War Deja Vu

June 19, 2025

Chris Hedges

The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by hallucinations.

 

Attacks on Iran Show How US Support for Israel Fuels Regional Instability

June 19, 2025

Phyllis Bennis & Khury Petersen-Smith

There’s no question that Washington’s longstanding military and economic support made Israel’s illegal war possible.

 

 Mourners gather around the coffins of people killed in Israeli attacks in Khorramabad, Iran, during their funeral in on June 16, 2025.AZIZ BABNEZHAD / TASNIM NEWS / AFP via Getty Images

Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval

June 19, 2025

Jake Johnson

"Right now, the most effective thing you can do is flood Congress with calls to show that the American people don't want to go to war with Iran," said the advocacy group Demand Progress.

U.S. Marines watch as protesters hold signs during a "No War on Iran" demonstration outside the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 18, 2025. (Photo: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)

The case of the Iranian ‘atomic bomb’ and the need for a new geopolitical balance

June 18, 2025

Raphael Machado

A nuclear Iran, far from necessarily leading to a nuclear war, could actually convince Israel to act more prudently and restrain its aggressive actions against Palestinians and neighboring countries, Raphael Machado writes.

Gaslighting the way to World War III

June 18, 2025

Derek Sayer

Gaslighting, noun: psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

 

Aftermath of Israeli airstrike in Tehran, June 13, 2025. Photo courtesy Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia Commons.  

ایرانیان خارج از ایران

دور ز میهن شدم و خاک وطن ایران است

لیک افسوس که آن خاک کنون ویران است

 

Israel’s Strikes on Iran Spark Growing Dissent in Congress

June 17, 2025

Medea Benjamin

On Monday, June 16, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation, a War Powers Resolution, to prevent President Trump from using military force against Iran without Congressional authorization. This will force all Senators to go on record supporting or opposing the following: “Congress hereby directs the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government or military, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force against Iran.”

After Iraq There's No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran

June 17, 2025

Caitlin Johnstone

There is absolutely no excuse for buying into the war propaganda about Iran after what we all saw with Iraq.

 

Iran’s ballistic missiles cause extensive destruction across Israel

June 16, 2025

Israeli military sites and energy infrastructure came under Iranian fire, including Nevatim airbase and the Haifa power station

 

The U.S. Must Not Cave to Israel’s Demands for Help

June 16, 2025

Trita Parsi

As Iran mounts an effective response to Israel's war of choice, why should the president now risk US lives to join it?

 

 The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The Folly of a War With Iran

June 16, 2025

Chris Hedges

Iran has a large arsenal of ballistic missiles it can unleash on Israel, as well as on American military installations in the region. While initial waves can be intercepted, repeated attacks would swiftly deplete the Israeli and U.S. air defense stockpiles.

 

 And Now a Word From Our Monster – by Mr. Fish

LIVE BLOG: Iran’s Retaliation Causes Unprecedented Destruction in Israel | Al-Qassam Ambush – Day 617

June 15, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
55,315	128,741	14,000

 

Bodies pile up in the streets of Tel Aviv following Iran's retaliatory response. (Photo: video grab) 

The Rule of Idiots

June 11, 2025

Chris Hedges

Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.

 

Israel kills at least 58 people in Gaza, many at US-backed aid site: Medics

June 14, 2025

There has been no immediate comment by the Israeli military or the GHF on Saturday’s Palestinian deaths.

Israel warns ‘Tehran will burn’ after deadly missile barrage by Iran

June 14, 2025

Nils Adler, Ali Harb and Tim Hume

Israel warns ‘Tehran will burn’ after deadly missile barrage by Iran

 

  Rescue personnel evacuate a wounded woman after an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan, Israel [Itai Ron/Reuters]

Will Iran reply to Israeli Attacks with “War of Attrition?” Will its Nuclear Red Line Hold?

June 14, 2025

Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Mohammad Eslami

Historians may well mark June 13, 2025, as the day the world crossed a line it may not easily step back from. In a move that shocked the international community and sent global markets reeling, Israel launched a wide-scale military operation against Iran in the early hours of the morning, striking targets across at least 12 provinces, including the capital, Tehran, and the northwestern hub of Tabriz. Among the targets were suspected nuclear facilities, air defence systems, and the homes and offices of senior military personnel. Iranian state media confirmed the deaths of several top commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

 

A Brief History of U.S. Military Interventions Within the United States

June 13, 2025

Zoltan Grossman

Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. I’ve studied the history and geography of U.S. military interventions from the “Indian Wars” to the Middle East, and have documented only a handful of times that Army, Marines, or federalized National Guard forces have been used against U.S. citizens over the past century. For Trump to take such a profound leap is an admission that a conflict at home is being equated to an overseas war. Sending in soldiers trained for combat will only make a bad situation worse, by launching a war at home against domestic dissent.

 

Iran live: Israeli attacks on Iran kill at least 78 people

June 13, 2025

Fresh wave of strikes hits Tabriz, Shiraz and Iran's main nuclear site

Key Points:

• Trump says Iran 'perhaps' could have second chance
• Israel shutters embassies in several countries including US, UK
• Iranian president vows 'powerful and legitimate' response

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian brothers in massive West Bank raid

June 11, 2025

Qassam Muaddi

Israeli forces killed two brothers and injured more than 30 in a large-scale military invasion in Nablus. According to witnesses, one brother was killed in a confrontation with soldiers after they ordered him to pull his pants down and he refused.

 

 A view of Palestinian homes destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Tulkarm refugee camp, east of Tulkarm city, in the northern West Bank, on June 9, 2025. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)

Europe’s latest sanctions show that it is heading for disaster

June 12, 2025

Ian Proud

Friedrich Merz won’t survive a single term in office and France will be the next country to exit the EU, triggering an implosion of the project.

Israeli Attacks Kill Dozens at Aid Sites as Gaza Death Toll Surpasses 55,000

June 11, 2025

Julia Conley

One Palestinian man said he and his brother, who was killed, had no choice but to try to access aid at privatized distribution points, even though they knew it was dangerous to approach them.

 

Palestinians mourn their loved ones who were killed by Israeli attacks in Khan Younis, Gaza on June 11, 2025. (Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Meet the Think Tanks behind MAGA’s new free speech crackdown

June 11, 2025

Robert Inlakesh

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump—and many of his most prominent right-wing supporters—are directly linked to some of the most radically pro-war, pro-Israel organizations in the country. These connections form a sprawling web of lobbying groups, tech billionaires, and media figures who consistently promote Israeli interests above those of ordinary Americans.

 

 Space X (formerly Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with a person during a live interview with Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association’s symposium on antisemitism in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. (Photo | STR | NurPhoto via AP)

پیری و شکر

 ۱۱/۶/۲۰۲۵

آیا می‌خواهید روند پیری را تسریع کنید و به سلامت طولانی مدت خود آسیب بزنید؟ اگر چنین است، ما دقیقاً همان چیزی را که احتیاج دارید برای شما داریم!ا

Genocide by Starvation

June 10, 2025

Chris Hedges

Los Angeles Resistance: Standing Against ICE

June 9, 2025

Michael Fox

Protesters have taken to the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. They’re protesting the detention and arrest of thousands of immigrants through Trump’s ICE raids. This is episode 44 of Stories of Resistance.

 

 Protesters shutdown the 101 Freeway as they clash with law enforcement in downtown Los Angeles due to the immigration raids in L.A. on Sunday, June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles, CA. Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

‘What is happening in Gaza is a genocide’: Brazil’s President Lula da Silva reinforces criticism of Israel in South America

June 9, 2025

In the Southern Cone, governments are split between criticism and full support of the Israeli government over the war

 

In 2023, after the Hamas attacks and the war, Brazilian citizens were repatriated from Gaza. Photo: Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil, used with permission 

Displaced Again and Again, Gazans Ask: Where Do We Go?

June 8, 2025

Hend Salama Abo Helow

Fear in Gaza has surged again after Israeli forces threatened to turn Khan Younis refugee camp into barren swaths.

 

A boy sits with packed belongings and beddings atop a moving vehicle as displaced people flee from Khan Yunis westwards to al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2025, after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order. 

LIVE BLOG: Rafah Aid Center Massacre | Gaza Hospitals Low on Fuel under Siege – Day 610

June 8, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
54,880	126,227	14,000

In Haifa, where ‘coexistence’ requires silence about Israel’s war crimes

June 7, 2025

Ghousoon Bisharat

Last Saturday, I joined thousands in the streets to protest the genocide. But the ensuing backlash has made me question whether I'm welcome in my own city.

 

 Protesters march through the streets of Haifa calling for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza, May 31, 2025. (Yahel Gazit)

Musk proposes new political party after break with Trump

June 7, 2025

The tech entrepreneur’s political shift follows a public feud with the US President

 

June 6, 2025

Caitlin Johnstone

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Hamas slams fifth US veto of Gaza ceasefire as 'green light for war criminal Netanyahu'

June 5, 2025

Washington’s representative said a UNSC vote to end the genocidal war and deadly aid blockade would be ‘rewarding Hamas’s intransigence’

 

Greta Thunberg and 11 Other Volunteers Set Sail for Gaza

June 3, 2025

Juan Cole

The mission is sponsored by the Freedom Flotilla in a symbolic effort to break Israel's blockade of food and aid to the Strip.

 

 Climate activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, on June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

در دفاع از رئیس جمهورمان، آقای ترامپ

ما چه ملت خوش‌شانسی هستیم که رئیس جمهور عزیزمان مجددا انتخاب شد. البته اگر آقای بایدن و خانم حریس نبودند، انتخاب ترامپ به این راحتی‌ صورت نمی‌گرفت. این کاملا واضح است که رقیب انتخاباتی او شخصی‌ بود که احتمال انتخابش بسیار کم بود. چرا که نه تنها خانم حریس رنگین پوست است، بلکه یک زن است، و کسی‌ با این مشخصات نمی‌تواند به راحتی‌ در این کشور انتخاب شود.ا

 

Israeli fire kills at least 27 aid seekers in Gaza: Health Ministry

June 3, 2025

Death toll around controversial aid hubs rises as Israeli army reported kills another 27 near Rafah in southern Gaza.

 

My Abundance Agenda

June 3, 2025

Dean Baker

Since “abundance” is apparently the in-thing, I thought I should get in on the act. At the onset, I will admit I don’t have much new to offer to those familiar with my writings, but sometimes a repackaging is useful.

Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants “Permanent War” in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire

June 2, 2025

Democracy Now

We get an update on ongoing ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel from former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy. The latest proposal, mediated by U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, “walks back the commitment for a permanent ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal and allowing in of humanitarian aid.” It’s a bad deal for the Palestinians that will allow Israel to continue its ethnic cleansing of Gaza, says Levy. Meanwhile, families of Israeli hostages are protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s delays in securing a deal as he works toward “permanent war” and the eventual annexation of Gaza. “None of this would be possible if so much of the Israeli media and society was not mobilized in support of this, and none of that would be possible if Israel wasn’t treated with impunity.” Levy also responds to the latest massacre of Palestinians at an aid site operated by the U.S.-Israeli aid initiative, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

 

Cheers And Jeers As Cannes-Winning Director Jafar Panahi Returns To Iran

June 2, 2025

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

( RFE/ RL ) – The awarding of the prestigious Palme d’Or to It Was Just An Accident, the latest film by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, has sparked widespread reactions in Iran and across the global Iranian diaspora.

 

LIVE BLOG: Israel Bombs Lebanon | Massacre at ‘Aid’ Center | Ansarallah Targets Ben Gurion – Day 603

Jun 1, 2025

Killed    Wounded          Missing

54,381  124,054             14,000

 

Live: Israeli forces open fire at Palestinians near US aid point

May 31, 2025
Meanwhile, the military issues new forced displacement orders across northern Gaza
Key Points:

• Gaza death toll tops 54,300
• US-backed Gaza ceasefire plan proposes 60 day truce
• Macron warns Israel of ‘sanctions’ if Gaza aid access doesn’t improve

A widely circulated image of starving Palestinians in Rafah at an aid distribution site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, May 27, 2025. (Photo: Social Media)

Israeli Strikes Kill 62 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours

May 29, 2025
Dave DeCamp

At least 23 were killed by heavy Israeli strikes on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza

 

Relatives of Palestinians who lost their lives mourn at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after the Israeli army bombed several homes in Jabalia (IMAGO/APAimages via Reuters Connect)

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Trump’s New Gaza "Ceasefire" Proposal

May 29, 2025
Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Jawa Ahmad

Drop Site obtained the “term sheet,” circulated by Steve Witkoff. It would allow Israel to resume war after 60 days.

 
First page of the new Witkoff “term sheet” obtained by Drop Site News.

The Gaza solidarity movement outlives the Government’s support for Israel

May 29, 2025

David Jamieson

Something immense but not sufficiently recognised has taken place in the last few days. The Gaza solidarity movement has outlived the British Government’s policy of defence for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Just before this volte-face, the Gaza solidarity movement achieved its second largest demonstration to date. It has, therefore, scored another partial but real victory.

 

Western elites have already determined the fate of the EU

May 29, 2025

Hugo Dionísio

Donald Trump’s return to the scene accelerates the decline of U.S. hegemony.