How America’s Addiction to War led to Self-Harm
Hugh J. Curran In a recent interview on CBC, Timothy Snyder, an historian at the University of Toronto, noted that the U.S. is in “a catastrophic self-destructive mode”. The war…
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.…
Putin to Iran: You Are Fighting Courageously for Independence and Sovereignty
Juan Cole for Informed Comment Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg for 90 minutes as part of his attempt to…
Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected
These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025. Caitlin Johnstone…
Surging Gas Prices & Oil Wars of US-Israel, Iran, Kuwait
Juan Cole Informed Comment On Saturday morning the US and/ or Israel attacked the Khuzestan Petrochemical Special Economic Zone at Mahshahr and several other petrochemical sites around Ahvaz, a city…
A View From Tehran: War Caused A New Kind Of Stability
Peiman Salehi Informed Comment In Tehran, the expected signs of wartime breakdown are largely absent. The conventional logic of war tends to follow a simple assumption: sustained external pressure leads…
The Consequences of the U.S.-Israel Attack on Iran
Hugh J. Curran for Informed Comment Is there a long-term strategic goal to be achieved in the incessant bombing of Iranian cities by Israel?. In the 24 plus days of…
Tehran Residents’ Social Media Offer Nightmarish Glimpse of Humanitarian Crisis
Kourosh Ziabari for Truthout Residents of Iran’s sprawling capital, Tehran, woke up earlier this month to scenes that they could probably imagine only in horror films. Clouds of smoke had…
He Treated Bomb Victims in Boston. His Home in Beirut Was Destroyed by US
Joshua Scheer Wanted to share this for those who may not be on social media, because some words deserve to travel farther than algorithms allow. We are told we live…
Children of War
Fariba Amini for Informed Comment “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” — Ernest Hemingway…
Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg Would Crash the World Economy
Juan Cole for Informed Comment President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to destroy Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island if Tehran continued to obstruct shipping through the Strait of…
DAY 14: WAR ON IRAN
U.S. bombs Kharg Island military targets and announces deployment of 2,500 Marines to the region as the war completes two weeks of destruction. Joe Lauria for Consortium News Attack on…
“Iran Will Decide When this Ends:” Juan Cole on Sam Seder’s “Majority Report”
Juan Cole for Informed Comment On Tuesday I was a guest on Sam Seder’s “Majority Report.” Sam and I have been having conversations about world affairs for a couple of…