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Links to EIGHT-plus reports, interviews, analyses, commentaries and summaries (10 or so): from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, the Cradle, Indian Punchline, Consortium News, and Middle East Eye; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials as highlighted. (Scroll down for IRAN 3-28-26, and for UKRAINE and MEDIA.) — MCM

* Among the news organizations with frequent war updates, photos and occasionally maps are Al Jazeera, the Associated Press, Middle East Eye, the Cradle, and Middle East Monitor: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. AP and El País reports in Spanish are HERE and HERE. *

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Iran warns U.S. against ground invasion as regional diplomats seek an end to the war, by Sam Metz, Munir Ahmed and Samy Magdy | AP  ISLAMABAD — A top Iranian official warned the U.S. against a ground invasion, saying American troops would be set “on fire,” as regional diplomats gathered today in Pakistan in a push to broker an end to the monthlong war. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others. Click HERE and HERE for reports from NPR and the Cradle.

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U.S. offers India pivotal role in Hormuz Strait, by M.K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline  India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been persistently working to put the U.S.-Indian relationship back on track. READ MORE . . .

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How military strategies are evolving a month after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. Don Gonyea of NPR speaks with military analyst Kelly Grieco of the Stimson Center about how the military strategies of both the U.S. and Iran are evolving after a month of fighting. Click HERE to listen and, later, read; and HERE and HERE for all four Iran war-related reports Saturday evening and today on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Weekend Edition Sunday.”

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FROM MARCH 28  ‘The World This Week — w/ Richard Wolff.’ Joe Lauria of Consortium News talks with Wolff, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs at The New School in New York. Wolff speaks authoritatively about the apparent ending of the American Century* under way owing to factors he lays out — China being the most obvious beneficiary with or without the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which speeds the development. Russia and Iran seem like two others. The U.S. is in a tight spot as is Israel. Click HERE for video and a print intro written before the talk in which Wolff does about 99 percent of the talking.

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FROM MARCH 27  How Trump’s regime has become captive to its own lies, by Soumaya Ghannoushi | Middle East Eye  In The Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel described a system in which lies are not incidental, but foundational. A system that does not merely tolerate falsehood, but requires it, reproduces it, lives within it. READ MORE . . .

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* He does not use the term.