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Trump set off a Bomb in the Cockpit of the World Economy; Does Global Recession Loom?
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Trump set off a Bomb in the Cockpit of the World Economy; Does Global Recession Loom?

Juan Cole

Today’s increase was different, since the price skyrocketed fully 30% in one day, something that hasn’t happened for decades

A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk

A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk

03/09/2026 By Tomdispatch

The War on Iran — and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

The War on Iran — and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

03/09/2026 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America

Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America

White people are not being “replaced” by invading non-whites, who have been here all along–because the U.S. incorporated them as we expanded

Mitchell Zimmerman

Israel/ Palestine
The Israeli State of Exception and the Assault on International Humanitarian Law

The Israeli State of Exception and the Assault on International Humanitarian Law

With the genocide in Gaza, Israeli rhetoric fully reflects a state of exception where the law is not just ignored, but structurally suspended.

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
MAGA Outgrows Isolationism: And Yet America First Means America Alone

MAGA Outgrows Isolationism: And Yet America First Means America Alone

Donald Trump considers international law nothing more than a trifling impediment by which the weak try to drag down the strong.

John Feffer

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The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire

The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire

People were gunned down in a systematic way during these protests on a scale unseen since the 1980s

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

Expanding settlements, making plans to cut the Palestinians into separated areas, such as separating the north of the West Bank from the south

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

China exported over $200 billion in clean energy technologies to other countries in 2025, increasing their adoption around the world

Yale Climate Connections

Arab Spring
On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries

On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries

Many people optimistically assume that popular revolutions against dictators will automatically establish democratic governments

Farhang Jahanpour

Omar Khayyam
“Gently, Brother!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

“Gently, Brother!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

That clay, and the things made of clay , bear traces of past people who died and became clay is a common theme in classical Persian poetry

Juan Cole

China
The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

The most significant development has been the deployment of China’s YLC-8B 3D long-range surveillance radar.

Middle East Monitor

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