Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a former political prisoner from Iran, explains that Western decision-makers miscalculate when they bet on Iran’s cultural relationship with rebellion.
Hedges Report: Ignoring Iran’s Revolutionary Zeal
Category: Cold War
Under Blockade & the Threat of Invasion
A short film about a breakthrough Cuban drug for treating Alzheimer’s shines light on the resilience of a nation striving to innovate under the constraints of the American blockade and threats of an invasion, writes Ullekh NP.
On Blackshirts & Reds: Remembering the Class Analysis of Michael Parenti
On Saturday, a memorial service will be held in Berkeley, Calif., for Michael Parenti, radical historian, social scientist, author and public speaker. Ann Garrison takes a look at one of his many invaluable works, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and…
Imperial Decline in the Strait of Hormuz
By exploring the geopolitical implications of Washington’s latest intervention in Iran, Alfred McCoy says it’s possible to imagine how Trump’s war of choice might well become Washington’s very own version of the Suez crisis.
Trump Made No Case for War on Iran
The case for each U.S. war in the Middle East over the past 35 years has had progressively weaker rationale and international support. The aggression against Iran launched Saturday has almost none of either, writes Joe Lauria.
Donald Trump’s Death Cards
Trump’s ICE agents have resurrected the Ace of Spades death cards inserted into the mouths of dead Vietnamese by U.S. troops in Vietnam more than 50 years ago, writes Nick Turse.
WATCH: The World This Week – Episode 4
Hiding Epstein’s ties to Israel; new nuclear danger as New START ends; Palestine Action acquitted in London, poised to protest Herzog in Sydney, The World This Week. Watch the replay.
Hedges Report: The Future of the ‘New World Order’
Donald Trump believes U.S. economic and military might are all he needs to achieve unilateral control over America’s allies, but he’s a “one-man wrecking crew.” John Mearsheimer speaks to Chris Hedges.
Scott Ritter: Getting it Wrong on Russia
Sy Hersh’s new article “Putin’s Long War,” is bad for peace. When a reporter becomes hostage to his sources, the results are little more than weaponized propaganda.
Jeffrey Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace
While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security.