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The War On Iran Is Forcing Gulf States To Reconsider Regional Strategy

March 7, 2026 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. , , ,
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump told Jake Tapper of CNN that Iran having retaliated for the unprovoked war launched by him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by striking Arab states in the Persian Gulf region “was probably the biggest surprise” of the war so far. It was a stunning statement that reflects the utter lack of thought and preparation that went into launching this war of choice. Iran had demonstrated in the past that hitting the global energy supply was how it would respond to American attacks. More than that, it’s an obvious tactic.

US Rushes New Bomb Shipment To Israel

March 7, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The US State Department on 6 March bypassed Congress to approve the sale of thousands of 1,000 lb bombs to Israel, declaring an “emergency” due to the US-Israel war on Iran. The $151.8 million deal covers 12,000 BLU-110A/B 1,000-lb bomb bodies, as well as logistics and technical support. These bombs are manufactured by Repkon USA, which is owned by Repkon, a Turkish firm. By invoking the emergency determination, the State Department waived the normal congressional review period under the Arms Export Control Act.

220 US Forces Killed Or Wounded In Iranian Strikes In 24 Hours

March 7, 2026 PressTV. , , ,
The spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Zolfaghari, said on Saturday that 21 American service members were killed and a number of others injured during Iranian attacks on the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. He added that some 200 American personnel were also killed and wounded during strikes against the US military base in Al Dhafra Air Base. The Armed Forces also targeted an oil tanker owned by the United States in the northern part of the Persian Gulf, he noted.

Britain’s Role In Attacks On Cyprus, Venezuela, And Iran

March 7, 2026 Alfie Howis, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticized. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution to these ongoing wars. Just as Britain’s colonial bases in occupied Cyprus served an intelligence and surveillance role in the Gaza genocide, so to did they help surveil Iran and prepare intelligence in preparation for US attacks, and are now being used as a staging post for those attacks.

Trump Has Made The US War Machine A Spectacle

March 7, 2026 Khury Petersen-Smith and Azadeh Shahshahani, In These Times. , , , ,
President Donald Trump’s unprovoked assault on Iran is the latest phase of a rampage in which the administration is making war and militarism central features of life in the United States. While the Pentagon’s violence has been unavoidable for many people around the world, it has largely been hidden from the view of most of the U.S. population. Not anymore. The U.S. and Israel opened this war by launching attacks across Iran on the morning of February 28. Since the beginning of the bombing campaign, at least 555 Iranians have been killed, including well over 100 people — mostly girls — at a school in Minab.

School Strike In Germany: 50,000 Against Military Service

March 7, 2026 Nathaniel Flakin, Left Voice. , , , ,
At 11:00 am, teenagers started flooding Potsdamer Platz. They came from schools around the city, marching in groups of 50 or 100, waving banners and banging drums. “Not one person and not one penny for the Bundeswehr,” they chanted. “I don’t want to die for a country that doesn’t offer me anything,” said Karl, 18, a student at Evangelische Schule Berlin Zentrum in Mitte. “They talk about protecting us while cutting funding for education and culture.” On January 1, Germany’s military began sending out questionnaires to people born in 2008 as they turn 18 this year.

Venezuela And US Announce Restoration Of Diplomatic Relations

March 7, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
Caracas and Washington have decided to restore diplomatic and consular relations. The announcement was made on Thursday evening by the Venezuelan and US governments in simultaneous statements. In the Venezuelan statement shared by Foreign Minister Yván Gil, Venezuela “reaffirms its willingness to move forward in a new stage of constructive dialogue based on mutual respect, the sovereign equality of states, and cooperation between our peoples.” Venezuela also emphasized that these relations should result in the social and economic well-being of the Venezuelan people.

Corporate Media Go All Out To Support The US-Israeli War On Iran

March 7, 2026 Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. , , ,
Corporate media of all stripes have rushed to support the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, throwing objectivity and accuracy by the wayside in order to manufacture consent for regime change. On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, bombing cities across the country, assassinating its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and openly stating their goal was overthrowing the government. Despite this, media have gone out of their way to present the actions as the U.S. protecting itself, describing them as “defensive strikes,” and to frame Iran as the aggressor.

Three Massive Funds Control A Chunk Of Most Media

March 7, 2026 Saurav Sarkar, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
Recently, FAIR (2/3/26) took a look at the owners of the biggest online media outlets. It focused on the controlling owners of those outlets, which are mostly publicly traded corporations. But a lot of the money—about $2 trillion dollars—invested in the top 50 online media outlets in the US is not the controlling owners’. Rather, it is possessed by minority institutional investors that manage assets for others. Take BlackRock, Inc., for instance. Innovation & Tech Today (7/8/22) called it “the biggest company you’ve probably never heard of.”

Keep ICE Out Of Stores, Say Starbucks Workers

March 7, 2026 Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. , , ,
Since more than 4,000 ICE agents descended on the city of Minneapolis, Starbucks barista Alex Rivers has tried to balance the exacting focus the job requires—baristas are expected to write on every cup and complete every order in four minutes or less, he said—with the gnawing fear that agents could burst in at any moment. “It became a fear of not if, but when,” Rivers said: “We’ve seen ghost cars on the highway, just abandoned cars. We’ve seen really scary stuff. In some of the neighborhoods that my co-workers live in, we would hear whistles [used by activists to flag the presence of ICE] throughout the day and night.”

Supreme Court Will Hear Exxon’s Effort To Crush Climate Lawsuits

March 7, 2026 Emily Sanders, DeSmog. , , ,
For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted oil companies’ request to weigh in on whether climate accountability lawsuits are preempted by federal law — setting the stage for a battle that could determine if dozens of similar cases are allowed to move toward trial. The decision means the court will hear arguments from ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to overturn an earlier ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which decided that a case brought by Boulder, Colorado, could move ahead in state court. You can read more about the companies’ petition in ExxonKnews and DeSmog’s previous coverage.

Israel And The US Cannot Win The War Against Iran

March 6, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , ,
On 28 February, a few hours after negotiators said that Iran had accepted many of the demands regarding its nuclear programme, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran. This was the second strike since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in June 2025. Both strikes are illegal, since they violate Iran’s sovereignty, which is guaranteed by the United Nations Charter. Iran is a sovereign country and, just like the United States, a founding member of the United Nations. It is therefore entitled to all the benefits and responsibilities of the UN Charter.

Iran And The Psychopathology Of White Supremacy

March 6, 2026 ​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
The sincere belief that the sadistic brutalization of the Palestinian people would sever their connection to their land; that a sixty-year siege on Cuba would compel its people to abandon their revolution; or that assassinating Iran’s revolutionary and spiritual leadership would force the country to surrender its sovereignty to its historic tormentors in the United States and the Zionist ethno-state of Israel—these are not simply policy miscalculations. They are manifestations of what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy. This psychopathology is not reducible to individual prejudice.

Iran Writes Handbook For Modern War With Empire

March 6, 2026 Mnar Adley, MintPress News. , , ,
The United States and Israel have launched a horrific new war on Iran, but the mainstream media is hiding the true cost to the US military and its installments in West Asia. In this in-depth interview, political analyst and editor of The Cradle Sharmine Narwani joins MintPress director Mnar Adley to break through the “Fog of War” and expose the reality of this military confrontation waged by the Epstein Class. While CNN censors reports of failing Israeli interceptors, Iran is writing the handbook for how to defeat the US – Israeli empire.

Saudi Journalist Says ‘Not All Attacks’ On Gulf Coming From Iran

March 6, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
In an interview broadcast on Asharq News on 3 March, Adhwan al-Ahmari, the editor-in-chief of Independent Arabia and the president of the Saudi Journalists Association, said that “not all attacks” targeting Persian Gulf nations come from Iran, and stressed fears that the US–Israeli alliance wants to “trap” Gulf nations into joining the war. “Some believe this war is an American-Israeli trap to implicate the Gulf countries and draw them into a confrontation with Iran,” Ahmari said. “This hypothesis, I think, increases every day.” “What if the US announces after a week, 10 days, or two weeks that it has achieved all its goals in this war and that the war is over and then leaves the Gulf states in an open confrontation?” he asked.
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