The F.B.I. manufactured plots to convince Donald Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest fears to keep him on the path to war.
The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. In the age of Big Tech’s rising power, can anything stop it?
William Hartung and Janet Abou-Elias describe how a clique of unhinged techno-optimists is putting humanity at risk.
So far, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.
Scott Ritters discusses U.S. military losses across the Middle East in its aggression against Iran and how Washington is coping with it. Does the U.S. have a future in the region? Watch the replay.
In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the U.S. will drag the world next.
There are no nuclear weapons in Iran. To go to war on that pretext is for Trump to follow the example of George W. Bush and his “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. Where were those weapons? In his imagination.
With more than 1,000 civilian deaths in Iran, the U.S. secretary of war said the U.S. has loosened the rules of military engagement. “We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be,” he said.
The U.S. objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the U.N. and the international rule of law — an attempt that will fail.
