From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities
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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing
Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm
In the effort to keep GDP growing, many products are made to be used only once, to go out of style, or to break after minimal use
Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet
So, make that five or more flaming years of Trump working to shut down or at least endlessly stall
Could China’s EVs be the Real Winner of Trump’s Oil War in Iran and the Gulf?
The IRGC announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, and there are reports of British and other vessels turning around
Iran Strike: Democrats call for immediate Vote on Trump War Powers
there is no consensus for another interminable war in the Middle East,” Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois said.
The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games
There is no strategy, because realizing the ostensible macro purpose of each war, besides having it, requires committing to an absurd and criminal totality
Iran: Was Washington Reframing its Red Line before Israel Attacked?
Such recalibration does not necessarily signal concession. It may reflect caution.
“In Infinite Pursuit:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:39
In the original, the abstract philosophers are castigated for being prisoners of dry reason and discernment.
Critiquing Israel is not Anti-Semitism: The American Psychological Association
definitions of antisemitism recognize that antisemitism involves prejudice, discrimination, harassment, hatred, or violence against Jews as Jews
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