The ultimate neoliberal “dreamworld” – on desert sand without water
Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling

* "The Dubai project requires demanding visitors and expats to not think too much about the suffering or question what goes on beyond the city’s borders. And how that city came to be built in the first place."

"The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/dubai-influencers-expats-denial-middle-east-crisis

* Living Well at Others' Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity, Stephan Lessenich, 2019, Polity Press >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=living-well-at-others-expense-the-hidden-costs-of-western-prosperity--9781509525621

#WesternProsperity #GlobalInequality #wealth #inequality #externalisation #mobility #Dubai #drylands #settlersociety #WilfulBlindness #CrumblingDreams #FossilFuels #oil #water #war #WarZone #ClimateCrisis

What you need to know about Iran today, with Matthew Doran

G’day. I’m bringing you the latest updates from the Middle East, on day 31 of …
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Airlinedelays #bahrain #BenjaminNetanyahu #breakingnews #briefing #Cyprus #DonaldTrump #Dubai #Iran #iranwar #Israel #Jordan #LauraTingle #Lebanon #MiddleEast #middleeastwar #mojtabakhamenei #Oman #Qatar #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #SupremeLeader #Syria #Travel #UAE #UnitedStates #update #Yemen
https://www.newsbeep.com/460281/

Breaking | A US-related site was struck a few moments ago in Dubai, UAE.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Dubai #UAE

Yield-hungry bitcoin holders may be keeping #BTC stuck -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/markets.html#17

Pothole-peppered #ThunderBay roads vex motorists -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.html#44

The best reactions to #UConn’s shocking buzzer-beater -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#Hartford

Partner of crime boss Steven #Lyons arrested in #Dubai -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#bbcscotland

Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills sacked by #BBC over ‘personal -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#irishnews

View all the Continents news https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-continents.html

My conclusion is that #iran is mostly attacking #dubai in the night as a psychological weapon.

Drones and ballistic missiles do not have a significant impact on damage. So they found out it's much more productive not to fire 100 drones a day but just 4-5 a night, having the phone notification waking people up at 3am every night

We got more stressed by that than by the drones themselves

This is the Iranian tactic in the last 2 weeks, at least

Partner of crime boss Steven Lyons arrested in Dubai

https://lemmus.org/post/21210916