Jacobin
- A Young Socialist in Bernie’s Backyard
It’s been nearly two years since Marek Broderick, then a soft-spoken junior at the University of Vermont (UVM), was first elected to the Burlington City Council as member of the Vermont Progressive Party. Now he is preparing to graduate with a degree in biology while running for reelection tomorrow. The district Broderick represents, Ward Eight,
- US, Israel Target Civilians as Iran Escalates War to Survive
In response to Donald Trump’s claims that Iran was appealing to Washington to negotiate, Ali Larijani, the most powerful man in the Islamic Republic, issued a terse statement in Farsi: “There will be no negotiations with the United States.” Tehran is wary of accepting a ceasefire as it did at the end of the Twelve-Day
- Trump Will Not March Quickly to Victory Over Iran
Andreas Krieg is an associate professor at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London and the author of Socio-Political Order and Security in the Arab World. He spoke to Jacobin about the US/Israeli attack on Iran, the nature of the Iranian response, and the likely course of events over the coming weeks and months.
- Trump’s War on Iran Makes a Mockery of American Democracy
Late Friday night, Donald Trump announced the beginning of an open-ended war in Iran. In his rambling eight-minute speech, he rattled off a list of real and alleged Iranian crimes going back to the hostage crisis in 1979. He made very little effort, though, to make a case that the country posed such an imminent
- The Supreme Court May Legalize Donald Trump’s War on Iran
“Do you think the president has the authority to invade Iran tomorrow without getting permission from the people, from the United States Congress, absent him being able to show there is an immediate threat to our national security?” As recounted in the Lever’s upcoming new season of the Master Plan podcast, this was the big
The Real News Network
- ‘Cuba’s next,’ says Lindsey Graham as illegal Trump-Israel war on Iran kills hundreds
“Trump 2.0 seems to be about regime change,” said one observer.
- Buried without answers: The hidden toll on Kenyan women in the Gulf
The Kenyan government’s failures are deeply felt by families who have lost loved ones in Saudi Arabia.
- ‘Mass incarceration’ is a liberal myth. The truth is far worse.
“The masses are not being policed, targeted, and incarcerated,” Distinguished Professor and author Dylan Rodríguez says; “it's a targeted war with asymmetrical casualties.”
The Progressive
- The Return of the Luddites
Artificial intelligence will supposedly bring great benefits. But what’s driving it is corporate greed.
- Daniel Ellsberg’s Last Words
A new book offers an insightful look into the renowned whistleblower’s life and legacy.
- As Asheville Expanded Its Panhandling Ban, the Community Debuted a Street Paper
A newspaper written and sold by unhoused individuals is a way to earn money and make their voices heard.
Z Network
- Water, a Factor of Stability and Conflict: The Iranian Case and the Forgotten Lessons
INTRODUCTION: TEHRAN, A CAPITAL TO BE EVACUATED WELL BEFORE THE BOMBS, BECAUSE IT’S DRY In November 2025, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian issued a warning that sent a chill through the entire country: Tehran, the capital of one of the world’s oldest empires, might have to face rationing, then partial evacuation. Not under the threat of
- World War III is About to Begin
Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace, the writer Romain Rolland, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote that the urgency of the moment no longer allowed for analytical circumspection regarding the complexity of the factors driving the
- AI and the Lesson Not Learned
In the last century people marveled at the Wright brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk on the moon. Technical advances became prosaic. But we should be paying more attention to Artificial Intelligence. For this revolution we will not be casual observers. It will change our lives in fundamental
Occupy.com
- Can the UK Green Party Surge Match Mamdani’s NYC Earthquake?
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
FAIR
- US Media Mostly Care for Iranians When They Can Be Used to Justify Bombing
US corporate media tend to humanize Iranians only when they can be portrayed as victims of their own government.
- There Are ‘Questions’ About Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’—But Don’t Expect AP to Answer Them
AP tells us in bold letters, “There are many questions about how the board will work.” That implies that AP will be asking them, or care about the answers.
- Western Gangster Journalism Runs Cover for Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ in Venezuela
With the White House pushing to impose a semi-colonial protectorate on Venezuela, corporate outlets continue to normalize US imperialist predations.
Counterpunch
- The Policy of “Maximum Pressure” on Iran Finds Its Ultimate Conclusion
Americans should not be fooled or led astray by the corporate media or the Beltway consultant class: fact-free fearmongering and warmongering about Iran have been among the most thoroughly bipartisan positions in Washington for many decades. For all of the turgid language within U.S. government and media circles about rogue regimes and state sponsors of terrorism, we almost never get around to mentioning the fact that the United States has long been the world’s greatest offender and violator of international law. It’s important to be clear about the facts of the matter: Iran is not a real threat to the United States, and it is Washington that has always been the aggressor in the relationship. More The post The Policy of “Maximum Pressure” on Iran Finds Its Ultimate Conclusion appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Preliminary Notes on a Planned Decapitation
Trump has done the world a service. He has abandoned pretense and clarified the true nature of American power. There is no longer any need to manufacture a case for war, to make an attack seem conform to international law and treaties or to demonstrate its righteousness by acting as part of an international coalition. Now America can do what it wants to whomever it wants solely because the people who run its government want to. This has, of course, almost always been the case behind the curtain of diplomatic niceties. But Trump has ripped those curtains down and now the world is seeing American power in the raw: brazen, arrogant and mindless of the consequences, which will be borne by others and if they complain, they might be whacked, too. More The post Preliminary Notes on a Planned Decapitation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It
Last Friday, the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out from President Trump’s deceptive pretense, threatening war with Iran because it had refused his demands that it give up what he claimed was its drive to build its own atom bomb. The Omani foreign minister explained on CBS’s Face the Nation that the Iranian team had agreed not to accumulate enriched uranium and offered “full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA.” More The post The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It appeared first on CounterPunch.org.