Monday, 23 March 2026 — Al Mayadeen English
Speaking to Al Mayadeen, a senior Iranian political-security source affirmed that Iran remains fully prepared to deliver “severe and decisive strikes in response to any attack on its infrastructure,” stressing that its position is firm and immune to external pressure.
Monday, 23 March 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong
Monday, 23 March 2026 — ¡Do Not Panic!
After weeks of attacks by Iraqi resistance groups, the US and NATO yesterday began evacuating all of their military personnel from Victoria Base in Baghdad.
They are unlikely to return.
Monday, 23 March 2026 — New Eastern Outlook
The shadow infrastructure of oil flows in Eurasia reveals hidden mechanisms where economics, politics, and intelligence intersect more deeply than is commonly acknowledged.
Monday, 23 March 2026 — Al Mayadeen English
US President Donald Trump claimed that the United States and Iran have engaged in what he described as “very good and productive” discussions over the past two days.
In a post on TruthSocial, Trump said the talks were “in-depth, detailed, and constructive,” and are expected to continue throughout the week.
Trump said that in accordance with these talks, he has instructed the US Department of War to postpone all planned military strikes targeting Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a period of five days.
The pause, according to Trump, is conditional on the progress of the “ongoing meetings”, signaling that an aggression on Iran’s civilian energy infrastructure remains a possibility.
Trump had threatened Iran with strikes against its power infrastructure on Saturday, prompting Tehran to retaliate with threats to the power infrastructure feeding US bases and “Israel”.
The Iranian position on the Strait of Hormuz remains unchanged; the Strait is open to non-hostile nations who have not participated in attacks against Iran.
Monday, 23 March 2026 — Vijay Prashad
Every week, I have an assessment from the Planet of Hyper-imperialism in Peoples Democracy. This week, it is on Trump and Cuba. Please read it below, but also read the paper weekly!
Donald Trump likes to win. He made that clear in his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, where he writes about how he likes to ‘think big’ and ‘win big’. What Trump dislikes is a ‘loser’, a word that he uses frequently in The Art of the Deal, and which he deploys in his conversations to mark the character of people he dislikes. In recent years, it has meant everything to Trump that he wins elections (his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 rattled him so much that he refused to accept the result). But this year, Trump has focused his attention on achieving victory in something that he promised to avoid: wars.
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — Weaponized Information
A dissection of how energy dependence, apocalyptic politics, and debt-fueled capitalism fused into a governing logic of U.S. power—and why, nearly two decades later, the contradictions Phillips identified have not resolved but intensified under the pressures of imperial decline and global realignment.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | March 22, 2026
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — Great Power Politics, Elites & Energy
I hesitated to write this, as the EU is not a nation but a grouping of nations, but the dominance of the EU bureaucracy over the constituent nations has progressed considerably (backed up with NATO of course) together with the EU being dominated by its largest and tightly aligned members; Germany, France, Italy and Poland. Of the larger nations, only Spain stands out as having somewhat of an independent alignment, but that is offset by the heft of the other large members. And the latter are also supported by Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria, the Baltics, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, and Romania (after the local vassals aligned with the EU and NATO elites in stealing the election for president). Only Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia stand in opposition to EU foreign policy against Russia, and Spain with respect to the Middle East. Let’s remember that the European security forces are very fully integrated with the US security services, and US troops occupy Germany (36,000) and Italy (12,600).
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — Danny Haiphong
Iran’s missiles smashed Dimona nuclear facility, home of Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons. The mass casualty event is rocking Israel and both Trump & Netanyahu are sending strong signals he wants to tap out. Danny Haiphong breaks it all down!
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — The New Atlas
Saturday, 21 March 2026 — Neutrality Studies and Radhika Desai Geopolitical Economist
The illegal attack on Iran—as many illegal wars before—is not a bug but a system feature. One, however, that is doomed to self-destruct its host. It is the inevitable outcome of the rent-seeking and society corrupting logic of the capitalist system the West is built around. The expansionary and often genocidal logic embedded in the core of the US empire drives entire classes within the West toward the ruthless application of force. But in a multipolar world this approach finds its ultimate—and eventually tragic—end.
Saturday, 21 March 2026 — Craig Murray
What if Trump’s apparently chaotic thought processes and intuitive decision making are all a blind, a charade? What if we are really witnessing, in the Middle East and more widely, a carefully constructed plan with very definite objectives? Has Trump in fact “planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway”, while flinging the chaff of apparent chaos? I realise that this is not intuitive, but bear with me (more…)
Friday, 20 March 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong
Thursday, 19 March 2026 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Structural paralysis. Meticulously programmed. Inexorable. Already in effect.
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Attacking Iran’s South Pars gas field – the largest on the planet – is the ultimate escalation.
Neo-Caligula, in trademark Truth Social coward vociferation mode, has been desperate to blame the death cult in West Asia for it and excuse himself from any responsibility: he claims Israel attacked South Pars “out of anger” and the U.S. “knew nothing about this particular attack”. Qatar was “in no way, shape or form involved”. And Iran hit Qatar’s LNG in retaliation “based on wrong intelligence”.
Friday, 20 March 2026 — Great Power Politics, Elites & Energy
The time between Germany’s invasion of Poland (September 1939) and the invasion of France (May 1940) was called the “phoney war” as France and the UK decided not to seriously attack Germany’s western border. During this time, the French and British were putting together a force to help the Finnish in their war with the Soviet Union. Thankfully, that ended before the Western forces could get to Finland but it underlines the priorities for the British and French elites; fighting the communist Soviet Union rather than fascist Germany.
Friday, 20 March 2026 — New Eastern Outlook
Suffering from a “cognitive glitch” and a dependence on politically biased experts, the U.S. President’s team attempted to apply templates that worked in Venezuela to a civilization with a 3,000-year history.
Friday, 20 March 2026 — Liberation News Network
The recent tightening of Chinese export controls on nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends—compounded by Beijing’s reiteration of existing restrictions on urea—represents more than a routine trade policy adjustment. It constitutes a significant structural intervention in the global agricultural commodity chain, one that lays bare the precarious foundations of American agricultural imperialism and the sharpening contradictions of the post-1991 world-system.
Thursday, 19 March 2026 — The Chronicles of Haiphong
We do a full war update as Iran’s retaliation on Qatari and Saudi energy send shockwaves across the world as US-Israeli aggression faces consequences.
The New Dark Age 