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.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Diplomacy’s Last Breath
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Vijay Prashad: Hormuz — Gate to the Great Sea
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a choke point for the world economy, with the gravest consequences falling not on the powerful but on the poorer nations of the Global South.
Hedges Report: On the Brink of Apocalyptic
Before the ceasefire, as Trump escalated threats and oil chokepoints tightened, Trita Parsi warned that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was entering its most dangerous phase yet.
DAYS 38-39: WAR ON IRAN — Trump Threatens Iran Genocide
The world is on the brink of disaster if Donald Trump follows through on his crazed threat to destroy the region’s economic base and commit possible genocide against Iran, writes Joe Lauria.
Jeffrey Sachs: Two Madmen Play God
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Back to the Stone Age’
Scott Ritter on The World This Week discusses Donald Trump’s escalating Stone Age War, Emmanuel Macron telling Trump to shut up and F15 Down. Watch the replay.
Vijay Prashad: US Aggression Across the World
In its latest statement, No Cold War takes stock of the long history of U.S. aggression across the world and the need to reject a future of wars without end.
Dennis Kucinich: How to Stop the War
The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off funds, a war will end.
DAYS 30-32: WAR ON IRAN — An Insulting War of Insults
UPDATED: Iran is making Trump go mad. How will world leaders and his people deal with him? This is the most urgent question. Only a worldwide depression and possible nuclear war are on the line, writes Joe Lauria.
What the War on Iran Means for Palestine
The war is part of a broader struggle in which the question of Palestine is being shaped, contested and potentially resolved, argues Ramzy Baroud.