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.
DAYS 41-44: Trump Overruled on Hormuz Blockade
Category: Colonialism
Jonathan Cook: Blaming the Left for Genocide
Britain’s former Prime Minister shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of Western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale.
Chris Hedges: The New World Order
Gaza is just the beginning, the author said in a recent speech at Princeton in which he offered a sweeping indictment of a global order collapsing into what he calls “technologically advanced barbarism.”
WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Escalating Madness’
Antiwar.com‘s Scott Horton joins CN Live! to provide insight into the deepening madness of Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s reckless war on Iran. Watch the replay.
Vijay Prashad: Senegal on the Edge of Collapse
Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.
‘This Is Our Land,’ Says the Israeli Settler
Israel has killed at least 26 Palestinians in the West Bank since the beginning of the year, of whom at least eight were murdered by settlers.
WATCH: The World This Week w/John Kiriakou
War rages as destruction spreads in Iran, Israel and on U.S. bases, while Gulf Arabs reconsider U.S. ties and the U.S. considers a ground invasion. Ex-C.I.A. officer John Kiriakou gives his insight. Watch the reply.
WATCH: The World This Week w/Ray McGovern
IRAN – A week that changed the world, perhaps forever. Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence discuss it on The World This Week. Watch the replay.
DAY 8: ATTACK ON IRAN
A declassified assessment says major U.S. war “unlikely” to topple government; Trump ludicrously says Iran has “surrendered” after Iranian president apologizes to Gulf states; and Trump makes sadistic threat to “groups of people” in Iran.
WATCH: CN LIVE! — ‘US in Denial’ w/ Scott Ritter
Scott Ritters discusses U.S. military losses across the Middle East in its aggression against Iran and how Washington is coping with it. Does the U.S. have a future in the region? Watch the replay.