Opinion: This Global Energy Crisis Means People Need Improv More Than Ever Right Now
Opinion: This Global Energy Crisis Means People Need Improv More Than Ever Right Now
Seven Years Later, Still That Same Moment
Seven years is supposed to feel like distance. That’s what people tell you, what you tell yourself, what the world quietly expects you to accept. Time moves forward, relentlessly, stacking days into months into years until something that once felt immediate is supposed to settle into memory. But grief doesn’t follow that rule. It doesn’t respect calendars or anniversaries. It doesn’t care how many years have passed. Sometimes seven years feels like a lifetime ago, like you’ve lived […]"Gasoline ties household budgets to global volatility—geopolitics, refinery outages, and supply shocks. Electrification, by contrast, shifts transportation onto a more stable, increasingly domestic energy system. Every mile driven on electricity is a step away from that volatility."
Iran Can’t Hit U.S. Directly—So It’s Hitting Everyone Around It
Iran strikes Gulf nations, oil hubs, and U.S. bases across the region. The result: rising oil prices, global instability, and a war spreading through allies.
#assassinationPolicy #CIAIntervention #Diplomacy #economicFallout #geopoliticalAnalysis #globalInstability #Hezbollah #Houthis #InternationalLaw #Iran #Israel #MiddleEastConflict #MILITARISM #MohammadMossadegh #MossadeghCoup #OilPrices #ProgressivePolitics #reserveCurrency #StraitOfHormuz #USForeignPolicy #warEconomy https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oMY#RawStory 10:29am EDT - Mar 25, 2026
The #NewYorkTimes reported Tuesday night that the #Trump admin had sent #Iranian officials a 15-point plan 2 end hostilities between the two nations. A subsequent #CNBC report confirmed #Iran had received it
#Iranian officials, however, bluntly rejected that plan on Wednesday..further complicating the Trump administration’s ongoing scramble 2 find an exit 2 the #conflict that has sent #oil prices soaring & caused #GlobalInstability.

President Donald Trump was issued a stern rejection Wednesday after Iranian officials knocked back his administration’s proposed plan to bring about an end to the war he initiated last month, according to Axios reporter Barak Ravid.The New York Times reported Tuesday night that the Trump administrat...
Afghan Officials Say Hundreds Dead in Pakistani Airstrike on #Kabul
The attack hit a drug rehabilitation facility, #Afghanistan said, suggesting that its victims included #civilians. #Pakistan said it had targeted an ammunitions depot.
#geopolitics #SouthAsia #MiddleEast #GlobalInstability #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/asia/afghanistan-pakistan-kabul-hospital.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
In a valuable video conversation, Carole Cadwalladr and Robert Kagan talk about the world we've known is gone as the US careens towards fascist dictatorship and Europe risks being divided into fiefdoms by rapacious powers who have declared contempt for international law.
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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"Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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