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Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, May 11, 2026 This is an interesting perspective on the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz Crisis.  All the more interesting with Trump going to China this week.  [jb] Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are[…]

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Why the West Clings to a Settler State That’s Already Dying

by Rima Najjar, published on Medium, October 2, 2025 Author’s Note:  This essay asks and answers a single, urgent question: Why are Western powers aligned with Israel — despite its collapse, its open embrace of ethnic supremacy, and its strategic liability? The answer unfolds across history, ideology, and institutional complicity. From the coerced origins of the U.S.-Israel alliance to the[…]

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Trump and Hubris Undid the Plan for Iran’s Destruction

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 8, 2026 The U.S. has been temporarily rattled in its regime change effort against Iran. Iranian resistance, hubris on the part of the U.S., and Donald Trump’s personal instability combined to undo a twisted fantasy of conquest. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t[…]

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Iran’s Drones, the Strait of Hormuz and the New World Order

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 10, 2026 On April 8, the people of Iran celebrated. And as Iran’s government announced, their military will keep its finger on the trigger. This implies not a moment of trust of U.S. imperialism, which violates every agreement it makes. A ceasefire based on Iran’s 10 points and a refusal to concede[…]

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Iran and the Psychopathology of White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, March 4, 2026 Western threats against Iran and other nations reveal the persistence of white supremacist ideology. The sincere belief that the sadistic brutalization of the Palestinian people would sever their connection to their land; that a sixty-year siege on Cuba would compel its people to abandon their revolution; or that assassinating[…]

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Tactical Retreats: Why Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands

…. Once again on the right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination and sovereignty by Manolo De Los Santes, published on People’s Dispatch, March 3, 2026 The early morning hours of January 3, 2026, marked an inflection point in Venezuela and Latin America’s centuries-long struggle for self-determination and independence. Operation Absolute Resolve, ordered by the Trump administration, constituted the[…]

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A Call from Beirut: To All Revolutionary Forces and Movements of Solidarity and Liberation Around the World

The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) and the Popular Democratic Party in Lebanon issue this urgent joint call to the free people of the world, to all organizers, activists, and collectives struggling for justice and liberation; to liberation movements, political parties, grassroots movements, labor unions, and student and women’s organizations: Act now to stand with Lebanon, Palestine, Iran,[…]

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Trump Defends the Dollar in Venezuela and Democrats Are Glad

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 28, 2026 The US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped Nicólas Maduro to defend the dominance of the US dollar. Venezuela had been selling oil to China in China’s currency, the yuan. Trump just sold $500 million worth of the oil the Navy has stolen from Venezuela at sea. Magnanimous guy that he[…]

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Say its name – Kalaallit Nunaat

By Paddy Colligan and G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, January 14, 2026 Kalaallit Nunaat, the Indigenous name for Greenland, is the world’s largest island and is located astride the Arctic Circle in North America. It is about three times the size of Texas, but unlike Texas, much of the center of Kalaallit is covered by an ice sheet over[…]

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