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When Killing Becomes Commonplace
14 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Last week, when the Pentagon resumed its attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the media barely noticed. The U.S. military has now destroyed 56 vessels […]
Why Is It So Difficult for Iran To Reach an Agreement With the United States?
13 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
The collapse of the Islamabad negotiations between Iran and United States signified an unbridgeable rift, not only between the negotiating parties, but also between two worldviews on resolving conflicts. The last two rounds of negotiations in May and June 2025 and February 2026 had already demonstrated the Trump administration’s propensity to use stick, instead of […]
Payback: Russia Uses Iran as a Proxy Against the United States
13 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Washington and Moscow both enthusiastically celebrated the victory of the Allied “Grand Alliance” over the fascist powers at the end of World War II. Since then, however, the two capitals have typically been on opposite sides of numerous nasty geostrategic struggles around the world. They also have relished opportunities to work with foreign countries and […]
Why J Street Does Not Go Far Enough
13 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
An illegal auction of stolen Palestinian land at an elite Upper East Side synagogue, and the swift condemnations from groups like J Street launched against New Yorkers who attempted to protest it, reveal the Zionist rot at the heart of the American Jewish elite establishment that is bastardizing and corrupting the religion from within, and […]
Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?
12 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the […]
A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Is a Gift to the Grifters
12 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.” “Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved […]
Iran Has Nuclear Energy, Not Nuclear Weapons
11 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Last week, on May 5, 2026, President Trump told a group of young children in the Oval Office that “we have to make a journey down to Iran to take the nuclear weapon. They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks.” Trump also told the children, “Iran with a nuclear weapon…maybe we wouldn’t all […]
Two Weeks to an Iranian Nuke – The Ultimate False Flag Lie
8 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
The now endlessly repeated notion that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium (HEU) is tantamount to having a nuclear weapon within weeks is downright malefic. Indeed, this gross deception is so thoroughly fallacious and dangerously misleading that it needs be debunked lock, stock and barrel. So we begin with the War Party’s hoary claim that […]
US Continues To Blow Up Small Boats
8 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
A US military strike on May 4 killed two mariners in an alleged “narco boat” campaign which now has a cumulative death toll of at least 188. The pace of extrajudicial executions is ramping up, according to The Guardian. But why? The serial murders could be, as the Trump administration claims, a genuine counter-narcotics operation. […]
Subjects of Empire: Breaking the Cycle of Arab Dependency on US Elections
8 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote, in particular, is being framed as a pivotal turning point for everything from the survival of Gaza and Lebanon to the future of Iran and beyond. To a large extent, one can understand […]