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Geopolitical Economy Report The US-Israeli war on Iran is transforming the geopolitical order, and could even unleash a global economic crisis. The conflict has caused the largest oil shock in history, disrupting markets and driving up fuel and food prices. To better understand the implications for the world, Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton interviewed economist Michael Hudson, who discussed how Iran is challenging US dollar dominance and undermining Washington’s control over the global oil industry, which has been a key pillar of the USA's foreign policy.
As the United States and Israel prepared to go to war with Iran, the head of Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, went to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan. Within days of the war’s beginning, said David Barnea, the Mossad chief, his service would likely be able to galvanize the Iranian opposition — igniting riots and other acts of rebellion that could even lead to the collapse of Iran’s government. Mr. Barnea also presented the proposal to senior Trump administration officials during a visit to Washington in mid-January. Mr. Netanyahu adopted the plan. Despite doubts about its viability among senior American officials and some officials in other Israeli intelligence agencies, both he and President Trump seemed to embrace an optimistic outlook. Killing Iran’s leaders at the outset of the conflict, followed by a series of intelligence operations intended to encourage regime change, they thought, could lead to a mass uprising that might brin...
Forget the Missiles. Iran Just Fired the Shot That Could Actually Break the West European Business Magazine Part 3 - The Strait as a Financial Weapon The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed since March 1, following joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran that included the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iranian forces declared the Strait closed on March 4, threatening and carrying out attacks on ships attempting to transit. The disruption is not marginal — approximately 20% of global oil supplies normally transit the waterway, and Brent crude has surged from around $70 to over $110 per barrel since the conflict began. At least 16 oil tankers, cargo ships and other vessels have been attacked in and around the Strait, the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the two weeks since the war began. War-risk insurance through the strait has become effectively prohibitive for most commercial operators. Trump threatened to attack Iran’s Kharg Island oil infrastructure if Ir...
US leaders anticipated a walkover. Now they’re embroiled in a conflict that could hasten the end of US economic dominance by Larry Elliott Nobody gave the Boers a prayer when the war in South Africa began in 1899. It was farmers ranged against the might of the British empire, and the expectation was that resistance would quickly crumble. Eventually, might did prevail. Britain won the Boer war, but it was a hollow victory that took the best part of three years to achieve and came at a high cost. The blow to British prestige – coming at a time when its global hegemony was under threat from fast-growing countries such as the US – was severe. Far from highlighting the extent of Britain’s power, it exposed its limitations. A century and a quarter later, the US risks being embroiled in its equivalent of the Boer war. What should have been a walkover threatens to become a prolonged conflict. The Iranians are using guerrilla tactics, just as the Boers did, with much success. There ...
Geopolitical Economy Report The war on Iran is part of a larger attempt by the US empire to reverse the decline of Western hegemony and recolonize the Global South. After invading Venezuela, Donald Trump wants to "take" Cuba, Greenland, and Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel is annexing the West Bank and colonizing southern Lebanon. Ben Norton explains the imperialist plan.
🚨🇷🇺🇨🇺 BREAKING: Russia just sent two oil tankers to Cuba with gas and diesel. Protected by a Russian Navy destroyer. Not a blockade. Not sanctions. Not starvation. Fuel. Power. Life. The US starves Cuba. Russia fuels it. One empire bombs. The other builds. The world is… pic.twitter.com/qtXKEReshN — New Direction AFRICA (@Its_ereko) March 25, 2026
Danny Haiphong Iran’s Operation True Promise 4 continues with ferocity as Israel pays a heavy price for its leadership role in the US’s war as Trump’s ultimatum threatens to send the Gulf States into a crisis of epic proportions. Danny Haiphong breaks down Day 24 of the war on Iran changing the world.
The Jimmy Dore Show Trump administration resignee and whistleblower Joe Kent recently appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to provide a devastating explanation of the government's psychological warfare strategy: withhold obvious information (like Butler shooting surveillance tapes), let the internet go "feral" with speculation, then discredit everyone asking questions as "crazy conspiracy theorists"—effectively burying legitimate inquiries. Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger connect this to the Charlie Kirk investigation being blocked, the Butler shooting cover-up, and Trump's refusal to investigate his own assassination attempt, concluding Trump was "in on it" because anyone who truly wanted answers would demand them. Dore notes the irony that the "craziest conspiracy theory" is now the official lone-nut narrative, which defies physics and common sense, while those pointing out obvious evidence suppression are smeared as insa...
Forget the Missiles. Iran Just Fired the Shot That Could Actually Break the West European Business Magazine Part 2 - The Architecture of American Financial Power To understand why the yuan condition matters, it is necessary to understand what the petrodollar system actually is. Born from the Nixon shock of 1971 and formalised in 1974, the arrangement under which Saudi Arabia and the broader Gulf agreed to denominate all oil sales in US dollars created a self-reinforcing loop that has governed global finance ever since. Because oil — the world’s most traded commodity — must be purchased in dollars, every nation that imports energy must first acquire dollars. Every central bank holds dollar reserves for precisely this reason. The dollar’s status as the world’s primary reserve currency is not an abstract achievement; it flows directly and mechanically from oil. Iran’s proposal would extend the yuan exception to the world’s single most critical maritime chokepoint. Source, links: htt...
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.
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
Forget the Missiles. Iran Just Fired the Shot That Could Actually Break the West 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 precedi...
The Jimmy Dore Show Jimmy Dore reports on a major escalation in the Iran war where the homes of Israeli leaders have been targeted, allegedly killing Benjamin Netanyahu's brother and seriously wounding Itamar Ben-Gvir, signaling a shift to targeting Israeli leadership in response to their regime change assassination of Ayatollah. He and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger highlight how Western media like the BBC and Reuters are covering up the attacks by reporting Ben-Gvir was "lightly injured in a car accident," exposing their role as propagandists for Israel. Dore notes that Israel's air defenses are failing, with Iranian missiles now getting through relentlessly, while Netanyahu himself is reportedly fleeing on private jets rather than showing the courage of the Iranian leader he assassinated. The segment concludes with observations that Pentagon contractors are suppressing satellite images of destroyed U.S. bases and that Trump's claim the war is "almost ...
Full statement by Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga: “Most of you don’t condemn, some even support, Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war on Iran, yet you claim to stand with the Iranian people. Now I dare you to say that to the eyes of that seven-year-old girl, her backpack still beside her desk, killed when a US Tomahawk missile struck her elementary school. Dare to admit it to the 167 other victims in that school, while you offer European bases to US killing machines. Tell the families of Tehran, a city of 10 million people, that you support Israel’s chemical warfare as they poison the air with toxic fires and black rain, spreading cancers for decades. Tell the Iranian people how much you really love them, while from Golestan to Chehel Sotoun, Western bombs ravage century-old cultural heritage. Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq — your bombs never brought democracy and never will. They bring chaos. Death. Destruction. And the unbearable silence of children who will never come home.” BREAKING Belgium’s ...
Geopolitical Economy Report After the US and Israel attacked Iran, Tehran's strategy of asymmetric warfare is clear: it closed the Strait of Hormuz and is attacking energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, causing global oil and natural gas prices to skyrocket, crashing stock markets, fueling inflation, and provoking an economic crisis that will hurt the USA and its allies. The conflict has also become a battle of attrition. Iran is using cheap missiles and drones to deplete the defense interceptors of neighboring countries, which will be very difficult to replace, due to deindustrialization, despite Trump administration efforts to boost production. Ben Norton explains.
GVS Deep Dive Three of America's closest Gulf allies are quietly reviewing whether to pull $2 trillion from US markets. This is what Washington isn't telling you. This Deep Dive breaks down why Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait are invoking force majeure clauses, why the Gulf's social contract is collapsing from within, and why Washington has no strategic incentive to respond — and what that means for the dollar, global oil prices, and the future of the US-Gulf alliance.
CNN confirms what the world knows: The US 🇺🇸 bombed Minab girls school 🇮🇷 Murdering 168 girls and 14 teachers It’s not Iranian 🇮🇷 ‘propaganda’ It is disgusting. Expel 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 from the UN Isolate 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 now Trump 🇺🇸 & Netanyahu 🇮🇱 to The Hague now. pic.twitter.com/pQdSl2CPmO — Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) March 7, 2026
The Jimmy Dore Show Jimmy Dore interviews The Grayzone ’s Max Blumenthal about how the current Iran conflict feeds the "Greater Israel Project," an expansionist vision held by influential Israeli figures to establish borders between the Nile and Euphrates rivers, encompassing parts of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia including Mecca and Medina. They argue that this Israeli ambition explains current Middle East dynamics, with the U.S. military being used as a "battering ram" to make Arab Muslim states subservient to Israeli domination. Blumenthal notes that even mainstream Israeli opposition figures articulate this biblical vision, and that the Israeli flag itself symbolizes these aspirations with stripes representing the Nile and Euphrates. They conclude that if Israel's campaign against Iran fails, Gulf states will learn the costly lesson that hosting U.S. bases and normalizing relations with Israel is a dangerous liability.
Saudi Arabia & Qatar caught Mossad agents planning false flag operations inside their soil to blame Iran
Tucker Carlson says Saudi Arabia & Qatar caught & arrested Israeli Mossad agents planning bombings in those countries. pic.twitter.com/6PUxWeUymu — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) March 3, 2026
Geopolitical Economy Report The US-Israeli war on Iran is expanding into a global conflict. The European Union supports it. The UK is letting Trump use British bases. Germany and France are involved. Canada backs it. Tehran has retaliated, in self-defense, hitting US military bases in Gulf countries. Ben Norton explains.
A Greek court has sentenced four people, including two Israelis, to prison over a major wiretapping scandal involving the illegal use of Predator software to target dozens of politicians, journalists, business leaders and military officials. Dubbed the “Greek Watergate” by local media, the scandal engulfed Greece in 2022 following allegations by opposition party leader Nikos Androulakis and journalist Thanasis Koukakis that they had been under state surveillance via phone malware. On Wednesday, a judge at the Second Single-Member Misdemeanour Court of Athens said the four were found guilty of “breaching the confidentiality of telephone communications”. The defendants, who were not present at the court, were also found guilty of “tampering with a personal-data filing system … on a repeated basis”, as well as of “illegal access to an information system or data”, the judge said. The four include Tal Dilian, a former Israeli soldier and founder of Intellex...
globinfo freexchange 1. The nature of war has changed dramatically since the Iraq war, due to technological developments. A ground invasion, especially against Iran, would be catastrophic for the US empire with unpredictable consequences, even if the regime-change mission successfully completed. 2. The Iran allies in the region are still active, despite their losses. This is connected with the first reason in a way because armed groups dispersed in the Middle-East and affiliated with Iran, can lead to an asymmetric, out-of-control conflict to the point where US forces may suddenly find themselves trapped in a wider deadly warzone with no exit. The new, relatively cheap technology of drones and small/middle range missiles, is easily accessible to these groups. The Ansar Allah group in Yemen, already demonstrated their ability to sabotage US military operations. 3. Iran is not Iraq. Not only due to its size and the fact that we live now in a very different period, but also be...
revolutionaryth0t The claim that capitalism or socialism succeeds or fails because of ‘human nature’ is ahistorical and unscientific. This video explains how material conditions shape behavior, why capitalism incentivizes our worst traits, and how changing the economic base changes social consciousness.
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These actions are a direct response to the refusal of international institutions and governments around the world to confront the carnage. Though the genocide continues, the dockworkers’ industrial disruption offer us a model of resistance. Will the Italian way spread to the imperial core — and can it end the genocide?
The Minister of Health of Greece, during a visit to a public hospital, in discussion with a doctor, even going so far as to order his arrest. The death of democracy in the very country where it was born. @EURightsAgency @rights360 @euronews @EU_EESC pic.twitter.com/1pvkxfaXkC — Nikos Maltezos (@youcanalwaysbe) February 20, 2026
Al Jazeera English In the Occupied West Bank, UN investigators highlighted what they called a systematic use of unlawful force. Israeli troops and settlers forced Palestinians from their land, raising 'serious concerns of ethnic cleansing.' Unlawful demolitions ensured many had no homes to return to. All these violations of international human rights law took place in a climate of impunity. The report says many of the atrocities could constitute war crimes—but the perpetrators acted with apparent confidence that there will be no consequences to their actions. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, joins Al Jazeera ’s live from Tunis, while Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli Knesset who represents the Hadash-Ta'al faction, joins live from Rehovot in Israel.
The Grayzone Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran joins The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal to discuss the looming US-Israeli regime change war on Iran and how his country will respond, both militarily and politically. Marandi forecasts economically devastating consequences, with an energy crisis brought on by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the possible collapse of Gulf family monarchies, and a militarily unmanageable environment for the Trump administration. While Trump reportedly considers a series of "symbolic" strikes to weaken Iran's negotiating hand, Marandi argues that Iran has no choice but to respond with maximum force.
Cyrus Janssen The US Just Destroyed the World Order and Marco Rubio gave a speech that details what the future of the world will look like now. Janssen breaks down why Rubio's speech went viral, why the world order is gone forever, why global opinions are changing, and why the Global South will have a major role in shaping the future of the world.
Danny Haiphong Independent journalist Ben Norton joined the show to discuss the immense impact of China and Russia's aid on Iran's most powerful weapon. What is this weapon? The answer will surprise you because it's NOT what you think. Ben Norton breaks down the full context of Iran's Trump Card and why war on Tehran will bring consequences that Washington isn't ready for.
As waves of deadly demonstrations and counter-demonstrations hit Iran, MintPress examines the CIA-backed NGOs helping to stir the outrage and foment more violence. One of these groups is Human Rights Activists In Iran, frequently referred to as HRA or HRAI in the media. The group, and its media arm, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) have become the go-to group of experts for Western media, and are the source of many of the most inflammatory claims and shockingly high casualty figures reported in the press. In the past week alone, their assertions have provided much of the basis for stories in CNN, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ABC News, Sky News, and The New York Post, among others. And in a passionate plea for leftists to support the protests, Owen Jones wrote in The Guardian Tuesday that HRAI are a “respected” group whose death toll proclamations are “probably significant underestimates.” Yet what none of these reports mention is that Human Rights Activists In Iran is ba...
DiEM25 As leaders, generals and diplomats gather in Munich this weekend to debate Europe’s security and the future of the transatlantic alliance, the real question is not what is said on stage — but what direction Europe is being steered toward. Yanis Varoufakis and Jeffrey Sachs examine the conclusions of the Munich Security Conference — and the wider headlines, reactions and signals surrounding it — separating rhetoric from reality. Is “strategic autonomy” taking shape, or are old dependencies being reinforced? What does Munich reveal about Ukraine, NATO and Europe’s room to manoeuvre?
GVS Deep Dive At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered one of the most consequential foreign policy speeches of the year. Framed as a call for Western renewal, his address went far beyond NATO reassurance — outlining a vision of sovereignty, industrial consolidation, and civilizational confidence that may signal the end of the post-Cold War global order. Is this the beginning of a Second Cold War? Is the West reorganizing around bloc competition? Or are we witnessing the construction of a new world order?
The Jimmy Dore Show Escalating U.S. sanctions under President Donald Trump have created a severe fuel and humanitarian crisis in Cuba, a policy Jimmy Dore describes as “siege warfare” designed to force regime change by immiserating the populace by denying them food, electricity and healthcare. Dore shares allegations that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is misleading Trump about diplomatic talks with Cuban officials while advancing a hardline strategy to collapse the government. However, reports have emerged suggesting that Russia plans to send oil shipments to Cuba as humanitarian aid, while China continues expanding solar infrastructure on the island to reduce dependence on imported fuel. Dore frames U.S. actions as economic coercion comparable to blockades in other conflicts, warning that further escalation could heighten geopolitical tensions reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
FRANCE 24 English In an interview with FRANCE 24, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese dismissed recent accusations of anti-Semitism against her as "shameful and defamatory." She also warned that "the plan to fully destroy Gaza continues" and denounced Israeli measures in the West Bank, where "soldiers and settlers are spreading terror".
An investigation conducted by Al Jazeera based on evidence collected by the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip has concluded that nearly 3,000 Palestinians have been “evaporated” by Israel through the use of thermal weapons—some of them supplied by the US. As reported by Al Jazeera on Tuesday, the investigation found that 2,842 Palestinians were killed due to Israel’s “systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit].” The heat generated by these weapons is so intense, investigators noted, that they leave behind almost no detectable human remains other than blood stains or pieces of flesh. Israel’s use of such weapons was flagged last year in a social media post by Omar Hamad, a Gaza pharmacist who posted a video purportedly showing a thermobaric bomb being detonated in Beit Hanoun. Mahmoud Basal, spokespers...
Cyrus Janssen 8 reasons China is pulling ahead in 2026 — not as a recap of last year, but as a roadmap for what comes next. Geopolitics doesn’t shift overnight; it changes through compounding advantages, and when you step back and look at the full picture, the pattern becomes hard to ignore. China isn’t relying on a single breakthrough — it’s advancing across every pillar of modern power, from AI and manufacturing to energy, trade, and long-term strategy. The real question isn’t whether China is competing anymore, but whether the balance of global power is already shifting.
Geopolitical Economy Report The USA is waging a new cold war on China, and trying to recruit countries in the Asia-Pacific region to join it. Vietnam refuses, and is making plans for a potential second war with the United States. Ben Norton explains the complex geopolitics of Southeast Asia and the US empire's strategy.
As waves of deadly demonstrations and counter-demonstrations hit Iran, MintPress examines the CIA-backed NGOs helping to stir the outrage and foment more violence. One of these groups is Human Rights Activists In Iran, frequently referred to as HRA or HRAI in the media. The group, and its media arm, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) have become the go-to group of experts for Western media, and are the source of many of the most inflammatory claims and shockingly high casualty figures reported in the press. In the past week alone, their assertions have provided much of the basis for stories in CNN, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ABC News, Sky News, and The New York Post, among others. And in a passionate plea for leftists to support the protests, Owen Jones wrote in The Guardian Tuesday that HRAI are a “respected” group whose death toll proclamations are “probably significant underestimates.” Yet what none of these reports mention is that Human Rights Activists In Iran is ba...