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The Jimmy Dore Show   Israel has assassinated Ali Larijani, Iran's top national security official and key diplomatic bridge, a move deliberately designed to prevent Trump from finding an off-ramp to end the war, according to many analysts. The Grayzone ’s Max Blumenthal explains that Larijani—a philosopher and dealmaker respected even by Westerners—was killed by Israel specifically because he was the figure Trump could have negotiated with to de-escalate, and Israel's greatest fear is the U.S. ending this war before Iran is destroyed. Dore and Blumenthal contrast Iran's leaders, who frame everything through international law and diplomacy, with Israeli and U.S. officials like Lindsey Graham and Netanyahu who openly speak in terms of religious warfare and biblical prophecy. The segment concludes that Trump now commands a thinner but more cult-like base while being controlled by pro-Israel billionaires, making him more dangerous than any conventional neocon. 

Breaking Points   Krystal and Saagar are joined by Yanis Varoufakis to discuss the Iran war. 

The Jimmy Dore Show   In covering the Iran War The New York Times has demonstrated a blatant double standard, for example by definitively reporting "nine killed in Israeli city" from Iranian missiles while casting doubt on the veracity of Iranian reports of the 180 schoolgirls killed by U.S. strikes while never naming the perpetrator. Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains to Jimmy Dore that this media bias directly aids the genocide, with Western journalists knowingly using terms like "Hezbollah stronghold" to justify bombing residential neighborhoods, just as they whitewashed Gaza's destruction. He connects this to Netanyahu's invocation of "Amalek"—a biblical commandment to annihilate entire populations, including women, children, and animals—which Israeli leaders explicitly used from day one to justify genocide. The segment concludes that mainstream media journalists have "blood on their hands" equal to the pilots dropping bombs, ...

Why doesn't the media talk about Cuba? The U.S is starving millions of people in Cuba. The U.S is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel and humanitarian aid from entering. Power is out. Food is rotting. Water pumps stopped working. This’s a criminal act of collective punishment. pic.twitter.com/F6YXMIcBk1 — Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) March 17, 2026  

Owen Jones   We are a bunch of fools. We started a war we can't win.    

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss how Trump's cronies are exploiting the Strait of Hormuz crisis he instigated to manipulate markets while US consumers feel the pain. 

Glenn Diesen   Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Yanis Varoufakis discusses the historical mistake of attacking Iran (again). 

European Business Magazine Part 1 A senior Iranian official has told CNN that Tehran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz — but only if cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, not US dollars. The condition, if formalised, would represent the most significant challenge to the petrodollar system in its fifty-two-year history, striking at the financial architecture that underpins American global power rather than at US military assets. Fourteen days into the war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February, the strategic picture has shifted in ways that no oil price chart yet reflects. While markets have focused on Brent crude’s surge above $100 a barrel and the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding across the Persian Gulf region, a single sentence attributed to a senior Iranian official on Friday may prove more consequential than any of the preceding military exchanges. Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers to ...

Secular Talk   An evil death cult  

Breaking Points   Trump's escalation trap in the war with Iran.