IRAN- A U.S.-Israel split on hitting energy targets; Trump see-saws on pulling out or sending in ground forces, while calling NATO “cowards;” plus Gabbard and what the intel says. Watch the replay.
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Category: Commentary
DAYS 19 & 20: WAR ON IRAN –Why Would Israel Care?
U.S. and Israel publicly disagree on attacking Iran’s energy infrastructure. Why wouldn’t Israel want the Gulf’s oil and gas to go up in flames?
Manufacturing a Lebanese Civil War
After failing to destroy Hezbollah, Tel Aviv is eager to use the current pro-U.S. government in Beirut to fight the larger, better-armed, popular resistance group, writes Robert Inlakesh.
WATCH: Fighting America’s War
The Australian PM says a surveillance plane sent to the Gulf is purely defensive but the plane is part of U.S. combat operations. Sen. David Shoebridge and Peter Cronau join CNLive!
Will Trump Break the Nuclear Taboo?
In addition to the widening of the war on Iran to the whole Middle East and beyond, this conflict risks deliberate use of nuclear weapons, write Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes.
A Crack in US War Machine & a Slap in Trump’s Face
The moral and strategic contradictions of this war are so visible that even loyalists such as Joe Kent are beginning to break, writes Ramzy Baroud.
DAYS 17-18: WAR ON IRAN
Another Israeli assassination but war goes on in what is becoming Netanyahu’s “Vietnam;” plus Iran’s numbers on U.S. killed.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pedro Sánchez’s ‘No a la Guerra’
Spain’s leader, with his government and his people, is signaling that the time has come to challenge the trans–Atlantic status quo and ultimately the world order altogether.
Liberal Media Immorality on Iran War
The criminality of the war was clear from the start and made more blatant when U.S.-Israeli strikes hit civilian areas in Minab, killing hundreds of civilians, mostly children and women, writes Ramzy Baroud.
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.