Tag: USA
Trump’s naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz actually targets China
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Most of Iranian oil -- 96.7 percent -- is destined for China. If you note this figure, you will realise that...
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...
Richard David Hames: When will we make war untenable for...
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames
An Easter message. There's no mystery about why wars start. They happen because someone, somewhere, decides that negotiation is more...
President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t...
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich
Mr Trump, may I have a word?
Bad enough for you to insist -- in the face of all evidence to the...
‘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...
Jonathan Cook: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides...
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook
The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the...
‘Israel First’ – ex-Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy on why Netanyahu led...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman in New York, joined by, for the first time...
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...
Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East
COMMENTARY: By Marcus Alexander
In a stunning resignation that has sent shockwaves through Washington, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has exposed what many...
Israel caught in a permanent state of war mindset – peace...
INTERVIEW: C.J. Polychroniou and Idan Landau
Israel’s war on Iran is a direct result of a political culture that depends for survival upon a permanent...
Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is...
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...
War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: The US-Israeli war on Iran has entered its 11th day. Its impact is being increasingly felt across the globe. Al Jazeera...
Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
I came across this statement from an independent media source this week:
“The mainstream media is doing what it always does in...
Trump-aligned think tank proposes ‘Pacific Charter’, greater US involvement in the...
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist
An American right-wing think tank is proposing a "Pacific Charter" that advocates for a greater United States presence in...
French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions
By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News
French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson says growing global instability is a reminder that Pacific nations must strengthen cooperation within...
The reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t...
Drop Site News
Right now, the United States and Israel are continuing their bombardment of Iran.
As the confirmed death toll climbs past 1330 and hospitals,...
The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all...
New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa
Peace Movement Aotearoa
"One can oppose a hateful regime and, at the same time, oppose an unjustified and dangerous military intervention," says Spanish Prime Minister...



































