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Slippery Slope of Oil Smuggling Operations – Turkey, Georgia and Israel, 4-Starters
The shadow infrastructure of oil flows in Eurasia reveals hidden mechanisms where economics, politics, and intelligence intersect more deeply than is commonly acknowledged. Continue reading
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Trump Talks
US President Donald Trump claimed that the United States and Iran have engaged in what he described as “very good and productive” discussions over the past two days. Continue reading
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Donald Trump Sits in His Own Trap: Can He Win in Cuba?
Donald Trump likes to win. He made that clear in his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, where he writes about how he likes to ‘think big’ and ‘win big’. What Trump dislikes is a ‘loser’, a word that he uses frequently in The Art of the Deal, and which he deploys in his… Continue reading
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American Theocracy Revisited: Oil, Empire, and the Gospel of Decline
A dissection of how energy dependence, apocalyptic politics, and debt-fueled capitalism fused into a governing logic of U.S. power—and why, nearly two decades later, the contradictions Phillips identified have not resolved but intensified under the pressures of imperial decline and global realignment. Continue reading
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The EU Geopolitical Reality
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — Great Power Politics, Elites & Energy Roger Boyd Background I hesitated to write this, as the EU is not a nation but a grouping of nations, but the dominance of the EU bureaucracy over the constituent nations has progressed considerably (backed up with NATO of course) together with the EU… Continue reading
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Iran HITS Israel’s Dimona Nuke Site, Trump’s 48-Hour Power Plant Threat COLLAPSES
Iran’s missiles smashed Dimona nuclear facility, home of Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons. The mass casualty event is rocking Israel and both Trump & Netanyahu are sending strong signals he wants to tap out. Danny Haiphong breaks it all down! Continue reading
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US War on Iran & the Wider Dirty War on China: US/Ukrainian Mercenaries In Myanmar
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — The New Atlas While the US attack on Iran throttles energy production and exports to China, following the cutting of energy exports from Venezuela to China in a war earlier this year, and years of attacking Russian energy production via Ukraine, US-backed militants in Myanmar are attacking pipelines leading directly… Continue reading
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The Capitalist END of the West: Iran Destroys US Plans | Dr. Radhika Desai
The illegal attack on Iran—as many illegal wars before—is not a bug but a system feature. One, however, that is doomed to self-destruct its host. It is the inevitable outcome of the rent-seeking and society corrupting logic of the capitalist system the West is built around. The expansionary and often genocidal logic embedded in the… Continue reading
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Seeing Trump Clearly
What if Trump’s apparently chaotic thought processes and intuitive decision making are all a blind, a charade? What if we are really witnessing, in the Middle East and more widely, a carefully constructed plan with very definite objectives? Has Trump in fact “planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway”, while flinging the… Continue reading
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LIVE March 20th 2pm eastern 11am pacific w/ Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson!
Friday, 20 March 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong We do an Iran war update from Iran downing an f-35 and the latest from Iran’s Operation True Promise 4. Continue reading
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Iran moves to Total War against the death cult
Neo-Caligula, in trademark Truth Social coward vociferation mode, has been desperate to blame the death cult in West Asia for it and excuse himself from any responsibility: he claims Israel attacked South Pars “out of anger” and the U.S. “knew nothing about this particular attack”. Qatar was “in no way, shape or form involved”. And… Continue reading
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The Markets Will Wake Up From The Phoney War
The time between Germany’s invasion of Poland (September 1939) and the invasion of France (May 1940) was called the “phoney war” as France and the UK decided not to seriously attack Germany’s western border. During this time, the French and British were putting together a force to help the Finnish in their war with the… Continue reading
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“It’s impossible to cut a deal with the Bazaar”: How Elementary Ignorance of Iran Led to Trump’s Strategic Catastrophe
Suffering from a “cognitive glitch” and a dependence on politically biased experts, the U.S. President’s team attempted to apply templates that worked in Venezuela to a civilization with a 3,000-year history. Continue reading
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China’s Fertilizer Restrictions and the Crisis of American Agricultural Imperialism
The recent tightening of Chinese export controls on nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends—compounded by Beijing’s reiteration of existing restrictions on urea—represents more than a routine trade policy adjustment. It constitutes a significant structural intervention in the global agricultural commodity chain, one that lays bare the precarious foundations of American agricultural imperialism and the sharpening contradictions of the… Continue reading
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LIVE today Match 19th 1pm eastern 6pm CET w/ Ali Alizadeh!
Thursday, 19 March 2026 — The Chronicles of Haiphong We do a full war update as Iran’s retaliation on Qatari and Saudi energy send shockwaves across the world as US-Israeli aggression faces consequences. Continue reading
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Iraq steps forward in a regional war
As war pressure on Iran reverberates across West Asia, Iraq is re‑emerging as a central arena where armed factions seek to impose new costs on US presence and reshape the regional balance. Continue reading
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Brian Berletic: Iran War – A Gateway to War with China & Russia
Brian Berletic is a former US Marine, author, international relations expert and host of the New Atlas. Berletic discusses how the US war against Iran is a gateway to war with China and Russia. Continue reading
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Cuba is Not Afraid: The Twelfth Newsletter (2026)
Faced with an illegal oil blockade, the Cuban government has expressed openness to talks with the Trump administration but will not abandon its principles of sovereignty and dignity. Continue reading