Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson: The Blockade Stage of Trump’s Absurdities
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson on the media and market disconnect between Trump Iran barker talk and dire economic and political effects.
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Iran War: Narrative Wars and Ceasefire Claims
Today’s Iran War Update: Ceasefire begins in Lebanon, material shortages hitting, War Powers vote comes up one short.
Read more...Iran War: Trump Expects Hugs From China, Israel Still Bombing Lebanon
Today’s Iran war update: Trump claims he’s opened the Strait to Chinese shipping, Israel launches the most massive attack yet on Lebanon, U.S. stocks hit record high.
Read more...Jesus Christ! Xi Jinping Is Hugging Donald Trump on the Sidelines of Three US-Israeli Genocidal Wars
Trump tries muscling Xi. Let me know how that works out.
Read more...Iran War: Pervasive Misinformation About the (So Far Successful) US Blockade; Trump Keeps Up “Negotiations Soon” Hype; Markets Become Even More Unhinged
Today’s Iran war update: the information environment has become hopelessly populated, as reporting on the blockade attests.
Read more...Iran War: Contested Reports About US Blockade Failure in First 24 Hours as Saudi Arabia Protests and Experts Warn of Difficulty and High Risk; Markets Still Buying Trump Howlers About Iran Begging for Deal Despite Intelligence-Insulting Lie About His Jesus Tweet
Today’s Iran war update: Trump’s blockage of Iran ports looks to be unraveling but Mr. Market will grasp at any happy news straws.
Read more...Kevork Almassian, Michael Hudson, and Tarik Cyril Amar: Has the Iran War Created a New Geopolitical Reality?
How the US is massively hoist on its own petard with its Iran miscalculations
Read more...Iran War: US Imposing Strait of Hormuz Blockade Monday AM; Experts Criticize Further Pressure on Oil Prices, Illegality, and Risk of Failure; Will Houthis Close the Red Sea to Back Iran?
Today’s Iran war update: Trump again demonstrates his need to dominate results in self, US and global harm, here with a barmy blockade plan.
Read more...Iran War: Negotiations Fail; US Provokes with Destroyer Entry into Strait, Perhaps Pointing to Next Kinetic Moves
Today’s Iran war update: As many anticipated, US-Iran negotiations failed. What comes next?
Read more...Iran War: Talks Delayed; Concerns That Conflict Destined to Resume; US to Concede Release of Some Iran Frozen Assets?
Iran war: In a telling sign, the start of talks has been pushed back due to disagreements over process.
Read more...Coffee Break: All War All the Time, AI on the Loose, and Hope for Muscular Dystrophy Patients
Part the First: War Begets War, A Conversation. Daedalus hosted a conversation among Robert Jay Lifton (1926-2025), Neta C. Crawford, and Matthew Evangelista last year. It was preprinted recently in The MIT Press Reader. I immediately noticed the participation of Robert Jay Lifton. Back in my dark ages, when the university had a University Bookstore […]
Read more...God Isn’t Good Enough – The Pope and the US Bishops Are Threatening the Catholic Vote for Trump and His Successors
Trump tries to muscle the Holy See as Catholic voters turn against him and the Iran war.
Read more...Iran War: Ceasefire Negotiations a Ruse to Buy Time for Ground Attack as Hormuz Stays Closed; Hezbollah Hits Israel Hard After Savage Bombing; Saudis Move Back Syria Against Israel? Update: Iran Delegation Has Not Arrived in Islamabad?
Today’s Iran war news: Both Iran and the US/Israel violate the ceasefire. But that may be fine with the US if the aim was just to buy time.
Read more...Iran War: US Pokes Iran in the Eye with Immediate Bad Faith Dealing Over Ceasefire; Strait of Hormuz Again Closed; US Insists Talks in Pakistan On but Iran Demands Halt in Lebanon Attacks
Today’s Iran War news: The ceasefire fell apart, which looks to have been the plan, as in it was merely a ruse from the outset.
Read more...Iran War: MSM Ceasefire Reporting Obscures Iran Agreeing to US Capitulation, Trump Depicting Different Deal; Israel Not a Party, States It Will Not Comply; Reason to Doubt Much Hormuz Traffic Increase Soon, Which Would Mean More Supply Pressure
Today’s Iran War news: why the much-ballyhooed Iran ceasefire is much less than it seems to be.
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