The General Staff of Armed Forces’ statement on Friday described the assassination as a “terrorist attack ” carried out by the “criminal American regime”. “The brave commander, Major General Qassem Soleimani, played a key and unique role in fighting terrorist Takfiri groups which were set up by the criminal American government,” it read.
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January 2020
The External Costs of Human Activity Are Killing the Planet
9 minutes readPAUL CRAIG ROBERTS—Consider the extinct and vanishing species of animals, insects, reptiles, birds. Why did we do this? For no other reason than a few rich people could be a bit richer. They didn’t need the money that erased animals, plants, forests, clean water, fish and marine life, birds, butterflies, bees and large numbers of insects.
THE SAKER—Okay, we now know that Soleimani has indeed been murdered and that the US did it. So the key facts are all in. Now all we can do is to wait for the political fallout from this assassination (both inside and outside the USA and both inside and outside Iran).
ANDRE VLTCHEK—Colombia is one of the most damaged places in Latin America; one of the most turbo-capitalist, and one of the most sold out to the West. On the other hand, its opposition is vibrant and diverse. Its people are amazing; many very brave, educated and determined people.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Many are understandably claiming that this geostrategically pivotal confrontation was precisely what Trump was installed to facilitate all along. The largest donor to any campaign in 2016 was oligarch Sheldon Adelson, who gave $25 million to the Trump campaign, and who in 2013 said that the US should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
