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Benny Johnson: “The Middle East becomes a trap for great empires. ... How many empires ...

Media Matters 08 Apr 2026
Video file. Citation ... BENNY JOHNSON (HOST) ... It's not Israel or Qatar ... From Alexander to Napoleon, the Middle East is — to the British Empire. The Middle East becomes a trap for great empires ... How many empires must fall in this sandpit? This oblivion ... ....
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Empires couldn’t destroy Iran for 4,000 years… Trump thinks one night is enough – Sheer ...

Zeenews 08 Apr 2026
Iran is not merely a country at war today. It is a civilisation that left its imprint across Asia, Europe and Africa. As war in West Asia escalates, history reminds us that Iran has existed for thousands of years ... .
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Inside a scammer compound in Thailand: Jail cells, torture rooms and a vice empire exposed

Straits Times 08 Apr 2026
The Thai authorities described the compound as a vast operational base for transnational online crime ....
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Landowner expands his Scottish island empire

The Scotsman 08 Apr 2026
The property will be part of a larger luxury tourism and sporting partnership on the island ....
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The United States Is Self-Destructing Amid Empire Collapse

The Nation 08 Apr 2026
Julia Gledhill. Dangerously wrong priorities will accelerate America’s decline. ....
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What Bombs Cannot Kill. Part I: Ali Shariati, the Iranian Revolution, and the Arrogant New Empire

Sott 08 Apr 2026
"Every century has its Abou Dharr. Islam is waiting for its own." (Ali Shariati, Islam and the Social Question, 1972) "The wretched of the earth no longer wait. They act."
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Aave’s $25 billion lending empire faces a real test as key contributors exit

Cryptoslate 08 Apr 2026
Aave commands DeFi lending, with DefiLlama showing $24.51 billion in total value locked and $17.526 billion in borrowed funds. The margin against Morpho, its closest rival, is roughly 4.1 times ... BGD Labs said on Feb ... 1. ACI said on Mar ... Why this matters ... .
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The Empire Backs Down, for Now, by Caitlin Johnstone

The Unz Review 08 Apr 2026
So as things stand right now this certainly looks like a humiliating defeat for the empire ... empire gets to resume its shipping for a hefty fee and pretend it just rescued the world from a nuclear Iran.
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Forty days that shook the Empire: How Iran turned the tables on US and prevailed

Press TV 08 Apr 2026
By Sarwar Abbas. Forty days into the war imposed illegally on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the unthinkable has happened ... Trump desperately looked for an off-ramp from the quagmire he helped create, and the world witnessed something unprecedented ... ....
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The end of the American empire

New Statesman 08 Apr 2026
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) manage a business empire spanning oil, telecommunications, construction and banking ... The cardinal consequence of the war will be the death of an idea of American empire.
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