By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
March 26, 2026
In my recent article - Boots on the Ground in Iran... A Deception or a Suicide Mission? - I was shocked by the lack of OPSEC (aka Operational Security) surrounding the deployment of the 31st and 11th MEUs (Marine Expeditionary Unit). Then there was the news that the 82nd Airborne had cancelled an upcoming exercise and also were being deployed to the Persian Gulf as well.
By Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
March 26, 2026
Contrary to what our media would have us believe, the Islamic Republic of Iran is no more a totalitarian regime than our own. Iran is a far older civilization than the West. Its people possess qualities we lack. Not only should we not be proud of eradicating them, but we should listen to their voices.
We are witnessing, astonished, a new kind of war, without understanding it.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
March 26, 2026
It does seem that President Trump, being the total puppet of Israel and the Israel Lobby that rules America has put himself and America in a bad situation.
Trump was led down the garden path by Netanyahu. Trump was deceived by Netanyahu into a war that America cannot win unless it uses nuclear weapons. If Trump is stupid enough or egotistic enough to use nuclear weapons or to stand aside while Israel uses them, the genie is out of the bottle, and Armageddon is our destination.
The problem is US presidents, not kings. The problem is the US empire, not Trump. The United States needs drastic, revolutionary change, not daytime protests designed to be as inoffensive as possible.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
March 26, 2026
There's another giant "No Kings" protest scheduled for this weekend, and right now all I can think about is how disgusting it is that this is the closest thing to a mass-scale antiwar protest in the United States right now.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
March 26, 2026
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
You're not imagining it.
Everything costs more. Everything is monitored.
Everything feels like it's designed to take-from your wallet, your time, your freedom.
That's because it is.
By Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter
March 26, 2026
They might not want US hawks to obsess over the scandalous optics of Trump 2.0 continuing its talks with Russia while Russia is helping Iran kill US troops, which could manipulate the public into pressuring Trump 2.0 into ending these talks for good.
Putin's envoy to the US Kirill Dmitriev retweeted Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna's condemnation of Politico's latest report alleging that he conveyed Putin's proposal for Russia to stop providing Iran with targeting intel on US assets in exchange for the US no longer sharing intel with Ukraine.
Operation "Epstein Fury" in Iran is the greatest misdirection trick ever performed.
By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
March 26, 2026
One of the strangest quirks of human cognition is the inability of people to see evil when it is standing right in front of them, staring them in the face. We are so in the habit of believing that evil must be something occult or hidden from view that we can't see it when it is out in the open.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
March 26, 2026
Either way AI goes-replacing human labor or failing to meet today's lofty expectations-the result is the same: an economic Depression.
Either way AI goes-replacing human labor en masse, or failing to meet today's lofty expectations-the result is the same: an economic Depression with no way out.
In effect, AI is self-liquidating: if it follows the projections of its most ardent promoters and replaces most human workers, it collapses the economy and society, and if it underperforms, it's an enormous waste of capital and resources that sinks the economy into Depression.
By Veronika Kyrylenko
The New American
March 26, 2026
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published a 10-point plan to reshape everyday behavior in response to the energy crisis triggered by the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. The proposal, titled "Sheltering From Oil Shocks," is advising governments, businesses, and individuals to reduce fuel consumption.
The IEA is an international forum that coordinates energy policies among major economies.
The EU discards members, protects non-members.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
March 26, 2026
What's in a name ? These daysnot much.
The European Union does not include Ukraine; nevertheless and notwithstanding the objections of E.U. members Hungary and Slovakia, the European supra-state insists on paying the salaries of Ukraine's government bureaucracy while that nation's martial-law-holdover-president, Volodymyr Zelensky, fights to maintain control over a breakaway region that has rejected Ukrainian rule since the 2014 coup d'état of Ukraine's then-president, Viktor Yanukovych.
Missiles, Memory, and the Edge of War
By Brandon Campbell
Ultimate-Survival
March 26, 2026
There is a particular kind of silence that comes before impact. Not metaphorical silence-the real one. The kind that settles in the seconds after a warning, when people stop talking not because they have nothing to say, but because language suddenly feels useless.
When we talk about the missile capabilities of Iran, we rarely talk about that silence.
Buon senso vorrebbe che ucraini ed europei puntassero a chiudere il conflitto al più presto, prima che la sconfitta diventi disfatta, dal momento che non esiste nessuna possibilità che gli ucraini riconquistino i territori perduti o impediscano ai russi di conquistarne altri.
Il quarto anniversario dall'inizio dell'invasione russa dell'Ucraina ha costituito l'ennesima occasione perduta per guardare al conflitto in atto con freddo e severo pragmatismo non solo per assorbire le "lezioni" che giungono dai campi di battaglia militari, geopolitici ed economici ma anche per trarne le dovute considerazioni circa le opportunità per porre termine alla guerra.
Donald Trump pourrait bien avoir besoin de l'aide de Xi Jinping pour empêcher le conflit de s'étendre.
Source : Foreign Policy, Weilin Deng, Bernard Haykel
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Si Washington veut éviter que le conflit avec l'Iran ne dégénère en une crise régionale plus large, il a besoin de l'aide d'un allié a priori improbable : Pékin.
La Chine est la seule puissance étrangère qui pourrait vouloir pousser Téhéran à la désescalade et en avoir aussi les moyens.
Par Ramzy Baroud
Les origines des échecs font l'objet de controverses, mais rares sont ceux qui contestent le fait que, si le jeu a vu le jour en Inde, c'est l'Empire perse sassanide qui l'a perfectionné pour en faire un système stratégique tel que nous le connaissons aujourd'hui.
Ce n'est pas là un détail historique anodin. C'est, à bien des égards, une métaphore qui revient avec force.
Depuis le début de la guerre israélo-US contre l'Iran, le 28 février 2026, le discours politique - tant dans les médias occidentaux et israéliens que dans les médias alternatifs - a invoqué à maintes reprises l'analogie avec les échecs pour décrire le comportement de l'Iran.
Par Al-Mayadeen
La guerre menée par les États-Unis et Israël contre l'Iran a généré, en seulement deux semaines, des émissions équivalentes à celles de 84 pays, ce qui met en évidence le lourd impact climatique de la guerre moderne.
L'impact climatique de la guerre menée par les États-Unis et Israël contre l'Iran s'aggrave rapidement : une nouvelle analyse estime que cette guerre a généré, au cours de ses 14 premiers jours, plus d'émissions de gaz à effet de serre que celles produites par 84 pays réunis.
Statuant en référé, la Cour d'Appel de Bruxelles a reconnu que l'État belge avait failli à ses obligations de prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour s'opposer à la commission d'un génocide du peuple palestinien dans la bande de Gaza, comme l'a ordonné, depuis maintenant plus de deux ans, la Cour Internationale de Justice (CIJ)
Dans un communiqué, quatre associations belges (Association Belgo-Palestinienne, Collectif Droit pour Gaza, SOS Gaza et CNADP), dont la plainte est à l'origine de la procédure, se félicitent de l'arrêt rendu par le tribunal le 16 mars dernier.