Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I […]
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Iranian Aggression? Or American? Even Great US News Outlets can’t Escape Jingoism
Tomdispatch.com) – Headlined “U.S. Seeks Other Ways to Stop Iran Shy of War,” the article was tucked away on page A9 of a recent New […]
Fiasco: How Iran Ran Circles around Trump
The Iranian government saw the President’s vacillation as a sign of weakness, one journalist tells me, “Iran was ready to retaliate on an unbelievable scale.” […]
Iran hasn’t Breached the Nuclear Deal– Trump had already Destroyed It
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday that Iran has exceeded 300 grams of Low Enriched Uranium. The […]
Iran is not Iraq: But Can Trump’s Warmongers be Stopped?
(Middle East Monitor) – Along with American and British journalists and doctors, I visited Iraq a few years before its invasion and occupation by the […]
The Bigger Picture: Trump didn’t Start America’s Decline, and Can’t Stop It
(Tomdispatch.com) – Donald Trump was partly voted into office by Americans who felt that the self-proclaimed greatest power on Earth was actually in decline — […]
Europe, Defying Trump, Implements New Currency Exchange with Iran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Frances Coppola at Forbes reports that European powers have made operational their Instex exchange mechanism, which will allow European and […]
Lesson for Kushner in Manama: The Palestinian Resistance can Never be Bought
By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – The wheels of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner’s, peace plan for the Middle East are now […]
Great Powers in Latin America have Tried to Make Walls before: It didn’t End Well
By Alberto P. Marti | – Despite the US administration’s renewed interest in Cuba, including new travel restrictions, few have paid attention to a little-known, […]
Why We Can’t Address the Climate Emergency without confronting Plutocracy
By Tom Athanasiou Something has changed, as most everyone in the climate movement agrees, and we have plenty of signposts that track the shift, from […]