Tag: IRAN

Pravin Sawhney: India Is No Longer Useful For America Geopolitically, Strategically & Militarily (June 18, 2026)

Pravin Sawhney on the collapse of Indian diplomacy NB: Many of us still don’t understand that this is an RSS government (the Sangh has many faces); and that it has no politics except (1) the rectification of history (i.e. defeating the Mughal Empire three centuries after its demise); and (2) grabbing control of public funds… Read More Pravin Sawhney: India Is No Longer Useful For America Geopolitically, Strategically & Militarily (June 18, 2026)

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Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction

As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire Simon Tisdall Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is pummelling the… Read More Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction

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Rogue host

Iran is the only team that can’t rest and recuperate after a match because Trump’s minions insist that they fly out of the US within hours of the full-time whistle Mukul Kesavan The correct way of following this World Cup is to first recognise that its principal host, the United States of America, is a… Read More Rogue host

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Trump in Defeat

The president went to war triumphant and will likely leave greatly weakened. By Jonathan Lemire President Trump lost. The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a cease-fire agreement later this week. The United States is left weaker—diminished militarily, strategically, economically, and perhaps morally. The war, which… Read More Trump in Defeat

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Migration, War, and the Dirty Work of Empire

Siyavash Shahabi Europe’s migration policy produces deniability through distance. A document leaked to Statewatch this month confirms what many have warned about for years. The European Union’s naval mission, Operation Irini, has signed a technical agreement to train and equip coastal forces in eastern Libya. The mission is also to establish a migration coordination centre… Read More Migration, War, and the Dirty Work of Empire

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Fury in India as its sailors become collateral damage in Trump’s war with Iran / 3 भारतीयों की हत्या! मोदी कर रहे धन्यवाद.. ट्रम्प के पास कौनसा सीक्रेट?

The deaths of three Indian seafarers in a US strike on a commercial oil tanker has prompted public fury in India, and added new friction to an already strained phase between New Delhi and Washington. On Wednesday morning, the M/T Settebello was transiting the Sea of Oman, laden with Iranian oil, when a US aircraft… Read More Fury in India as its sailors become collateral damage in Trump’s war with Iran / 3 भारतीयों की हत्या! मोदी कर रहे धन्यवाद.. ट्रम्प के पास कौनसा सीक्रेट?

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Hope Against Hope

Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive Sahar Delijani Source: EQUATOR A protest in Tehran against mandatory veiling, 1979 / Courtesy Hengameh Golestan and Archaeology of the Final Decade 1. A few hours after I was born, my mother and I were taken back to prison. It was September 1983, four… Read More Hope Against Hope

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Public health at risk across Asia as price of gas for cooking soars

Families turn to dirty fuels such as firewood, bringing fears over air pollution and fragility of energy transition…“When prices rise, it’s the poorest who are forced to switch back to biomass,” said Harjeet Singh, the director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation. “Biomass burning is a major source of fine particulate pollution. In dense urban areas,… Read More Public health at risk across Asia as price of gas for cooking soars

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