The Israeli prime minister said his country’s goals in Iran will be achieved by “agreement or by renewing the war.” Meanwhile, Iran says the U.S. and Israel have repeatedly violated the ceasefire.
DAY 40: Netanyahu Says Iran War Is Not Over
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America’s Moral Suicide
The United States – the cynosure of Western society — has committed moral suicide in Gaza; and the death certificate was issued in Iran, writes Michael Brenner.
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Hedges Report: On the Brink of Apocalyptic
Before the ceasefire, as Trump escalated threats and oil chokepoints tightened, Trita Parsi warned that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was entering its most dangerous phase yet.
DAYS 39-40: A Ceasefire & the Obstacles Ahead
UPDATED – The U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire but the incompatibility of the sides’ peace plans presents huge, if not insurmountable, obstacles for a permanent peace. Direct talks begin Friday.
DAYS 38-39: WAR ON IRAN — Trump Threatens Iran Genocide
The world is on the brink of disaster if Donald Trump follows through on his crazed threat to destroy the region’s economic base and commit possible genocide against Iran, writes Joe Lauria.
Hedges Report: Ground War With Iran?
More than a month into the conflict, Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson’s central warning is blunt: if Washington commits troops on Iranian soil, the result could be a military disaster on a scale policymakers appear unwilling to acknowledge.
Jeffrey Sachs: Two Madmen Play God
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
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WATCH: Return From Hormuz
Dimitri Lascaris and Tim Anderson have just returned from the Strait of Hormuz and 11 days reporting inside Iran. They tell CN Live! what they saw. Watch the replay.
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Blowback 2026
In case after case, conflicts initiated or intensified by the United States appeared to subside, only to reemerge in new, more volatile forms, writes Eric Ross as he assesses the price of empire and the costs of war on Iran.
DAYS 35-37: WAR ON IRAN — And Now a Word From the President of the United States: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, You Crazy Bastards’
The utter collapse of the world economy and the depopulation of vast parts of the Middle East. That is what is at stake and it’s in the hands of a madman, writes Joe Lauria.
DAYS 33-34: WAR ON IRAN — ‘Talking Back to Trump’
Because of his title and the office he holds Western leaders must privately grumble about Donald Trump but have been timid about speaking back to him, until Emmanuel Macron let loose, writes Joe Lauria.
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WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Back to the Stone Age’
Scott Ritter on The World This Week discusses Donald Trump’s escalating Stone Age War, Emmanuel Macron telling Trump to shut up and F15 Down. Watch the replay.
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Trump’s $1.5 Trn Pentagon Budget Will Weaken the US
Reckless force doesn’t work, as the devastating human and economic consequences of the Middle East war shows, writes William Hartung. Passing a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will mean endless war.
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Chris Hedges: The New World Order
Gaza is just the beginning, the author said in a recent speech at Princeton in which he offered a sweeping indictment of a global order collapsing into what he calls “technologically advanced barbarism.”
Caitlin Johnstone: The Empire Exposes Itself
What was once revealed solely by whistleblowers, investigative journalists, activists and dissident media is now being shown by the empire itself, because there’s only so long you can hide the truth about something so malignant.
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Vijay Prashad: US Aggression Across the World
In its latest statement, No Cold War takes stock of the long history of U.S. aggression across the world and the need to reject a future of wars without end.
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WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Escalating Madness’
Antiwar.com‘s Scott Horton joins CN Live! to provide insight into the deepening madness of Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s reckless war on Iran. Watch the replay.
Caitlin Johnstone: The More Murderous Israel Gets, the More We Hear About ‘Anti-Semitism’
In real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier this gets, the more aggressive the trolling about “anti-semitism” becomes.
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Dennis Kucinich: How to Stop the War
The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off funds, a war will end.
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DAYS 30-32: WAR ON IRAN — An Insulting War of Insults
UPDATED: Iran is making Trump go mad. How will world leaders and his people deal with him? This is the most urgent question. Only a worldwide depression and possible nuclear war are on the line, writes Joe Lauria.