America’s Broken Promises, Iran’s Resolve, and the dangerous Game over the Strait of Hormuz
Iran is telling Washington that the age of expecting automatic concessions in exchange for ambiguous promises is over.
If Trumpism descends to grisly entertainment, why not hangings, guillotines, hungry lions, even burning...
Ready, Aim, Fire! with the latest culture of death stunt politics.
Iran offers to Mediate between Riyadh and Sanaa even as Houthis hit Airports
The Houthi movement has struck Saudi airports three times, and Iran has offered to mediate between Riyadh and Sanaa
Corporate Media don’t understand the Houthis, and Don’t Want to, Either
A media critique of how Western outlets cover Yemen's Houthi movement, which has governed the capital Sanaa since 2014.
America’s Archvillain, And His Arch of Tr(i)ump(h)
Tom Engelhardt on the 250-foot triumphal arch Trump plans to build in Washington, D.C.
No, Mr. Trump, Iran can’t “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego
US intelligence agencies have assessed for 25 years that Iran has no military nuclear weapons program, and Iran has no intercontinental ballistic missile, writes Juan Cole.
Trump conned by his own worst enemy: himself – and the fixated lunacy of...
Thus do clear MAGA victims of an unjust economic system make themselves double marks from an even worse, more costly betrayer.
Vietnamese Press: US Military Withdrawal from Iraq a victory for Tehran
Juan Cole reads an Arabic-language Vietnamese news report on the complete US military withdrawal from Iraq and compares it with 1975.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.