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We Have Been There Before: The US-Iran MOU and the Algiers Accords

by Susan Fayazmanesh, published on CounterPunch, July 17, 2026 Maybe it’s not just that Trump and his staff are crazy.  It turns out we did this to Iran before.    “The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s[…]

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Destabilization of Haiti Made in the United States

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, April, 15, 2026 Editor’s note: Last week the Trump administration removed Temporary Protected Status from refugees from Haiti an Syria.   Starvation and violence in Haiti, mass murder by Syria’s terrorist government are irrelevant. It is the United States that deliberately created both scenanrios.    I lost track of this article but it is[…]

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Lindsey Graham Was the Face of the Duopoly

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 15, 2026 The late Senator Lindsey Graham played the role of chief congressional warmonger very well. But many of his colleagues, who spoke in quieter voices, were completely aligned with his support of U.S. imperialism. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina’s republican senior senator, passed away suddenly on the evening of July 11,[…]

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FIFA Reinforces ICE Repression While Targeting Iran, Haiti and Africa

by Sara Flounders,published on Workers World, June 17, 2026 The stated role of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), as the World Cup tournament organizer, is to ensure that football (soccer) is accessible to everyone and that global tournaments will be “safe, welcoming and inclusive.” That is not the reality of the 2026 World Cup. The anger at FIFA’s multimillionaire[…]

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How Gaza Was Disappeared from the News

by Eve Ottenberg, published on Radio Free, June 18, 2026 Another month passes, and Gaza is barely in the news: the inert, so-called Board of Peace is doing its job. You might have thought that job involved reconstruction so Gazans could use the water, roads, food markets, hospitals and schools that make life livable, but if so, you would have[…]

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Alex Saab Extradited to the United States

by Chicago Solidarity, published on Chicago Alba Solidarity, May 21, 2026 Many of us have long been involved in the struggle to Free Alex Saab and to defend Venezuelan sovereignty against US economic and military aggression. Alex Saab’s imprisonment by the US on June 12, 2020, until his release on December 20, 2023, had no justification. It was in retaliation[…]

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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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