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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
Donald Trump

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

Dan Steinbock

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

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

03/02/2026 By Mike Nickerson

Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

03/02/2026 By Tom Engelhardt

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China
Could China’s EVs be the Real Winner of Trump’s Oil War in Iran and the Gulf?

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

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Iran Strike: Democrats call for immediate Vote on Trump War Powers

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.

Michigan Advance

Donald Trump
The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games

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

Truthdig

Donald Trump
Iran: Was Washington Reframing its Red Line before Israel Attacked?

Iran: Was Washington Reframing its Red Line before Israel Attacked?

Such recalibration does not necessarily signal concession. It may reflect caution.

Peiman Salehi

Omar Khayyam
“In Infinite Pursuit:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:39

“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.

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Critiquing Israel is not Anti-Semitism: The American Psychological Association

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

Roy Eidelson

Academic Freedom
Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms

Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms

we are attuned to the pressures to restrict and repress speech related to, for example, Israel, Palestine, US policy in the Middle East

Committee on Academic Freedom

Democratic Party
Biden delivered the Country to Trump, disbelieving Gaza Death Statistics; they were Underestimates

Biden delivered the Country to Trump, disbelieving Gaza Death Statistics; they were Underestimates

The article confirms the Ministry of Health estimate that about 56% of violent deaths were among children, women and elderly men

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

What Iranian commanders have constructed in and around the Strait of Hormuz is not a conventional defense.

Middle East Monitor

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Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

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