Iran’s Theory of Victory

October 9, 2026
Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr

Tehran’s Fight for Great-Power Status in the Post-American Middle East

Is Iran poised to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty?

October 8, 2026
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

Jewish, 94, and arrested for supporting Palestine Action: Margaret Owen on Ed Miliband and the right to protest

October 7, 2026
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

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.

US President Donald Trump gestures as he walks onstage to speak during a campaign rally at Pinnacle Bank Expo Center in GrandIsland, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/AFP via GettyImages)

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

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.

FILE PHOTO: Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam Thursday, 10th September 2026, 09:00

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

“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.

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