Version 1: Fri, May 22, 2026
Kenya protests over fuel prices - 1 - Source: Al Jazeera
A collection of recent articles about the mess Trump and company are in.
Trump’s defeat at the hands of Aristotle in Iran https://propagandainfocus.com/trumps-defeat-at-the-hands-of-aristotle-in-iran/ by Andrés Suárez López and Joan Pedro-Caranana - Propaganda In Focus - April 29, 2026 - Archive https://archive.md/MR0UM -
Two Spanish academics at the Complutense University of Madrid, take a closer look at the contradictions in Trump’s rhetoric and policies. Here is an excerpt:
It is obvious that this war is not being fought for human rights or for the freedom of the Iranian people. Contradicting the America First doctrine and the White House’s projection of power, Marco Rubio offered an alternative explanation for the war. According to the Secretary of State, the United States anticipated that an imminent Israeli attack on Iran would trigger retaliation against American troops. On the same day, Trump contradicted Rubio and attempted to reassert his position of authority, stating that the bombing had nothing to do with Israel, although with little conviction: Iranians “were going to attack first. And I didn’t want that to happen. So, if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand. But Israel was ready and we were ready.”
I am guessing here that neither Donald J. Trump nor Marco Rubio are Complutense material.
How Iran Defeated Israel https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/total-victory-how-iran-defeated-israel by Kit Klarenberg - Global Delinquents - May 5, 2026 - Archive https://archive.md/k0CsH
Klarenberg examines a recent report by Ynet in Israel that sheds light into the Israeli miscalulations about the war.
In granular detail, the investigation tracks how the Zionist entity’s deranged scheme germinated in the minds of Israeli intelligence, military, and political chiefs, before the Trump administration was comprehensively sold on the plot. Along the way, Ynet exposes extraordinary and dangerous levels of delusion and imperial hubris at the highest levels of Tel Aviv and Washington. For example, Benjamin Netanyahu sincerely - and dangerously - believed Israel’s criminal September 2024 assault of Lebanon, and the June 2025 12 Day War, had decimated Hezbollah and Iran.
Checkmate in Iran: Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losing/687094/ By Robert Kagan - The Atlantic - May 10, 2026 - Archive https://archive.md/ghzr1
Robert Kagan cofounded with William Kristol the Project for the New American Century, and is married to American diplomat Victoria Nuland. Enough said.
The Limits of Power: The War on Iran Will Likely End in American Retreat https://www.savageminds.co/p/the-limits-of-power by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares - Savage Minds - Archive https://archive.md/bTxDz
Succinct.
Meanwhile in Kenya
(Johnson 2026) Choke Point: The Global Economic Consequences of the Persian Gulf Shutdown - How the disruption of oil, liquefied natural gas, and urea exports will cascade through the world economy https://www.unz.com/article/choke-point-the-global-economic-consequences-of-the-persian-gulf-shutdown/ by Larry C. Johnson, former analyst for the CIA and the US State Dept - March 10, 2026 - Unz Review - Archive https://archive.is/8sQx6
This article has been mentioned again in the Fertilizers https://metagora.blogspot.com/2026/04/iran-war-update-fertilizers.html post. Here is another data table:
Oil: The Immediate Shock - Data table by Larry Johnson - Source: Unz.com
This is the context to make sense of the following two stories:
Four reported killed, 30 injured, in Kenyan fuel price protests: Nationwide protests disrupt cities as fuel price hikes trigger unrest https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/18/four-reported-killed-30-injured-in-kenyan-fuel-price-protests By Al Jazeera Staff - 18 May 2026
Kenya transport strike paused after deadly protests: Kenya halts strike over fuel hikes blamed on the US-Israeli war on Iran, after deadly protests and mass arrests https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/5/20/kenya-transport-strike-paused-after-deadly-protests Al Jazeera - By Anadolu, EPA and Reuters - 20 May 2026
Kenya protests over fuel prices - 2 - Source: Al Jazeera
Meanwhile in Mali, the ‘West’ back to their old tricks
The Bloody Trail of Paris and Washington: How the West Tries to Set Mali on Fire to Avoid Losing Africa’s “Golden Billion” https://journal-neo.su/2026/04/30/the-bloody-trail-of-paris-and-washington-how-the-west-tries-to-set-mali-on-fire-to-avoid-losing-africas-golden-billion/ by Mohammed ibn Faisal al-Rashid - NEO - April 30, 2026 - Archive https://archive.md/6v3RO
Behind the facade of the fight against jihadists lies a dirty game by France and the United States: they are ready to drown Africa in blood, just to prevent the former colonies from achieving true independence. The latest events in Mali are not an “escalation of chaos” — they are a planned act of revenge by the West’s old guard because Africa has finally decided to look East.
To be continued …
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