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.

 

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.

 

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

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

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.

Craig Murray: Losing My Religion

September 30, 2026
Craig Murray
The institutions of international law have failed, as deeply shocking things have happened these past three years as conscious acts of western governments acting in unison. The Genocide in Gaza is only the most obvious.

 

Ruins of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, on Feb. 28, 2026, after U.S. air strikes. 156 civilians were killed, including 120 schoolchildren. (Mehr News Agency /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0)

Iran war live: Top Iranian official says ‘US will inevitably leave region’

September 29, 2026
Stephen Quillen, Tracy J. Jawad and Leila Minkara

Eight US Marines Injured in Iranian Missile Strike in Strait of Hormuz

September 28, 2026
Eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian missile struck a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, NBC News reported.

Only ‘Negotiated Solution’ Can Get US Out of ‘Deadlock,’ Iranian Diplomat Says After Trump Rejects Deal

September 27, 2026
Jessica Corbett
“They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately because they’re losing so badly,” the US president claimed. “We’re winning tremendously.”

 

The US kill count in Iran makes the phrase ‘precision strikes’ absurd

September 25, 2026

Martin Di Caro

Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Azmat Khan says the Pentagon still obfuscates, lies, and manipulates the truth about civilian deaths in war

 

Trump backs Hormuz alternative but his Iran war is blocking the route

September 25, 2026

US has revived talk of the IMEC, the India-Europe trade corridor, but it remains on paper due to the conflict in the Middle East

This Group Made Tech to Protect Users’ Privacy. Trump Labeled Them Terrorists.

September 24, 2026
Cody Bloomfield
Trump’s war on the left is coming for anti-surveillance technology providers.

Oil prices fall as Iran says it is open to diplomacy to end the war

September 24, 2026
Jeslyn Lerh and Arathy Somasekhar
SINGAPORE, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Oil prices retreated on Thursday after climbing 4% in the previous session as Iran said it remained open to diplomacy to end the US-Iran war, though the two countries remain far apart on ways to do so. 

Senate Narrowly Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution

September 24, 2026

Dave DeCamp

The vote doesn't negate a concurrent War Powers Resolution that was previously passed by both chambers and directed President Trump to end the war

Screenshot of Cspan broadcast during the vote

The Stalemate With Iran Is Not Sustainable

September 23, 2026
Richard Haass and Carolyn Kissane

A Diplomatic Strategy to End the War

 

گیاهان مفید برای سلامتی‌

فعال‌ترین عضو بدن ما انسان‌ها مغز ماست، که حتی در زمان خواب نیز مشغول فعالیت است. شاید بتوان بینی‌ را نیز در همان حدّ فعال دانست، چرا که ما همواره در حال تنفس می‌باشیم. قلب نیز همیشه در حال طپش است، پس این هم عضو فعال دیگری است. در واقع اگر به تک‌تک اعضائ بدن خود بی‌اندیشیم، کلیهٔ اندام داخلی‌ بدن، و چند عضو بیرونی، همواره در کنش و واکنش می‌باشند. زمانی‌ که نشسته‌ایم، به نظر می‌رسد که پاهایمان بیحرکت و ساکن هستند. ولی‌ در داخل پاها، و کلیهٔ اعضائ بدن ما همیشه و حتی موقع خواب فعالیت در جریان است، و تنها در زمان مرگ دیگر کنشی در اعضائ بدن وجود ندارد.

Live: Rubio says US open to meeting Iranian officials at UN

September 22, 2026
Key Points

• France welcomes Pakistan’s mediation efforts between Iran and the US
• Pezeshkian says people cannot be forced into submission through military pressure
• Saudi Arabia issues an alert in Najran as Houthi attacks on the kingdom continue

 

Live: Rubio says US open to meeting Iranian officials at UN

September 22, 2026
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
The Twelve-Day War, targeted assassinations, and U.S.-Israeli strikes have replaced proxy violence.

 

Iran's war economy is squeezing the wrong people

9/21/2026
Amir Hossein Mohaddes
Washington’s blockade is draining Iran’s revenues, but Tehran still decides how the burden is shared. Fuel hikes, weak price controls, and scarce currency for luxury imports risk shifting costs onto ordinary households instead of those higher up the economic ladder.

The Economics of Destruction

9/21/2026
Joan Robinson
We are sitting around discussing ideas totally beside the point. The important question is not whether the rate of inflation is high or low or can be brought under control but whether our generation will succeed in destroying the world. We are seeing the supply of arms pile up as the Americans and Soviets advance from one missile system to the next. This same threat lies before the next generation. We should realize that the stockpiling of destruction precedes discussion of inflation and unemployment. The arms race is too serious a matter for us to be content to dispute economic theories that float off into the stratosphere.