By Michael Hudson / Geopolitical Economy Report Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and… Read More Michael Hudson: War on Iran Is Fight for US Unipolar Control of World
Among the dozens killed are 13 aid seekers, as NGO warns Israel is also deliberately blocking energy access. At least 43 people have been killed in various Israeli attacks since dawn as the military relentlessly pounds the besieged enclave, medical sources say, with the overall Palestinian death toll in the war surpassing a staggering 56,000.… Read More Israel kills at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid seekers
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files. He suddenly stopped. “It was devastation,” he said finally. “I can’t go back there. I don’t dwell… Read More ‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
NB: 626 days of slaughtering Palestinians with tanks and aircraft: 187,519 killed (including 17,492 dead children). Ten days of fighting with a real army, we have a cease fire. IDF: the most moral army in the world. DS If Iran actually closes the Strait of Hormuz, the global economy doesn’t wobble—it crashes headfirst into the… Read More Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
NB: Except that it neither was, nor is a mistake, Owen; its deliberate deception. DS Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality Owen Jones As the G7 issues a statement declaring that Israel has a “right to defend itself”, you have a… Read More The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran
The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself Mohamad Bazzi In May 2003, George W Bush landed on the deck of a US aircraft carrier to deliver a triumphant speech, declaring that major combat operations in Iraq had ended – six weeks after he had ordered US troops to invade the country.… Read More Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie
Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the ‘birth pangs’ of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force – and they will not end in Iran Jonathan Cook (19 June 2025) Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of… Read More The violent new world being born is going to horrify you
In the Long Run, the Means to Nonproliferation Ends Matters Statement by Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy, and Thomas Countryman, Chair of the Board, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation and International Security, June 21, 2025 President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel’s illegal attacks against… Read More Trump Decision to Strike Iran Sets U.S. Up for Wider War, and Undermines Nonproliferation Regime / Iran says US has begun a dangerous war
The reports on Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction decided that the US invasion of Iraq could start. Today, we know that these weapons were fiction, an image produced to justify the war. Discussing Hannah Arendt and the Viet Nam war, Cathy Caruth shows that this type of political imagery has a long tradition in the… Read More Lying and history: Hannah Arendt and the Viet Nam war (2009)
During Operation Sindoor, the Indian media did not merely broadcast propaganda – it deliberately subverted the truth. Nissim Mannathukkaren The India-Pakistan conflict in May left a deep chasm in the subcontinent. It also revealed a breakdown on both sides of the border on what constitutes fact and the truth. This reflects an unprecedented polarisation of… Read More From Mumbai 26/11 to Pahalgam, India has entered the post-truth era
After the truth-shower 