Mark Curtis reports that Israel’s nuclear arms were seen by British officials as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from the 1990s show.
The events of the last few years: Gaza, the Epstein files and more, have revealed that the new order of things is the open predation of the powerful on the rest of us.
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.
The world deserves better than this choreography of half-truths and strategic silences. It deserves leaders who act with integrity, not calculation, writes Annette Morgan.
There are no nuclear weapons in Iran. To go to war on that pretext is for Trump to follow the example of George W. Bush and his “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. Where were those weapons? In his imagination.
If the U.S. gets into the business of congressional ratification of presidentially initiated wars, it will continue the slow and inexorable normalization of presidential force, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. That’s not what the Constitution requires.
A “Uniting for Peace” resolution in the U.N. General Assembly can counter the Security Council’s failure to act, writes Marjorie Cohn.
As the U.S. and Israel kill Middle East children, including 165 schoolgirls in Iran, a U.N. diplomat said the first lady running a meeting on children in conflict was a high point of hypocrisy in U.N. history.
One noncommissioned officer told the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was “anointed by Jesus” and that war with Iran was “all part of God’s divine plan” to bring about Armageddon.
What long-term lessons China, Russia and the Global South are learning from the abandonment by the entire West of the principles of international law, we shall see in the decades to come.