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“Where do we eat?” #capitalism #america

“When he isn’t killing, he’s collecting.” #war #military

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington correspondent Wallace R. Deuel warns in an analysis published 75 years ago that a “Red flood” threatens to overtake Iran and its vast reserves of oil unless the US acts. Shah Reza Pahlavi is described as a pro-West “advocate of reform,” thwarted by “big landowners” and “merchant princes.” Deuel quit the paper for the CIA in 1953, the same year as the US-backed Iranian coup d’etat that consolidated Pahlavi’s autocratic rule. #politics #iran #cia #journalism

“There have always been extremists at the edge of conservative politics, congeries of Nazi sympathizers, neo-Confederates, theocrats and militia types. Traditionally, the Republican Party’s relationship to these far-right figures has been an uneasy mix of pandering and embarrassment. One of Trump’s innovations was to dispatch with all shame, reveling in the energy born of smashing taboos.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/opinion/james-fishback-gen-z-republican-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.fHFM.zz4asutQlQzm&smid=url-share

“The fundamental misunderstanding at the heart of American regime-change strategy is the assumption that destroying the existing order creates space for something better. It does not. It creates space for whoever is best organized, best armed and most willing to fill it. In Iraq, that was Iran. The question now is who fills it in Iran itself.” https://theconversation.com/iraq-wars-aftermath-was-a-disaster-for-the-us-the-iran-war-is-headed-in-the-same-direction-277585 #iran #iraq #libya

Bayer supplies white phosphorous, via intermediaries, to the United States military, which uses it to fill white phosphorus munitions at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/climate/bayer-white-phosphate-glyphosate-roundup-trump-executive-order-munition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RlA.LbV5.7bSRBghfUziv&smid=url-share #military #agriculture #environment

It started with oil. #iran #war

If Congress had exercised its powers with respect to Venezuela, would it have slowed the rush to war with Iran? https://pdowns.substack.com/p/if-congress-had-exerted-its-rights #iran #war #congress #venezuela

“War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” — International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1946 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judnazi.asp#common #iran