COLONIALISM

DANNY DAVIS—The transcript outlines the devastating military campaign against Iran, including thousands of strikes aimed at crippling Iran’s offensive capabilities and regime infrastructure. Despite these strikes and claims of success by U.S. officials, Iran remains defiant, continuing to retaliate with missile attacks. Henningsen highlights the falsity of Western media claims about Iran’s internal repression and points out the long history of U.S. misinformation campaigns used to justify wars in countries like Libya, Syria, Iraq, and now Iran. The discussion also exposes the flawed intelligence and echo chamber surrounding Trump’s decision-making process, which has led to escalating chaos and international isolation for the U.S.

DIMITRI LASCARIS—On the 13th day of the West’s war of aggression on Iran, Dimitri Lascaris examines growing evidence that Israel’s air defences have collapsed. He also discusses worsening turmoil in global oil markets and the Iranian navy’s latest attacks on tankers belonging to U.S. interests. By all indications, the Trump-Netanyahu war of aggression war will be a debacle of epic proportions, but there’s no sign yet that the aggressors will make the concessions that are necessary to end the war. That means that more escalation is coming – and that more and more Westerners will flee the region.
PLUS: Will Pakistan join the Iran war?

OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—US war expenses are increasing rapidly, reaching $1.8 billion per day according to Max Blumenthal. At this rate it is inevitable that the White House will have to raise more money from Congress. The Republicans have a razor-thin majority in the House, while the minority Democrats in the Senate have the power to filibuster if a vote in favor does not achieve 60. Not only are there questions as to whether the US government will have the necessary support to pursue the war, but it may at some point in the future have to consider whether it is vulnerable, given the entirely unprovoked nature of the war, to demands for reparations.

NEW ATLAS—The video provides an in-depth analysis of the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran, placing it within a broader geopolitical framework that extends beyond the immediate Middle East conflict. The narrator, located in Southeast Asia, marks the conflict’s 11th day and draws parallels to a similar US campaign against Iran launched approximately one year prior. The video argues that the current conflict is part of a long-planned strategy by the United States to destabilize and isolate Iran, using proxy forces and regional allies such as Israel, the Gulf states, Jordan, and Turkey. This strategy, the narrator contends, is a continuation of decades-long US efforts beginning with the Arab Spring and is aimed at controlling the Middle East’s vast oil resources while cutting off China’s critical energy supplies.

DL—On March 1, after a video surfaced of a U.S. F-15 crashing to the ground in Kuwait, the Iranian, Kuwaiti and U.S. militaries issued competing claims about what had happened. Eventually, the U.S. military acknowledged that at least three of its F-15s had crashed in Kuwait, but it insisted that this was due to ‘friendly fire’ from Kuwaiti air defence systems. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israeli militaries continued to insist, with no credible evidence, that they have established ‘air superiority’ over Iran.