Before the ceasefire, as Trump escalated threats and oil chokepoints tightened, Trita Parsi warned that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was entering its most dangerous phase yet.
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.
Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him.
The events of the last few years: Gaza, the Epstein files and more, have revealed that the new order of things is the open predation of the powerful on the rest of us.
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?