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From Ceasefire Spectacle to Open Threat: How U.S. Power Reveals Its Limits in Iran and the Emerging Multipolar Order
The media narrative frames the war through the language of objectives and outcomes, masking how imperial violence is normalized and depoliticized. A reconstruction of the facts reveals a deeper reality: sanctions, covert operations, chokepoint control, and historical intervention form the material architecture of this conflict. What emerges is not policy failure but a system in… Continue reading
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US Military Operation ‘Epic Fury’ against Iran: Current Phase and Prospects for Diplomacy
One month after the onset of the aggression on 28 February, the hostilities of the American-Israeli coalition against Iran remain centered on massive airstrikes. The targets are nuclear, military, industrial, and, unfortunately, civilian sites. The two belligerents are also working on eliminating the military and political leadership of the Islamic Republic. Continue reading
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The madness of King Trump
At the opening of the 2026 White House Easter Egg Roll, US President Donald Trump justified the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, claiming it “could end very quickly” if Tehran “do[es] what they have to do,” while alleging that Washington has already achieved a “total regime change.” Continue reading
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Hegseth purges military leadership as Iran war unravels
Arlington, Va. — Military funeral honors at Arlington National Cemetery. The New York Times reported that Hegseth’s chief of staff opposed a Black woman general’s appointment to a ceremonial command role, saying Trump would not want to be seen with a Black woman officer at events like this, as the war expands and casualties grow. Continue reading
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The US War on Iran is a US War on Multipolarism
The US war of aggression launched against Iran on February 28, 2026, is only the most recent US aggression launched to undermine and dismantle the multipolar world. Continue reading
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War in the hands of the algorithm
There was a time when wars were decided on paper maps, with officers hunched over a table, radio calls, and hours—sometimes days—spent verifying information before pressing a button. Today, however, war is beginning to resemble a screen: satellite images, drone videos, sensors, coordinates, and an artificial intelligence that cross-references all that data in real time.… Continue reading
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How do we get from ‘No Kings Day’ to no billionaires?
Eight million people demonstrated across the United States on March 28, against Trump in the third “No Kings Day.” There were protests in 3,300 communities in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Continue reading
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Collapsing Empire: The Resistance Disarms Israel
As the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran enters its second month, the conflict has proven so ruinous for the aggressors that dire alarm is being widely sounded. Embarrassing failure to subdue the Islamic Republic from the air has raised the prospect of a US ground operation of some kind, widely perceived as a suicide mission.… Continue reading
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A different Narrative: Investigating the British Empire
In J.R.R Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings, the demonic dark lord Sauron (Sauron actually refers to himself in Trumpish fashion, as Tar-Mairon/”King Excellent”) manifests as malign intelligence, who manipulates men and events to advance his singular domination of Middle-Earth. In the books, Sauron did not stray beyond the walls of his citadel, Barad Dur,… Continue reading
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Lessons from the U.S.–Israel–Iran War: Strategy, Illusion, and the Transformation of War
From Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, the U.S.–Israel war in Iran exposes not only strategic miscalculations but a deeper transformation in how wars are fought, justified, and prolonged. What if the real lesson is that power no longer guarantees control—and that escalation now replaces strategy? Continue reading
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Iran Under Fire, Empire Exposed: The U.S., Israel, and the New York Times’ War Narrative
Sunday, 29 March 2026 — Weaponized Information The New York Times frames imperial vulnerability as logistical inconvenience, masking the political meaning of exposure. The reconstructed facts reveal a war fought across an integrated system of bases, airspace, and energy choke points from Hormuz to Kharg. The deeper contradiction shows an empire that can still project… 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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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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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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Trump’s Iran war: Washington starts it, allies made to pay
On March 19, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will arrive in Washington with an offer for the Trump administration: Japan will join the Golden Dome missile defense project and help replenish U.S. weapons stocks depleted in the first weeks of the war against Iran. Continue reading
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The United States of America, or the United Empire of Earth?
From settler conquest on the North American continent to a planetary lattice of bases, fleets, satellites, and command zones, the United States has constructed the most extensive military infrastructure in human history. Beneath the language of alliances, deterrence, and security lies a global machine designed to police the colonial world economy. But the very scale… Continue reading
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Geopolitical Economy Hour: War On Iran, World War III or Imperialism’s Last Stand? w Michael Hudson
The latest twist – out of many twists and turns – in the US-Israeli war on Iran is Trump’s announcement that the War in Iran will be ‘ending very soon’ and that it was ‘ “very complete, pretty much” and ahead of schedule. At the same time, he also claimed that ‘We’ve already won in… Continue reading
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US and Israel’s environmental warfare in Iran and West Asia
On Saturday 7th March, the United States and Israel launched one of the largest coordinated chemical attacks against a civilian population in history. A major refinery in Tehran was hit alongside other fuel depots in the city and in Karaj, west of the capital. Oil fires raged across the sky and leaks from the sites… Continue reading
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When Empire Calls Its Own Gamble a Miscalculation
There is a familiar ritual in the house organs of empire. First the bombs fall, then the panic sets in, and then some respectable publication arrives to tell us that the real problem was not the fire, but the poor planning of the men who brought the gasoline. That is the moral universe of the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 