Ann Wright reports on the 2026 RIMPAC exercise and the participation of a submarine that targeted an Iranian vessel off the coast of Sri Lanka in March.
US Navy’s ‘Killer’ Submarine Joins RIMPAC 2026
Category: Middle East
ROBERT PARRY: Netanyahu Unmasks Israel
The founder of Consortium News in 2015 foresaw Benjamin Netanyahu, despite leveling false charges of antisemitism, turning Americans against Israel by going too far with the Palestinians and Iran.
Caitlin Johnstone: The US Starts Wars on the Other Side of the Planet & Then Claims ‘Self-Defense’
No other military power is segmented into areas of responsibility spanning every continent on earth. This is because normal military forces defend their own territory, whereas the U.S. military is used to dominate the entire planet.
War Crimes Allegations Against SAS Dismissed in a Day
Newly released files raise further questions about how senior British Special Air Service officers handled allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan.
Hedges Report: Ignoring Iran’s Revolutionary Zeal
Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a former political prisoner from Iran, explains that Western decision-makers miscalculate when they bet on Iran’s cultural relationship with rebellion.
Flotillas Tell Gaza They Haven’t Been Abandoned
With another break-the-siege flotilla en route (and now abducted), Eman Abu Zayed, a writer in Gaza, says that hope — despite its weight — keeps finding its way across the sea again and again.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘War on Hold’
Former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern and ex-U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter join The World This Week to discuss the latest developments in the Iran war as Donald Trump cancels his realtors’ return to Islamabad. 8 pm EDT, Saturday.
WATCH: Inside Iran
Dimitri Lascaris spent 11 days in Iran last month and was the first Westerner to show there was no military base near the school the U.S. struck, killing 168 schoolchildren. Here are four of his films from Iran.
DAYS 49-51: Talks to Begin After US Seizes Iranian Ship
UPDATED NOW: With chaos growing, Donald Trump sent his real estate agents to Islamabad in an effort at renewed peace talks. He says if there’s no deal this week he’ll start destroying Iran’s civilian targets, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘An Uncertain War’
Shaky truces are in place in Lebanon and Iran as the belligerents plot their next moves. Can an uncertain war become a certain peace? Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter this week on The World This Week. Watch the replay.