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Trump’s Big Bluff on Iran
The Trump administration and its supporters – including the Wall Street Journal editorial page – are working overtime these days to spin the news around the Iran war to make it appear that the US is winning and Tehran had better submit to Washington’s demands before it is wrecked, maybe even “annihilated.”
06.10.2026
Will the Iran War Cause a GOP Bloodbath in November?
Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress.
29.09.2026
Trump’s Unconscionable UN Rant
Donald Trump threatened Iran with annihilation from the seat of diplomacy on the East River Tuesday and then dismissed the real threats of AI as a hoax in a speech that exhibited questionable mental balance, writes Joe Lauria.
23.09.2026
Osama Bin Trump
When the U.S. became the terrorists it claimed it was seeking to defeat, the country defeated itself.
16.09.2026
The Crippling Effects of Unnecessary War
In California, gas stations are facing a unique challenge. The station signs are only configured to go up to $9.99 per gallon and at several stations the price of diesel has reached that maximum. Diesel prices are higher than they have ever been in history.
15.09.2026
Washington Is Underwriting the Proliferation It Went to War To Stop
The United States is bombing one country to deny it the fuel cycle and selling the same capability to another. The war is not the contradiction. It is the reason.
11.09.2026
America’s War on Iran Has Always Been a Bipartisan Effort
The bombing of Iran is the culmination of decades of bipartisan policy that systematically normalized and institutionalized gradual escalation
07.09.2026
The Definition of Insanity
Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands.
02.09.2026
Chris Hedges: Iran War Bringing Down US Empire
The U.S. war on Iran has exposed more than a catastrophic military miscalculation: It has revealed an American empire hollowed out by corruption, war profiteering and democratic decay.
01.09.2026
After Iran, Next Target: Cuba
We’re being asked to believe Cuba is Hamas, so the U.S. needs to strangle it to death in self-defense. That the U.S. has been pursuing regime change in Cuba for generations, we’re told, is mere coincidence.
03.02.2026
The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
Understanding hybrid war tactics helps to explain why Trump’s rhetoric oscillates between threats of war and phony offers of peace.
21.01.2026
Trump’s Threats to Intervene in Iran Carry Big Risks
The protests in Iran began in the bazaars on December 28 as a demand for economic reform in the face of a cost-of-living crisis highlighted by the Iranian rial’s plunge to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar.
16.01.2026
Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong
On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong.
17.11.2025
Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops
On Monday, Sept. 22, the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, joined the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, on stage for a discussion at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City.
29.09.2025
Why has Hegseth summoned military commanders to Washington?
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of US generals and admirals to a meeting early next week at Quantico Marine Corps base, just outside of Washington.
26.09.2025
Europe uses Iran as pawn in transatlantic power play
The E3's push for formally 'snapback' sanctions on Tehran was not about getting limits on its nuclear program
22.09.2025
West Asia is Lurching Toward War
Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.
05.09.2025
A Nobel for the Donald?
Donald Trump doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not after his unprovoked bombing of a country (Iran) that is no military threat whatsoever to the American Homeland.
21.08.2025
US-Israeli attack on Iran: German politics and media abandon international law
There is hardly any war that violates international law as flagrantly as the US-Israeli attack on Iran in June of this year.
01.08.2025
Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South
With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Whether animated by “America First” or globalism, the objective remains “full spectrum dominance.”
24.07.2025
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