EZ—Saudi Arabia has the world’s largest desalination industry. Although it has more large plants than any other country, many of its largest cities depend on water transported hundreds of kilometers from coastal plants. Riyadh, for example, depends heavily on desalinated water pumped inland. The larger number of plants provides some redundancy, but many remain critical nodes.
Iran is different. Most of the country still relies on groundwater, rivers, dams, and reservoirs rather than desalination. Desalination is strategically important for Gulf coastal provinces and islands (such as Qeshm and parts of Hormozgan and Bushehr), but destroying Iran’s desalination plants would not deprive most of the country of water.

PCR—By renewing at Netanyahu’s insistence Washington’s war against opponents to Great Israel–principally Iran and the southern Lebanon militia Hezbollah, Trump is further endangering his administration. For example, when was the last time you saw anyone wearing a MAGA hat?

Trump has a disapproval rating of 61%, which indicates that many MAGA Americans have turned against him. Trump brought this rejection of his presidency on himself by renewing America’s 21st century fight for the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel–from the Nile to Pakistan.
The millions of displaced persons from Washington’s 21st century wars for Greater Israel resulting in the destruction of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Palestine are changing the politics of Europe and America where these displaced persons have taken root and are entering politics and media.

CBD—The Trump administration keeps escalating its assault on California coastlines and public lands. Our state has some of the strongest environmental protections in the nation, but the administration wants to nix them so Big Oil can profit.

The federal government is now advancing a plan to lease California public waters and lands to extractive industries. It’s also trying to debilitate the California Coastal Commission — a state agency that protects our coastal environments — and remove power from the courts to make it easier for the administration to greenlight fossil fuel projects.   

CBD—The Trump administration keeps escalating its assault on California coastlines and public lands. Our state has some of the strongest environmental protections in the nation, but the administration wants to nix them so Big Oil can profit.

The federal government is now advancing a plan to lease California public waters and lands to extractive industries. It’s also trying to debilitate the California Coastal Commission — a state agency that protects our coastal environments — and remove power from the courts to make it easier for the administration to greenlight fossil fuel projects.

JM—While the old Third Front focused heavily on heavy manufacturing and raw munitions, the “new” iteration is focused on tech-sovereignty. Including rapid relocation and duplication of semiconductor, AI, and advanced manufacturing infrastructure into western provinces.

OSINT data tracking commodity flows shows a massive acceleration in food, energy, and raw materials within inland hubs.

Experts from organizations like the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and independent researchers observe that this policy directly aligns with China’s sharp drop in foreign arms dependencies and its push for total self-sufficiency.

This focus on militarization is mirrored by some academics in Russia and commentators there who talk a lot about the “New Great Wall” although a lot of that died down after Putin’s visit with Xi.

The Kremlin itself uses terms like “Strategic Rear Base” when talking about Chinese defense — an admirable move by Beijing to build an impenetrable defense against the United States, “ensuring that if Washington blockades China’s coast, the country can still operate from its rear.”

CJH—The new indictment alleges: (1) that I authored and published the book and offered it for sale on Amazon and assorted other booksellers’ platforms; (2) that the artwork on the cover of the book (which I cannot show you, or the German authorities will send the police to raid my home again) features an image of a Covid mask with a swastika barely visible behind it; (3) that I was aware that the swastika is a well-known symbol of the former National Socialist German Workers Party (i.e., the Nazis), and that this symbol was visible to persons visiting the booksellers’ websites, including persons in Germany.

Which, of course, all of those allegations are true.