Source: Antiwar.com
by Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo
“Dimona is not an ordinary town. It lies adjacent to the Negev Nuclear Research Center, widely understood to be central to Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Located deep in the Naqab desert, the facility has long been treated as one of Israel’s most sensitive strategic sites, associated with plutonium production and long-term weapons capability. That context gives the strike its meaning. The Iranian attack on Dimona came hours after a renewed US-Israeli strike on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility earlier the same day. … The sequence is not incidental. Natanz was struck in the morning; Dimona was hit later the same day. Even without an exact hour-by-hour timeline, the proximity establishes a clear operational logic: a nuclear facility in Iran is answered with a nuclear-adjacent site in Israel within hours.” (03/30/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2026/03/29/iran-gone-wild-in-dimona-is-tehran-using-israel-us-madman-doctrine/
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“The ties that bind Hungary, Russia, European neo-Nazis – and MAGA.” (03/30/26)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-america-and-the-axis-of-autocracy
Source: United Press International
“The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a new rule on Monday that would allow people to invest alternative assets like cryptocurrency into their 401(k) plans. The department seeks to open 401(k) retirement investment up to assets like cryptocurrency, real estate and private-market assets. … There are already no restrictions on including alternative assets like cryptocurrency, real estate or private-market assets, though fiduciaries have treaded lightly on them out of fear that those assets may be challenged legally. The Labor Department’s proposed rule would create a ‘set of process-based safe harbors’ for plan fiduciaries, legally shielding them when they implement alternative assets.” (03/30/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/03/30/labor-department-alternative-assets-401k-plans/4461774881909/
Source: Libertarian Institute
“The Cargo Cult of Martial Belief, Wishcasting and Bloodshed.” (03/30/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/cgpodcast/ep-080-the-cargo-cult-of-martial-belief-wishcasting-and-bloodshed
Source: Responsible Statecraft
bvy Annelle Sheline
“President Donald Trump’s war on Iran is almost a month old, and, as expected, the countries most affected are the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The question now is whether these six governments will see no other option but to risk all by entering the military fight alongside the U.S. and Israel.” (03/30/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/saudi-arabia-war-iran/
Source: The Atlantic
by Robert Kagan
“Washington’s conduct in the Iran war is accelerating global chaos and deepening America’s dangerous isolation.” (03/30/26)
https://archive.is/aZrz9
Source: KTLA 5 News
“Los Angeles County saw the largest decline of any county in the United States in 2025, according to new census data published on March 26. Nearly 54,000 people moved out of L.A. County between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, U.S. Census data shows. The decline is part of an ongoing trend. In 2020 L.A. County was estimated to have more than 10 million residents. As of 2025, the county was thought to have just under 9.7 million residents. It’s unclear where the fleeing Angelinos are moving. However, the neighboring counties of Riverside and San Bernardino saw a combined increase of 21,131 residents between 2024 and 2025, according to U.S. Census data. The greater Las Vegas area also saw a population boost of more than 21,000 people last year.” (03/30/26)
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/los-angeles-county-sees-largest-population-decline-in-the-u-s-according-to-census-data/
Source: The Bulwark
“Trump Needs Approval for This War (w/ Michael O’Hanlon).” (03/29/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-qSGTvbfA
Source: Law & Liberty
by Peter C Earle
“Technological acceleration always generates anxiety when it should promote confidence.” (03/30/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-productivity-panic-of-2026/
Source: Common Dreams
by Steven Harper
“President Donald Trump launched the Iran war based on his ‘gut instinct’. Global financial markets (the North Star that guides Trump) are telling him what his advisers and congressional Republicans won’t: His ‘gut’ blew it badly, and his efforts to appease the markets are making the debacle worse. He has proceeded in three phases. We’re now at the Trump panic phase. Phase No. 1: Trump’s Gut Was Wrong and the Markets Scolded Him. Trump ignored the facts and relied on gut instinct to launch the war without making the case to America’s allies or the public. … Trump’s baseless opinion contradicted the justification for war that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had provided to Congress a day earlier. Rubio said that Israel was going to attack and that Iran would retaliate by attacking US interests in the region.” (03/30/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-quagmire-iran
