A court ruling in Australia, an election result in New York and a military setback for Israel, all coming on Tuesday this week, signaled a serious turn of events for Zionism and its supporters, writes Joe Lauria.
We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists.
A deal was limiting Iran’s enrichment of uranium until Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of it. Instead the Dealmaker bombed Iran, threatening to set the region on fire, writes Joe Lauria. With a ceasefire what does he do now?
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores.
Iran explicitly warned it would attack the U.S. military if the U.S. military did the thing it just did. If these retaliatory strikes come, the warmongers will try to play the victim. But they chose to make this happen.
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An historic dialogue between American and Russian citizens takes place Wednesday in the midst of the gravest international crises in decades. Watch the replay.
Based on the 1985 Soviet-U.S. citizen’s summit, the 2025 version with Russians in St. Petersburg and Americans in Kingston, N.Y., kicked off Tuesday with a discussion featuring Dennis Kucinich, Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, Gerald Celente and Joe Lauria. Watch the…