Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. U.S. messaging to Iran, courtesy of President Trump, is quite simple: We slugged you (with our bombing attacks on three nuclear sites in your country), and if you don’t like it, we’ll slug you again, even...
Washington’s Strike on Iran: A Betrayal of Diplomacy, a Gift to War
While global diplomats were still exchanging draft terms to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran, the United States launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure. This sudden act of aggression shattered any illusions of American commitment to peaceful...
US Military Integration Means Canada Already at War With Iran
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Some are pushing Canada to join Israel’s war on Iran. It may already have. On X a former advisor to Quebec’s economics minister Jean Phillipe Fournier posted, “The US will likely join the Iran-Israel conflict eventually. Canada...
His Truth Is Marching On – Will Evangelicals Get Their War?
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. The days of Gog and Magog are back. Back in 2003, during a conversation with French President Jacques Chirac, President George W. Bush expressed his view that, …Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East… The...
Federal Judge Orders Release of Palestine Defender Mahmoud Khalil
A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident and former Columbia University graduate student arrested in March and marked for deportation amid the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestine activists....
NY Times and Roger Cohen Promote War Again
The New York Times has been a major promoter of US "regime change" operations for decades. Today, while President Trump considers directly involving a US attack on Iran, the NYT is again performing this role despite many readers being skeptical or opposed. A June 19...
From Baghdad to Tehran: Manufactured Threats and Israel’s War-First Doctrine
In the early 2000s, a web of exaggerated intelligence, fear-based narratives, and ideological agendas led to the invasion of Iraq. The justification was built around the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein's threat to global security –...
Conflicts of Interest: Will the US Attack Iran This Weekend?
On COI #812, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Reject the Iran Hawks’ War of Aggression
The New York Times editors miss the mark: If Mr. Trump wants the United States to join the Israeli war against Iran, the next step is as clear: Congress must first authorize the use of military force. It is true that the president cannot lawfully launch a war against...
At This Point, a Nuclear Iran Is Probably the Least Bad Option
As I write this, US president Donald Trump seems deep in his usual dither. Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal, “told senior aides late Tuesday [June 17] that he approved of attack plans for Iran, but was holding off to see if Tehran would abandon its nuclear...