ANTI-CORPORATISM

DL—In the early morning of March 20, 2026, Dimitri Lascaris crossed the Turkey-Iran border by land. He then entered the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan. From there, Dimitri and the foreign journalists travelling with him drove by car to the Iranian city of Tabriz. Tabriz is one of Iran’s largest cities. The U.S. and Israel have bombed it repeatedly since the start of the war on February 28. In this report (his first report from Iran during the ongoing war), Dimitri describes what he has seen and experienced during his journey to Tabriz.

GLENN GREENWALD—The transcript paints a sobering picture of the current state of the MAGA movement under Donald Trump’s leadership. Once a banner for nationalist populism and anti-interventionism, MAGA has transformed into a vehicle for neoconservative war hawks and a cult of personality where loyalty to Trump’s shifting views is paramount.

PAUL EDWARDS—When a state acts in a way that is evil and dangerous to others, natural, spontaneous approval is not likely from a subject people.  Their view and interpretation of it has to be altered, and approval elicited by any means necessary, commonly by deceit and denial.

America is, and has been since its founding, a fierce, aggressive Capitalist state that evolved into the most powerful economic empire in history.  Because the sole purpose of Capitalism is to generate profit, it functions free of ethical concerns and is entirely indifferent to its dire effects on the natural world and people.

BRIAN BERLETIC—The US has been working towards this war on Iran throughout the entire 21st century spanning multiple presidential administrations;
The region was reshaped by US invasions and the arming of extremists under Bush, the “Arab Spring,” the “Iran Nuclear Deal,” and subsequent additional wars under Obama, the collapse of Syria under Biden, and launching direct war with Iran under Trump;
The war on Iran constitutes multiple phases of economic, political, covert, and direct military aggression hoping to collapse it just as Iraq was over the course of the 1990s and early 2000s.

KIM PETERSEN—According to John Mearsheimer, China is fated to struggle to be the top dog in the world order. That is the path the US followed to become an imperialist power; Mearsheimer says China cannot escape such a destiny. This mindset exemplifies geopolitical determinism.