Category Archives: Middle East

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 […]

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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.

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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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Notes on the American Justification for the Ramadan War in West Asia of 2026

Why is the United States at war with Iran in 2026?  Several excuses have been used by the current administration to justify the spiral of conflict and ratchet of escalation over the past five weeks.  These include but are probably not limited to: Iran exports terrorism across the globe. Iran is not a democracy and […]

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Iran War: Trump Makes Even More Unhinged Threat as Details of F-15 Pilot Rescue Point to Much Bigger Plan, Say to Seize Enriched Uranium; Trump Legitimacy Crisis Grows as Battered Gulf States Pull Back on US Investment, Particularly AI

Today’s Iran war news: Trump goes even more crazy as the F-15 rescue looks more like the tip of the iceberg of a big botched mission.

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Iran War: Trump Doubles Down on “Reign Hell” April 6 Threat, Also Reports F-15 Officer Rescued; US Strike on Bushehr Nuclear Plant Breaches Protection Circuit; Multiple Interconnected Supply Crises Baked in Within Weeks; UPDATE Iran Claims Two More US Planes Downed

Today’s Iran war news: Trump reiterates his dangerous escalation threat as the real economy Titanic is about to hit the iceberg.

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