The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it — but accepting defeat and repairing the damage of the error is simply beyond his reach.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: War Against Individual Conscience
The head spins — while the Zionist regime goes on a persecutorial rampage against Christians, its imperial sponsor enables it at every turn in the name of Christian righteousness.
Will Trump Break the Nuclear Taboo?
In addition to the widening of the war on Iran to the whole Middle East and beyond, this conflict risks deliberate use of nuclear weapons, write Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes.
Craig Murray: Joy at Death & Destruction
After the genocide in Gaza, and now on a far larger field in Iran, those in power in Israel and the U.S. have a lust to kill and revel in impunity. There’s an urgent need for regime change – in…
Max Blumenthal: How FBI & Israel Got Trump to Attack
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.
‘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.
Jonathan Cook: Israel’s Death Cult Grips the US
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.
Hegseth Brags of Mass Killings
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.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Serial Buffoon at the Pentagon
Trump elevated outsiders without necessary experience to his cabinet to avoid the deep state subversion that was rampant during his first term. The “blob” responded by making some of them irrelevant.
War With China Lurks Beneath US-Australia Talks
Nuclear-powered submarines and critical-mineral investments under AUKUS tie Australia ever closer to U.S. conflict with China, writes Julia Norman.