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Professor Emeritus, Critical Studies, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Producer and dj host of weekly radio shows Insurgence, WHYS, Eau Claire and Left Edge Radio, KNSJ, San Diego. Live in San Diego with my husband, Andy Swanson, and our pugs Aidan and Patrick.

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How the war in Iran and its economic fallout will lead to Trump’s defeat The war is deeply unpopular, and the spike in oil prices will mean long-term high prices across the board for Americans

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

15.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minneapolis grapples with lingering trauma, economic damage after ICE surge Few federal agents are seen on the streets of Minneapolis these days, but the relative calm belies the lasting damage caused by ICE and other federal agents.

Minneapolis deals with lingering trauma after ICE surge - www.reuters.com/world/us/min...

14.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

13.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 39815 πŸ” 12311 πŸ’¬ 893 πŸ“Œ 679
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Bombing of Iranian oil facilities is causing a health and environmental nightmare Acid rain, toxic air, contaminated water and soil, and the possibility of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

12.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A dumb war makes Trumpworld dumber Tracking the inane MAGA responses to the White House's war frivolity.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

12.03.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In Chile, Trump Finds Another Far-Right Friend Newly-sworn in President JosΓ© Antonio Kast is Chile's most far-right leader in decades. He's tried to distance himself from pinochetista accusations. But his following tells a different story.

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

12.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump made a catastrophic miscalculation β€” and the worst ones are still ahead Donald Trump has always been the king of the colossal miscalculation, and 99 percent of the time not because of errors in strategy β€” because that word doesn’t exist in Trump’s brain. In there, miscalc...

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

12.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made β€œlethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Trump DoD Axed a Program Meant to Limit Civilian Casualties %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% www.propublica.org/article/trum...

12.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff β€œat a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

How Trump Is Failing Veterans Who Need Mental Health Care %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% www.propublica.org/article/vete...

12.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWar on the Iranian People”: Nationalism Grows in Iran in Defiance of Deadly U.S. and Israeli Strikes β€œThis is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people.” As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran’s pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies, professor Narges...

β€œU.S. intelligence has concluded that the Islamic Republic is not even close to buckling under this kind of pressure. So, this is being read inside Iran as a war on the nation and on the civilian population . . . and it is increasing . . . the sense of nationalism.”

12.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Former NFL players decry White House video mixing big hits, airstrikes The Trump administration released a video on X using footage of Ray Lewis, Chad Ochocinco and other former NFL players juxtaposed with war footage.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

12.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The damage to the world economy from the Iran war will be severe, but uneven It has already caused the biggest energy supply shock in history

The damage to the world economy from the Iran war will be severe, but uneven
economist.com/briefing/202...

12.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In Beirut, Nowhere Is Safe From Israel's Bombing In an on-the-ground dispatch from Lebanon, displaced residents describe the toll of Israel's relentless attacks, as the Israeli military escalates its assault on the capital and advances in the south.

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

12.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Iran War Could Collapse the United States in the Next Six Months 47,900,000 Americans are already food insecure and our food supply chain is at risk in a way Americans have never known

open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

12.03.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Controversial 'illegal orders' billboard goes up near Naval Base San Diego The billboard's sign echoes the messaging of federal lawmakers who appeared in a video late last year encouraging troops not to follow unlawful orders.

nbcsandiego.app.link/Z0jlBi2hr1b

12.03.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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San Diego County sues DHS over denied access to immigration detention facility Health access blocked: San Diego supervisors sue DHS and ICE for a health inspection at Otay Mesa, alleging harsh conditions.

San Diego County sues DHS over denied access to immigration detention facility www.cbs8.com/article/news... www.cbs8.com/article/news...

10.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Can The United States Exit the Disastrous Iran War? Donald Trump allowed himself to be dogwalked into an illegal war without an exit plan that has engulfed the Middle East, killed civilians and soldiers, and threatens to escalate. Is there a way out?

Another comparable discussion with more speculation on how this war might end as well as the challenges to getting there along with more focus on U.S. and Israeli domestic politics.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

10.03.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump PANICS As Iran War DEFEAT Looms (PATREON - no ads)
Trump PANICS As Iran War DEFEAT Looms (PATREON - no ads) YouTube video by Owen Jones

Well summed up how the war is increasingly becoming a terrible failure for the governments of the U.S. and Israel, and they know it, but there’s no easy exit so the danger of ever greater war crimes and horrendous atrocities increases at the same time.

youtu.be/OB0tZ_zOiLo?...

10.03.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThese people don’t know what they’re doing. They’re a bunch of incompetent morons. Sadly, a lot of people are going to pay the price in blood, and that’s a real, real shame.”

10.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThis is getting away from these people so quickly. They had no plan. They’re a bunch of incompetent children who thought this was going to be some kind of joke that was going to help them in the polls, or was going to protect Trump from us noticing that he’s in the Epstein files . . .”

10.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI essentially, at this point, am anti-war. When it comes to nation-states waging war against each other, I rarely find a conflict where it seems like it’s benefiting normal people, but it always does seem to benefit those in power.”

10.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œSomething that was really important for me . . . was the recognition that all of these people that live in these places we’re conducting these wars, they are just also human beings. And you realize that we have brought this immense amount of suffering and fear and terror to their doorstep.”

10.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI went to war. I’ve interacted with what happens when high explosives interacts with children and friends of mine. Once you see it, you touch it, you smell it, you emotionally have to engage with it, it ceases to make it a game.”

10.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Graham Platner Was Left for Dead. So Why Is He Winning? Read Zeteo’s interview with the oysterman and veteran about Trump’s β€˜uniquely bad’ war in Iran, how he’s survived his tattoo scandal, and much more.

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

10.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

10.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wilkerson argues elsewhere in this same interview, based on considerable expertise, that the US and Israel are doing far worse than the Trump administration claims and that Iran is very far from defeated

10.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI think this is the end of the Trump presidency, actually, because when it gets to the point where the pressure is so great and some of this has to come out and casualties are manifest, then the American people are going to ask really important questions: Why did you lie to us?”

10.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œit’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media . . . is telling the American people. And they’re putting us in jeopardy . . . because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum and rule this war is.”

10.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTrump has completely misinterpreted it. The only one who’s interpreted it correctly is Bibi Netanyahu, and I think he’s ready to use a nuclear weapon, should it become as bad as it looks like it might right now, because Iran has not even began to shoot its most sophisticated missiles.”

10.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates As President Trump gives conflicting statements about the length and objectives of the war he launched with Israel against Iran, fears are growing that the conflict could continue to expand throughout...

www.democracynow.org/2026/3/10/la...

β€œThis administration has committed more war crimes in the last few days than I think any country since Adolf Hitler committed. And that is an incredible condemnation of this entire process.”

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