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The debt keeps going way up, and our data is being sold off.
Worse than 2008?

Several commentators have remarked that the United States’ war on Iran carries echoes of 2008. A potential financial crash this year could actually be much worse.

resilience

“Donald Trump’s seemingly impulsive, unplanned attack on Iran was the end result of a long, persistent campaign by many around him. The underlying currents that caused Trump to begin his war were his extensive personal pathologies combined with pressure from those who benefit politically and economically—and from those who see it as a fulfillment of prophecy”

#trump #israel #iran

https://www.mind-war.com/p/end-times-hunger-games-the-mythological

End Times Hunger Games: The Mythological Battle Raging Below the War on Iran

How five distinct visions of the apocalypse conspire to create endless war.

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

[The Selling Circular Podcast] Why Your Retirement Fund Might Be Destroying Your Future
https://podcastaddict.com/the-selling-circular-podcast/episode/219649017 via @PodcastAddict

Papers a thttps://www.arketa-institute.org/resources/category/Publications
#degrowth #circulareconomy

The Selling Circular Podcast - Why Your Retirement Fund Might Be Destroying Your Future

Listen to The Selling Circular Podcast - Why Your Retirement Fund Might Be Destroying Your Future by Garr Punnett and Sabira Lakhani on Podcast Addict. Matt Orsagh spent 17 years inside the CFA Institute, working at the intersection of corporate governance, ESG, and sustainability until he realized the system he was trying to fix from within was fundamentally designed to produce the outcomes he was fighting against. In this conversation, Matt and Garr dig into why GDP is a terrible measure of success, why degrowth isn't a politica

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RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116257825994578054

"So who is responsible?

First and most obviously, President Donald Trump, and his collection of feckless and incompetent loyalists. ..."

"You don’t have to carry water for the Iranian regime to ask yourself a simple question: How would you feel about all of this if you were in charge of Iran? The greatest military behemoth in recorded history, itself now led by a deranged autocrat ordering one lawless attack after another (Trump has bombed seven different countries just since January 2025)" (continued in /5)

~ David Faris

#Trump #Iran #war #nuclearweapons
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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-war-trump-neoconservativism/

Getting Iran Wrong, to the Nth Power

Trump’s unhinged war in Iran is but an escalation of our willful misapprehension of the country’s history and makeup.

The Nation

"Then Sen. Mark Warner pressed her on the omission directly. 'I recognized that time was running long,' Gabbard responded. 'You chose to omit the part of the assessment that contradicts the president,' Warner said. Gabbard had no response.

Trump started a war on a lie. Democrats forced Gabbard to admit it under oath."

#Trump #TulsiGabbard #Iran #war #nuclearweapons
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March 8.
In the 'news that just slipped by' dept

"Two ships owned by an Iranian company that the United States has accused of supplying material to Tehran’s ballistic missile program departed a Chinese chemical-storage port this week laden with cargo and headed for Iran, according to a Washington Post analysis of ship-tracking data, satellite imagery and Treasury Department records."

Laden Iranian ships depart Chinese port tied to key military chemicals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/03/07/laden-iranian-ships-depart-chinese-port-tied-key-military-chemicals/

Laden Iranian ships depart Chinese port tied to key military chemicals

Experts said the vessels are probably carrying a key precursor for rocket fuel, making it notable that Beijing let them sail while the U.S. and Iran are at war.

The Washington Post

"The whole thing is meant to say, look at this oversized infant, this clueless child playing with the world like it’s a nursery set."

https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/stop-insulting-kids-by-calling-donald?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6hyrf6

Stop Insulting Kids By Calling Donald Trump 'Childish.' This Is Grown-Man Evil.

Look at this meme, Y’all.

Dr Stacey Patton
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