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Here’s the news from Iran – Donald Trump is making America lose wars again
Humiliating failure now looms, as symbolically damaging to US global standing and national self-esteem as Afghanistan or Iraq, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon TisdallSimon Tisdall (The Guardian)
Exclusive: #Trump has rejected efforts to launch #Iran #ceasefire talks
Trump's admin has rebuffed efforts by #MiddleEast allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the Iran #war that started 2 weeks ago with a massive #US - #Israeli air assault, acc/to 3 sources.
Iran has rejected the possibility of any ceasefire until US & Israel strikes end, 2 snr Iran sources said, adding that SEVERAL countries had been trying to mediate an end to the conflict.
In case anyone was unsure about the chaos being spread by #AI
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#iran #uspol #cdnpoli #war #deepFake
Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online
The technology has been used to create misleading fakes before. But never at this scale.Stuart A. Thompson (The New York Times)
⚠️ Update: Two full weeks have now passed since #Iran fell into digital darkness amid a regime-imposed internet blackout.
The public remain isolated from the outside world with only a limited domestic intranet after 336 hours while state-approved accounts get whitelisted access.
‘No clear goal’: lack of #Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics
“And the first six days of the war alone cost the US $11.3bn, the #Pentagon briefed members of Congress – though it wasn’t clear if those numbers included the cost of the buildup or the US missile defenses as well.”
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‘No clear goal’: lack of Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics
White House contends with reality of shoddy preparations for war and unclear conditions for victoryAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
🚨 BREAKING : Strong winds are uprooting the fragile tents of displaced families across the Gaza Strip, where civilians forced from homes destroyed by Israeli attacks struggle to survive in harsh humanitarian conditions as global attention shifts to tensions between United States, Israel, and Iran.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Iran
(Anecdotal) evidence is mounting to support the `argument that those who oppose the regime in Iran are labouring under few illusions that the US is *really* their friend; from a lack of delivery on offers of support for 'resistance' to the bombing of civilians (include the early hit on a school), Iranians increasingly see their future as bleak, whoever 'wins' the war.
Only those with no memory of the US's involvement in the Middle East could remain optimistic.
#Iran
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‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump
Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and livesDeepa Parent (The Guardian)
The other option? Don’t attack #Iran. Idiots.
#Trump Removes #Sanctions on #Russia to Help #Oil Flow Amid Iran #War
The #US on Thursday temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil that is currently at sea, allowing it to be shipped to buyers around the world as the Trump admin scrambles to contain #energy #prices that have been soaring because of the war in Iran.
#TrumpsWar #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #Ukraine #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving
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What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaa…
#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran
Des Éoliennes contre du pétrole
J'espère que ceux qui passaient leur temps à râler que les éoliennes ne fonctionnent pas quand il n'y a pas de vent comprennent maintenant que le pétrole ne fonctionne pas quand il n'y a pas de détroit d'Ormuz.
A bon entendeur...
#eolien #oil #ormuz #pétrole #iran #écologie #IranCrisis #irancrises #usa2026 @Randahl Fink
It's taken two weeks before I've seen any reporting on the cultural damage from these #Iran airstrikes.
A millennia old culture, bombed to make old men feel powerful and raise the price of oil.
Dismay as ancient heritage sites across Iran damaged in US-Israel bombing
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Dismay as ancient heritage sites across Iran damaged in US-Israel bombing
Golestan Palace world heritage site in Tehran and palace in Isfahan harmed despite Unesco sending coordinatesJulian Borger (The Guardian)
Ancient heritage sites across #Iran damaged by #US - #Israel bombing
“ #Isfahan is not an ordinary city, it’s a museum without a roof. [...] In none of the previous eras, not in the Afghan wars, not in the Moghul conquest, not even during the ‘sacred defence’ [the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war] was this ever done,” the governor said.
Will @EUCommission @Bundesregierung have the guts to stand up to #Trump and #Netanyahu ?
#1954HagueConvention #Unesco #warcrimes
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Dismay as ancient heritage sites across Iran damaged in US-Israel bombing
Golestan Palace world heritage site in Tehran and palace in Isfahan harmed despite Unesco sending coordinatesJulian Borger (The Guardian)
Arundhati Roy's latest
" Iran is not Gaza. The theater of this new war could expand to consume the whole world. We are on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse. .. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission"
#Iran #Gaza #USA #Israel
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'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War
Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.Arundhati Roy (Zeteo)
BREAKING:
Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga:
“You claim to stand with the people of #Iran while you offer European bases to #US killing machines.
#eu #europe #uk #france #germany #netherlands #greece #italy #hungary #europeanunion #belgium #news #mastodon #socialmedia #trump #cdnpoli #uspol #politi #sovereignty #economy #resistance #antifascism #lfi #protest #freepalestine #china #russia #yemen #hezbollah #lebanon @politics @socialmedia @democracy #education #canada #Africa #justice #humanrights
⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is entering its twelfth day after 264 hours with connectivity still at 1% of ordinary levels.
Meanwhile, the regime's spokesperson has confirmed observations pointing to a whitelisting system, stating that only the approved are given a voice.
"The news cycle hasn’t just moved on [from Epstein]: we are now deep into the testosterone zone, the fizzing, almost sexual excitement of war. This is what the early stages of all wars look like. …
AI, like war, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power."
~ Carole Cadwalladr
#Trump #LindseyGraham #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #AI #broligarchy #PerformativeMasculinity
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Hooked on dopamine, fuelled by testosterone, powered by AI: this is the broligarchs’ war
Three weeks ago, briefly, the world was focused on Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of women and girls. Now, as conflict rages, the tide of hyper-masculinity has risen again, writes Carole CadwalladrCarole Cadwalladr (The Nerve)
"Lindsey Graham’s bloodlust is a disgusting example of privilege. Mike says Lindsey is calling for the sons and daughters of South Carolina to join up and head over to Iran to fight this 'holy war.' Well, until Lindsey, and Barron Trump for that matter, enlist in the armed forces and head over for active combat, they can just sit this one out and shut up."
~ Katie Phang
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism
/22
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Why Is Donald Trump Still Lying About the U.S. Bombing a School in Iran?
Plus: Lindsey Graham is a ____ (take your pick on the fill in the blank)Katie Phang
"There has been little in the way of visible success, even if our bombs are (mostly) hitting their targets. Here at home, the most obvious effect of the war is a dramatic increase in oil prices, which is something people really don’t like.
Add it up, and you have the least popular war in history, at least at this stage."
"Here’s what’s influencing people’s understanding of the war:
There was never any widespread belief that Iran was an immediate threat to the U.S.
The risks of regional instability are ample, while there is no obvious reward for the U.S. in this war.
The president is deeply unpopular."
~ Paul Waldman
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The Least Popular War In History
Here's why there's been no rally-round-the-flag effect on Iran.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"The Trump regime is seeking to deflect blame and avoid responsibility for the largest civilian massacre by the U.S. military [at a girls' school in Minab, Iran] since the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. It’s vitally important to understand what has actually happened and how the White House is now seeking to shift the narrative and evade accountability."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
/19
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Gaslighting Over Atrocities
The Trump White House’s deflections and false claims around a massacre of children cannot be allowed to stand.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"But anyway, my God, you know, deliberately being dumb is not good policy. Take care."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #Congress
/18
"They’re not confused. The administration and its allies are running multiple arguments at the same time, and the arguments don’t need to be consistent with each other. They just need to do the same job: keeping Congress out of the decision-making process and letting Trump do whatever the hell he wants."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #Congress
/17
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Schrödinger's War
They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
"Over the last few days the markets started to go south. So did the optics and politics of the war. And so Trump’s now looking to end it.
This process will have plenty of zigs and zags. Pulling a TACO in war isn’t simple. Once you’ve decided to 'Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war,' it’s not as easy to get the fierce dogs of war back in the kennel as it is the docile puppies of tariffs."
William Kristol
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #TACO
/16
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TACOs With a Side of War Porn
Despite his callous bluster, Trump is seemingly retreating.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
As Aaron Parnas reports this morning, Trump is now threatening to rain "Death, Fire, and Fury" on Iran (though, of course, he imagines the word "rain" is spelled "reign" — since he truly knows no better).
His threats have to do with the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is now impassable due to his war, and this is affecting the global economy, creating political problems for him and Republicans in the US.
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction
/15
"And it affected an almost entirely civilian population, that will be paying the price for decades to come. If we’re going to do this we should at least have to look at it."
#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
/14
"U.S./Israeli force mounted another series of strikes, these on oil storage sites across the vast city of Tehran. The effect was astonishing—a cloud of truly toxic smoke—and I think it needs more notice than it’s been getting, even amidst all the other horrors of this war. This was in essence chemical warfare, even if the chemicals were the (easily anticipated) result of 'normal' bombs."
~ Bill McKibben
#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
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"And it’s only costing us around a billion dollars a day."
~ Sam Osterhout
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Oil Up, Markets Down: Trump's War Spirals | Sam Osterhout & Iran Expert Dr. Sanam Vakil
The Iran War is costing us $1 billion a day. Is there an exit strategy?Sam Osterhout (Lincoln Square)
"I think everyone in politics and finance and media who anticipated a fictional, level-headed version of Donald Trump succumbed to years of spin and misinformation and algorithmic propaganda on Twitter."
~ Brian Beutler
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Elites Aren't Much Savvier Than MAGA
They're both easy marks for Donald Trump.Brian Beutler (Off Message)
"Trump blundered his way into a war in which one of the first acts was the killing of more than 160 innocent schoolgirls. Neither he nor the senior US military comm and has the decency or humanity to admit that they killed hundreds of Iranian children through their recklessness."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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"Most presidents announce foreign policy in measured phrases freighted with forethought and significance. Trump blathers, tumbling over proclamations as quickly as he can pronounce them. Perhaps Trump’s secret plan is to confuse everyone so thoroughly that they are frozen with doubt. Not a winning strategy, to be sure, but the only way to make sense of Trump’s whirligig fountain of nonsense that erupted on Monday."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
"It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it, knock out the leaders he didn’t like, and hope the Iranian people would rise up and put in place new leaders he could deal with. It was supposed to look like what happened in Venezuela in January…."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"Trump wants to be done because the conflict is getting too messy, Gulf allies are certainly privately asking WTAF Trump’s plan is and more than anything else Trump is realizing that he is triggering what has been the most reliable presidency killer in American politics for more than half a century: spiking gas prices."
