The Poisoning of Tehran

The city of Tehran is being poisoned by a toxic cloud of smoke from the Israeli bombing of oil depots: Iran’s capital was engulfed in a cloud of toxic smoke that unleashed black rainfall dozens of miles away on Sunday after overnight Israeli strikes on several fuel...

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What the War on Iran Reveals About Power

To understand the war now engulfing Iran, we should start from the obvious but rarely stated premise: this is the expression of a U.S. imperial ideology, not an accident or a defensive reflex. Since the Iranian Revolution, America has had the ambition of toppling the...

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John Mearsheimer on Bombing To Lose

Reprinted from John's Substack: On 4 March 2026, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis talking about the US-Israeli war against Iran. The central argument that Danny and I drove home is that Netanyahu and Trump have no coherent strategy for winning...

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