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1953 Redux – Neocons Want To Saddle Iran With the Son of the Persian Stalin
12 February 2026 @ 12:00 am
It’s getting a little old at this point, but as the Deep State log rolls for another U.S. attack on Iran, it is promoting a new Iranian national savior, one with a familiar name. Here’s a graphic seen on X, much like others showing up on social media, championing Reza Pahlavi as “the legitimate national […]
Trump Should Revive the JCPOA To Prevent War With Iran
11 February 2026 @ 12:00 am
When Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States, he famously declared that his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker.” However, US involvement in the Middle East has only grown with the President previously authorizing strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, officially entering the short-lived Twelve-Day War with […]
Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None
11 February 2026 @ 12:00 am
Consider me an A-bomb baby. I was just a year old when, in the war my father had been part of, my country dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastating those two cities and killing more than 200,000 people, including an estimated 38,000 children. Like so many kids of my generation, I would grow up ducking […]
Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States
10 February 2026 @ 12:00 am
History occasionally presents moments when the truth about a conflict is stated plainly enough that it becomes impossible to ignore. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s February 7 address in Doha, Qatar (transcript here) should prove to be such a moment. His important and constructive remarks responded to the US call for comprehensive negotiations, and he […]
What Is Genocide?
10 February 2026 @ 12:00 am
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Who the hell wants to talk about genocide and man’s inhumanity to man? I taught courses on the Holocaust, where I came across a two-volume encyclopedia of genocide (see list of references at the end). We humans have a remarkable record of killing each other (usually couched […]
Iran: A Bogus or Genuine Rebellion?
9 February 2026 @ 12:00 am
Angry demonstrations against Iran’s clerical government engulfed the capital, Tehran, and other cities in December and early January. Although the turmoil has receded since then, it appears that more than 6,800 people have perished in the violence as of February 3, 2026. The protests have been the largest in years, and the demonstrators appear to […]
On the Menu: How the Middle Powers Sacrificed Gaza To Save Themselves
9 February 2026 @ 12:00 am
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20. Bemoaning the “fading” of the rules-based order, Carney delivered a surprisingly blunt speech. “The old order is not coming back,” he declared. “We are in the […]
There’s More Than Iranian Protest Behind the Iran Protests
6 February 2026 @ 1:00 am
The protests that erupted in the streets of Iran at the end of December and beginning of January were the largest since the protests of 2009. They were ignited by an economic crisis and the collapse of the Iranian rial that led to a cost-of-living crisis. As the protests grew from demands for economic change […]
Trump’s $1.5 Trillion ‘Dream’ Military’
6 February 2026 @ 1:00 am
Reprinted from TomDispatch: What constitutes national security and how is it best achieved? Does massive military spending really make a country more secure, and what perils to democracy and liberty are posed by vast military establishments? Questions like those are rarely addressed in honest ways these days in America. Instead, the Trump administration favors preparations […]
Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Dystopia in Motion
5 February 2026 @ 1:00 am
While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss it as mere spectacle or farce, its criminal, inhumane, and hegemonic nature makes it far too dangerous to ignore. Last week, Trump and his new, thuggish boys’ club of heads of state publicly […]