The failure of the Fairford “terror plot” and the FlyDubai “hijacking” show that the public’s willingness to believe official narratives has shrunk significantly.
Craig Murray: Fatuous False Flags
Category: United Arab Emirates
Hedges Report: ‘Biggest Strategic Blunder in US History’
With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win, says John Mearsheimer.
Israeli Mole Inside the UN
U.N. spokespeople are deflecting questions about a Drop Site News investigation of alleged spying by staffer Yahav Lichner in 2014 and 2015, Dulcie Leimbach and Damilola Banjo report.
Will Iran Be Another ‘Forever War?’
John Mearsheimer discusses with Chris Hedges the balance of power in the Middle East, U.S. military capacity and possible outcomes of the U.S.-Iran War.
Arabs Bought $2.9bn in Arms From Genocidal Israel
Instead of being boycotted, Israel, in the midst of genocide, sold more weapons to Arabs in 2025 than to the U.S. Europe was the biggest purchaser, per Israel’s MoD, and India bought more Israeli arms than any single nation.
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.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Internationalism Then & Now
The U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of Iran’s retaliatory strikes, along with the isolation of Cuba, show what U.S. assertion of raw power is doing to what remains of internationalist principles.
Red Lines & AI Warfare
It is yet to be seen if Australia’s policy on weaponising AI will enshrine the moral red line of delegating life and death decisions to machines, writes Matilda Byrne.
Is the US Board of Peace Aimed at Undermining the UN?
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is being designed as an alliance like the “coalition of the willing” that fraudulently tried to legitimize the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writes Thalif Deen.
Hedges Report: On Israel Exporting Occupation Technology
Antony Loewenstein discusses the ease with which Israel has used Gaza to experiment with tools of war and surveillance as a means of control as well as profit thanks to their grave human rights abuses.