this means it is not open for transit
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this means it is not open for transit
The Israelis bombed a bridge over the Litani river. They are actively cutting off South Lebanon from the rest of the country.
"Maersk is so concerned about bunker availability that it will be ‘moving fuel around the globe so we have the right amount in the right place at the right time’"
if you thought this was only about the ships attempting to cross the strait, think again
On political economy, look up the work of Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (he has been publishing in LRB) and Arang Keshavarzian (he just published in NY Review), plus this astonishingly good piece by Iman Ganji and Bahar Nourizadeh that I learned a tonne from:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
64/ Day by day, this war is becoming a ecological catastrophe.
on land and sea, fuel depots, oil fields, petrocehmical refineries, oil and gas tankers, are burning, billowing toxic smoke into the lungs of people and animals and sludge into marine life.
ceobs.org/how-does-war...
it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too
"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."
When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."
www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
according to Lloyd’s, even if (and it’s a big if) the US and the EU did begin escorting ships through the strait, tanker traffic would barely reach 10% normal daily transits
The view is looking along to the bow of the ship. To the right are burning oil storage tankers with red flames and black smoke billowing into the air. To the left, a small boat is on fire while a different, firefighting boat is in the foreground spraying water out of multiple on-board hoses. To the left, other buildings on the port shoreline are on fire. It is a scene of chaos
PHOTO OF THE DAY:
The view from a cargo ship at the port of Salalah in Oman this evening. It is surrounded by burning port facilities after a reported drone strike by Iran.
(📸 OSINT Technical)
Great example of how the US military industrial complex is a machine for turning tactical victories into strategic blunders: they thought they were buying missile defense, but they were actually buying a very costly illusion of invulnerability.
Not an original insight, but one of the major problems with "maximum pressure" is that Trump doesn't really have any levers left at his disposal and indeed he's spent a decade helping Iran insulate itself from the impact its war strategy is going to have on the global economy...
*today
from Jan 26: "The last four Avengers in Bahrain were carried off on a heavy lift vessel at a time of crisis, where mining the Persian Gulf could come into play."
apparently the four minesweepers the US had in the Gulf just arrived back in Philadelphia yesterday to be decommissioned and scrapped, whoops
39/ Coz Strait of Hormuz is not US pvt property!
There are few such oil chokepoints ..."5 keys lock up the world"
-Malacca, Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, Suez, Dardanelles, Panama
You can read my ESCAPING THE PERMANENT SUEZ for history of geopolitics of energy.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/u...
Marcus Rediker, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea – @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.
ohh thank u 🤍
Júlia Nueno Guitart's work on the target factory is indispensable for cutting through the whitewashing of war crimes that mainstream media will try to shove down our throats through the legitimising narrative of AI bringing "unprecedented precision" to warfare:
I'm out of words here
“What are we pretending not to know today?”
—Toni Cade Bambara
“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
jfc
they want it to be conscious but not in a way that means they don't own it. hmmm
Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
"Seafarers already within the designated area are entitled to additional compensation and to request repatriation, noting the current, significant operational difficulties, while those instructed to enter it have the right to refuse to sail and request repatriation at the company’s expense."
Tankers are transiting Hormuz, but only small ones, raising fear that producers will have to cut production. As for the ships crossing Hormuz, "since March 3, half of transits in either direction were made by sanctioned or shadow fleet ships."
www.lloydslist.com/LL1156546/No...
