The Kharg Island strike shows how US force is calibrated to avoid disrupting global oil flows.
![Two explosions are seen in footage released by US President Donald that he says shows the bombing of Iran's Kharg Island. [Donald Trump via social media]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/us_strikes_iran_kharg_island_airport_airbase-1773461350.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Ilan Kapoor is a Professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto. He is the autho... r of seven books, focusing on postcolonial theory/politics, psychoanalytic theory/politics, and ideology critique.
The Kharg Island strike shows how US force is calibrated to avoid disrupting global oil flows.
![Two explosions are seen in footage released by US President Donald that he says shows the bombing of Iran's Kharg Island. [Donald Trump via social media]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/us_strikes_iran_kharg_island_airport_airbase-1773461350.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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![Noted postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s admonition of a young scholar for mispronouncing African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois’s name at a recent lecture has caused a brouhaha in academic circles [Wikimedia Commons].](/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/spivak-1717761812.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)