The latest Iran war update, with more detail on the Administration’s desperate escalation scheme versus the rising damage from a Strait of Hormuz closure.
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Read more...Today’s Iran war update starts with a sobering, must-read analysis of the catastrophic real-world damage of a long Strait of Hormuz closure.
Read more...The latest updates on the Iran war, from kinetic, economic, and narrative perspectives.
Read more...More on the global impact of QatarEnergy’s LNG production stoppage and the uncertainty over when it might resume operation.
Read more...The US and Israel have launched a war against Iran. A great empire will fall.
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Read more...Trump looks even more caught than ever on the horns of his Iran war dilemma.
Read more...The Trump tariffs mess in the wake of his 6-3 Supreme Court loss on his misuse of “emergency” authority is even worse than you might imagine.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains how industrial capitalism was radical in aiming to free economies and markets from rent-seeking and financialization.
Read more...Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.
Read more...The decision to go to war with Iran appears to have been made, and how that will sink Trump’s already failing rule and risk nuclear war.
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