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 […]
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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 […]
Memory prices could leap even higher as the supply of helium, crucial to making chips, is now impacted by the conflict in the Middle East
By Nick Evanson March 11, 2026 Ask any PC enthusiast to make a list of all the materials that chip makers need to make the latest processors, GPUs, DRAM and flash modules, and you’ll probably be given a pretty good breakdown of everything required. However, they might not expect helium to be so critical to it […]
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 […]
U.S., Israel Are Waging War On Iran
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026 https://www.rt.com/news/633161-israel-iran-new-strikes/ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/u-s-iran-a-war-of-aggressions-which-aims-that-can-not-be-achieved.html
Ukraine conflict killing EU economy – Orban
RT November 16, 2025 The EU must look for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict because the continued financing of Kiev is destroying the bloc’s economy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. It is “just crazy” to keep sending more money to Ukraine after the has EU already “burnt” €185 billion (around $215 billion) on supporting the […]
Ukrainians Told To Burn Chicken Manure to Heat Homes as Electric and Heat OUT FOR WINTER
Hal Turner November 13, 2025 This morning, Thursday November 13, Dmitry Peskov, Official Spokesman for the Kremlin says “Russia will continue the special military operation, since there is no possibility for negotiations.” Panic is spreading from Kiev to London and Brussels. The plan was that Ukraine fought on until May of 2026 when the European Union (EU) would […]
Europe lacks coordination as Russia “prepares for war with NATO”: “Experts”
Aljazeera By John T Psaropoulos October 27, 2025 “Europe is no more ready today to face Russia’s military advances than it was in 1939 as Nazi troops were at the door,” said Joseph Fitsanakis, assistant director at the Center for Applied Intelligence in Coastal Carolina University, one of a handful of US institutions teaching intelligence and […]
Colombian Black Hawk Downed By Drone Is A Glimpse Of What’s To Come
TWZ Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway Aug 22, 2025 4:46 PM EDT The deadly downing of a Colombian National Police (CNP) UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter by a drone on Thursday is the latest sign of the growing vulnerability of rotary-wing aircraft to these attacks. While apparently the first such incident in the Western Hemisphere, the tactic was developed by Ukraine to […]
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