Donald Trump has broken every diplomatic rule in the book in his disastrous unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. Now he’s trying to suck in Europe and Australia. Watch the replay.
WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Diplomacy By Other Means’
Category: United Nations
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.
UK Saw Israel as ‘Chief Problem’ Curbing Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
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.
DAYS 17-18: WAR ON IRAN
Another Israeli assassination but war goes on in what is becoming Netanyahu’s “Vietnam;” plus Iran’s numbers on U.S. killed.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pedro Sánchez’s ‘No a la Guerra’
Spain’s leader, with his government and his people, is signaling that the time has come to challenge the trans–Atlantic status quo and ultimately the world order altogether.
Jeffrey Sachs: Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War
It’s a long shot but here are five steps to stop this war, which could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III, write Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The View From Tehran’
Sayed Mohammad Marandi speaks to CN Live! from the Iranian capital under fire from a barbaric U.S. and Israeli aggression rooted in profound ignorance of the country they seek to conquer. Watch the replay.
When the Security Council Cannot Utter the Truth
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.
DAYS 11-12: WAR ON IRAN
Trump has a choice: him or the world; wants way out of war; Security Council blames Iran; Iranian ‘sleeper cells;’ the Pope’s deep sorrow; U.S. bases damaged as reckoning begins; and ‘Nothing Will Remain of Tehran.’
WATCH: UN Security Council Blames Iran
Russia and China failed to veto a resolution that blatantly blamed the victim rather than the aggressor in the war against Iran. Joe Lauria reports.