Shaky truces are in place in Lebanon and Iran as the belligerents plot their next moves. Can an uncertain war become a certain peace? Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter this week on The World This Week. Watch the replay.
In Iran and Ukraine, what is at stake — what is fought for and against — is a rebalancing of power that will prove of world-historical magnitude when it is at last accomplished.
After a Lebanon truce was declared, Iran said Friday the Strait of Hormuz is “completely open.” Trump said Iran peace talks could resume. None of the U.S. and Israeli war aims have been achieved, writes Joe Lauria.
Kuwait has arrested a fearless Palestinian-American reporter for doing his job and is threatening to imprison him under a set of new and harsh national security laws.
The illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is exposing the Oil-Dollar-Wall Street complex that binds oil, financial markets, and dollar power, with consequences that reach far beyond the region.
A broad overview of U.S. military action in Venezuela, Iran, and Russia reveals a U.S. plan to disable its competitors and corner the oil market, says a new film by Richard Medhurst, who joins CN Live! Watch the replay.
Congress defied the plain meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it said data gathered by warrantless surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could be used by the F.B.I. for prosecution purposes, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
The carefully planned destruction of Iran’s healthcare infrastructure fits into a long history of deliberate U.S. attacks on hospitals, writes Alan Macleod.
Former British diplomat and intelligence officer Alastair Crooke speaks to CN Live! about war in the Middle East and the ways Western publics are deceived about it. Watch the replay.
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Americans spent about 50 days working and paying taxes last year just to feed the war machine — with 23 days going to pay Pentagon contractors and their millionaire CEOs, Lindsay Koshgarian and Hanna Homestead report.
Belgian authorities have refused to name the arms firms that exported the goods amid the opening of a criminal investigation into the matter, John McEvoy reports.
While evacuating more sections of Gaza and ethnically cleaning more towns in the West Bank, Israel has been striking Lebanon. It dubbed its merciless assault on April 8 “Eternal Darkness,” suggesting the kind of barbarity involved.
Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the “strategic direction” of academic departments in the U.K., reports Martin Williams.
The fact that our government and institutional media downplay accurate casualty figures only makes it more urgent to find them, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies.
Mark Curtis reveals that Britain’s Ministry of Defence prepared for war with Russia after expanding NATO – 26 years before Moscow invaded Ukraine.
While Modi’s supporters argue the U.S.-Israel war on Iran was never India’s war, Betwa Sharma says the government has undercut its effort to project India as a vishwaguru, or world teacher, in a new era of global influence.
The U.S. and Iran were close to a deal in Islamabad when the Americans shifted the goalposts and walked away, said Iran’s foreign minister.
UPDATE: Trump’s plan for a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has been dropped as the U.S. will instead only block ships departing Iranian ports, writes Joe Lauria.
Chris Hedges joins The World This Week to examine the prospects of a deal to end the war on Iran and to remake the Middle East. Tonight, Saturday 8 pm EDT.
Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted.