The system is rigged, writes Jonathan Cook. Everything about Starmer’s rise to power – and the media’s permanent incuriosity about how that rise was engineered – is incredible.
Starmer’s ‘Incredible’ Rise to Power
Category: Foreign Policy
US & Israel Bomb 307+ Medical Facilities in Iran
The carefully planned destruction of Iran’s healthcare infrastructure fits into a long history of deliberate U.S. attacks on hospitals, writes Alan Macleod.
UK Knew Nato Expansion Could Lead to War With Russia
Mark Curtis reveals that Britain’s Ministry of Defence prepared for war with Russia after expanding NATO – 26 years before Moscow invaded Ukraine.
Jonathan Cook: Blaming the Left for Genocide
Britain’s former Prime Minister shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of Western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale.
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 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.
Jonathan Cook: US or Israel? Neither Is Top Dog
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the U.S. or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other.
Chris Hedges: Trump Has No Soul
When the soulless wage war it is part of a perverted drive to build a monument to themselves. The more they fail, the more they descend into a tyrannical rage.
Vijay Prashad: UN Approves Slavery Reparations
The U.N. General Assembly voted today for the Global North to apologize and pay reparations for slavery by a vote of 123-3-52, with only the U.S., Israel and Argentina voting against. The E.U. abstained.
Craig Murray: The London Ambulance Attack
Iran has a zero record of attacking healthcare facilities, even in Israel. And there are multiple red flags about linking the recently-emerged terrorist group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, to Iran.