“Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More
#Iran #Hormuz #MarketManipulation

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“Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More

Drop Site News's Jeremy Scahill joins Democracy Now! to discuss the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including President Donald Trump's lies about U.S. strategy and negotiations with Iran, possible avenues of U.S. escalation and what Scahill has learned about Iranian strategy in conversations with Iranian officials. “They want to cause enough pain to the world economy … [so] that any nation that thinks of attacking Iran again is going to do so knowing that these are the consequences,” he explains.

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Prediction Markets Don’t Just Forecast Power - They Reshape It

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Ryan Kirkley writes on how crypto prediction markets can risk incentivizing manipulation and amplify misinformation at scale.

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Wow! Trump is manipulating the stock market‼️
Who knew? #MarketManipulation

you guys: #iran lets "non hostile" - meaning chinese & indian ships etc pass. that will bring down #oilprice a bit.

but at the end of the day the bombing continues and not a damn thing has changed about that. it's just #marketmanipulation.

and the #oil #infrastructure destroyed, that is a physical thing, ok, that will not come back quickly & at some point something has to give.

#energycrisis

Inside Traders MADE MILLIONS Ahead Of Trump Iran Market Manipulation

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Paul Krugman asks: Did someone profit from foreknowledge of a coup attempt? He examines suspicious activity in futures markets linked to Trump's threat to bomb Iranian power plants, questioning if financial gains from political instability constitute "treason." Discover the full implications here: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets #MarketManipulation #PoliticalIntrigue #DemocracyAtRisk #PaulKrugman
Treason in the Futures Markets

People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets

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Wow! Trump is manipulating the stock market‼️ Who knew? #MarketManipulation
1-2 💡 Same ego. Same chaos. Different outcome. Trump moves markets, markets move to him. #MarketManipulation #TrumpBacksDown #Iran #WarPause #Nuke
Oil drops, stocks soar after Trump postpones strikes on Iran

Stocks rose and oil prices fell sharply after President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States would postpone further strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, pending the outcome of negotiations.

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