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The Escalator Grinds to a Halt

by Paul Larudee, October 26, 2024 It is apparently not much of an exaggeration to say that Israel’s attack on Iran fizzled. Some targets were hit and at least two Iranian soldiers were killed, but the ineffectiveness of the operation was probably due to several factors: Israel just doesn’t have the weaponry. Most of its missiles don’t have the distance,[…]

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NYT’s Warmonger Bret Stephens Says the U.S. Must Attack Iran: Some Necessary Iran-US history

by Joseph Palermo, published on Socialist Action, October 8, 2024 Reprinted from The LA Progressive [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We reprint below Joseph Polermo’s Los Angeles Progressive factual account obliterating NYT’s rightwing editorialist Bret Stephen’s call for a punishing US war against Iran for its recent retaliatory firing of missiles on the genocidal Zionist Israeli entity. Polermo more than adequately[…]

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The Resistance Axis Evaluates The Field: Beginning a Second Year of War with Greater Confidence

by Syed Akif Zaidi in Palestine, published on Countercurrents, 09/10/2024 An entire year has now passed since the Palestinian uprising of October 7. As we enter the second year of this war, it is important to take stock of the ways in which a year of war has changed the geopolitical situation and balance of power in West Asia and[…]

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The Year After Al Aqsa Flood

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 2, 2024 The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of western democracy and the illusion of international law. Iran’s missile attacks on Israeli military targets were the result of a year of provocation. Months of restraint ended when Israel escalated its war on the rest of[…]

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Iran’s Retaliatory Strikes on Israel were Legal and in Self-Defense

UNAC Statement, October 3, 2024 Iran executed a legal and legitimate response to provocations by Israel following illegal terrorist attacks by the Zionist regime that targeted Iranian nationals and interests, infringing upon Iran’s sovereignty. In accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Iran launched over 200 ballistic missiles at military targets in Israel on Tuesday. These strikes directly[…]

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From the Phony Debate on Gaza to the Uhuru 3: The US/EU Commitment to Human Rights Has Always Been Lie

Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 18, 2024 State repression increases as the so-called democracies continue in a state of crisis. Only a people-centered human rights struggle can bring true justice and peace. “Instead of prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan, the anti-Semites, and reactionaries, the government is arresting anti-fascists.”  (Claudia Jones) Margaret Kimberley: I’m joined[…]

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The Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance Met in Tehran to Honor the Achievements of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani

by Judith Bello, published on Syria Support Movement, January 22, 2024 I traveled to Tehran to meet with the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance the first week in January this year.   The Gathering is an international organization based in Lebanon, but our meeting in Tehran at this time was an opportunity to attend memorial events for Qasem[…]

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Reviving ISIS: A US weapon against the Resistance Axis

by The Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent, published on The Cradle, January 17, 2024 Iraqi security sources are warning of an ISIS revival in the country, which coincides all too neatly with the spike in Iraqi resistance operations against US bases in Iraq and Syria, and with widening regional instability caused by Israel’s military assault on Gaza. More than six years after[…]

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Iran Accuses Israel Of Using ‘Blind Terrorism’ To Cover Up Its Failures

by  People’s Dispatch, published on Popular Resistance, January 22, 2024 Israel Has Been Carrying Out Air Strikes in Lebanon and Syria. Allegedly targeting Hezbollah and Iranian targets in clear attempts to provoke a regional war. Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian accused Israel of using “mindless terrorism” to cover up its losses in its war on Gaza. Abdollahian’s statement on[…]

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Did Israel Kill Iranian Commander to Provoke a Wider War?

by Trita Parsi, published on Responsible Statecraft, December 26, 2023 Iran’s top commander in Syria, Seyed Razi Mousavi, was assassinated Sunday by an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood, according to Iran’s official news agency IRNA and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This has led Tehran to call for reprisals, ratcheting up fears that this[…]

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