Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

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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Socialist Action’s May Day Statement on Defeating U.S. Imperialism’s Wars

by Socialist Action, published on Socialist Action, April 12, 2026 U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine! The world’s people in the main declared US President Donald Trump a war criminal when he announced on April 7, 2026 that, “The whole [Iranian] civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it[…]

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Israel’s Khiam fixation: One Hill, Five Wars, and No Lessons Learned

by Anis Raiss, published on The Cradle, March 13, 2026 According to biblical tradition, the patriarch Jacob pitched his tents on the plain of Khiam – a name that literally means “the tents.” Millennia later, the same ridge has become a recurring battlefield. The occupation state that invokes Jacob’s inheritance as a historical justification has spent decades trying to seize[…]

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Venezuela, Palestine, And The End Of International Law

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Popular Resistance, January 8, 2026 Ushering In The Age Of Impunity. On January 3, 2026, without provocation, cause, or legal justification, the U.S. bombed Venezuela, invaded its capital, killed dozens of people, and violently abducted the President and First Lady of the country, binding, blindfolding, and spiriting them off to the United States. Surely, such[…]

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The Sham Trump/UN Peace Plan: Rebranding Genocide By Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges, published on Socialist Action, December 15, 2025 The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it. See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though,[…]

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AIPAC: A Tail, a Dog, a Carrot and a Stick

By John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, December 2, 2025  Many liberals and leftists believe AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, shapes US policy towards Israel or in fact controls it. The truth is quite different. Israel was not created by the United Kingdom, the US and other Western imperialists to give Jews a place of refuge after World[…]

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What do the Situations in Venezuela and Palestine Have in Common

by Judy Bello, November 2025 During last month’s call for protests and solidarity events around the U.S. threats towards Venezuela, I noticed that many people  in our local Palestine protest group did not really see any relationship between the genocide in Gaza and the U.S.  attacks on Latin America.   It occurred to me that people deeply involved in supporting our[…]

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United Nations Security Council Resolution on Gaza is a Surrender to U.S. Led Global Fascism

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 26, 2025 By approving a U.S. “peace plan” that legitimizes genocide and ends the right to resist, the United Nations Security Council has not just failed Palestine—it has actively consolidated a new era of global fascism. A Day That Will Live in Infamy A few days into the massive revenge attack[…]

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The Unanimous UN Vote to Enslave Palestine

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, December 1, 2025 The November 18 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval of the Trump Administration and Zionist Israel drafted “peace plan,” Resolution 2803, effectively transfers the administration and occupation of colonized and occupied Palestine to the imperialist U.S. and Israel. The vote, 13-0, with two abstentions from China and Russia, legitimizes the[…]

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