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Thursday, July 9, 2026

US Begins Bombing Iran for the Second Night

July 9, 2026
Dave DeCamp
Iranian media reported explosions in several Iranian cities along the coast

Why Iran Ceasefire was always going to Break

July 9, 2026
Ben Soodavar, King’s College London
(The Conversation) – Less than a month after a ceasefire was signed between the US and Iran, conflict has returned to the Middle East. The peace agreement Donald Trump signed at the palace of Versailles in France on June 18 – which he hailed as Iran’s “unconditional surrender” – is now, in the US president’s own words, “over”.

US-Iran ceasefire collapse all about control of Hormuz

July 9, 2026
Trita Parsi
Renewed armed confrontation is less about freedom of navigation than sovereignty and strategic leverage over Hormuz
 Stranded ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Image: YouTube Screengrab

“A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire

July 9, 2026
We speak with political analyst Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the latest events in the Middle East. The United States has bombed Iran for multiple days after President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire between the countries to be “over.” Iran says it has retaliated by attacking U.S. military bases and other strategic sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar.

On the Economic Crisis of Capitalism

July 9, 2026
Prabhat Patnaik
There are at least two important economic aspects of the current structural crisis of capitalism. The first is the overall stagnation and increased unemployment with which world capitalism in its neoliberal phase has been confronted. The higher unemployment in many cases, such as in the United States, is camouflaged by a reduction in the work participation rate, but its reality is undeniable. The stagnation was manifest even before the pandemic: the decadal rate of growth of the world economy over the 2010s decade was lower than in any preceding decade since the Second World War.
 
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