Sunday, 29 March 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong
Troops have arrived in the Middle East as the US starts its ground war against Iran in a massive escalation that has Iran’s retaliation surging. Yemen’s entrance in the war is sparking panic in the US-Israeli establishment and Danny Haiphong covers the latest developments as month 2 of the war begins.
Sunday, 29 March 2026 — A Different Narrative
“The Eye: that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable…”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp. 822-826
In J.R.R Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings, the demonic dark lord Sauron (Sauron actually refers to himself in Trumpish fashion, as Tar-Mairon/”King Excellent”) manifests as malign intelligence, who manipulates men and events to advance his singular domination of Middle-Earth. In the books, Sauron did not stray beyond the walls of his citadel, Barad Dur, but instead used his missionaries, spies, servants and tools to corrupt people from afar.
Saturday, 28 March 2026 — MintPress News
On this episode of the MintCast, MintPress News director Mnar Adley breaks her silence after being targeted by a MAGA extremist, and dives deep into Day 27 of the US-Israel war on Iran with iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh who is based in London and Robert Inlakesh, MintPress staff writer and MidEast Geopolitical analyst.
Trump thought he could decapitate Iran’s leadership and the whole country would collapse. He was dead wrong.
On Day 27 of the US-Israel war on Iran, the opposite has happened: Iran is more united than ever, US military bases across the Middle East are being systematically destroyed, and Israel’s air defense systems are running dry.
The White House is now claiming they achieved “regime change” – but that’s a lie. Iran’s new leadership is more anti-imperialist than ever, and they have a message for US troops: “Come closer and find out.”
Right now, we’re raising $300,000 to support our journalists on the ground in conflict zones and abroad who are risking everything to bring you uncensored truth about Empire.
Sunday, 29 March 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha
Multiple news organizations have confirmed that U.S.-made anti-tank landmines were scattered across residential areas outside Shiraz, in southern Iran. At least one civilian has been confirmed killed, and others were reportedly injured
Sunday, 29 March 2026 — Al Mayadeen English
As the funeral processions of Al Mayadeen’s Fatima Ftouni, her brother, Mohammad, and Al-Manar’s Ali Sheaib move forward, mourners raise their voices against those who killed the journalists.
Cries of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” echo through the crowds, alongside the resounding chant of “Labbayka ya Hussein,” in a moment marked by grief, defiance, and solidarity.
Sunday, 29 March 2026 — New Eastern Outlook
From Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, the U.S.–Israel war in Iran exposes not only strategic miscalculations but a deeper transformation in how wars are fought, justified, and prolonged. What if the real lesson is that power no longer guarantees control—and that escalation now replaces strategy?
Saturday, 28 March 2026 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Sorry for the long silence here at the Gym as my writings have appeared at Moon of Alabama and Sonar21 almost exclusively since 28 February. Much of my time was spent watching numerous podcasts made by people with much better sources so I could gain a more informed insight into this event, event being a word far too soft to describe what’s transpired. My comment made at MoA today is mach better:
Friday, 27 March 2026 — Weaponized Information
The New York Times frames imperial vulnerability as logistical inconvenience, masking the political meaning of exposure. The reconstructed facts reveal a war fought across an integrated system of bases, airspace, and energy choke points from Hormuz to Kharg. The deeper contradiction shows an empire that can still project force but can no longer prevent that force from returning through its own infrastructure. The task now is to organize against war, sanctions, and imperial coercion as a system, not an event.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | March 27, 2026
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Friday, 27 March 2026 — Chroniclesd of Haiphong
Pepe Escobar joins the show to break down Iran’s shocking response to Trump, who is now seeking an off-rap through desperate escalation that could spiral into full-scale catastrophe. Iran has called Trump’s bluff and we analyze what you need to know to cut through the fog of war.
Friday, 27 March 2026 — ColdType
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Friday, 27 March 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha
The first time I saw a tank was on the streets of Sancti Spíritus, the city in the center of the island where I was born. It was April 1975, and with the fall of Saigon, Vietnam’s victory was being celebrated after nearly 20 years of U.S. aggression. My child’s eyes do not remember that World War II steel behemoth as a threat, but rather as an early lesson that, in Cuba, even the triumphs and sorrows of other peoples are also experienced as a warning.
Friday, 27 March 2026 — The Electronic Intifada
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Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide, edited by Yousef M. Aljamal, Norma Hashim, Zoe Jannuzi and Noor Nabulsi, Haymarket Books (2025)
One can only hope that the accounts collected in Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide will be introduced one day as evidence in international courts to convict the Israeli government and military personnel responsible for the crimes depicted in this book.
Friday, 27 March 2026 — The New Atlas
Thursday, 26 March 2026 – Great Power Politics, Elites & Energy
Shanaka Anslem Perera proposes seven clocks that are ticking with respect to the US war of aggression upon Iran. Below I look at these seven clocks, some are correct, some are incomplete, and some show some basic ignorance. Maybe there are more than seven?
Thursday, 26 March 2026 — The Tricontinental
Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.
Thursday, 26 March 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong
Thursday, 26 March 2026 — Climate & Capitalism
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Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System (Monthly Review Press) builds on Karl Marx’s insight that while capitalism is dependent on the natural world, it is also waging war on the natural systems that sustain life on Earth.
Focusing on deadly rifts in the most important natural systems, Ian Angus explains and elaborates on the Marxist view that capitalism is massively disrupting essential exchanges of matter and energy between society and the rest of nature, putting the entire Earth System in danger. After tracing the long-neglected history of metabolic rift theory in scientific and socialist writing, Angus draws on a wealth of modern research to extend and deepen the natural science basis of Marxist ecology.
In clear, non-technical language, Metabolic Rifts offers a scientific basis for understanding the deep causes of today’s environmental crises, and a program for action to prevent catastrophe in our time.
Wednesday, 25 March 2026 — Palestine Will Be Free
In one of the most harrowing cases of abuse in an unending list of harrowing abuses, the Israeli occupation forces tortured a 22-month-old child to pressure his father into false confessions in central Gaza on March 19.
Wednesday, 25 Marchh 2026 — RT
By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
US aggression against Iran has persisted for over three weeks now. Throughout this time, Tehran has acted largely on its own, without mobilizing allied forces. This raises a crucial question: what’s going on with the so-called Axis of Resistance – the extensive network of Iranian allies that took decades and billions of dollars to establish?
The New Dark Age 