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It’s One Damned Crisis After Another
Caitlin Johnstone: Netanyahu Calls Israeli Soldiers’ Admission of War Crimes a ‘Blood Libel’
The soldiers told Haaretz newspaper they were ordered to kill unarmed Gazans who were seeking food.
Books, Commentary, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine, South Africa, United Nations, War Crimes
Chris Hedges Report: Francesca Albanese on an Economy of Genocide
In her forthcoming report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese will detail how Palestine has been exploited by global capitalism and explain the role certain corporations have played in the genocide.
The Strategic Fallout of the Israel-Iran War
Amid all the military calculations and geopolitical theater, Ramzy Baroud says one truth stands out. When it mattered most, the Iranian people stood united.
Vijay Prashad: Beyond ‘Green Capitalism’
The term “Anthropocene” implies that humans — as an undifferentiated whole — have created the ecological crisis. This downplays the role of the capitalist system and its class and national divides.
Commentary, Europe, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Militarism, NATO, Russia, Trump Administration, U.S., Ukraine
NATO’s Obscene 5 Percent Pledge
Medea Benjamin responds to leaders of the Atlantic alliance setting a military-spending target for themselves so staggering it exceeds that of the U.S.
Analysis, Australia, Commentary, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Legal, Middle East, Politics, Press Freedom, U.S.
Three Blows Against Zionism in a Single Day
A court ruling in Australia, an election result in New York and a military setback for Israel, all coming on Tuesday this week, signaled a serious turn of events for Zionism and its supporters, writes Joe Lauria.
Commentary, Constitution, Legal, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
A Police State Coming to a Town Near You
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety.
NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Puts Gaza in Focus
Zohran Mamdani’s Zionist antagonists tried to turn his Muslim identity and pro-Palestine politics into a liability, writes Corinna Barnard. So far, it hasn’t worked.
Jonathan Cook: The BBC’s Complicity in Genocide
Armed with a report on the state broadcaster’s pro-Israel coverage of Gaza, journalist Peter Oborne in a parliamentary meeting last week eviscerated the BBC over its shameful reporting.
Commentary, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Militarism, Palestine, Trump Administration, U.S.
The US-Israeli Compulsion for War
Democracy has nothing to do with the chokehold that the warfare state has on the American body politic, writes Norman Solomon.
UK Labour’s Defence Review Doomed to Fail
Keir Starmer’s defence plan avoids two fundamental issues, writes Paul Rogers: Britain’s actual recent experience of wars and the real game-changer, global climate breakdown.
Defeat for Israel Lobby in Australia
Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was awarded AU$70,000 and possibly more in damages after the public broadcaster wrongly dismissed her under Zionist lobby pressure for sharing a social media post critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, reports Joe Lauria.
American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, History, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons, WMD
Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu
We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists.
American Empire, Analysis, Britain, China, Commentary, France, Germany, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Russia, Trump Administration, U.N. Security Council, Ukraine, United Nations
Why Limit Iranian Enrichment Peacefully When You Can Bomb Them Instead?
A deal was limiting Iran’s enrichment of uranium until Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of it. Instead the Dealmaker bombed Iran, threatening to set the region on fire, writes Joe Lauria. With a ceasefire what does he do now?
Craig Murray: You Can’t Bomb Iran Into Zionism
The U.S. not only has zero interest in peace, it is engaging in morally abhorrent levels of dishonesty and deception, attacking under a false flag of truce.
Atomic Agency Gave Diplomatic Cover to War on Iran
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies call for IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s resignation for letting the agency be used by Israel and the U.S. to manufacture a pretext for attacking Iran.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores.
Britain, China, France, International, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Russia, U.N. Security Council, United Nations
WATCH: US Attack on Iran Condemned at UN Security Council
The U.N. secretary-general, China, Russia, Pakistan and other nations condemned the U.S. bombings of three Iranian nuclear sites, with Russia calling it “irresponsible, dangerous and provocative.”
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘US Bombs Iran. What Next?’
Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter joined CN Live! on Sunday morning to discuss the U.S. bombing of Iran, its impact and what might follow.