Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill.
Jonathan Cook: Cheerleading Aggression Against Iran
Category: Iran
WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3
The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence.
Jeffrey Sachs: Engineering Iran’s Unrest
It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.
Hedges Report: Is the ‘New World Order’ Really New?
Yanis Varoufakis discusses how, as U.S. hegemony dwindles, Trump and his international allies use the sham “Board of Peace” to attempt to maintain some grip on world power.
The Changing Face of Regime Change
Regime change in current conditions requires maximum bloodshed, writes Daniel McAdams. It doesn’t matter whose blood; it can all be blamed on “the regime.”
Jeffrey Sachs: The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
Understanding hybrid war tactics helps to explain why Trump’s rhetoric oscillates between threats of war and phony offers of peace.
Caitlin Johnstone: Regime Change the US
Not its fake official elected government: its real government. The oligarchs and government agencies which actually run the thing.
Israel Fears It Can’t Defend Against Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump to urge him to hold off on bombing Iran because, reports say, Israel feels vulnerable to Iran’s counterattack, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: Premiere of ‘The World This Week’
CN Live! is launching a new series, The World This Week. WATCH THE REPLAY from Saturday’s first episode with guest Patrick Lawrence on Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland.
Caitlin Johnstone: Just Read Lindsey Graham’s Face
Lindsey Graham’s long face is encouraging. Maybe war with Iran really has been put off for the time being.