Tag: Iran
A Baron of Lies Turns the World Upside Down—and Loses
“Donald Trump is not only endangering the world with his megalomania and greed, but will likely go down in history as a baron of lies. What is the real situation, given that the Western media actually believe Trump’s nonsense?” Peter Hanseler Sun 29 Mar 2026 It is to be feared that the Americans will launch […]
Trickster in a Stranglehold
Kevin Batcho Mar 30, 2026 Capitalism’s deepest axiom is that commodities must flow, that all barriers must be overcome. Through the Strait of Hormuz pass the densest forms of energy first—crude oil in vast, slow-moving volumes, followed by refined fuels that keep engines, aircraft, and armies in motion. Then comes liquefied natural gas, supercooled and […]
US and Israel’s war on Iran is a disaster for the environment, analysis shows
The Guardian March 20, 2026 War has led to 5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in two weeks and is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined. The US-Israel war on Iran is a disaster for the climate, according to an analysis that finds it is draining the global carbon budget faster […]
Israel has just set off a chain reaction that will set the Gulf on fire
RT By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow). 19-March-2026 Facing a struggle for survival, Iran is making world’s entire energy economy its battleground By March 19, 2026, the pattern is unmistakable. What began as a war centered on Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and the waters around the Strait of […]
Choke Point: The Global Economic Consequences of the Persian Gulf Shutdown
How the disruption of oil, liquefied natural gas, and urea exports will cascade through the world economy Larry C. Johnson • March 10, 2026 The Strait of Hormuz: A Single Point of Failure Roughly 20–21 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz every day, representing approximately 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption and […]
From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’
Wired Magazine Andy Greenberg Security Mar 6, 2026 New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick. For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have all been part of war’s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit. In an […]
US-Israeli massacre of schoolgirls a human sacrifice to ‘Epstein cult’ – Iranian envoy
RT March 5, 2026 The strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 160 pre-teen students and teachers on the first day of the US-Israeli regime-change operation resembles satanic rituals allegedly enabled by pedophile American financier Jeffrey Epstein, an Iranian diplomat has claimed. The attack in Minab, for which US and Israeli forces have […]
Most thought provoking reader comments of the week of March 5, 2026
Comment cut and pasted from Moon of Alabama blog: I just read this, I don’t know if it’s true, but it would make sense: ARE CHINESE TROOPS ALREADY IN IRAN TO TEST HYPERSONIC WEAPONS? A high-ranking Russian general with direct ties to the Kremlin has just dropped a massive bombshell. Chinese military personnel are already […]
US forces used Claude in Iran strikes for intelligence, targeting even after Trump’s ban
By Bojan Stojkovski March 1, 2026 Trump had directed all federal agencies to immediately cease their use of artificial intelligence products developed by Anthropic, including the Claude model. Only hours after President Donald Trump announced that federal agencies should sever all ties with Anthropic and discontinue use of its AI systems, the US military reportedly […]
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