Tag: Donald Trump
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...
Cuban envoy makes strong plea for his country defying US blockade
Asia Pacific Report
Cuba’s Ambassador to New Zealand, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, last night made a passionate plea for his country's sovereignty in defiance of the...
Epstein cabal play games with human lives in Iran while grasping...
COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter
The actions of the Trump administration and its AIPAC-Israeli donors have reached new levels of immorality, illegality and unprecedented venality.
It is...
Eugene Doyle: Kharg Island – into the valley of death
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Described by analysts as a suicide mission, there are nonetheless rumours the US President has his eye on securing for the...
Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
You can’t make this stuff up. The President of the United States, while sitting next to the Japanese Prime Minister in...
End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Global oil and natural gas prices are soaring after Israel...
Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state.
We are now in the...





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