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How the West Is Quietly Legitimizing Anti-Iran Terrorists
27 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
US President Ronald Reagan once declared that “Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.” While the ideological descendants of President Reagan love to incessantly describe Iran as the “#1 State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US and its Western allies have, hypocritically, supported terrorists when it benefits them. The most obvious example of […]
When the US Supported a Brutal Chinese Conquest of Taiwan
27 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
In the Western imagination, Taiwan is cast almost exclusively as a flourishing democracy under siege by a totalitarian neighbor, a moral clarity that fuels calls for military defense and ideological solidarity. Sulmaan Wasif Khan’s magisterial new history, The Struggle for Taiwan – published in 2024 – does not deny the island’s democratic vibrancy or the […]
War and Morality
27 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men’s power games. It is the health of the state. The war […]
The Latest Big Lie About the ‘Iran War’
26 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
Let’s begin by recalling why the US Navy shot-down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 and brought 241 innocent men, women and children to their doom. The answer, of course, is that the Navy was conducting patrol operations in the Persian Gulf during the Tanker War in behalf of Iraq and its ally, Kuwait. Yet […]
US Sanctions on Venezuela Continue: Corporate Beneficiaries and a Targeted Society
26 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion. However, far from dismantling the sanctions regime, the US has merely adjusted its application through licensing mechanisms, leaving the core structure […]
The Self-Undoing of Israel: Has Zionism Crossed the Point of No Return?
26 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
Is Israel’s trajectory toward isolation and collapse self-inflicted, and has Zionism reached the point of no return? Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces two possibilities: to do or die,” Netanyahu declared on October 28, 2023, as Israel expanded its […]
How the US Became an International Serial Killer
26 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. On March 17th and 18th, the United States and Israel assassinated three senior Iranian government officials in targeted air strikes: Ali Larijani, […]
Why Donald Trump Just Can’t Stop Going to War
26 March 2026 @ 12:00 am
After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that “help is on the way.” On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched what immediately became a devastating war on Iran. American and Israeli warplanes began dropping bombs on a country of some 93 million people. Trump soon put out a […]
The Iran War and the Collapse of Western Moral Credibility
25 March 2026 @ 12:01 am
There is something revealing about the way Western governments talk about war when Iran is involved. The language changes almost instantly. Questions of legality fade into the background. Questions of power, stability, and markets move to the front. What is presented as moral clarity is usually something much less noble: a hierarchy of concern in […]
Free Speech for Me But Not For Thee
25 March 2026 @ 12:00 am
Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the same reasons. This followed […]