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[ad_1] Nate Bear Do Not Panic Iran has forced the US into one of the biggest strategic defeats in its short, violent and bloody history. The memorandum of understanding with Iran, signed (symbolically or not), at Versailles yesterday, signalled, as I wrote earlier this week, that we’re witnessing the collapse of American hard power. After it was signed, Trump made some extraordinary comments that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the handbook of anti-imperial critique, including that it’s not fair to tell Iran it can’t have missiles if all it’s neighbours have them and that it’s “common sense” that the country should be…
[ad_1] After all, no one is in control of HIM(!) — not even HIM(!). In his own mind at least, he’s clearly president, ruler, king, dictator, you name it, of the increasingly (dis)United States of America. In fact, he should truly be considered a one-of-a-kind, even the first (and, for all we know, anything but the last) of a kind in the quarter millennia of our history. And yes, we Americans live in a country that, in the more than three-quarters of a century since the U.S. emerged successfully from World War II as the great imperial power (perhaps even…
[ad_1] Does the U.S. government have enough ammunition for all its wars and potential wars? Ask two different Pentagon officials and get two different answers. In May 2026, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told Congress that “we’re doing a pause” on sales to Taiwan “in order to make sure we have the munitions we need” for the Iran war. A few days later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth backpedaled. “Hung Cao is fantastic, but I would not couple the two in any way at all,” he told reporters. “And I feel good about not only where we are, but where we…
[ad_1] After losing the war, a major U.S.-Israel row is coming to a head with the fate of Mideast peace and the global economy on the line. With Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Saturday 8 pm EDT. Guests: Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan. Please Donate to the Spring Fund Drive! [ad_2] Source link
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[ad_1] British courts have upheld the proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. A series of abuses of legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined Jonathan Cook [First published by +972] It was virtually inevitable that, once the British government decided to actively support Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza, an unprecedented, authoritarian crackdown on dissent back home would follow. That climate of official repression culminated this week with the Court of Appeal — the UK’s second highest court — upholding the government’s proscription last year of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization. The need to crush opposition to the…
[ad_1] A Group of bonobos. Photo: Pierre Fidenci. CC BY-SA 2.5 We’re just a few sparklers and a sucker punch away from America’s 250th birthday. It’s times like these that I really miss my dearly departed Captain Max – both to celebrate the red, white and bonobo blue and to stand with me against these performative patriots with sucker-punching kinks. But my beloved Max, aka Pr. Maximillian Lobkowicz di Filangieri (November 8, 1943 – May 13, 2025), is gone, so what’s a weeping widow to do with her summertime red, white and blues? No Erika Kirk prayers please! Perhaps it’s…
[ad_1] Throughout his nascent tenure, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has positioned himself as a champion of Big Apple small businesses. Just two weeks onto the job, he declared: “You cannot tell the story of New York without our small businesses.” He went on to decry costly city regulations that have “long made it too hard for these same businesses to open their doors.” Perhaps on account of his love for food, Mamdani has shown particular adoration for NYC’s network of independently owned bodegas: “I can’t imagine New York City without bodegas. They represent our hustle and entrepreneurial spirit.” But so…
[ad_1] We are the Joke – by Mr. Fish The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin — to pillory the goons, misfits and mediocrities who hold power and spew fascist bile. But this form of satire blinds opponents to its destructive power and murderous core. It ignores the real centers of…