Ahmad Ibsais First generation Palestinian American and law student, Courtesy Al Jazeera Americans still have fresh memories of the death and destruction of the previous US imperial adventure in the region. On June 22, American warplanes crossed into Iranian airspace and dropped 14 massive bombs. The attack was not in response to a provocation; it […]

Mike Whitney  Courtesy The Unz Review The American people are not being told why Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Iran. Yes, Israel was rapidly running out of air-defense interceptors (making it more vulnerable to Iranian attacks.) But that issue is only of secondary importance. The real reason they wanted a ceasefire was because they were getting […]

Courtesy Adaderana The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades. Rafael Grossi’s comments appear to support […]

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By Mona Hojat Ansari Courtesy Teheran Times TEHRAN – The war between Iran and Israel appeared to grind to a halt on Tuesday, after a dizzying 12 days in which the world watched President Donald Trump demand the evacuation of Tehran’s 10 million residents, threaten to assassinate Iran’s Leader, advocate for “regime change,” launch strikes […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror BBC – Donald Trump and his top officials have pushed back on a leaked intelligence report that said US strikes on Iran only set its nuclear programme back by a few months. Speaking at a Nato summit in The Hague on Wednesday, Trump said the strikes led to the “virtual obliteration” of […]

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Geopolitical Economy Report     Donald Trump ordered direct US airstrikes on Iran, after helping Israel start a war of aggression. Tehran already said it would retaliate against US targets. There are more than 40,000 US troops in West Asia (the Middle East), and dozens of military bases, which could be hit. US intelligence agencies […]

Glenn Diesen Colonel Jacques Baud is a former military intelligence analyst in the Swiss Army and the author of many books. Colonel Baud discusses America’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the deception surrounding this war of aggression. International law, treaties and institutions are all undermined in the effort to destroy Iran and restore American […]

Dr. Itay Gal in Jerusalem Post, in Jerusalem Post, June 2025 What is Diego Garcia? The US military base that will be key to operations against Iran ….?  What is there, what aircraft operate from it, and why could it become a critical link in any future conflict in the Middle East?  US B2 Spirit […]

Mahinda Pathirana මෙම වීඩියෝව තුළ ප්‍රහාරයේ නවතම තත්ත්වය, ඉරාන න්‍යෂ්ටික පහසුකම් විනාශ වුනාද නැද්ද යන්න, මේ ගැන ඇමරිකානු සහ ඊශ්‍රායල් බුද්ධි අංශවල මතය, මැදපෙරදිග ප්‍රශ්නය සහ එහි මූල හේතු, ඉරානය යනු කුමක්ද? වැනි බොහෝ කරුණු ආවරණය කර ඇත.

Courtesy The Moscow Times Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday warned the United States against launching military action against Iran, as tensions escalate in the Middle East and speculation grows over potential U.S. involvement in the conflict alongside Israel. Israel launched airstrikes on Iran’s military and nuclear program last Friday, and Tehran has responded with its […]

RT.com Jun 18, 2025 This war will be the starting point of reshaping the world. If Iran wins – and I believe it will, eventually – the world will shift to a multipolar order. That is the shared vision of Iran, Russia, and China. But if Iran loses, we will all live under an American […]

By El Toque Havana Times June 18, 2025 HAVANA TIMES – At the recently concluded 9th Congress of the National Association of Cuban Economists and Accountants (ANEC), Cuba’s Minister of Economy and Planning, Joaquin Alonso Vasquez, confirmed to delegates that the partial dollarization of the economy will not only continue but is the official strategy […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos The absolutely predictable and predicted (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/now-irans-turn-the-spectre-of-a-new-1989), military conflict that erupted five days ago in the Middle East is one of the most serious and dangerous to have broken out globally in decades. Like all major crises, it simultaneously allows us to draw highly useful conclusions about the most critical issues of the […]

by Dave DeCamp Call the White House Campaign by US citizens to Wake Up, and to tell them you do not want any part of this disastrous war Sources familiar with the matter have told Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton that the Trump administration is poised to enter Israel’s aggressive war against Iran directly. US airstrikes […]

Mazin Qumsiyeh Jun 13, 2025 Yesterday I told staff that there will be an attack on Iran and to stock on food. It started few hours later. It does not take a genius to figure these things out as all the signs were clear. Trump (Epstein/Mossad videos holding him by the balls) told Iran to […]

By Medea Benjamin, Courtesy Palestine Chronicle GHF has never been about delivering aid. It’s about using the illusion of aid to control the population of Gaza—and to give cover to war crimes. Recent reports say that US AID is considering giving $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—an aid” initiative launched at Israel’s request. At first glance, […]

විකල්ප මැඩ්ලීන්(Madleen) නෞකාව, ගාසා තීරය වෙත අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ආධාර රැගෙන යන ‘මානුෂීය යාත්‍රාව’, හුදු නැවක් පමණක් නොවේ. එය මිනිස් හෘද සාක්ෂියේ, සාධාරණත්වය-යුක්තිය පිළිබඳ මිනිස් ආශාවේ සහ මණුෂ්‍යත්වයේ සංකේතයකි. ගාසා තීරයේ ජනතාව මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටින ‘ජනසංහාරික තත්ත්වය’ තුළ ආහාර, ඖෂධ ඇතුලු මූලික අවශ්‍යතා හිඟකම/නොමැතිකම ඇතුලු අසීමිත දුක්ඛිත තත්ත්වයන් මධ්‍යයේ ඔවුන්ට හැකි උපරිම ලෙස සහය වීම සදහා මැඩ්ලීන් […]

Hua Bin Smart state planning plus ferocious market competition In standard western economic textbooks, state planning and market competition are mutually exclusive. Thatcher and Reagan brought western capitalism into the neoliberal phase by claiming Government is not the answer. Government is the problem”, putting market fundamentalism on the altar. On the other side, Soviet central […]

Sufian Jusoh|Joanne Lin Sri Lanka at the Center of maritime connectivity between ASEAN and GCC need an ‘Asia First” Foreign Policy Sufian Jusoh and Joanne Lin assess Malaysia’s bold initiative to host the inaugural ASEAN-GCC-China Summit, exploring its strategic rationale, economic potential, and the implications for ASEAN’s centrality in a shifting global order. The ASEAN-GCC-China […]

Middle East Eye Avigdor Lieberman said Israeli forces, under prime minister’s orders, are giving weapons to ‘crime families’ in Palestinian enclave Jun 5, 2025 Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman has accused Israeli forces, under the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of arming crime families” in Gaza. The accusations add weight to the claim that […]

R. Balaji Courtesy The Telegraph online Sudhakaran was appearing for Sri Lankan national and former LTTE member Subaskaran alias Jeevan, who pleaded that he would face political persecution if deported to his country. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition from a former LTTE member challenging his deportation to Sri Lanka, saying […]

Leslie Alan Horvitz Courtesy Counterpunch Photo by Logan Voss In the 1983 film War Games, a supercomputer known as WOPR (for War Operation Plan Response) is about to provoke a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but because of the ingenuity of a teenager (played by Matthew Broderick), catastrophe is averted. […]

Vijay Prashad Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher (Sudan), Untitled, n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Over the past weeks, international focus has no doubt been on the escalation between India and Pakistan, which we will write more about once the dust settles. Though none of the armies crossed the border […]

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a retired pediatrician and political journalist living in Maine. In South Asia, a Regional Cold War is ramping up with India’s Beggar thy Neighborhood First” policies, including war on Pakistan Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Movement toward war with China accelerates. Trump has raised America’s military budget to a Trillion dollars although […]

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