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Tarique Niazi Foreign Policy in Focus Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir’s trip to Iran on August 24 has ignited new hope for a negotiated end to the the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. He arrived in Tehran with “fresh proposals” to end the current deadlock between Iran and the United Sates and, more importantly, to restart the stalled talks between the two. Munir undertook the trip with the blessings of the top leadership in the United States. Although Islamabad and Washington have been in “constant” conversations as to how to resolve the ongoing conflict in…
This move by the U.S. State and Treasury Departments is the first sign they understand how to address the unique challenge of far-left terrorism. Source link
“I won’t stop resisting. you can’t use the word ‘hope’ if you don’t resist.” Joshua Scheer In this wide-ranging Q&A, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges answers questions directly from his readers and viewers about the crises defining our age: the genocide in Gaza, the disastrous war with Iran, the collapse of the Democratic Party, Trump’s authoritarian movement, the power of Wall Street and the unchecked militarism hollowing out the American empire. But beneath every exchange lies a deeper question: What does resistance mean when the institutions meant to protect democracy have surrendered to wealth, war and corporate power? Hedges…
Until the Democratic Party moderates, the effort is unlikely to succeed. Source link
The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, Black Agenda Report. The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) strongly condemns “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’,” the open letter published on 20 August 2026 in The Guardian and signed by Western academics and cultural workers in the imperialist core. The letter distorts history, obfuscates the current geopolitical conjuncture, and provides ideological cover for the intensification of the ongoing war against Iran.[1] Similar to accusations against the Palestinian resistance that equate the zionist genocide to resistance-to-genocide, the letter creates a false and dangerous equivalence between the defensive actions of the Islamic Republic of Iran…
A U.S. official told CBS News that interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez granted a private joint venture a 100-year concession to operate in oil fields that make up 65 billion barrels of petroleum. Source link
Robert Inlakesh MintPress News US President Donald Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ is following home as the daunting reality of America’s dwindling Strategic Petroleum Reserves becomes inescapable. In this episode of The Target, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh explores the latest revelations to emerge regarding “beyond critical” shortages in air key munitions. The damage inflicted to US military and intelligence sites by Iranian strikes has been far more extensive than we were previously led to believe. Over the months the extent of the damage has become clearer, as satellite imagery and independent investigations uncover extensive damage to 20 US bases across…
In cities where everything seems to take forever to build, literally covering over these sites of everyday urban friction has become a powerfully visible form of political currency. Source link
By Jamila Osman This article was originally published by Truthout “I’m too scared to even walk to the mailbox,” one Somali immigrant said. After months of legal back-and-forth, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay blocking the termination of Somalia’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation on August 14. The move puts thousands of Somalis in the U.S. at risk of immediate detention, deportation, loss of work authorization, and family separation. The initial termination was announced on January 13, 2026, by then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who gave just 60 days’ notice before the designation…