Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Trump Risks Impeachment as Iran War Backfires

Mar 17, 2026 | Independent political Rich Rubino joins Maddie Hale to discuss world leaders’ apprehension to helping the United States in the Strait of Hormuz, Politico reports various sources are claiming Donald Trump no longer “holds the cards” in Iran and whether or not Trump was briefed on the likelihood Iran would attack other countries before the US decided to strike.


This gentleman says that Trump is unpopular in many European countries. Unpopular? He's hated! — © Mark Alexander

Trump Asking for Help at Hormuz Strait

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SNP Westminster Leader Stephen Flynn Accuses US of ‘War Crime’ in Iran | BBC Politics Live

Mar 17, 2026 | Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP in the House of Commons, has accused the US of war crimes in Iran.

Speaking on the BBC's Politics Live, Flynn discussed the US handling of the war, highlighting the strike on a primary school that Iranian officials say killed 168 people, including about 110 children.

“If this war killed children at a school I think that’s a tragedy and the US has to investigate that," Fred Fleitz, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, told the programme. “It’s not a tragedy, it’s a war crime," Flynn replied.

Politics Live presenter Vicki Young was also joined by Labour MP Sarah Smith and Conservative MP Joe Robertson.


Iran Challenges US Dollar, Demanding Oil Be Sold in Chinese Yuan, as It Targets US Corporations

Mar 17, 2026 | In response to the US-Israeli war, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil chokepoint on Earth, causing energy prices to skyrocket.

However, Tehran is allowing Chinese tankers through, and says other ships can pass if they agree to sell oil in China's currency, the renminbi (aka yuan).

Iran is also targeting offices of major American corporations, and wants to force them out of the Middle East (West Asia), while trying to expel US military bases.

Ben Norton explains how this war affects the petrodollar system, and the dominance of the dollar as the global reserve currency.



INVESTOPEDIA: Yuan vs. Renminbi: What’s the Difference? »

Trump Panicking as It Becomes Clear He’s LOSING the War to Iran

Mar 17, 2026 | It’s becoming increasingly evident that Trump’s impromptu invasion of Iran isn’t going as he expected it to; and as a result, he’s panicking and lashing out.

Trump is accusing media outlets of “treason” for portraying the US as weak. Trump’s tyrannical FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, has even threatened to revoke the broadcasting licenses of media outlets that don’t cover the war to Trump’s liking.

In this video we’ll talk about how Trump’s public comments about his illegal Iran war do not reflect reality, and why he’s going to get even more dangerous as he grapples with the reality that he’s not going to be able to win this war.



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Unfortunately, Americans must now be starting to ask themselves a very uncomfortable question: namely, how many Americans will be killed, seriously injured, or maimed as result of Trump’s poor judgment in deciding to start this major war with Iran? One thing these Americans will be able to be sure of: no member of the Trump family will! — © Mark Alexander

Aaron Parnas: Trump Suggests Making Venezuela the 51st State!

Goldilocks can’t get enough gold or oil to sate his needs and desires!

Iran: Between Fear and Fury | ARTE.tv Documentary

Mar 17, 2026 | The US has named their attack on Iran “Operation Epic Fury”. Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have called on the Iranians to overthrow the regime. But how can this be done when bombs are raining down on the country and the Iranian people are still traumatised by the brutal state violence that put down the mass protests in January?

Iran: Between Fear and Fury | ARTE.tv Documentary
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Lindsey Graham BEGS Americans to Send Their Kids to War

Mar 16, 2026 | Sen. Lindsey Graham asked South Carolina residents to send their children to fight in the war in Iran. Dr. Rashad Richey and Tehran Von Ghasri discuss on Indisputable.

Trump, America’s New Einstein, Thinks that People with Learning Disabilities Should Never Become President!

Unbelievable! You couldn’t make this sh*t up! 😊

Allies Abandon Trump over Iran War, Tariffs and a Year of Abuse

Mar 17, 2026 | European leaders are rejecting Donald Trump’s call for allied warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz after U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran, exposing a widening rift between Washington and its European partners. As countries like Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy decline to join a naval mission, Trump’s claims of strong allied backing are increasingly being challenged.


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Trump Is Trying to Pull the UK into War | Michael Martins

Mar 17, 2026 | “I think [Trump's] going to want to save face in this, and I think that's where the landing zone is.”

The UK now has an opportunity to de-escalate tensions with the US by “finding the avenue” to abate Trump’s rhetoric toward Starmer, says former political and economic specialist at the US Embassy in the UK during Trump's first term, Michael Martins.



I am no Starmer fan, but Starmer is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT not to allow Britain to be dragged into this war by Goldilocks. Goldilocks should do his own DIRTY WORK. He got America into this war, so let him get America out of it. — © Mark Alexander

Trump Says He Will Have the ‘Honor’ of ‘Taking Cuba’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Trump’s words came amid a nationwide blackout and as a top Cuban official said his country would move to open the economy to foreign investors.

President Trump raised the possibility of the United States “taking” Cuba on Monday, telling reporters at the White House, “I do believe I will be having the honor of taking Cuba.”

“Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I can do anything I want with it,” he said. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.”

The president’s words came on the same day as Cuba experienced a nationwide blackout, amid diminishing fuel supplies. On Monday evening, Cuban officials had also planned to announce that the country’s Communist government would open itself to foreign investment, including from the United States, Cuba’s deputy prime minister, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, told NBC News.

“Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with U.S. companies, also with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants,” the deputy prime minister said in a clip of an interview posted by the network on Monday morning.

It is unclear how widely Cuba intends to open its economy, or how the moves compare with those made a decade ago under President Barack Obama. But the scheduled announcement coincides with a severe humanitarian and energy crisis, with some experts saying the island could run out of fuel within weeks because of a de facto blockade by the Trump administration. » | Annie Correal, Jack Nicas and Frances Robles | Reporting from Mexico City and Florida. | Published: Monday, March 16, 2026. Updated: Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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Iran’s Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Killed in Airstrike, Israel Says

THE GUARDIAN: If confirmed, death would make Larijani the most senior Iranian figure to be killed since Ali Khamenei on first day of war

Israel says it has killed a linchpin of Iranian politics, the national security chief, Ali Larijani, in overnight strikes, a claim that if confirmed would make him the most senior Iranian figure to die in the war since the supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed on its first day.

Iran has yet to comment on either claim. If confirmed, Larijani’s death would remove a pivotal figure at the heart of the regime’s political and security establishment at a moment of acute crisis and represent devastating blow.

Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said a separate strike killed the Basij paramilitary force commander, Gholamreza Soleimani, along with other senior Basij figures.

“Larijani and the Basij commander were eliminated overnight and joined the head of the annihilation programme, Khamenei, and all the eliminated members of the axis of evil, in the depths of hell,” Katz said on Tuesday.

Iranian state media published a handwritten note by Larijani, who was in effect leading the politics behind Iran’s war effort, commemorating sailors killed in a US attack whose funeral is expected on Tuesday, but it did not represent proof that he was alive since it was most likely written before Israel bombed.

The twin deaths, if confirmed, show Israel still retains intelligence on the movements of Iran’s top leaders inside Tehran, and can use it and the US’s near complete control of Iranian airspace to strike at will. » | Patrick Wintour in London and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem | Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Zionism's Biggest Mistake in 300 Years. End of Project. | Professors J. Sachs & Y. Rabkin

Mar 17, 2026 | For decades, Israel pretended to be an innocent country established after the horrors of the Holocaust for the protection of the Jews. Turns out, it was all a lie. The Zionist project is much older and has little to do with the wishes of the Jews when it was established. Inherently a Christian doctrine, Zionism was always a plan to resettle the Jews of Europe even against their will and to dominate West Asia [Middle East] in the process. Today, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and Prof. Yakov Rabkin are discussing the past and the future of a racist settler-colonial political project that has become so violent in the past decade that the entire world now sees it for what it is: an irredeemable political sin.

Steve Rosenberg: "Iran's Got Trump by the Throat" Declares Russian Newspaper

Mar 17, 2026 | How is the Iran war seen from Moscow? One Russian paper today: “Trump wanted to strangle Tehran, but he’s tightened the noose around his own neck.” Plus, reaction in the Russian press to Mr Nobody Against Putin winning an Oscar [spoiler alert: there isn’t much.]

Monday, March 16, 2026

In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The branding of the U.S. military operation against Iran is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for a leader whose tenure has been marked by anger.

By his own account, President Trump was asked to personally pick the name of the military operation against Iran and was bored by all the choices presented to him. “They gave me, like, 20 names, and I’m like, falling asleep,” he said last week. “I didn’t like any of them.”

Then at last he was offered another option: Operation Epic Fury. That woke him up. “I like that name,” he told supporters at a rally in Kentucky. “I like that name.” And so it was selected.

After all, Epic Fury captures the Trump presidency in its essence. Everything Mr. Trump does, at least as he sees it, is epic — the biggest, the most, the first, “like we’ve never seen before,” as he likes to say. And much of what he does seems to be driven by fury, a deep and abiding enmity toward the forces arrayed against him or those he blames for what he considers the downfall of the country under other presidents.

Operation Epic Fury, therefore, is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for the name of a war. Not for him an Operation Just Cause (Panama), Operation Restore Hope (Somalia), Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti) or Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). While other military operation names in modern times have evoked broader American values or uplifting sentiments like freedom and hope, Mr. Trump prefers rage.

This is in a way the Anger Presidency. Anger defines Mr. Trump’s decade on the political stage. Anger at foreigners who come to this country and change its nature. Anger at allies who take advantage of America. Anger at Democrats who cross him. Anger at Republicans who cross him. Anger at appointees he deems insufficiently loyal. Anger at prosecutors, F.B.I. agents, judges, journalists, law firms, elite universities, cultural figures, corporate leaders, pollsters, central bankers and the Norwegian Nobel Committee. » | Peter Baker | Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, covered Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq during the early months of those wars. He reported this article from Washington. | Monday, March 16, 2026

Trump will go down in history as the warmonger non plus ultra. As the president who was lacking in compassion and who was full of anger and bile. The president who destroyed democracy. The president who caused chaos and who turned the world upside down. In fact, he will be remembered for all the Cs: cruelty, corruption, chaos, callousness, carelessness, catastrophy, censoriousness, cheesiness, and childishness. – © Mark Alexander

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Donald Trump Demands Other Countries Bail Him Out of His Biggest Mistake Yet

Mar 16, 2026 | Jesse talks about Donald Trump’s multiple posts on Truth Social pressuring other nations to bail him out of his self-created problems in the Middle East with his illegal war in Iran.

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Steve Schmidt: Trump Has No Way Out

Mar 16, 2026 | Trump started a war with Iran with no plan and is now begging the allies he spent a year alienating to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Steve Schmidt breaks down the complete incompetence and lose-lose scenario the Trump regime has created.


Watch and listen to those muppets cheering on their know-nothing leader! It really is unbelievable just how stupid many Americans are. — © Mark Alexander

Ex-Christian Fundamentalist, Tia Levings, Exposes Trump's HOLY WAR on Iran

Mar 16, 2026 | Author and former Christian fundamentalist Tia Levings joins Anthony Davis to explain what Trump’s ‘holy’ war on Iran means for Christian Nationalists who are leading a crusade of ethnic and religious cleansing both in the U.S. and across the world - only on The Weekend Show.


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Gulf States May Be Covertly Encouraging Attacks by US, Iran’s Foreign Minister Says

THE GUARDIAN: Abbas Araghchi demands clarification on reports Saudi crown prince had urged Donald Trump to ‘hit the Iranians hard’

Some Gulf states hosting US forces may be covertly encouraging the slaughter of Iranians, Iran’s foreign minister has claimed in a thinly-veiled attack on Saudi Arabia.

Abbas Araghchi demanded clarification on reports that Mohammed bin Salman was in regular private conversations with Donald Trump urging the US president “to continue hitting the Iranians hard”.

Araghchi was responding to the second US media report in a week claiming the Saudi crown prince’s public opposition to the US attacks on Iran did not reflect his private position. “Stances should be promptly clarified,” he said in a post on X.

Iran’s foreign minister said hundreds of civilians had been killed in US-Israeli attacks, including more than 200 children.

Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council, issued an appeal directed at Muslim populations in the Gulf states urging them to ask themselves which side were they on in the war and why no Islamic country had stood by the Iranian people.

Defending Iran’s attacks on Gulf states, he said: “Are we being asked to stand idly by while US bases in your countries are being used to attack us? The confrontation today is between America and Israel on the one hand, and the Muslim Iran and the forces of resistance on the other.” » | Patrick Wintour | Monday, March 16, 2026

« Une odeur qui exhalait le feu » : au Liban, des hôpitaux ciblés par Israël

LE FIGARO : REPORTAGE - Trente-six médecins, infirmiers et ambulanciers ont été tués depuis la reprise de la guerre contre le Hezbollah.

Le cratère béant qui entaille le centre médical de Bourj Qalaqwiye, village du Sud-Liban, crachote encore des filets de fumée noire éparse. Il ne subsiste du bâtiment qu’un fragile squelette de colonnes dévorées par les flammes et quelques murs suspendus à des tiges métalliques. Sous les pas trébuchants de Mohamed Mheri, représentant d’une localité voisine, les gravats crissent, entremêlés aux seringues et aux registres médicaux calcinés. Sa lente procession s’arrête devant une longue tache brune, étirée sur la chaussée : « Voilà tout ce qu’il reste de mon ami, résume-t-il, le visage terni par le chagrin. Du sang. »

Mohammed Maatouk, 40 ans, infirmier volontaire auprès de l’Autorité sanitaire islamique, une association de protection civile affiliée au Hezbollah et agréée par les autorités libanaises, a été tué ici, vendredi 13 mars, à 20 h 43, peu après l’heure de l’Iftar. Il venait d’allumer une chicha lorsqu’une roquette israélienne s’est écrasée sur le toit du bâtiment. Douze des treize médecins, infirmiers et secouristes présents sur place sont morts sur le coup. Le nombre de victimes du corps médical s’élève à 36 depuis la reprise de la guerre entre Israël et le Hezbollah, allié de l’Iran au Liban. Un chiffre qui rappelle les heures sombres du précédent conflit, entre 2023 et 2024, où près de 163 médecins et secouristes avaient péri sous les feux de l’artillerie israélienne. » | Par Manon Chapelain | Envoyée spéciale à Bourj Qalaqwiye (Liban) | lundi 16 mars 2026

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Kuba will Kubanern im Ausland Investitionen und Firmenbesitz auf der Insel ermöglichen

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Erstmals sollen im Ausland lebende Kubaner offiziell Firmen auf der Insel gründen und besitzen dürfen. Doch es gibt Zweifel an der Wirksamkeit der Pläne.

Kubas Regierung will im Ausland lebenden Kubanern – darunter Hunderttausende in Miami –, künftig erlauben, auf der Insel Unternehmen zu besitzen und in den Privatsektor zu investieren. Das kündigte der stellvertretende Ministerpräsident Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga in einem Interview mit NBC News in Havanna an.

„Kuba ist offen für fließende Handelsbeziehungen mit US-Unternehmen“ sowie „mit in den Vereinigten Staaten lebenden Kubanern und deren Nachkommen“, sagte Fraga, der zugleich Außenhandels- und Investitionsminister ist. Die Öffnung gehe über den reinen Handel hinaus und umfasse auch Großinvestitionen, insbesondere in die Infrastruktur, so Fraga gegenüber NBC News. » | Lea Brüggemann | Montag, 16. März 2026

Rudolf Nureyev, Biography of a Russian Icon

May 29, 2025 | An exceptional dancer, Rudolf Nureyev changed his destiny in 1961 by fleeing the USSR to seek asylum in France. He was 23 years old, and this bold move would separate him from his family for more than 25 years.

Brilliant and uncompromising, he conquered the West and became a ballet icon. In 1983, he became head of dance at the Paris Opera.

This documentary, combining rare archival footage and intimate testimonies, traces the dazzling career of a free artist, who passed away in 1993 at the age of only 54.


Guerre au Moyen-Orient : l’Iran menace de cibler des entreprises américaines dans la région

LE FIGARO : « Les employés des entreprises américaines sont priés de quitter immédiatement ces zones » ont déclaré les gardiens de la révolution. La semaine dernière, les bureaux d’Amazon et Google situés au Moyen-Orient étaient affichés sur la liste de potentielles cibles pour l’Iran.

Les Gardiens de la Révolution iraniens ont menacé lundi de cibler des entreprises américaines au Moyen-Orient, appelant le personnel à évacuer. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 16 mars 2026

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Trump Faces a ‘Personal Vietnam’ in Iran

THE GUARDIAN — OPINION: He is stuck in a quagmire. His goals are elusive. His bombing does not force a surrender. He has no exit strategy. Good morning, Vietnam

Donald Trump is lost in his fog of war. He compounds confusion with improvised fabrications as his naive expectation of a lightning victory has been sunk in the strait of Hormuz. Iran, he felt certain, would easily follow the “perfect scenario” of Venezuela, accede to naming a leader who would instantly do his bidding, and there would be no disruption of the oil markets – “a strong gameplan”, stated Karoline Leavitt, his White House press secretary, who defends each of his changeable excuses with equal ferocity.

There may be few if any facts underlying the delusions upon which Trump constructs his vapid explanations and evanescent strategies. The belief that coherent sense can be made out of Trump’s shuffling words is a weakness of the rational mind that refuses to accept the impulses of the inveterate demagogue for what they are. Searching for reason in the jungle of Trump’s tales may compel hopelessly sensible people to superimpose logic where there is none in order to satisfy the need for some semblance of soundness.

Trump’s erratic efforts to reframe his rationale further expose his incompetence and unintelligibility, utterly predictable but now lethal on a global scale. His stream of sputtering remarks has, however, clearly established the ground that should be explored by congressional inquiries into the war’s origins, planning and conduct. » | Sidney Blumenthal | Saturday, March 14, 2026

U.S. Allies Rebuff Trump’s Appeal for Help in Strait of Hormuz

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Germany and other nations rejected President Trump’s call for warships to reopen the vital oil route. The Israeli military escalated ground attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Trump is expected to speak soon.

American allies around the world have responded coolly to — or outright rebuffed — President Trump’s call to send warships to escort merchant vessels in and out of the Persian Gulf, illustrating the consequences of his dismissive approach to global alliances.

The sharpest refusal came Monday from Germany, whose defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said, “This is not our war; we did not start it.” Top officials of Japan, Italy and Australia said Monday that their countries would not participate in efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Others were noncommittal, including France, South Korea and Britain, whose prime minister, Keir Starmer, said his country would not be “drawn into wider war.”

Mr. Trump’s call on social media on Saturday for other nations to join the United States in an escort effort came just a week ago, he turned down Mr. Starmer’s offer to send two British aircraft carriers to the region. “We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” Mr. Trump said at the time.

As Iran blockades most traffic through the oil shipping choke point, Mr. Trump’s appeal was the first time he had sounded eager to build a broad coalition against Iran. But he was asking for backup from allies who were not consulted ahead of the U.S.-Israeli decision to go to war, and who were derided by Mr. Trump in the past.

The American-Israeli air war against Iran, now in its third week, has killed more than 2,000 people, mostly in Iran and Lebanon, and has drawn in much of the Middle East, as Iran has launched rockets and drones at neighboring countries and at ships in the Gulf. Global energy prices have skyrocketed with tanker traffic all but stopped through the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for around a fifth of the world’s oil shipments. The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, briefly reached $106 on Monday.

The United States appears to have been unprepared for the extent of that retaliation and the need to escort ships through the strait — something that administration officials have discussed publicly since the first week of the war, but has not yet begun.

Mr. Trump said NATO member nations should help, and told The Financial Times on Sunday, “If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO.” He called on China to send naval escorts, too, but Beijing has little incentive to cooperate; Iran, which sells oil to China, is letting its ships pass safely. Mr. Trump has threatened to postpone a planned summit meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, as he focuses on the war. Iran War Live Updates » | David E. Sanger, Christopher F. Schuetze, Megan Specia and Aaron Boxerman | Monday, March 16, 2026

Goldilocks started this war, so let Goldilocks finish it! — © Mark Alexander

La desesperación en Cuba provoca actos de desafío poco habituales

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Una protesta en la ciudad de Morón, en el centro de Cuba, terminó con un intento de incendio en la sede local del Partido Comunista.

Los manifestantes aparecieron en las calles de Morón, ciudad del centro de Cuba, la noche del viernes. Lo que comenzó como una concentración pacífica, informó la prensa estatal cubana, se intensificó cuando un grupo de personas arrojó piedras contra la sede local del Partido Comunista, única fuerza política gobernante en el país. Después irrumpieron en el edificio, arrastraron algunos muebles al exterior y les prendieron fuego.

Videos que circulan por las redes sociales muestran al grupo acercándose al edificio con objetos en llamas y arrojándolos al interior. ”¡Quémenlo todo!”, dijo un hombre. Otros se unieron a él, gritando: ”¡Libertad!” Un análisis de las imágenes realizado por el New York Times confirmó su autenticidad y concluyó que los videos fueron filmados muy probablemente durante la madrugada del viernes al sábado.

En uno de los videos se oye lo que parece ser un disparo. “Le dieron”, dice un hombre mientras la cámara muestra a una persona cojeando y luego desplomándose, mientras otros se reúnen a su alrededor pidiendo ayuda. En el video no queda claro si realmente dispararon al hombre. » | Por Emiliano Rodríguez Mega | 15 de marzo de 2026

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Britain Before WWI: The Empire Built by Workers I SLICE History | Full Documentary

Feb 27, 2026 | Edwardian Britain was the richest empire in the world. But behind the power of the crown stood millions of workers.

For the first time, rare archival footage from 1901–1914 has been carefully colorized, revealing the real faces of miners, dockworkers, factory girls, market porters, and children whose labour built modern Britain. From Queen Victoria’s funeral to the mills of Lancashire, from London’s docks to Blackpool’s seaside resorts, this is the story of a nation at its industrial peak — just years before the First World War would change everything.

Documentary: Edwardian Britain in Colour EP:1
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Budín de Pan — Traditional Argentinian Bread Pudding

Jul 7, 2025 | This is how we make bread pudding in Argentina — a simple and traditional recipe, made without a blender and with everyday ingredients.

It’s a classic dessert in many Argentinian homes, often made to use up leftover bread.

Soft, comforting, and full of homemade flavor. It’s a budget-friendly dessert that brings back the smell of childhood kitchens.



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Trump Believed His Own Propaganda | Andrew Neil

Mar 16, 2026 | “He thought he could walk on water when it came to these military matters.”

Donald Trump began the conflict in Iran without sufficient contingency plans to keep the Strait of Hormuz open because he was buoyed by US success in Venezuela last year, and received bad advice that the Iranian regime would crumble quickly, says Times Radio presenter Andrew Neil.


Trump Warns NATO over Securing the Strait of Hormuz | BBC News

Mar 16, 2026 | US President Donald Trump has said it would be "very bad for the future of NATO" if allies don't help secure the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global oil shipping.

In an interview with the Financial Times, the US president said he expects China to help unblock the strait and could delay a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping if it doesn’t.

Meanwhile, Dubai International Airport said it had to temporarily suspend flights after an Iranian drone struck nearby.

Israel said it has begun "limited and targeted ground operations" against Iran-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.



Trump is up over his neck in it! He and his chum have so obviously bitten off more than they can chew. First, Trump screwed up the American economy; now, with this illegal war on Iran, he is busy screwing up the world economy, too. — © Mark Alexander

Why Is Labour Censoring Critics of Islam?

Mar 14, 2026 | Brendan O’Neill, Paul Embery and Fraser Myers discuss the UK’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’.

Steve Rosenberg: Russian Media Continue to List Benefits for Moscow from Iran War

Mar 16, 2026 | The Russian newspapers continue to write about how Russia benefits from the Iran war. Writing about Donald Trump, one paper says the US president has "made a mistake as old as the world. It's a feature of personalistic regimes. He comes to believe in his own genius. Those around him say only what he wants to hear. He takes a decision in a narrow circle of one of two trusted persons…as a result the blitzkrieg scenario didn’t work." Plus, a Russian lawyer who believes "the USSR is alive, not only in our hearts."

Sunday, March 15, 2026

State Department Cuts Price of Renouncing U.S. Citizenship to $450

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The fee had been increased to $2,350 in 2015, prompting criticism and legal challenges from advocacy groups and Americans living abroad.

The State Department is drastically reducing the cost of renouncing American citizenship, ending a yearslong legal battle over the price of relinquishing a blue passport.

In an update published in the Federal Register on Friday, the State Department said it was reducing the consular fees of renouncing U.S. citizenship to $450 from $2,350, a more than 80 percent reduction in cost for the clunky, bureaucratic process.

The policy change, which is effective April 13, was proposed in October 2023.

The change announced on Friday returns the fee to what it was in 2010, when the State Department first instituted a charge for Americans renouncing their U.S. citizenship.

The process, which is arduous and costly, requires extensive work from consular officials, including confirming that anyone seeking to give up their citizenship fully understands the implications of doing so.

Obtaining a “certificate of loss of nationality” requires two separate interviews with consular officials, a vetting process and a formal oath of renunciation. The process can take months.

The department warns on its website that the risks of renouncing U.S. citizenship include becoming “stateless” and requiring a visa to enter the United States. » | Ali Watkins | Sunday, March 15, 2026

Trump Says He Will Rid America of People with Wrong Genetics

Mar 15, 2026 | Jesse talks about Donald Trump's absolutely mask-off Nazi talk to Fox News's Brian Kilmeade the other day, when he was talking about who to rid the country of. He said, "They shouldn't have been let in. They're just bad. Their genetics - They are not exactly your genetics."

Trump attackiert Selenskyj: Brauche keine Hilfe von ihm im Iran

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Der US-Präsident sagt, Selenskyj mache mehr Schwierigkeiten als Putin. Drohnen aus der Ukraine brauchen die USA im Iran demnach nicht.

In einem telefonischen Interview mit NBC News hat der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Donald Trump, das Angebot des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj abgelehnt, ukrainische Drohnen im Iran-Krieg einzusetzen. Selenskyj hatte zu Beginn des Krieges den USA und ihren Verbündeten im Nahen Osten seine Unterstützung beim Abfangen iranischer Drohnen angeboten und dabei die Erfahrung des ukrainischen Militärs im Abschuss russischer Drohnen hervorgehoben. Trump sagte dazu: „Wir brauchen keine Hilfe“ und fügte hinzu: „Der Letzte, von dem wir Hilfe brauchen, ist Selenskyj.“

Trump forderte dagegen China, Frankreich, Japan, Südkorea, Großbritannien und andere Länder auf, Kriegsschiffe in die Straße von Hormus zu entsenden, um die Öllieferungen zu sichern. Die US-Streitkräfte hatten am Samstag erstmals die für die Öl-Exportinfrastruktur wichtige Insel Kharg unter Beschuss genommen. Trump sagte bei NBC: „Wir haben die Insel Kharg komplett zerstört, aber wir werden sie vielleicht noch ein paar Mal zum Spaß angreifen.“ » | Michael Maier | Sonntag, 15. März 2026

« Le communisme ne donne rien de bon » : la révolution ne fait plus rêver les jeunes Cubains

LE FIGARO : RÉCIT - Près de sept décennies après l’arrivée au pouvoir du régime castriste, la jeunesse aspire à construire son futur ailleurs, ou dans une île débarrassée du communisme.

Une Tchaïka antédiluvienne - l’une de ces vieilles limousines soviétiques que l’ex-président russe Leonid Brejnev offrit à Fidel Castro à l’aube des années 1970 - double un tricycle électrique chinois bleu pétrole sur le Malecon, le front de mer de La Havane. Le chauffeur de cet étrange équipage de six places, transformé en taxi à pédales, est à la manœuvre. Le jeune homme, un trigenio (« mulâtre clair ») - parmi la quinzaine de couleurs de peau dont les Cubains se revendiquent -, quitte le Malecon. » | Par Hector Lemieux, à La Havane | dimanche 15 mars 2026

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Guerre en Iran : Netanyahou s’affiche dans un café et ironise sur les rumeurs iraniennes annonçant sa mort

LE FIGARO : Des rumeurs sur la mort du premier ministre israélien, propagées par les médias iraniens d’État, circulent depuis plusieurs jours sur les réseaux sociaux.

Benyamin Netanyahou tout sourire au comptoir d’un café, une boisson à la main. Le premier ministre israélien a publié ce dimanche une vidéo dans laquelle on le voit siroter un café et discuter avec son assistant. Ces vidéos font suite à nombreuses rumeurs non sourcées, mais relayées par les médias iraniens proches de la République des mollahs, qui circulaient ces derniers jours sur les réseaux sociaux annonçant la mort du dirigeant israélien dans des frappes iraniennes.

Dans la vidéo, tournée dans un café de la banlieue de Jérusalem et d’abord publiée sur le compte Telegram du chef de l’État hébreu, son assistant l’interroge sur ces rumeurs. L’intéressé répond par un jeu de mots sur le mot « mort » — qui, en argot hébreu, peut être utilisé pour décrire le fait d’« être fou de » quelqu’un ou de quelque chose — tout en prenant une tasse de café. » | Par Jeanne Durieux avec Reuters | dimanche 15 mars 2026

Iran: Rumours of New Ayatollah's Death ‘Too Great to Bear’ If He Stays Hidden | Michael Rubin

Mar 15, 2026 | “I don’t think Mojtaba is alive or well, or if he is alive, I don’t think he’s well.”

Iran’s new Ayatollah can only go so long staying out of public view before rumours of his death are “too great to bear”, says foreign policy analyst and former Pentagon official Michael Rubin.


'It Isn't Worth the Costs': Schiff Slams Trump's Continued Downplaying of Iran War Impacts

March 15, 2026

Iranian Foreign Minister Says "We Don't See Any Reason Why We Should Talk with Americans"

Mar 15, 2026 | One day after President Trump said the U.S. is not ready to make a deal with Iran because "the terms aren't good enough yet," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that "we don't see any reason why we should talk with Americans."

"Face the Nation" is America's premier Sunday morning public affairs program. The broadcast is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television, having debuted Nov. 7, 1954, on CBS. Every Sunday, "Face the Nation" moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan welcomes leaders, newsmakers, and experts to a lively round table discussion of current events and the latest news.


Coward

Mar 13, 2026 | "150 US soldiers have been injured, 5,000 more heading into Iran today. Trump is a coward, criminal, five-time draft dodging piece of shit who's sending your kids to war."

Queen Victoria & Prince Albert - Power, Passion, and the British Empire Documentary

Mar 14, 2026 | Step back in time to explore the definitive story of history’s most iconic power couple: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In this special feature-length presentation, we have completely reimagined our original coverage of their lives to bring you a fresh, comprehensive viewing experience.