Friday, June 5, 2026

How the U.S. started a cold war with Russia and left Ukraine to fight...

The United States and Russia must also finally assume the responsibility that comes with stockpiling over 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, and agree on a plan to start dismantling them, in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

Prince of darkness: Blackwater’s founder promotes a dangerous solution to America’s longest war

“I grew up around the auto industry. Customers would say to my dad, ‘We have this need.’ He would then use his own money to create prototypes to fulfill those needs. He took the ‘If you build it they will come’ approach.” —Erik Prince

IDF chief signals intent to turn Gaza ceasefire line into new border

Remarks from Eyal Zamir and Benjamin Netanyahu deepen concerns of de facto annexation as Palestinians remain confined behind the “yellow line”
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Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Israeli Intelligence

Drop Site revealed that Epstein had played a role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia and setting up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syrian civil war.

Hedges: Chronicle of a war foretold

After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

The perilous shift in US weapons sales to Taiwan

It raises the question; Is Beijing taking notice?

The folly of the US-Israeli myth of a quick Iranian collapse

The cycle of mutual retaliation against refineries and gas facilities, as the recent confrontation between Iran and Israel demonstrated, rapidly transforms from a tactical achievement into an existential threat for both sides.

How Iran won the Iran War

It is a pyrrhic victory in many ways, since Iran has new enemies among its neighbors and it has lost industrial capacity. But it is a victory of sorts.

The Wall Street Journal has many ways to deny genocide

Looking at how the paper does so enables us to not only refute their falsehoods, but also to gain insight into the tactics Gaza genocide denialists, and genocide deniers in general, employ.

For US commentators on Iran, mass murder is magic

These observers traffic in illusions about a virtually omnipotent U.S. that can indefinitely control the world through force of arms, consequence-free.