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The Billionaires’ War

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
The ultrawealthy put Trump in power but other people will pay the price

Middle East Wars Are Still About Oil and Empire

Bashir Abu-Manneh with Gilbert Achcar Convergence
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.

Iran Transformed

Arang Keshavarzian The New York Review of Books
To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

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Trump Stumped by Worst-Case Iran Scenario

Trump ponders the worst-case scenario, Sen. Markwayne Mullin stumbles over his war semantics, a shit-faced Grace Kuhlenschmidt nominates Trump as Iran’s new supreme leader.

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