“Israel First”: Hezbollah Leader Says Trump Turned America Into a Joke
Joshua Scheer As Washington and Tel Aviv escalate pressure on Lebanon, a senior Hezbollah official is warning that the next phase of the conflict may not be fought only with…
OPCW Admits It Suppressed Key Dissenter In Douma Chemical Cover-Up
Brendan Whelan The Grayzone In its defeat at an international tribunal, the OPCW has acknowledged that it shunned an inspector who challenged the Douma chemical cover-up. OPCW whistleblower Dr. Brendan…
Israel is a Democracy . . . a Profoundly Racist Democracy
Yakov M. Rabkin Informed Comment Israel is a democracy. This makes it difficult to hide the inconvenient fact that it is profoundly racist. The recent episode involving Minister Ben-Gvir taunting…
‘Buffer Zone’ Is Media’s Euphemism for Israeli Occupation
Gregory Shupak for FAIR Since October 2023, Israel has occupied vast stretches of territory in Gaza, Syria and, most recently, Lebanon. Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct…
The Children Who Learn War Before They Learn The World
Noorudeen Veetykadan for Global Vocies It was the end of 2023 when images from Gaza began to fill our television screens. I found myself returning to them again and again:…
From “Mission Accomplished” to Missile Shortages: The Iran War Narrative Unravels
Joshua Scheer Ben Norton dismantles the triumphalist rhetoric surrounding the U.S. war on Iran in this blistering breakdown of a conflict that appears far more costly — and far less…
How Iran Defeated Israel
Kit Klarenberg Substack A stunning investigative report by Hebrew-language outlet Ynet has laid bare the embarrassing cataclysm not only of the US-Israeli war on Iran, but the Zionist entity’s effort…
Netanyahu’s Hezbollah War Masks a Mission of Destruction
Robin Andersen Informed Comment As Israel destroys villages in Southern Lebanon committing crimes of war, US media use the same Gaza genocide playbook. Hezbollah is simply being substituted for Hamas.…
“‘I’m Ashamed to Be a Jew Here’: Ex-Tamir Pardo Warns Israel Is ‘Planting the Next October 7’”
The former head of Mossad, once central to Israel’s security doctrine, now argues the country’s greatest threat lies not abroad—but in the unchecked violence and policies unfolding at home. Joshua…
Genocide—and Complicity: Washington Insider Says the Word They Avoid
Joshua Scheer Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has delivered a rare rupture in official Washington’s script: accusing Israel of carrying out a genocide in Gaza—and acknowledging that…
The Cards They Cannot Play: Iran, America And The Trap Of Unusable Leverage
Dr Mojtaba Touiserkani Middle East Monitor The strangest feature of the Iran war is not that both sides have leverage. It is that neither side can fully use the leverage…
A Quicksand Feeling: How Iraq Has Been Roiled By The Israel-US War on Iran
Alex Poppe for Informed Comment I taught at an international school in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq from 2011 to 2013. I returned to the Kurdish region to teach at a university…
“Massive Destruction, Defiant Return”: Lebanon After Israel’s Failed Assault
The bombs may have paused—but the truth is still detonating. In this explosive episode of The Chris Hedges Report, journalist Laith Marouf delivers a firsthand account from southern Lebanon—where entire…
Iran Says It Won’t Negotiate With ‘Erratic’ Trump After Genocidal Threat to ‘Blow Up’ Whole Country
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Iran says it has no plans to negotiate with the US after President Donald Trump said Sunday that “the whole country is going to get…
Collapsing Empire: Hezbollah Crushes ‘Greater Israel’
Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 8th, the Zionist entity struck a demonic blow to the heart of Beirut, dropping 1,000 pound bombs in densely packed residential areas, killing untold civilians…