Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Iran, Imperialism, and the Left’s Dangerous False Equivalence

by Vijay Prashad, published on the LA Progressive, August 24, 2026 The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside the country. Hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and neighbourhoods have been struck. The 168 schoolgirls killed in Minab[…]

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Response to Guardian Letter on Iran: Which Side Are You On?

OpEd by Workers World, published August 25, 2026 In Workers World’s opinion, the task of progressive activists and organizations, especially those in the imperialist countries, is to promote, in both theory and in practice, united strategies to weaken and defeat imperialism. The enemy is the ruling class of the U.S. or the other imperialist countries in the Global North. That[…]

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A People(s) Centered Human Rights Critique of “An Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners”

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, August 256, 2026 A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a sovereign state under siege and the other is the world’s most powerful empire waging war. Several commentators have addressed the problem[…]

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Misreporting Manafort: A Case Study in Journalistic Malpractice

Image: Screenshot, grabbed 12/5/18 from News Hollywood video on Youtube, posted 11/27/18 by Alan MacLeod, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, December 3, 2018 In what has been described as potentially the biggest story of the year, the Guardian’s Luke Harding (11/27/18) reported last week that Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, held a series of secret talks with[…]

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