Scott Ritter on The World This Week discusses Donald Trump’s escalating Stone Age War, Emmanuel Macron telling Trump to shut up and F15 Down. Watch the replay.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Back to the Stone Age’
Category: U.N. Security Council
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.
‘It Was More Fun’ to Kill Than Capture Iranians
The U.S. president said a military official told him it was “more fun” to kill rather than capture more than 100 Iranian sailors in the Indian Ocean who had just finished a training session. U.S. forces made no rescue effort.
Other Avenues to Try, to Stop the War on Iran
A “Uniting for Peace” resolution in the U.N. General Assembly can counter the Security Council’s failure to act, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Melania Trump’s Hypocrisy at the UN
As the U.S. and Israel kill Middle East children, including 165 schoolgirls in Iran, a U.N. diplomat said the first lady running a meeting on children in conflict was a high point of hypocrisy in U.N. history.
Jeffrey Sachs: Attack on Iran Also an Assault on UN
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.
Trump Made No Case for War on Iran
The case for each U.S. war in the Middle East over the past 35 years has had progressively weaker rationale and international support. The aggression against Iran launched Saturday has almost none of either, writes Joe Lauria.