20 Percent of the World Stopped Today

The Ignition News | March 11, 2026Three ships have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz, and the global economy is now in freefall.Today's episode opens on breaking news: multiple vessels hit in one of the most critical shipping chokepoints on earth. Twenty percent of the world's oil supply and thirty percent of its fertilizer move through that twenty-one mile lane. Oil prices, which were already volatile, spiked past $110 per barrel live on air. We're tracking a trajectory toward $300 per barrel, a shock that would eclipse the 1973 oil embargo by three times over.And it's springtime. Farmers plant in springtime. With fertilizer supply chains now severed, the food price crisis that follows won't just hit your grocery bill. It will hit India, China, the Philippines, which has already mandated a four-day work week to ration energy, and Australia, which is now having open public conversations about how long its fuel supply will last.There is no plan to end this. A war with no plan is a war with no end.We also dig into the girls school in Iran, struck now by what appears to be a triple tap Tomahawk strike that killed 175 people, including the wife and daughter of Iran's new supreme leader. We raise a direct and uncomfortable question: was this target selected by a human being, or by an AI system? With 2,000 strikes launched in the first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury and the U.S. military's Project Maven autonomous targeting system in the background, the math does not add up. A park called Police Park was struck. We ask what a human targetter would have seen there, and what an algorithm might have seen instead.Chuck Schumer accidentally told the truth on the Senate floor. 89 percent of Democrats oppose this war. Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer have done nothing. Calls within the caucus to remove them from leadership are growing louder.In Georgia, Sean Harris, the Democrat running in Marjorie Taylor Greene's old seat, finished first with 37 percent against 12 Republicans in a special election. It's heading to a runoff. Watch that seat.Your action item today is simple: go to vote.org and find out when your primary election is. Not the general. The primary. That is where you remove these people from power, one at a time.Find us at theignition.news and on Ignite: Fighting Fascism in the Age of Its Rise.