EA-Times Radio VideoCast: Trump Panics Over His War on IranI joined international media on Tuesday to evaluate the latest military, political, and economic developments in the US-Israel War on Iran and Iranian retaliation across the Middle East. I explain how the Iranian regime has refused to surrender after the US-Israel “Plan A” of killing the Supreme Leader and dozens of commanders and officials. So the Trump and Netanyahu camps press on with no “Plan B”, intensifying attacks while making vague, contradictory, and sometimes false statements. It’s all well and good for both sides to thump their chests, but the reality is this is an “uncontained” war. Watch Pakistan TV from 3:00I join Dr. Munawar Hussain and host Omar Khalid Butt to dissect further the Trump and Iranian positions, and to consider the direction of the “uncontained war”.

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AdvertisementHe noted that the U.S. special envoy was asked Tuesday about reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been providing Iran with sensitive information on the location of U.S. military assets in the Middle East. “He said that. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that military cooperation between Russia and Iran “is not something new.”Advertisement“Donald Trump might not actually be so stupid as to actually believe Vladimir Putin, but it doesn’t matter because Donald Trump is deeply perverse enough to publicly claim to believe Vladimir Putin,” O’Donnell said Tuesday. “And so is Steve Witkoff.”He continued, “Donald Trump’s breathtakingly incompetent real estate developer buddy Steve Witkoff does appear to actually be stupid enough to believe Vladimir Putin and to say on television that he believes Vladimir Putin. They have no idea what they’re talking about.”

The data — which includes both information on people who pay child support and employment information for a much wider universe of people — is stored within the Health and Human Services Department and is used to collect child support payments. One of those databases is the National Directory of New Hires, which contains employment details even for people with no nexus to child support though their information is eventually wiped. “For the (National Directory of New Hires), it’s a general population database of all US workers in the country whether or not they have anything to do with child support,” said Vicki Turetsky, who served as commissioner of HHS’ child support enforcement from 2009 to 2016. Undocumented immigrants can receive child support because it’s not a public benefit, nor paid by the taxpayer. Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse also raised alarm over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency attempting to access the national child support database, noting that it contains identifying information of Americans.

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According to the IEA, export volumes of crude and refined products are currently at less than 10% of prewar levels. Birol noted that the situation in natural gas markets is also very challenging, with Asia the most severely affected region. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File) via Associated PressMember countries pledge helpGermany, Austria and Japan said earlier Wednesday that they would release parts of their oil reserves in response to the IEA’s request for members to release 400 million barrels. The IEA reserves were established in 1974 following the Arab oil embargo, and IEA member countries currently hold more than 1.2 billion barrels of public emergency oil stocks, with a further 600 million barrels of industry stocks held under government obligation. AdvertisementGermany’s economy ministry, Katherina Reiche, said the IEA asked Germany to release 2.64 million tons — roughly 19.7 million barrels — of its oil reserves.

RVs line San Fernando Road in Pacoima, less than two miles from where prosecutors say Vincent Wolf shot a homeless man who was living near Wolf’s apartment. Advertisement“It’s all corrupt politicians left nor right,” he was quoted as writing in the affidavit, which was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in August. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)In L.A. County, where an estimated 72,000 people are homeless, RV encampments have become sources of simmering anger and frustration. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority estimates about 6,290 RVs are being used as makeshift dwellings across the county. By the time of his death, Harker had been living on the street for years, said Los Angeles Police Det.

Law enforcement agencies across California were recently warned that the Iran war could lead to a surprise drone attack in the Golden State, but sources told The Times on Wednesday there’s no credible intelligence to support it. But the warning played into security strategies that local and national authorities enacted after the war began. The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the memo and referred questions to the FBI. Since the U.S. and Israel began launching strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Homeland Security Division has elevated its security posture. In February, U.S. lawmakers blasted the Department of Defense after reports that it had shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a “high risk counter-unmanned aircraft system.”

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On this day, a submission arrived from “MJ Rathbun.” Not a person, but an AI agent running on OpenClaw. Emerging regulatory approaches, including risk-based frameworks for AI and platform governance like the EU’s DSA or the AI Act, must grapple with a new kind of harm. In the case of a customised OpenClaw agent, responsibility may well be attributed to several parties. (2023): “Der AI Act der Europäischen Union – Überblick, Kritik und Ausblick [The European Union’s AI Act – Overview, Criticism, and Outlook],” Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik 56(8), pp. Accessed March 9, 2026. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-bots-start-bullying-humans-even-silicon-valley-gets-rattled-0adb04f1Shambaugh, S. (2026): “An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me,” The Shamblog.

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Iran said it would set fire to oil tankers passing through the strait, effectively locking much of the world’s oil in place during the war. That means high oil prices could be here for a while – and gas prices, which follow oil prices with a lag, could stay elevated for even longer. Securing the straitThe US military is developing plans to eliminate Iran’s ability to attack oil tankers. It said its forecast is based on assumptions about the duration of the Middle East conflict and oil production outages. If oil stays that high, gas prices could near $4 a gallon and hover there until oil prices come down meaningfully – and stay lower.