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Tallying the Costs to Israel of Its Failed Iran Regime Change Operation
An early estimate of the economic costs to Israel of the Iran war show that recovery will be difficult if not impossible.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Middle East Trajectories – Implications for the Region and Energy Markets
A refined (pun intended) discussion of the state of the energy market and the high risk of continued kinetic action between Israel and Iran.
Read more...Israel Orders Attack on Iran After Iran Allegedly Violated Ceasefire It Never Agreed To
Israel is, or is about to be, back into the war-making game. And the US is sure to be in on the action.
Read more...Breaking: Fordow Attacked Again; Trump Talks Up Regime Change, Brays About Iran Nuclear Site Success as Israel Taking Increasing Toll from Attacks, Iran Puts Pieces in Place for Strait of Hormuz Closure; UPDATE: Iran Media Claims Attack on US Base in Syria
Iran updates, with the big underlying pressure being Israel’s decay path and US failure so far to arrest that.
Read more...US Attacks Iran: Start of a Long War? Update: Iran Parliament Votes to Close Strait of Hormuz
And so the US war against Iran begins, with showy strikes against empty nuclear facilities. What next?
Read more...What if MAGA Has a Point About Science?
On the fallen legitimacy of science in the US, and what might be done about that.
Read more...Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval
The Trump administration barrels toward U.S. intervention in Iran, with neither reality nor Congress serving as a check.
Read more...Rob Urie: As Goes Iran, So Goes Humanity
Discussing the risk of nuclear escalation in Iran.
Read more...Plans for More Intense Censorship if US Joins Israel Attack on Iran?
A Twitter post gives a credible forecast of the intensification of censorship that is in store if the US directly attacks Iran.
Read more...Laith Marouf on Iran’s Escalatory Path and Its Expectations of a Long War
Lebanon-based jouranlist Laith Marouf provides some granular detail on Iran’s and Israel’s operations and what might come next in the war
Read more...Does TACO Have Predictive Value? Pressures on Trump With Respect to Joining Israel in its Iran War
The war situation with Iran is not necessarily developing to the advantage of Israel, and Trump has to decide what to do.
Read more...Forcible Removal of US Sen. Alex Padilla Signals a Dangerous Shift in American Democracy
Trump’s war against the Constitution, Congressional oversight powers, and legislation escalates with the man-handling of Senator Padilla
Read more...Israel Launches Attacks Against Iran; Iran Begins Retaliation
Parsing emerging information on the Israel campaign against Iran, and Iran’s initial response.
Read more...Rob Urie: Why Retaliation Rhymes with Negotiation, US – Russia Edition
On not-well-known elements of the US-Ukraine-Russia conflict, the fecklessness of the left, and the abject stupidity of Western leaders
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