Evidence on Cost-of-Living Shocks: How the Energy Crisis Affected Energy Demand, Labour Supply, and Financial Strain
  by Yves Smith 5:43 am

March 16, 2026

• Coffee Break: AIPAC, Crypto, Gambling, AI Money Coalitions Up The Dark Money Game in Dem Primaries
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Economic Questions: The Thorstein Veblen Question
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/16/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Trump Administration Attempts to Deny Long Conflict Risk; Trump Threatens NATO Over Hormuz Scheme; Kinetic and Economic Situation More Desperate Than Acknowledged
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• With Shipping Industry in Meltdown, Struggle to Oust China from Global Ports Intensifies
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• ‘Serious Threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump Admin Wins First Antifa Terror Charge
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

March 15, 2026

• Links 3/15/2026
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• Iran War: US Being Driven From Iraq, Tells Americans to Leave; Iran Keeps Pounding Israel, Gulf States; Trump Calls on Other Countries Including China to Send Warships, Effectively Threatens to Use Nukes; FCC Threatens to Pull Broadcast Licenses Over War Reporting
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Salt For Svanetia (1930) Run Time: 49M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Widening the ‘We’: Meeting the Crisis of Common Sense
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

March 14, 2026

• Links 3/14/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Iran War: US Strikes Kharg Island, Deploys More Marines Even as Administration Shows Desperation; Iran Hits Saudi Base Amid Signs of Decaying US Position, Increases Attacks on Israel
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Michael Hudson: Persia’s Monopoly Concessions to Britain, 1872-1901
  by Yves Smith 5:14 am

• How Accent Discrimination Reinforces America’s Deepest Divides
  by Yves Smith 3:58 am

March 13, 2026

• Coffee Break: Lifestyle Medicine, More Quackitude, Ancient Manuscripts, Gut Health, and the Epstein Class
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Why Environmental Tipping Points Don’t Have to Spell Doom
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/13/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Oil Flirts With $100 as More Commercial Ships Hit, US Refueling Plane Downed, with Iraqi Militia Taking Credit; Demands for Hormuz Opening Intensify; Private Debt Wobbles Add to Market Pressure
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• One of the US’ Biggest Vassal Governments in Latin America Just Banned the Country’s Main Opposition Party
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Satyajit Das: Iran – Even War Has Been Financialized
  by Yves Smith 2:52 am

March 12, 2026

• Can Sun Tzu’s The Art of War Predict the Outcome of the War on Iran?
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Universities Survived Trump’s 2025 Funding Freeze, but the Money Still Isn’t Flowing to Researchers
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/12/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Armageddon Now! Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program
  by Kevin Kirk 6:54 am

• Iran War: Oil Again Breaches $100 as Iran Escalates Attacks on Israel, Shipping, Dubai; More on the Effects of a Long Closure of the Strait of Hormuz
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Why Did Most Of The World Condemn Iran At The UN?
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

March 11, 2026

• Coffee Break: Doomsday Delusions, Iran Eschaton Edition
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Links 3/11/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Iran War: Iran Seeks Decolonization of Gulf Region; IEA Proposes Emergency Release of Reserves; Nuclear Strike Risk Assessment; Iran Escalates Strikes
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economics Went Down the Rabbit Hole of No Return
  by KLG 6:45 am

• The Pakistan Navy’s Regional Escort Mission Puts Iran in a Dilemma
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

March 10, 2026

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Armed Transgression
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• In Latest Blow to Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Judge Blocks Overhaul of Immigration Appeals
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/10/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Iran War: Administration Succeeds in Talking Down Oil Price to Below $100 as Trump Seeks Off Ramp to Opposition of Pentagon and Hawks; Iran Continues to Reject Talks, Announces Increase in Strikes, Pounds US Bases Into Dust
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• Switzerland Just Voted to Enshrine the Right To Cash In Its Constitution
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Newsom Picks a Dogfight With Trump and RFK Jr. on Public Health
  by Yves Smith 4:42 am

March 9, 2026

• Coffee Break: Mask-Off Moment as Paramount at Nexus of AI, Gulf State Financing, and Private Equity
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Why We Ignore the Warnings That Could Save Us
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• Links 3/9/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Oil Rises to Nearly $120, Stays Above $100 Despite G7 Plans for Reserves Release; Foreign Markets Swoon; Iran Increasing Intensity of Strikes, Targeting More Assets in the Gulf
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• What Exactly Was the Plan Here?
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump’s Iran War Is an Affordability Disaster
  by Yves Smith 2:57 am

March 8, 2026

• Links 3/8/2026
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• Iran War: More Trump Bluster as US and Israel Weapon Stocks Thin and Claims of Success Questioned; Report of Plans to Send Special Forces to Seize Nuclear Material Among Signs of US Troop Mobilization
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: In This House Of Brede (1975) Run Time: 1H 44M plus Jazz bonus!
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• What Is the US Exit Strategy From Its War on Iran?
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

March 7, 2026

• Links 3/7/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Iran War: Brent Ends Week at Over $90 a Barrel, Doubts About Damage to Iran and Condition of Israel Rise, Trump Doubles Down on Failing Kinetic War and Desperate Messaging
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Michael Hudson: Today’s Global Choice – A U.S. Ruler-Based Order or International Law
  by Yves Smith 4:58 am

March 6, 2026

• Coffee Break: Vaccines, Libraries, and Diet…Nothing About the War
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/6/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: More on Systemic Impact of Strait of Hormuz Closure, US Inability to Intervene as Trump Team Doubles Down on Hare-Brained Schemes to Prevail via Force
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• US Military Opens Up Another Front, This Time Against Ecuador’s “Narco-Terrorist” Organisations
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

March 5, 2026

• Do Iranians Really Want to Overthrow the Islamic Republic?
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Companies Report Raging Inflation, Except in Wages & Rents
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/5/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War: Systemic Risk of a Strait of Hormuz Closure, US Plan to Enlist Kurds, Hezbollah Unexpectedly Pounds Israel
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• URGENT: Please Write the FCC to Oppose Latest SpaceX World-Changing Plan, Massively Light Polluting Reflect Orbital Satellites, Which Will End the Night Sky
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Shadows Over Brussels and Kiev: Corruption Scandals Challenge Von der Leyen’s Ukraine Agenda
  by Yves Smith 4:43 am

• Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem
  by Yves Smith 2:36 am

March 4, 2026

• Coffee Break: Texas Primary Results Could Flip US Senate
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Can Sheinbaum Avoid A Death Spiral After the El Mencho Killing?
  by Yves Smith 9:52 am

• Links 3/4/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Iran War: More on Why US/Israel Success Impossible as Israel and US Operations Take More Hits, Trump Proposes Unhinged Strait of Hormuz Escort Scheme, Western Media Misinforming Public
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Türkiye Does Standoff Shuffle With Kurds Toward Iran
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us
  by Yves Smith 4:56 am

March 3, 2026

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Algeria and Gaza Parallels
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• AI and the Distribution of Income Between Capital and Labour
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 3/3/2026
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Iran War: Israel Air Defenses Crumbling, US Base Attacks Continue as Markets Set for Wile E. Coyote Moment
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Spain Risks Wrath of Trump After Denying US Forces Permission to Use Jointly Operated Bases to Attack Iran
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Qatar’s LNG Blackout Just Broke the Global Gas Market
  by Yves Smith 4:23 am

March 2, 2026

• Coffee Break: Narrative Wars as US Media Struggles to Manufacture Consent
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine
  by Yves Smith 9:56 am

• Links 3/2/2026
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran War Widens as Iran Attacks Saudi Oil Infrastructure, Israel and Hezbollah Exchange Strikes
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• How Often Is ICE Acting as a Goon Squad for Landlords? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Democratic Leaders Face Backlash Over ‘Cowardly’ Responses to Trump War on Iran
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

March 1, 2026

• Links 3/1/2026
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• Iran War: Quick Early Updates
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Yeelen (Brightness) Run Time 1H 38M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Massive US War Spending Hike Raises Debt, Taxes, Doubts
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am