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Feb 26 2026 
Historical US Failures Against Iran: How America Keeps Losing to the “Lesser” Enemy
For decades, Washington has acted as if its military power is unstoppable. However, several US administrations learned the hard way that Iran doesn’t fight back according to plan.
🔸Operation Eagle Claw (1980) was meant to rescue hostages. Instead, eight helicopters met mechanical failure in a sandstorm, leading to a fiery collision at Desert One that killed… Continue reading
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Feb 22 2026 
Iran: Moving on, or not?
Yesterday Larry Johnson ended his analysis like this: “If you’re on the east coast of the United States, you will know by 4pm whether Trump has decided to start World War III.”
Trump remained in the White House this weekend, reportedly for discussions with his various warmongers.
We ended yesterday with a new US demand. They would… Continue reading
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Feb 21 2026 
Israel’s End Game: Can Israel Survive Its Policies? w/ Miko Peled
Produced by Jadaliyya and Gaza in Context Project, Cosponsored by Mondoweiss www.PalestineInContext.org “Israel’s End Game” is a podcast series probing whether Israel can indefinitely sustain policies of expansion, dispossession, military occupation, and apartheid, and how shifting geopolitical balances might enable or constrain those policies.
We ask our guests whether or how internal divisions within Israel… Continue reading
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Feb 21 2026 
Submissions by Marwa Osman
https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB/5233
Since the BoP meeting, Israel has done what it always does – collective punitive actions. They have shot, shot with missiles, droned, killed and created violent mayhem right across the Region. Lebanon was attacked with gusto. Marwa talks about this and about the region. Besides the horror, you may be surprised at what she says… Continue reading
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Feb 20 2026 
Professor Marandi Series: Demystifying Iran
In this episode of Demystifying Iran, Professor Mohammad Marandi examines the massive rallies on February 11, 2026, in #Tehran, where demonstrators set fire to a horned, bull-headed statue called “Baal,” carved with the “so-called Star of David.”
But when you see that statue burning… what were the three arguments the organizers were making? … Continue reading
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Feb 19 2026 
Iran: The Consensus – Notes
From Moon of Alabama to Sonar 21 to most commentators that we know, the consensus is that a war on Iran is imminent. Larry at Sonar 21 discusses how the US is currently shaping the operational environment through intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, information operations, civil affairs, psychological operations, and other preparatory actions—often in denied or politically… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Israel’s Death Calls
Marwa Osman
Journalist Radwan Mortada wrote:
“When reality is harsher than fiction.
Yesterday, in the town of Tallouseh, the martyr Ahmad Termos (62) was on a family visit. He was sitting with his wife in her brother’s house. The sound of a drone overhead, then another. He had barely stepped inside to sit when his phone rang. Ahmad… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Will Schryver: Iran
Will Schryver
@imetatroninkNow Or Never
The US has now positioned in the Middle East a formidable array of assets to prosecute an air campaign against Iran.
In addition to what has already been delivered, CSG-12 (USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78) is en route. But it is very unlikely it can arrive on station in the eastern Mediterranean and… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2026 
Iran & US hold constructive talks and exchange ideas on nuclear issue – Araghchi
Sputnik
💬 “I can say that at this round, compared to the last one, we brought up absolutely serious issues for discussion, the atmosphere was more productive. Various ideas were put up for discussion, and we had serious discussions on these ideas, and finally we found a strategic route that we will follow, along which we… Continue reading
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Feb 16 2026 
Indonesia prepares to deploy 1,000 troops to Gaza for Trump’s ‘stabilization force’
Other nations have refused to participate in the force, fearing they would be required to ‘disarm Hamas’ and carry out operations against Palestinians on Israel’s behalf.
The CradleIndonesia is preparing to deploy 1,000 troops to Gaza as early as April as part of US President Donald Trump’s International Stabilization Force (ISF), Reuters reported on 16 February,… Continue reading
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Feb 15 2026
Prof. Marandi: Demystifying Iran | Sanctions: The art of silently killing kids
For more than forty years, the United States has carried out a prolonged campaign of economic pressure against the Islamic Republic of Iran, relying not on military strikes but on sanctions, financial isolation, and restrictions on banking. Marketed as an alternative to open warfare, this approach has sought to weaken Iran’s ability to endure external… Continue reading
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Feb 13 2026 
The Middle East is splitting into rival blocs
The region is entering a season in which old assurances are fading and new habits of power are being learned in real time
From RT and by Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
Across the globe, the post-Cold War settlement that once carried the promise of Western primacy… Continue reading
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Feb 11 2026 
Pepe Escobar & Sharmine Narwani : Watch for Russian & Chinese SURPRISES
Pepe Escobar is a seasoned foreign correspondent and has reported from across Asia, Europe, the US and the LAC. He is a permanent columnist at The Cradle. Sharmine Narwani is one of my favorite journalists, highly intelligent and charming to boot.
Let us leave Pepe’s short X post here:
THAT's what the Iran-China comprehensive strategic partnership means… Continue reading
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Feb 09 2026 
Cuba Grapples with Hardened U.S. Blockade
“The Only Victims Are the People of Cuba”
Marco Rubio is blocking Trump from actual talks with CubaCo-reported with @ryangrim and @GranadosCeja for Drop Sitehttps://t.co/2VFe1Yhf15— noah kulwin (@nkulw) February 9, 2026
Dropsite NewsTrump’s escalation of the oil blockade on Cuba intensifies the humanitarian crisis on the island while placing Mexico under direct pressure from Washington.
Today’s… Continue reading
