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The wonderful Jeffrey Sachs leaves nobody in doubt about the absolute hypocrisy and complicity of western governments who condemned #Iran for defending its country against the illegal attack by #USA and #Israel.
“Even George Orwell could not make this up.”
He also points out that any nation with #US bases on its soil are not sovereign countries.
#USPol #UkPol #CdnPol #CdniPol #EUPol #AusPol #NZPol
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The Iranian children killed in the airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school early on in the US/Israeli assault on Iran were not as the popular trope increasingly has it 'killed by AI' but rather were killed by years & years of lazy & inaccurate bureaucracy; hiding behind AI allows the real culprit(s) to enjoy impunity from an atrocity & likely war crime.
Kevin Baker's detailed exploration of what was behind the airstrike is a long read but worth it!
#iran
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocityGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
“15 minutes before Trump announced that the U.S. would postpone strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure, the volume of stock market trades mysteriously spiked and the price of oil just as mysteriously plunged."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering
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In Trump’s war messaging, #veterans see something new — & disturbing
#Service members & families who lost loved ones say the #Trump team’s memes & jokes trivialize #combat & #sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast #idiocracy
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"Donald Trump’s unlawful war in Iran is escalating rapidly, and the gap between what he’s saying and what’s actually happening has never been wider. We are now seeing the deployment of one of the most elite rapid-response forces in the United States military, the 82nd Airborne Division. This is not a symbolic move or a small advisory presence."
~ Ben Meiselas
Saudi Prince Is Said to Push #Trump to Continue #Iran #War in Recent Calls
Prince Mohammed bin Salman [#MBS] sees a “historic opportunity” to remake the region, according to people briefed by #US officials on the conversations.
#law #murder #WarCriminals #TrumpsWar #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #geopolitics #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
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"Trump hat versehentlich mit uns gesprochen" – Irak klärt Missverständnis um angebliche Verhandlungen zwischen USA und Iran auf
Bagdad (dpo) - Die Verwirrung war groß, als der Iran Aussagen von US-Präsident Trump dementierte, wonach es Verhandlungen zwischen beiden L...Der Postillon (Blogger)
"We will, eventually, get a negotiated settlement with Iran. There will be no change of the Iranian regime, nor unconditional surrender. Which means that President Trump will have failed to achieve his primary war aims."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #RegimeChange
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Trump Doesn’t Have the Cards
Karma comes for our very stable genius and has he even said “thank you”?Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
As Kaylor notes,
"White supremacists have appropriated Crusader imagery to cast themselves as Christian warriors fighting to drive out Muslims and others in the name of God."
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #HolyWar #Iran #zionism #Islamophobia
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The International Congress of Mathematicians (#ICM) decided not to meet in #Russia in 2022, for a list of reasons including Russa's "war of aggression in #Ukraine and the potential dangers…in regards to freedom of political expression and the safety of #LGBTQ participants." Now some ICM members have launched a petition asking it not to meet in the US in 2026, for a list of reasons including US aggression in #Gaza, #Greenland, #Iran, and #Venezuela, and "serious concern that academics (or anyone) traveling to the US may be denied entry."
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#Mathematics #USPol #USPolitics
Move the 2026 ICM out of the United States
We, the undersigned mathematicians, call on the IMU to reconsider its decision to hold the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in the United States this coming July.Google Docs
"He’s about to wind down and exit because he doesn’t give a damn about anything except maintaining his wealth and power — and the war is now costing him both.
It’s hurting his financial backers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar — whose wealth has been seriously diminished by the war and whose vulnerability has been exposed."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #economy #oil #gas #ApprovalRating
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"The Iran conflict has been sold to the public as a story with a clear objective, to stop their nuclear program, punish its proxies, restore deterrence, and then, by magic, stability reigns. But when you dig deeper, you don’t find a coherent plan; you find a chaotic conflict with no endgame. There is no path toward resolution, but rather an endless catastrophe."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #lies #disinformation #propaganda
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What Are The Endgames For The Iran “War”?
all are fraught with grave problemsMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"Simmons is the father of 28-year-old Master Sergeant Tyler Simmons, who was among the six crew members killed last week when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #lies #disinformation #propaganda
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"The father of a dead U.S. serviceman has denied claims by Pete Hegseth that he told the Defense Secretary to 'not stop until the job is done' – referring to the war in Iran.
'No, I didn’t say anything along those lines,' Charles Simmons told NBC News in an interview Thursday, recalling his encounter with Hegseth at the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware."
~ Mike Bedigan
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #lies #disinformation #propaganda
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Father of dead serviceman says he never told Hegseth to ‘finish the job’ in Iran: report
‘No, I didn’t say anything along those lines,’ Charles Simmons told NBC News in an interview ThursdayMike Bedigan (The Independent)
"People are still trying to pretend there's some sophisticated plan here."
~ Ron Filipkowski quoting Gregg Carlstrom
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 333
… Trump made another disgusting post celebrating the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller: “Robert Mueller just died.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"All the madman posturing in the world can’t change this simple fact: Iran knows how badly Trump needs to get the oil-price situation under control. Again and again, Trump has signaled he will let other foreign-policy objectives fall by the wayside to address this major domestic concern."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz
/21
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Better to TACO Than Not to TACO
Trump chickened out again . . . for now.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"Anyone who speaks casually about the death and destruction and madness of war is a despicable monster."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
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The Washington Post is taking things seriously tonight. Here is their headline:
“Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz.”
It’s not boots on the ground. It’s blood on the ground. At the whim of one man, the blood of thousands has already been spilled. No matter who it belongs to, all blood is precious."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/19
"Some estimates, the first two sources tell us, are easily in the dozens for an initial phase of occupation, with numbers likely to rise sharply if President Trump wished to hold the island for an extended duration.
Some of the internal Kharg analysis has been shared directly with Trump in recent weeks, sources stress."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
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"In multiple scenarios, if Donald Trump were to invade and try to occupy Kharg Island for an extended period of time, American casualties would very likely be 'considerable,' one of the people familiar with the matter says."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
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First Draft: 🇮🇷 The Kharg Island Bloodbath?
If Trump carries out his decades-long violent fantasy, his team expects ‘considerable’ US casualties. Plus, the clock is ticking on the US president's threat to commit war crimes in Iran.Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)
"At least 2,200 troops of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit have departed from Camp Pendleton aboard the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
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Mullah Said There'd Be Days Like This. Tabs: Mon. March 23, 2026
News and things to read and watch! Iran, Trump, Jeffrey EpsteinMarcie Jones (Wonkette)
"Donald Trump is backing down from striking Iranian power plants, giving a five-day extension due to what he describes as productive talks with Iran. The problem is that Iran denies having any conversations with the White House or even through intermediaries."
~ Aaron Parnas
"Third, unlike the Iraq War (when George W. Bush urged Americans to go to the mall to shop) or Trump’s first attack on Iran, virtually every American already has felt — or will soon feel — the war’s impact. The price of oil won’t come down anytime soon."
"Several factors increase the likelihood that Trump’s support will crater.
First and foremost, a decomposing president, plainly out of his depth, is on display as the public increasingly grasps that this debacle was predictable and entirely avoidable. ...
Second, even if Trump wants to, it will become obvious that he has lost control of the timeline and the ballooning cost of the war."
"As unpopular as Donald Trump’s ill-conceived, incompetently managed war was when it began, it is now more unpopular with a key segment of voters. 'Trump’s net approval of -20 for handling the situation in Iran represents a drop from last week’s poll. Then, 39% of Americans approved of how Trump was handling Iran and 52% disapproved — a net approval of -13,' The Economist/YouGov reported last week."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating
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Trump’s Disastrous War Comes Home to Roost
Three big risks threaten that things will only get worseJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"'And he’s not going to get a ceasefire as long as Iran is holding the gun of the strait of Hormuz against his head.'
'He tends to be naive about how things can happen,' Panetta told Smith. 'If he says it and keeps saying it, there’s always a hope that what he says will come true. But that’s what kids do. It’s not what presidents do.'”
"As former defense secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told David Smith of The Guardian, '[I]f there was an escape here for Trump, it would be to declare victory and it’s over and we’ve been able to be successful in all of our military targets. The problem is he can declare victory all he wants but, if he doesn’t get the ceasefire, he’s got nothing.'"
"The president is under enormous pressure, as his war with Iran sparked Iranian officials to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world’s oil flows. This outcome was expected by previous presidents, but Trump seemed to think he could avoid it and now is stuck without an easy solution."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before."
~ Jon Hoffman
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
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"Instead of imploding from within, Iran’s govt has dug in and escalated the conflict, striking blows and counterblows against military bases, cities, ships in the Persian Gulf, and against vulnerable oil and gas installations.”
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
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"The belief that Israel and the US could help instigate widespread revolt was a foundational flaw in the preparations for a war that has spread across the Middle East."
Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
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"Why the desperation? The answer is obvious. It’s turning out not just that regime change — if that was really the goal — is hard to engineer, but also that the world is a lot more dependent on the Strait of Hormuz than Trump and co. seem to have realized."
"This weekend showed that we can expect more madness this week and beyond."
~ Steven Beschloss
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How About One Dull Day?
From Iran to Mueller to ICE in our airports, I think we've had enough of Trump's reckless actions putting the country on constant edgeSteven Beschloss (America, America)
"As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week and President Donald Trump orders the deployment of thousands of additional sailors and Marines to the Middle East, the troops he is counting on appear increasingly wary of the conflict."
~ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
#Trump #Iran #war #Israel #Marines #troops
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'Do Not Want To Die For Israel': Doubts About Trump’s Iran Strategy Spread Among Troops
The possibility of an American ground operation in Iran is growing, but one service member familiar with troops in the region told HuffPost the prospect would be "an absolute disaster."Akbar Shahid Ahmed (HuffPost)
#GeoPol #DritterGolfkrieg #Iran
"*#Iranische Wissenschaftlerin #RailaKhorshidian im Interview
Iranische Wissenschaftlerin Khorshidian...*
„👉#Irans #Kultur braucht endlich wieder Anschluss an die Welt👈
...Die iranische #Kulturwissenschaftlerin #RaikaKhorshidian forscht an der #UniBonn zu #Iranischer Identität. Vor dem Hintergrund des #IranKrieg, yes erklärt sie, warum das #KulturelleErbe des Landes nach 47 Jahren #MullahRegime so wichtig für die #Zukunft sein wird."
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Uni Bonn: Iranische Wissenschaftlerin Khorshidian im Interview
Die iranische Kulturwissenschaftlerin Raika Khorshidian forscht an der Uni Bonn zu iranischer Identität.Dirk Hentschel (General-Anzeiger Bonn)
