Seven people including Iranian diplomats and an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps senior commander were killed in Israel’s airstrike Monday on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
‘A Declaration of War’ Against Iran
Tag: Dave DeCamp
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Dialectic of the Draft
Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their public selves to sleep.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Weapons to Attack Crimea
The West’s pattern of continually escalating nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine has built-in incentives for Russia to ramp up its own aggressions directly against NATO.
Caitlin Johnstone: The West’s Long Plan to Crush China
You can see the twinkle of this looming conflict in the eyes of Western imperialists as far back as a 1902 interview with Winston Churchill that was published a year after the U.K. leader’s death.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Historic Urgency for an Anti-War Movement
The sparks are flying around flash points that could ignite nuclear war, in Crimea and elsewhere. We need to start organizing against those who would steer our species into extinction.
Caitlin Johnstone: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine
Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
Caitlin Johnstone: Incentivizing Russia To Hit NATO
The message to Moscow at this point — with de-escalation and detente entirely missing from public discourse — is that they’re going to get squeezed harder and harder until they attack NATO itself.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Constantly Provoking China
The way the U.S. has been positioning its war machinery around China would have sparked a third world war had the roles been reversed. Nonetheless, talk inside the U.S. empire is all about Chinese “aggression.”
Caitlin Johnstone: NATO Chief’s ‘Fear of War With Russia’
Meanwhile, the Pentagon gives its Ukraine proxy the go-ahead to launch long-range attacks on targets inside its neighboring nuclear superpower. Not too long ago this was unthinkably terrifying. This is where we are now.
Caitlin Johnstone: Blame the Managers of Empire
If there is a hot war between the U.S. and a major power, it will be the result of the U.S. choosing escalation over de-escalation, brinkmanship over detente — not just once but over and over again.