Monday, 23 March 2026 — New Eastern Outlook
The shadow infrastructure of oil flows in Eurasia reveals hidden mechanisms where economics, politics, and intelligence intersect more deeply than is commonly acknowledged.
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Slippery Slope of Oil Smuggling Operations – Turkey, Georgia and Israel, 4-Starters
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Trump Talks
Monday, 23 March 2026 — Al Mayadeen English
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.
In a post on TruthSocial, Trump said the talks were “in-depth, detailed, and constructive,” and are expected to continue throughout the week.
Trump said that in accordance with these talks, he has instructed the US Department of War to postpone all planned military strikes targeting Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a period of five days.
The pause, according to Trump, is conditional on the progress of the “ongoing meetings”, signaling that an aggression on Iran’s civilian energy infrastructure remains a possibility.
Trump had threatened Iran with strikes against its power infrastructure on Saturday, prompting Tehran to retaliate with threats to the power infrastructure feeding US bases and “Israel”.
The Iranian position on the Strait of Hormuz remains unchanged; the Strait is open to non-hostile nations who have not participated in attacks against Iran.
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Donald Trump Sits in His Own Trap: Can He Win in Cuba?
Monday, 23 March 2026 — Vijay Prashad
Boyish Imperialism
Every week, I have an assessment from the Planet of Hyper-imperialism in Peoples Democracy. This week, it is on Trump and Cuba. Please read it below, but also read the paper weekly!
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 conversations to mark the character of people he dislikes. In recent years, it has meant everything to Trump that he wins elections (his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 rattled him so much that he refused to accept the result). But this year, Trump has focused his attention on achieving victory in something that he promised to avoid: wars.
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American Theocracy Revisited: Oil, Empire, and the Gospel of Decline
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — Weaponized Information
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.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | March 22, 2026
The Republic Runs on Oil, Not Sermons
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The EU Geopolitical Reality
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — Great Power Politics, Elites & Energy
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 being dominated by its largest and tightly aligned members; Germany, France, Italy and Poland. Of the larger nations, only Spain stands out as having somewhat of an independent alignment, but that is offset by the heft of the other large members. And the latter are also supported by Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria, the Baltics, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, and Romania (after the local vassals aligned with the EU and NATO elites in stealing the election for president). Only Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia stand in opposition to EU foreign policy against Russia, and Spain with respect to the Middle East. Let’s remember that the European security forces are very fully integrated with the US security services, and US troops occupy Germany (36,000) and Italy (12,600).
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Iran HITS Israel’s Dimona Nuke Site, Trump’s 48-Hour Power Plant Threat COLLAPSES
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — Danny Haiphong
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!
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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 into China;
- A US citizen and several Ukrainians were caught bringing in large numbers of combat drones to fight the central Myanmar government and attack key infrastructure across the country including Belt and Road Initiative projects;
- Zooming out from any one of these conflicts reveals a global US war and proxy war as well as a developing global oil blockade against China;
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The Capitalist END of the West: Iran Destroys US Plans | Dr. Radhika Desai
Saturday, 21 March 2026 — Neutrality Studies and Radhika Desai Geopolitical Economist
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 core of the US empire drives entire classes within the West toward the ruthless application of force. But in a multipolar world this approach finds its ultimate—and eventually tragic—end.
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Seeing Trump Clearly
Saturday, 21 March 2026 — Craig Murray
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 chaff of apparent chaos? I realise that this is not intuitive, but bear with me (more…)
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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.
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Iran moves to Total War against the death cult
Thursday, 19 March 2026 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Structural paralysis. Meticulously programmed. Inexorable. Already in effect.
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
Attacking Iran’s South Pars gas field – the largest on the planet – is the ultimate escalation.
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 Iran hit Qatar’s LNG in retaliation “based on wrong intelligence”.
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The Markets Will Wake Up From The Phoney War
Friday, 20 March 2026 — Great Power Politics, Elites & Energy
And the US Vassal States will be in Severe Economic & Financial Crises
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 Soviet Union. Thankfully, that ended before the Western forces could get to Finland but it underlines the priorities for the British and French elites; fighting the communist Soviet Union rather than fascist Germany.
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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
Friday, 20 March 2026 — New Eastern Outlook
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.
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China’s Fertilizer Restrictions and the Crisis of American Agricultural Imperialism
Friday, 20 March 2026 — Liberation News Network
How Beijing’s Export Controls Expose the Vulnerabilities of the US Food Regime
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 post-1991 world-system.
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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.
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Iraq steps forward in a regional war
Wednesday, 18 March 2026 — The Cradle
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.
Photo Credit: The Cradle
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Brian Berletic: Iran War – A Gateway to War with China & Russia
Thursday, 19 March 2026 — Glenn Diesen
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.
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Cuba is Not Afraid: The Twelfth Newsletter (2026)
Thursday, 19 March 2026 — The Tricontinental
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.
Antonio Seguí (Argentina), Untitled, 1965. Oil on canvas, 200 x 249 cm.
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