Tag: Donald Trump
Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?
ANALYSIS: By Robert Reich
On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his...
Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?
Tehran believes Trump will attack in the next 48 hours -- and is ready to counter-escalate, writes US-Iran affairs analyst Trita Parsi.
ANALYSIS: By Trita...
Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds
Middle East Monitor
Israel is now perceived more negatively than any other country in the world, according to new global polling published by Nira Data...
Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...
ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia
Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran.
The...
Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Why is US President Donald Trump carrying on with his State visit to Beijing this week on May 14? I wouldn't...
Iran war almost over . . . and the end...
COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade
The signals are now coming from both sides of the negotiating table. American sources confirm it. Pakistani mediators confirm it.
The...
No wonder Iran went cold on sham talks, considering the lying...
COMMENTARY: By Tim O'Shea
I don't blame Iran for going cold on another sham negotiation session with the US.
After all, why would they take the...
Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’
By Anealla Safdar in London
The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of global human rights, says Amnesty International,...
Who is breaking international law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman.
As we continue to look at the US and Israeli war on Iran, we’re joined...
Iran trolls Trump with AI-generated LEGO video – now ‘banned’
Pacific Media Watch
The war on Iran is not only being fought on the battlefield, reports France24 -- it is also playing out online.
Iran’s state...
Why Trump’s naval blockade to ‘strangle’ Iran is a joke
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
This US naval blockade is meant to strangle the Iranian economy by preventing it from exporting oil -- the economic lifeline...
Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: Ship traffic has halted again in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump ordered the US military to begin a naval...
Robert Reich: Lessons on how to defeat Donald Trump every time
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich
An hour before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilisation” if Iran didn’t open the strait of Hormuz,...
What on earth just happened? Trump, Iran, and the unlikely ceasefire
COMMENTARY: By Trita Parsi
Yesterday began with Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended -- just ten hours later --...
How Trump’s White House demands as prerequisites for stopping bombings bit...
COMMENTARY: By Yanis Varoufakis
Having launched an illegal, destructive war that brutally struck the entire planet’s economy (and confirmed once again Europe’s combination of irrelevance...
‘Someone, everyone, stop them’ – and now Trump has pulled back...
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, of Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices
Vietnam survived Nixon’s madman theory and the world survived the era of mutually assured...
Monsters of war – the men who have put the world...
The war in Iran is in its second month. A war started by a criminal defendant, a convicted felon, and a blackmail network that...
Pope’s message for peace: ‘The Church cannot remain silent when power...
Asia Pacific Report
As tensions rose ahead of Easter, US President Donald Trump publicly criticised Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “interfering in political...
Protesters condemn Luxon govt for failing to condemn illegal war on...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand’s government was taken to task today for its lack of a principled stand against Israel’s Gaza genocide and the illegal...
Why Trump’s ‘fantasy’ obsession with Kharg Island may lead to disaster
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
US President Donald Trump has been obsessed with seizing Iran's Kharg Island for more than 35 years -- way before he...
‘No kings’: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism...
ANALYSIS: Introduced by Robert Reich
From time to time, I post transcripts I’ve come across of particularly insightful conversations. Here’s one that’s particularly relevant to...
War on Iran: The French senator who said what everybody was...
COMMENTARY: Pacific Media Watch
A French senator walked into the Luxembourg Palace, opened his mouth, and basically set the whole room on fire. Politely. In...











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