"There has perhaps never been a conflict anticipated by American and Israeli warmongers in this degree of detail, or for longer. [...] It is within reason to assume that the current joint operations against #Iran—dubbed Epic Fury—are one of the maximalist options from a long series of both individual and joint war plans whose specific pedigree go back to at least the 1990s."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/clinging-to-a-scheme-burton
#IranWar #warOnIran #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #Israel #MiddleEast

"What is at stake in this confrontation is the future of the entire region [...] Arab political elites have been so thoroughly subordinated that they stood idly by, or even aided and abetted, as #Israel slaughtered Palestinians by the tens of thousands, which gives some sense of what they hope to accomplish in #Iran."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/iran-united-states-israel-trump-netanyahu-war-games/
#IranWar #warOnIran #MiddleEast #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #régimeChangeWars #imperialViolence

Good 🧵 by Sam Sacks about the already much hyped resignation of #JoeKent.

Worth bearing in mind Kent's record in case he starts getting marketed as some kind of peacenik and making the rounds of podcasts à la Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter (who lots of "left" folk credulously package as "peaceniks" too...)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2033910862587601273.html
#Iran #IranWar #warOnIran #USpol #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy

"Adam Shatz is joined by Robert Malley and Esfandyar Batmanghelidj to discuss the chaos of #Trump’s #Iran strategy, whether the United States and #Israel are aligned in their objectives for the region, and what Iran’s future might look like if Trump decides to bring the conflict to an end in the near term."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/what-next-in-iran
#IranWar #warOnIran #MiddleEast #USpol #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy #régimeChangeWars #imperialViolence

"This is the first war since the Second World War that is directly impacting cities that we can consider hubs in the #globalEconomy."

#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #EsfandyarBatmanghelidj to discuss the economic consequences of #Trump's #warOnIran

https://americanprestigepod.com/episodes/5052012542
#Iran #IranWar #USpol #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy #régimeChangeWars #GulfStates #MiddleEast

"While the war expands across the region, and the death toll mounts—including at least 180 people incinerated at a primary school in Minab, most of them young girls—the Democratic response to what could end up being the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century is foot-dragging, silence, and sleepy, feigned opposition long after the deed is done."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/iran-war-democrats-schumer-jeffries/
#Iran #IranWar #warOnIran #USpol #USpolitics #MiddleEast #USMiddleEastPolicy #régimeChangeWars #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

"The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an international system in crisis. The certainties of the United States’ hegemonic stewardship of the ‘international rules-based order’ have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/the-dry-and-the-wet-burn-together
#Iran #IranWar #warOnIran #régimeChangeWars #geopolitics #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy

#MILITARISM AT HOME AND ABROAD

A Conversation with #JoshRuebner, lecturer @ Georgetown U. & director of the #IMEU Policy Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DvZtNn4Ctk
#USpol #USpolitics #USMiddleEastPolicy #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #stateViolence #stateRepression #activism

#Jadaliyya | “#Israel’s End Game,” with #MohammedElKurd, hosted by Bassam Haddad

"Mohammed addresses daily life under Israel’s #Apartheid rule as well the context of Israel support in the United States."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwaMxQwXAi4
#Palestine #oPt #WestBank #SheikhJarrah #EastJerusalem #Gaza #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy

"The path to the #Trump doctrine is long and winding, but to understand its most proximate influences we need only look back a couple of presidents—especially to their actions in the #MiddleEast."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-path-to-the-trump-doctrine/
#USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy #LatinAmerica #USLatinAmericaPolicy #Palestine #Gaza #duopoly #TheEvilOfTwoLessers