How Iran Solved the Problem That Broke Every Other Islamist Movement
by Dr Reza John Vedadi [4-20-2026]. (RAD: This is an excellent article recommended by Professor Marandi that has lessons that can apply to any nation or movement that strives to survive when dealing with the real world issues of governance. Professor Marandi is one of many people I follow & pay attention to their insights…
Michael Hudson : Postponing the World’s Financial Winter – For How Long?
by Amarynth [4-19-2026]. (RAD: Read & study this excellent article. For a long time I’ve noticed that the US invades countries that have important natural resources, such as oil, gas & important minerals. Instead of setting up mutually beneficial relations with these important countries, the US has been acting like robber barons since the end…
Iran just reminded the empire exactly who holds the master key to the world’s oil lifelines.
by Sonar21 [4-19-2026]. While Washington’s gunboats play pirate in the Gulf of Oman and Trump screams about knocking out power plants, Tehran has drawn the real red line. Tasnim – the voice of the IRGC put it plain: if this war restarts in earnest, Bab al-Mandeb, Saudi Aramco’s Yanbu export hub, the UAE’s Fujairah terminal,…
Scott Ritter: The Consequences of Trump’s Incompetence
by Scott Ritter [4-18-2026] Scott Ritter(bio). The US lost the first round of the war with Iran decisively. If Trump decides to go a second round, the results will be disastrous for American and its allies. For nearly 40 days, Israel and the United States carried out an extensive aerial campaign against Iran designed to…
Larry Johnson: No Negotiations, Iran Will Retaliate, the War Will Escalate
by Larry Johnson [4-19-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Well, that didn’t take too long. Friday’s false optimism about an imminent peace deal with Iran following Donald Trump’s claims that Iran had agreed to surrender to the US demands, fed wild swing to the positive side in the US stock market and crashed oil prices. Once again,…
Chocolate prices are falling. So why aren’t chocolate prices falling?
by Inside China Business [3-13-2026]. Cocoa prices hit all-time highs in 2024 and 2025. Producers in West Africa sold hundreds of thousands of tons to buyers in China, and poor growing conditions led to record prices for Western chocolate companies. But over the past year, cocoa prices have plunged by 70%, as weather improved. Yet…
Tesla has a China problem with their humanoid robots. Lots of them.
by Inside China Business [3-12-2026]. Tesla is shifting focus in the US market from Electric Vehicles, to the production of humanoid robots. The company is repurposing a plant in Fremont, California to the manufacture of Optimus humanoids, instead of EV’s. Supply chains for humanoids run through China, and Tesla is meeting with hundreds of suppliers…
Robert Barnes, Larry Johnson: What the HELL is going on in the White House with Trump?
by Counter Currents [4-17-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). (RAD: Whether we like it or not, the Trump today is not the Trump we voted for. Can JD Vance manage this so it doesn’t blow up the world? – RAD) The more Trump’s show is running, the more his closest allies seem to be walking on eggshells.…
Trump’s Miscalculation: How the Iran Blockade Could Trigger China’s Strategic Retaliation
by New Rules [4-17-2026]. (RAD: This is an excellent examply why it is important to understand the complex global supply chains before deciding to take some military actions that could disrupt critical supplies that are important to American military & manufacturing base. I’ve previously spotted this leverage that China & other have to counter some…
Pepe Escobar: Empire of Piracy blockades Iran and China
by Pepe Escobar [4-16-2026] All hail the almighty return of Pirates of the Caribbean, now upgraded to Pirates of the Persian Gulf. The spectacular collapse of the Islamabad diktats – Barbaria came to dictate, never to negotiate – has been followed by a coercion psy ops on steroids: Jesus! (literally, as he posted it on…
Why the US naval blockade against Iran will fail
by Xavier Villar [4-15-2026]. MADRID – When Washington announced the start of operations to intercept vessels carrying Iranian oil, markets barely moved. That lack of alarm was not a sign of indifference, nor simply the result of traders grown accustomed to crisis; it was, rather, an indication of how thin the gap has become between…
Hungarian Chess that Makes Brussels Cry
by Rebelion en la Granja [4-15-2026]. Viktor Orbán places his trusted “traitor” and the EU falls into the perfect trap: the checkmate that has left Brussels, Soros, and Obama humiliated. In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros,…