October 13, 2026
Tehran
said it holds the UK fully responsible for all consequences of its
‘fabrications’ against Tehran
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Monday, October 12, 2026
The Geopolitical Earthquake of the Iran War
October 12, 2026
John Feffer
The Iran War has claimed thousands of lives, most of them in Iran itself. The war has cost Iran as much as $300 billion in economic damage. For its part, the Pentagon spent nearly $44 billion through mid-September to wreak that amount of havoc. For advocates of the war—but no one else—that’s a good return on investment.
John Feffer
The Iran War has claimed thousands of lives, most of them in Iran itself. The war has cost Iran as much as $300 billion in economic damage. For its part, the Pentagon spent nearly $44 billion through mid-September to wreak that amount of havoc. For advocates of the war—but no one else—that’s a good return on investment.
Trump’s Destruction of the National Security Process
October 12, 2026
Melvin Goodman
In 1947, the U.S. Congress passed the National Security Act, which created the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Central Intelligence Agency. These institutions were often misused during the worst days of the Cold War and, more recently, in the Global War on Terror. Nevertheless, there are historical records on the decision making that took place, and there were successes in such fields as arms control and disarmament as well as the building of national security alliances in Europe and Asia.
Melvin Goodman
In 1947, the U.S. Congress passed the National Security Act, which created the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Central Intelligence Agency. These institutions were often misused during the worst days of the Cold War and, more recently, in the Global War on Terror. Nevertheless, there are historical records on the decision making that took place, and there were successes in such fields as arms control and disarmament as well as the building of national security alliances in Europe and Asia.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Hormuz attacks intensify as efforts to end war on Iran stall
October 11, 2026
IRGC
warns against ignoring the ‘security and rules’ of the strategic waterway as US
CENTCOM says it disabled vessel trying to run naval blockade.
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Iran Retains Missile Production Capacity despite US-Israeli Strikes – Bloomberg
October 10, 2026
Western
officials say Iran retains significant missile production capabilities despite
months of US-Israeli attacks, contradicting Trump’s claims of military
destruction.
Friday, October 9, 2026
Iran’s Theory of Victory
October 9, 2026
Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr
Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr
Tehran’s
Fight for Great-Power Status in the Post-American Middle East
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Is Iran poised to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty?
October 8, 2026
Wendy Ramadan-Alban
Wendy Ramadan-Alban
Opposition to the agreement now goes beyond the
country’s most hardline element
Report: Trump Might Bomb Iran Before Midterms
October 7, 2026
According
to The Atlantic, the White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up strike plans
that could be carried out before the elections
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Jewish, 94, and arrested for supporting Palestine Action: Margaret Owen on Ed Miliband and the right to protest
October 7, 2026
Katherine Hearst
Katherine Hearst
Owen
OBE, a friend of Miliband's late mother, was arrested at a vigil calling on
Burnham's government to lift the ban on Palestine Action outside the party
conference
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
دین و مذهب
اکثر مردم دنیا باورهای دینی دارند، که البته این اعتقادات کلی است و می‌تواند به شاخه‌های مختلف مذهبی تقسیم شود.ا
‘Deranged and Dangerous’ Trump Decried for Inviting Iran to ‘Take Out’ California Cities
October 6, 2026
Julia Conley
“The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives,” said the mayor of Los Angeles.
Julia Conley
“The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives,” said the mayor of Los Angeles.
Monday, October 5, 2026
US warships have ‘fled’ Strait of Hormuz – IRGC
October 5, 2026
A senior
IRGC commander says US forces have retreated more than 1,000 km from Iranian
waters, as the two countries remain locked in conflict
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Iran will not reopen Strait of Hormuz until its conditions from June are met, Ghalibaf says
October 4, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until Iran meets seven conditions set out in a June interim agreement with the US, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday.
The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until Iran meets seven conditions set out in a June interim agreement with the US, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday.
FILE PHOTO: Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam Thursday, 10th September 2026, 09:00
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Iraq secures US waiver restoring Iranian flights to Najaf
October 3, 2026
US
sanctions on Iranian aviation closed a route used by about 40 Iranian flights
daily before the ban
Friday, October 2, 2026
“The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids
October 2, 2026
Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents and witnesses in one of the most in-depth reports on the massacre to date. The bombing killed at least 156 people — 120 of the victims were children, 26 were teachers, and the rest were parents. A United Nations fact-finding mission recently concluded that the U.S. strike was a war crime, but the Trump administration has not yet even acknowledged U.S. responsibility.
Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents and witnesses in one of the most in-depth reports on the massacre to date. The bombing killed at least 156 people — 120 of the victims were children, 26 were teachers, and the rest were parents. A United Nations fact-finding mission recently concluded that the U.S. strike was a war crime, but the Trump administration has not yet even acknowledged U.S. responsibility.
Trump’s War on Iran Could Cost You Thousands
October 2, 2026
Amy Hanauer
Affordability is getting worse, especially if you have to drive to work or anywhere else.
Amy Hanauer
Affordability is getting worse, especially if you have to drive to work or anywhere else.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Marxian Ecology and the Critique of AI Capital
October 1, 2026
In addressing Marxian ecology and the critique of the fetishism of so-called artificial intelligence or AI, it is important to place this in the context of the present age of accumulation under monopoly-finance capital. The rise of AI capital does not represent, as contemporary ideology would have us believe, a new, technologically determined, rationally organized capitalist system, to which it is useless to offer resistance.1 Rather, today’s alienated AI capital constitutes an irrational shift from order to disorder in human ecological and social relations on the local, global, and planetary levels. Not only does computational capitalism promise to disrupt the entire work environment, pointing to growing joblessness and increased exploitation, exacerbating class and imperial polarization on a global basis, but we are seeing, even more ominously, a further rupture in the human relation to the earth of which humanity is itself an emergent part.
In addressing Marxian ecology and the critique of the fetishism of so-called artificial intelligence or AI, it is important to place this in the context of the present age of accumulation under monopoly-finance capital. The rise of AI capital does not represent, as contemporary ideology would have us believe, a new, technologically determined, rationally organized capitalist system, to which it is useless to offer resistance.1 Rather, today’s alienated AI capital constitutes an irrational shift from order to disorder in human ecological and social relations on the local, global, and planetary levels. Not only does computational capitalism promise to disrupt the entire work environment, pointing to growing joblessness and increased exploitation, exacerbating class and imperial polarization on a global basis, but we are seeing, even more ominously, a further rupture in the human relation to the earth of which humanity is itself an emergent part.
Biospheric Boundaries wiith safe operating space - 2025. Illustration showing the crossing of seven of the nine planetary boundaries that constitute the safe operating space for humanity. Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Boris Sakschewski and Levke Caesar et al., Planetary Health Check 2025: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet, stockholmreslience.org.
Leaving Iraq while bombing Iran
October 1, 2026
Leon Hadar
US troops are leaving Iraq, again. Image: X Screengrab
Leon Hadar
America’s
military withdrawal from Iraq is real; its disengagement from the Middle East
is not
US troops are leaving Iraq, again. Image: X Screengrab
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
انتظار ما از زندگی چیست؟
در سنین کودکی، انسان‌ها تابع خواست‌های پدر و مادر، پدر بزرگ
و مادر بزرگ، و سایر کسانی هستند که از نظر سنی از آنها بزرگ‌تر بوده، تحت
سرپرستی آنها نیز می‌باشند. همچنان‌که بچه‌ها رشد می‌کنند، روش‌های متفاوت زندگی
را نیز می‌آموزند، و سپس خود روش خاصی را انتخاب می‌کنند و یا بنیاد می‌نهند.
بنابراین، نوع تفکر در انتخاب یک روش برای زندگی بسته به محیطی که فرد در آن رشد
می‌کند دارد، علاوه بر کسانی که فرد از آن اشخاص می‌آموزد.ا
Vietnamese Press: US Military Withdrawal from Iraq a victory for Tehran
September 30, 2026
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was a little surprised to see that the Vietnamese internet news agency Vietnam.vn has an Arabic service. It carried an article yesterday from the newspaper Báo Tiền Phong on the complete US military withdrawal from Iraq. The ironies are many. I am in my 70s now, so I well remember the disastrous final US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975 during the presidency of Gerald Ford, our only unelected president. The war was really over with in 1973, or maybe even in 1971, but Richard Milhous Nixon and Henry Kissinger were afraid to bring home 500,000 men suddenly, thinking that it could lead to public disorder. So they ended the war in dribs and drabs over several years. The soldiers they sent to die in a southeast Asian jungle for nothing were of so little value to them that they preferred to see them go on being in danger of their lives than to risk that they might, on their return, join a *gasp* protest. So much for the First Amendment.
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was a little surprised to see that the Vietnamese internet news agency Vietnam.vn has an Arabic service. It carried an article yesterday from the newspaper Báo Tiền Phong on the complete US military withdrawal from Iraq. The ironies are many. I am in my 70s now, so I well remember the disastrous final US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975 during the presidency of Gerald Ford, our only unelected president. The war was really over with in 1973, or maybe even in 1971, but Richard Milhous Nixon and Henry Kissinger were afraid to bring home 500,000 men suddenly, thinking that it could lead to public disorder. So they ended the war in dribs and drabs over several years. The soldiers they sent to die in a southeast Asian jungle for nothing were of so little value to them that they preferred to see them go on being in danger of their lives than to risk that they might, on their return, join a *gasp* protest. So much for the First Amendment.
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