Daryan Rezazad

As most regular CounterPunch readers know Robert Hunziker has over the past years provided excellent analysis on the latest climate catastrophe news. On March 24th I sent him an email regarding what I’m calling the Great Wobble Problem, which I was hoping he would dismiss and reassure me that I was just indulging in doom and gloom. Below is our email exchange: Hi Robert, I am a regular reader of your CounterPunch articles and always find them to be very well presented and informative.

Photograph Source: Official website of Ali Khamenei – CC BY 3.0 When ultra-conservative members of Iran’s parliament and the usual neo-con suspects within the United States power structure agree on an issue you can be certain geopolitical watchers will be getting the popcorn out and will want to find out what is really going on. For now nobody has the full details of the Iran-China deal though this is supposed to be a leaked Farsi version.

The Corona virus crisis has bought out into the open how we live within a matrix of interdependence that we normally take for granted and that is largely invisible to us. International supply chains have been disrupted and entire national economies have sunk into recession. Basic medical equipment that plays a vital part in keeping patients alive is being pirated by a rogue government. The common bar of soap is playing the most important role of preventing the spread of the virus.