US foreign policy
John Kerry fact checks Trump’s lies about the Iran deal
John Kerry tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it was "always an option" to take out Soleimani, through several administrations, but "people made a judgment that...
The Empire strikes back. Netanyahu, Trump and the Neocons
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
For the time being it seems we avoided the global disaster of an all-out confrontation between US, Israel and their allies on...
Democrats try to stop the drive to War
House Passes War Powers Challenge to Attack on Iran
Posted on January 9, 2020
In a vote heavily split along party lines, the House of Representatives...
Frustrated Dems plan war powers vote over Iran
Democrats were skeptical over the administration's justification to kill a key Iranian general.
By SARAH FERRIS, JOHN BRESNAHAN and CONNOR O’BRIEN
01/08/202
House Democrats emerged from a...
The U.S. Public Still Doesn’t Want War With Iran
According to recent polling data, the majority of Americans blame Trump’s policies for heightened tensions with Iran—and the killing of Suleimani won’t change that.
By...
By denying Iran’s foreign minister visa for Security Council visit, America...
By Dr. George Szamuely, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute and author of Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia
7 Jan, 2020
US officials have...
Trump is not leaving Iraq. “You are not a dictator”, Democrats...
'You’re Not a Dictator': US House Committee Slams Trump, Seeks to Curb Iran Warmongering
06.01.2020
Tensions between the United States and Iran have risen sharply,...
17 years after the US-British-Polish-Australian invasion, Iraq wants US troops out....
Iraqi Parliament Votes to Expel All American Troops and Submit UN Complaint Against US for Violation of Sovereignty
"What happened was a political assassination. Iraq...
After Mossad Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger
by Jefferson Morley
January 3, 2020
Last October Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad, spoke openly about assassinating Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the head of the...
Doubling Down Into Yet Another ‘March of Folly,’ This Time on...
“We write with a sense of urgency suggesting you avoid doubling down on catastrophe,” VIPS tells Donald Trump in its latest memo to the...