There are no two sides to a confession, Marc Elias

 https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-note-tuesday

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The Travails of Empire, Internal and International, Inevitably Head into an Acute Period of Crisis

1). “Paul Craig Roberts: Trump’s Desperation Hits a BREAKING POINT as the War on Iran was LOST”, Mar 23, 2026, Nima Alkhorshid interviews Paul Craig Robterts, Dialogue Works, duration of video 50:44, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGo03V1tvQ >.

2). “Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis Reveal Decline of U.S. Empire: Historian Alfred McCoy”, Mar 23, 2026, Amy Goodman interviews Dr. Alfred McCoy, Democracy Now!, duration of video 20:45, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE3AiFEkSP8 >.

3). “Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz: The Iran War as America's Very Own Suez Crisis”, posted as the featured article in, “Alfred W. McCoy, How the Past Whispers to the Present in Iran - TomGram”, Mar 15, 2026, TomDispatch, at < https://tomdispatch.com/imperial-decline-in-the-straits-of-hormuz/ >.

4A). “Brian Berletic (clip): The War with Iran & Restoring Global Hegemony”, Mar 19, 2026, Glenn Diesen interviews Brian Berletic, Glenn Diesen Clips, duration of video 16:54, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL-Qg68NTmM >: 4B). Full interview at “Brian Berletic: Iran War - A Gateway to War with China & Russia”, Mar 19, 2026, Glenn Diesen interviews Brian Berletic, Glenn Diesen, duration of video 101:19, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rHhRNaH9LI >.

5). “Why the US Navy Rushed USS Boxer to The Middle East”, Mar 23, 2026, Anon, Engineering Unveiled, duration of video 11:29, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSuac57GHKY >.

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Insider Trading Runs Rampant in Trump Administration, SEC Official Resigns March 23, 2026

 https://mishtalk.com/economics/insider-trading-runs-rampant-in-trump-administration-sec-official-resigns/

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Kentucky Supreme Court rules GOP-backed charter schools bill unconstitutional

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article314759611.html

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Trump Officials Flee Into the Bunker

 https://russbaker.substack.com/p/trump-officials-flee-into-the-bunker

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The Iran War Situation: Trump Wants to Open up the Strait of Hormuz to U.S. and U.S. Allied Shipping (it is already open to Iranian and Iranian Allied Shipping). Will the U.S. Rulers send in Ground Troops to Achieve their Goals??

1). “Why the U.S. Navy Can’t Control Iran’s Hormuz — Even Allies Said No”, Mar 18, 2026, Anon, Global Conflict Signals, duration of video 16:48, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfUh2MkOl60 >.

2). “Why 6,000 Iranian Mines Are a Nightmare for the U.S. Navy in Hormuz”, Mar 19, 2026, Anon, Global Conflict Signals, duration of video 17:34, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Mcwam8rgI >.

3). “Why the US Navy Can’t Stop Mines in the Strait of Hormuz”, Mar 20, 2026, Lucas, WW2 with Lucas, duration of video 16:40, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S6_Kar1Hfk >.

4). “USS Wasp Leads Massive Marine Deployment to the Strait of Hormuz Amid Rising Tensions”, Mar 18, 2026, Anon, U.S. Current Affairs, duration of video 8:45, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VkKl2Zlzj0 >.

5). “US sending roughly 4,500 more troops to Middle East, officials say”, Mar 20, 2026, CNN, duration of video 10:02, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb0-lM4krkA >.

6). “U.S. sending USS Tripoli, thousands of Marines to Middle East”, Mar 13, 2026, Josephine Walker & Barak Ravid, Axios, at < https://www.axios.com/2026/03/13/marines-middle-east-us-deployment >.

7). “What Happens After USS Tripoli Reaches the Strait of Hormuz?”, Mar 18, 2026, Anon, Shipline, duration of video 9:49, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX0BIvVYTCQ >.

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Marx in the Twenty-First Century by Michelle William

 https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/marx-in-the-twenty-first-century

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Let's Talk About Fertilizer We don't need the Strait? Tell it to farmers

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-fertilizer

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Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails

 https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/03/20/scale-raises-the-ceiling-but-fiscal-foundations-determine-whether-autocracy-or-democracy-prevails/

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The New Capital Complex: Pax Silica and the Embryonic Fascist State

 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-capital-complex-pax-silica-and-the-embryonic-fascist-state/

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Xi Jinping Has A Chance To Do The Funniest Thing Right Now By Spencer Ackerman • 19 Mar 2026

 https://www.forever-wars.com/r/cabbc40f?m=b656041a-c61a-4a6b-910d-7d396ec2db1f

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The Iran War Situation Gets Ever More Dire and the Effects Widen Throughout U.S. and Other Western Societies. Is this the U.S.' Suez Crisis??

1). “Nuclear Power Plant Attack, Oil War Escalation, Restraint Off | Larry C. Johnson”, Mar 20, 2026, Pascal Lottaz interviews Larry C. Johnson, Neutrality Studies, duration of video 48:48, at < https://www.youtube.com/live/0l10rCkQGbM >.

2). “The US already LOST the Naval War | Commodore Steve Jermy”, Mar 18, 2026, Pascal Lottaz interviews Steve Jermy, Neutrality Studies, duration of video 49:17, at < https://www.youtube.com/live/1MN7nECum_w >.

3). “The $13 Billion Failure: How Exhaustion and Fire Broke the USS Ford”, Mar 18, 2026, Anon, Warships and Warriors, duration of video 5:18, at < https://www.youtube.com/live/gy5fsq1hvqo >.

4). “Fire damage, clogged toilets, and sinking morale: USS Gerald R Ford to set sail for repairs in Crete: Aircraft carrier has been participating in strikes on Iran, after previously taking part in the operation to seize Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro”, Mar 18, 2026, Mark Saunokonoko and agencies, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/onboard-fire-uss-gerald-ford-aircraft-carrier >.

5). “US Navy’s 100,000-ton nuclear-powered warship exits Iran war after onboard fire”, Mar 19, 2026, Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, at < https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-navy-100-000-ton-105315760.html?guccounter=1 >.

6). “US carrier involved in Iran fight heads back to port after fire”, Mar 18(?), Tony Capaccio, Courtney McBride & Peter Martin, Bloomberg News, (Includes embedded video from local TV station report about hit on U.S. F-35 Stealth fighter-bomber, KYTX-TV 19, Tyler Longview, Texas), at < https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-carrier-involved-in-iran-fight-heads-back-to-port-after-fire/ar-AA1YQQWa >.

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James Comey subpoenaed in alleged "grand conspiracy" against Trump

 https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/comey-subpoena-conspiracy-trump

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The Deadly Danger of Careless People - Now they want $200 billion more for their reckless adventures Steven Beschloss Mar 20

 https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-deadly-danger-of-careless-people

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Trump Cover up of Epstein Drug trafficking investigation

 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2026

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More Trump coverups - this time of unclassified investigations of Epstein and 14 others for drug trafficking...  RELEASE THE FILES

What Do Countries Do When the Head of Their Government Is a Foreign Asset? Other democracies have been here. Here is what they did. Christopher Armitage Mar 19

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/what-do-countries-do-when-the-head

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This Is How Reproductive Rights Are Lost

 https://staytuned.substack.com/p/this-is-how-reproductive-rights-are?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3387038&post_id=191269434&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=16jbk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Save (Trump's Ass) Act - what it means in terms of stealing elections and how it came about.

 I think that the following two shorts are very important re the SAVE America Act U.S.. The second short is just incredible! I hope you can post them.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/av7xSEFwFkM

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qlO4BskpO1g

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Trump Crazy Train

 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-17-2026?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=191336785&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=rovhk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Slavery and Birthright Citizenship

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One Bad Idea After Another A historically corrupt administration uses “fraud” to gut Medicaid.

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None of These People I Insulted Want To Die For Me in The Strait of Hormuz? By Spencer Ackerman

 https://www.forever-wars.com/r/183ca752?m=b656041a-c61a-4a6b-910d-7d396ec2db1f

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eight months later, FBI investigation of GOP Congressman Andy Ogles still awaits federal judge's ruling

 https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/eight-months-later-fbi-investigation-of-gop-congressman-andy-ogles-still-awaits-federal-judges-ruling

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Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Begs the World to Clean Up His Catastrophe

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The Trouble With State Capitalism

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