We’ve seen this before: The lies circulating about Iran are just a much dumber, much more obvious version of those that U.S. officials used to push for the invasion of Iraq.
Caitlin Johnstone: Rebooting Iraq-War Lies for Iran
Category: Iraq
Craig Murray: The UK’s Genocide Spectre
Last week at the U.N. General Assembly, before Israel attacked Iran, the U.K. ambassador’s written explanation of her vote on a Gaza ceasefire suggested Starmer and Lammy are terrified.
Jeffrey Sachs: Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed
We could soon see several nuclear powers pitted against each other and dragging the world closer to nuclear annihilation.
Patrick Lawrence: World’s Most Dangerous Man & His Enabler
Netanyahu has craved this war with Iran for decades, always justifying his psychotic lust by way of endless lies and an apparently bottomless paranoia.
Regretting Western Intervention in the Middle East
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates.
Ex-Elite UK Troops Recount War Crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan
Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Where is the ‘Arab Street?’
During the ongoing wars of Israeli expansionism in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon, the absence of large, sustainable protests in numerous Arab capitals is notable.
WATCH: US Calls for Release of Australian Hostage in Iraq
The U.S. hostage envoy calls for the release an Australian engineer held hostage by Iraq’s Central Bank to get out of a debt to the hostage’s company. CN Live! talks to his wife & an Australian senator about the case.
WATCH: A Time of Growing Repression
CN Editor Joe Lauria addressed a meeting held on the eve of an appeal hearing for Australian whistleblower David McBride, highlighting the growing repression in contrast to 50 years ago.
Max Blumenthal: Jeffrey Goldberg’s ‘War Chat’
Summoned to move the neocon message on Trump’s illegal war on Yemen, the Atlantic Magazine editor in chief wound up with more access than he could handle.