CHRIS HEDGES—Trump and Netanyahu, as well as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, are mired in scandal. They believe a new war would divert attention from their foreign and domestic crises. But they have no more rational strategy for war with Iran than they did for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria. European allies, whom Trump alienated when he walked away from the Iranian nuclear agreement, will not cooperate with Washington if the U.S. goes to war with Iran.
Yearly Archives
2020
Veteran Speaks At “No War On Iran” Rally Los Angeles
1 minutes readMike Prysner, a brave and capable former soldier in the empire’s wars (deployed to Iraq), has now become a peace activist, and a formidable mass educator and mobiliser against imperial crimes.
The Repugs are blatant capitalo-imperialists who support heinous crimes in the name of US hegemony and supremacism, but the hypocrisy of the Democrats is even more revolting, because they support the same criminal goals, albeit in an underhanded fashion.
DESMOND ABRAMS—Killings of unarmed Black people by police have been a terrifying reality for generations of Black people living in the US. After two decades of wars abroad and expanded police powers at home, Black people in the US find themselves in an even more desperate situation of contending with an increasingly aggressive and hostile government that does not belong to us; but merely controls and subjugates us.
The murder of Qassem Soleimani and assassination as state policy
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BILL VAN AUKEN—The murder of Soleimani is the culmination of a protracted process of the criminalization of American foreign policy. “Targeted killings,” a term introduced into the lexicon of world imperialist politics by Israel, have been employed by US imperialism against alleged terrorists in countries stretching from South Asia to the Middle East and Africa over the course of nearly two decades.
