Friday, 13 March 2026 — Jonathan Cook
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No comments on BBC editor’s libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here’s why
BBC editor’s libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here’s why
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When Empire Calls Its Own Gamble a Miscalculation
Thursday, 12 March 2026 — Weaponized Information
A Weaponized Propaganda Excavation of how the New York Times launders imperial war through the language of strategic error.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | March 11, 2026
The Tears of the Arsonist
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 New York Times piece, “How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War.”
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The Far Right Goes to War Against Women: The Eleventh Newsletter (2026)
Thursday, 12 March 2026 — The Tricontinental
In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism.
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Prof. Ted Postol: How Iran Blinded US Defenses in 10 Minutes
Wednesday, 11 March 2026 — Dialog Works Highlights
A deep technical discussion on the real capabilities of modern missile defense systems. The interview examines Patriot and THAAD intercept rates, the importance of early-warning radars, and how the destruction of key radar infrastructure can disrupt missile tracking and defense networks. It explores how drones and missile strikes have challenged U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf, potentially shifting regional political dynamics. The conversation also looks at the engineering limits of ship-based interceptors and radar systems, arguing that many missile defense decisions were driven more by politics than by technical analysis.
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Pepe Escobar: Iran’s Deadly Missile Strike STUNS Israel, Trump LOSING the War
Wednesday, 11 March 2026 — Danny Haiphong
The US-Israeli war on Iran has backfired on the aggressors as Tehran launches a new military strategy that has placed Israel under heavy missile fire and turned up the economic pressure on Trump to surrender. Pepe Escobar joins the show to break it all down!
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Day 13: Iranian Missiles Still Flying + Energy Exports Stopping as Global Crisis Looms
Thursday, 12 March 2026 — The New Atlas
- At day 13 despite claiming Iranian military command, political leadership, and launcher capacity has been destroyed, Iran averages 20 ballistic missile launches a day, exhausting US anti-missile munitions;
- Iran is likely pacing itself for a long-term conflict lasting 6 months to even 1 year or more;
- Even if the US “pauses” like it did last year, the war will continue because eliminating Iran is key to encircling Russia and ultimately containing China;
- Beware of those blaming “Israel” for this war as Israel is merely an extension of US power in the region like Ukraine is vis-a-vis Russia in Eastern Europe;
- Shifting blame to a US proxy allows the US to carry out extreme measures without taking responsibility for them up to and including the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of the global economy;
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War, profit, and the dollar’s retreat
Wednesday, 11 March 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha
The Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s oil supply moves through a narrow corridor between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Satellite imagery shows tankers stalled amid GPS jamming as war threatens the oil flows that underpin the global dollar system. Washington’s war against Iran, launched Feb. 28 with the U.S.–Israeli assault known as Operation Epic Fury, began with a burst of spending. In the first 100 hours alone the Pentagon burned through an estimated $3.7 billion in missiles, air operations and interceptor systems, most of it not previously budgeted.
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Black Agenda Report March 11, 2026
Wednesday, 11 March 2026 — Black Agenda Report
The Urgent Need for the Black Radical Tradition
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The U.S. is careening towards economic and military disaster, a moment when the Black radical tradition is missing but badly needed.
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GHOSTS IN THE TERRAIN
Wednesday, 11 March 2026 — DD Geopolitics
Three Fronts, One Conflict, and the Lessons History Forgot
DD GEOPOLITICS | INVESTIGATIVE REPORT | MARCH 10, 2026
By: Kayla Dones | Analysis & Investigative Report
“Israeli media are reporting that Hezbollah’s ‘ghosts’ are back at the northern borders. In southern Lebanon, fighters are emerging from hidden positions, striking with precision and creating a severe operational crisis for the Israeli army. Conventional forces are struggling to respond to this underground, highly coordinated network, showing how Hezbollah can turn the terrain itself into a strategic advantage.”
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Iran: the Great Game
Wednesday, 11 March 2026 — Press TV
This week, Johnny Miller speaks to Igor Lopotonak. Famous for directing Oliver Stone’s film Ukraine on Fire. Now he’s made a new film, ‘Iran: the Great Game’, which seeks to explain Iran’s turbulent history with the West.
Watch
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China: Watching the missiles flow
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 — Strattegi8c Culture Foundation
The blockade of Hormuz may break the West. But it won’t break China.
Let’s cut to the chase: BRICS is in deep coma. Blown up, at least temporarily, by India – which happens to host the BRICS summit later this year. Talk about horrendous timing.
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Washington wants out. Iran isn’t opening the door
Tuesday ,10 March 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha
The Strait of Hormuz, where narrow geography allows Iranian forces to use low-cost resistance to stall the U.S. war machine. Despite its “overwhelming force,” Washington’s navy is finding itself trapped in a corridor it cannot fully control — pushing oil prices higher and hitting workers at the pump. Eleven days into Operation Epic Fury, Washington faces a problem it created for itself: how to exit a war it cannot win.
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The academic racists behind Iranian monarchism
Saturday, 7 March 2026 — The Anti-Empire Project
Aryan race theory is a made-in-Europe import
The war began with the US assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader and murdering 168 schoolgirls in class.
Assassinations and attacks on schoolchildren are now a normal part of the way the US and Israel act in the world. Still, it was jarring to see online that in places like Toronto and Beverly Hills, people celebrated these murders. Even in North America, which is full of diasporas who call for the overthrow of the countries from which they came, seeing – from non-Israelis – celebrations of genocidal bombing is rare, surprising – even baffling. After all, when Israeli Jews celebrate deaths, they’re celebrating the deaths of Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranians – never other Jewish people.
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The War on Iran: A Geopolitical Economy
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 — Radhika Desai Geopolitical Economist
How should we understand this war on Iran and its historical role, its political and geopolitical economy, its place in the trajectory of capitalism and imperialism?
Radhika breaks the issues down into seven questions and answers them.
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Pepe Escobar: Iran Has Served the US an Eviction Notice
Tuesday, 10 Martch 2026 — Sovereignista
The new Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, 57, chosen by the Assembly of Experts, so far has not spoken a single word in public.
The IRGC is speaking for him. From the start, Mojtaba was the preferred candidate to succeed Ayatollah Khamenei, the man who planned in meticulous detail how to break the Empire’s back.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱| US/Israel bombs hit 77 medical centers across Iran
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 — Fotros Resistance
Thankfully, Iran’s Red Crescent says after the 12-day war, they knew the US couldn’t be trusted, so they have been preparing for this scenario. Rapid emergency responses have reached below 4 minutes, thanks to 100.000 medical volunteers.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱People claiming “Israel” controls the US are either delusional or dishonest
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 — The New Atlas Channel
The US in particular has been exterminating indigenous populations, stealing land, and pilfering resources for nearly 200 years before Israel ever existed.
How is what the US is doing to the Middle East any different than what it did to the indigenous people of the American Midwest?
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Day 11: A US War on Iran is a US War on China – US “Distant Blockade” Placed on China
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 — The New Atlas
- the US war on Iran has effectively cut Middle Eastern energy exports to China triggering a countdown on China’s 100 day reserves;
- China has been rushing toward energy independence presenting the US with a closing window of opportunity to cut off and starve China economically as part of a long-planned “distant blockade;”
- The US is already surging additional forces into the region ensuring the conflict continues throughout the 100 days China’s reserves will last;
- The US has already invaded Venezuela and is attacking Russian energy production and exports to cut them off from China;
- This plan has been laid out and pursued since the Bush Jr. administration leading up to the “Arab Spring” and the subsequent encirclement of Iran, Russia, and now China;
The New Dark Age 