The U.S./Israeli war on Iran could easily spark a greater regional conflict if it continues. Donald Trump at first said Tehran would be taken in 3-4 days, then a day later claimed the war would last no more than 4-5 weeks and threatened that the U.S. has enough weapons to fight “forever"...

Veterans For Peace has condemned the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, called for widespread resistance, and issued its own Iran War Talking Points. “We call on our members, friends and allies to resist this dangerous and illegal war, said Michael McPhearson, Executive Director of the 41-year-old veterans’ organization. “We offer support...

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.—George Orwell, quoted by Shabak chief Ami Ayalon in 1996. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not the only homicidal politician in the Promised Land. On December 29, 2025, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionism Party...

Is the U.S. government preparing to go to war with Iran? Leading up to talks set to happen towards the end of the week in Geneva, the Trump administration has also threatened Iran with war...

Shortly before the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied a motion by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to dismiss the long-running lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the monarchy. Originally filed back in 2003,...

The 18 national campaigns of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, International Campaign to Break the Siege, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and United States) met in Dublin, Ireland, December 5-7, 2025, to plan for many...

Israel's recent strikes on Qatar and Yemen have once again demonstrated both the lawlessness of the Jewish state’s leadership and the deep divisions within the Arab world. The latter, in many ways, is responsible for the former. With regard to Israel, everything is crystal clear. Israelis have long since ceased...

How do you sell the idea of a moderate rebellion without alienating the extremists who will do the actual fighting? When foreign powers started supporting armed groups to overthrow the Ba’athist government in Syria after 2011, they were unsure about who could, or should, take...

U.S. media accounts of the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria failed to disclose that the U.S. had engaged in a thirteen-year-long operation that started with the Arab Spring and continued with the launching of Operation Timber Sycamore by the Obama administration, the largest covert operation...

Will Congress ever hold the CIA to account for this and other crimes by ordering a Church Committee-type investigation? In August 2017, The New York Times reported on the Trump administration’s shutting down what it termed “one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the CIA”—the $1...