The American Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced that American and Israeli warplanes would soon gain total control of Iranian airspace allowing them to deliver “death and destruction from the ...

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Majd Asadi at a protest in Umm al-Fahm, 2025. In his post, Asadi had dared to say that it was a good thing that under Khamanei, Iran hadn’t surrendered to Western imperialists. He also added that the ...

Bilateral negotiations are rarely simple, as the late-February negotiations between Iranians and Americans have recently shown. As an American-Swiss citizen, I can recount a story of successful ...

In February 2026, the intellectual left was hit with a curious form of damage control. Valeria Chomsky issued a public apology for what she called a “grave mistake” on behalf of her husband, the ...

It’s sad news indeed to hear of the loss of Country Joe MacDonald!!! Oi oi!! The Fugs were lucky to have performed with Country Joe and the Fish the very night in November of 1965 when they had their ...

Iran and Donald Trump have each explained why failure to fight the current war to the end would simply lead to a new set of mutual attacks. Trump announced on March 6 that “There will be no deal with ...

Hektoria Glacier (Antarctica) retreated 8 kilometers (5 miles) in only two months; one-half of the structure collapsing in record time. This is the fastest glacier collapse ever, and the message to ...

If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has just taken place. The US government is ...

I admit I am confused. Trump, not the US Congress, declared war on Iran to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon by using its civilian nuclear reactor program to make a bomb. Nuclear weapons are bad ...

Last June 2025 Trump bombed Iran. He said to eliminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons development. He then proclaimed he had achieved that goal. So what ...

When the Israeli lobbying group UN Watch spread disinformation about Francesca Albanese, they were trying to silence her condemnations of the true “common enemy of humanity”—the illegal system of ...