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What means ‘winning’? [Alastair Crooke – Strategic Culture Foundation, 07.01.2025]

The ‘long war’ to subvert Iran, weaken Russia, BRICS and China is on hold. It is not over. At one level, Iran plainly ‘won’. Trump had wanted to…

“Um Kulthoum”: Iran, Western Governments and Media Propaganda. “The Balance of Moral Authority has Shifted in Iran’s Favor”. [Rima Najjar, 06.26.2025]

As I listened to Western political analysts babbling about Iran on the airwaves this past week, I thought about Um Kulthoum and the West’s tendency to filter non-Western modes of…

Five Reasons Why Iran and Israel Agreed to a Ceasefire [Andrew Korybko, 06.24.2025]

Nobody saw it coming. Iran and Israel surprised the world by agreeing to a ceasefire precisely at the point when most observers expected their war to spiral out…

Trump official to The Grayzone: CIA’s Ratcliffe acts as ‘Mossad stenographer’ on Iran [Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil – The Grayzone, 06.21.2025]

A Trump official tells The Grayzone that Israel’s Mossad is using CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM’s Gen. Michael Kurilla to influence Trump with cooked intelligence on…

Oh look! A ‘think tank’ manufacturing consent to bomb Iran with tactical nukes [Vanessa Beeley, 06.21.2025]

Trump is considering a tactical nuke attack on Iranian soil which will have apocalyptic consequences On the 19th of June, the Atlantic Council published this hit piece against Iran, by…

Trump orders ‘unconditional surrender’ by Iran. Who’s listening? [M. K. Bhadrakumar – Indian Punchline, 06.18.2025]

Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex has been destroyed; ii) Haifa oil refinery is…

Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed [Jeffrey D. Sachs – Common Dreams, 06.16.2025]

We could soon see several nuclear powers pitted against each other and dragging the world closer to nuclear annihilation For nearly 30 years, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

Israel’s war on Iran was never just about nukes [Qassem Qassem – The Cradle, 06.14.2025]

Netanyahu has always sought more than just a halt to Iran’s nuclear program. In the current war, Tel Aviv sees a historic opportunity to finally bring down the…

Trump Moves ‘Nuclear Capable’ Bombers to Within Striking Distance of Iran [Mike Whitney – The Unz Review, 03.29.2025]

“A war with Iran would be 10 to 15 times worse than the Iraq War in terms of casualties and costs… And we would lose. We would undoubtedly lose….”…

The Long War to reaffirm Western and Israeli primacy undergoes a shape-shift [Alastair Crooke – Strategic Culture Foundation, 12.02.2024]

The Middle East is ‘conservative’ no more. Rather, a very different ‘Awakening’ is gestating. The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On…

The Islamic world reorganizes the strategy in Riyadh [Lorenzo Maria Pacini – Strategic Culture Foundation, 11.15.2024]

Probably, only a common war against a common enemy can unite Muslims. And that could happen very soon. On 11 November, an emergency Arab-Islamic summit on the question…

There are no “Easy Wars” left to fight, but do not mistake the longing for one [Alastair Crooke – Strategic Culture Foundation, 11.15.2024]

Trump may not appreciate just how isolated the U.S. and Israel are among Israel’s Arab and Sunni neighbours. Israelis, as a whole, are exhibiting a rosy assurance that…

Israel does what it does; it was always planned this way [Alastair Crooke – Strategic Culture Foundation, 10.14.2024]

With the assassination of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the Hizbullah senior leadership in Beirut – expressly without prior warning being given to the Pentagon –…

The Fall of Israel [Scott Ritter – Consortium News, 10.08.2024]

A year ago, Israel was sitting in the catbird seat. Today, it stares into the face of its demise. I have previously written about Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel,…

Bibi Will Bomb Iran. Or Maybe Not [Mike Whitney – The Unz Review, 10.06.2024]

The long-pervasive belief in American military supremacy is a myth; a mirage; a fallacious narrative fashioned from fables and Hollywood films. The US military has not won a war…

Closing hatches before rains founder the Western Vessel [Alastair Crooke – Strategic Culture Foundation, 09.16.2024]

The war is lost, and the struggle to keep the ‘enforced pretending’ going is breaking through, to be seen by all as a false reality. Israel is entering…

Raisi led the charge for Russia–Iran–China’s ‘new world order’ [Pepe Escobar – The Cradle, 05.22.2024]

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s eastward vision was instrumental in advancing the strategic Moscow–Tehran–Beijing nexus and bulldozing a path toward institutionalizing multipolarity. Amidst all the sadness and grief over…

Will Zionism self-destruct? [Alastair Crooke – Strategic Culture Foundation, 04.22.2024]

Israel’s strategy from past decades will continue with its hope of achieving some Chimeric transformative “de-radicalisation” of Palestinians that will make ‘Israel safe’ (This paper is the basis…

The Truth About the Destruction of Gaza [Michael Hudson – The Unz Review, 04.14.2024]

ANIA: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Today I have with me for the fourth time, I’m still counting, a very, very special guest, one of the best…

Iranian-Pakistan tensions occur amid Iran’s rise as new regional power in West Asia [Uriel Araujo – InfoBrics, 01.19.2024]

Iran and Pakistan have struck each other’s territory while targeting a terrorist group that operates on their shared border, thus confusing observers and analysts alike. Are both countries…

Iran: To veil or not to veil [Sharmine Narwani – The Cradle, 12.09.2022]

During a two-week visit to Iran in November, I witnessed women of all ages walking freely on the streets without the hijab. But, what we’re not told, is…

Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down But There May Be More to the Story [Philip Giraldi – American Herald Tribune, 01.15.2020]

The claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a “terrorist” on a mission to carry out an “imminent” attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to…

The Kerfuffle War – Trump’s Iran De-escalation Succeeds [Joaquin Flores – Strategic Culture Foundation, 01.09.2020]

Just like that, it was over. General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called it ‘a kerfuffle’. A letter was sent to their Iraqi peers…

Iraq: The October Revolution of 2019 and the Iran-US Conflict [Dirk Adriaensens – Global Research, 01.03.2020]

Iraq is home to thousands of US troops and is also home to powerful Iranian-backed militias. The fear is that Iraq could become the battleground of a war…

At UN Session, US Empire in Decline and Global Solidarity on the Rise [Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers – Popular Resistance, 09.25.2019]

As the United Nations General Assembly conducts its fall session, Popular Resistance is in New York City for the People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save…

Convenient “Tanker Attacks” as US Seeks War with Iran [Tony Cartalucci – New Eastern Outlook, 06.13.2019]

…it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more…

Pretexts for an Attack on Iran [Ray MGovern – Consortium News, 05.15.2019]

Ray McGovern probes the step-up in U.S. belligerence towards a country posing the same non-existent strategic threat as Iraq.  An Iraq-War redux is now in full play, with leading…

Vanessa Beeley Interviews Yemen’s Ministry of Health Spokesperson, Dr Youself Al-Haderi [21st Century Wire, 12.17.2018]

The “humanitarian” tragedy in Yemen has been in the news a lot recently. What most media and NGOs fail to clarify is that this is not some mysterious…

Washington’s Silent Weapon for Not-so-quiet Wars [William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook, 08.20.2018]

Today by far the deadliest weapon of mass destruction in Washington’s arsenal lies not with the Pentagon or its traditional killing machines. It’s de facto a silent weapon: the…

Brzezinski’s Ghost Shapes Washington Eurasia Geopolitics [F. William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook, 05.14.2018]

One of the most outstanding features of a truly standing-out Trump Presidency to date is how precisely the actual policy developments, when we clear away the deliberate smoke…

Countdown To War On Iran [Moon of Alabama, 05.12.2018]

John Bolton is a ruthless man: In early 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration was putting intense pressure on [José] Bustani to quit as…

Memorandum for the President: Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn [VIPS-Consortium News, 02.26.2018]

Introduction In our December 21st Memorandum to you, we cautioned that the claim that Iran is currently the world’s top sponsor of terrorism is unsupported by hard evidence. Meanwhile,…

Will Lebanon Be the Next Energy War? [F. William Engdahl-New Eastern Outlook, 02.14.2018]

A new geopolitical confrontation is shaping up in the Middle East, and not only between Israel and Syria or Iran. Like most conflicts there, it involves a fight…

What Is Happening in Iran? Is Another “Color Revolution” Underway? [Brandon Tuberville-Activist Post, 12.31.2017]

A familiar sight is taking place across Iran tonight and it has been for the last three days. Protests are taking place in numerous cities citing grievances and demanding that…

US-NATO Ground Forces, Escalation in Syria Leading to Global War (South Front, 12.05.2015)

The recent developments show significant changes in the strategy of the Western countries involved in the Syrian conflict. The US has sent ground forces, including special operations units,…

American Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine is a Throwback to Iran-Contra Days (Wayne Madsen-Strategic Culture Foundation, 02.03.2015)

It was inevitable. As calls increased by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and NATO military commander General Philip Breedlove, among others, for lethal military equipment to be…

From Energy War to Currency War: America’s Attack on the Russian Ruble (Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya-Strategic Culture Foundation, 12.26.2014)

A multi-spectrum war is being waged against Moscow by Washington. If there are any doubts about this, they should be put to rest. Geopolitics, science and technology, speculation,…

The March to War: Fighting ISIL is a Smokescreen for US Mobilization against Syria, Iran (Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya-Strategic Culture Foundation, 09.26.2014)

The ISIL or IS threat is a smokescreen. The strength of the ISIL has deliberately been inflated to get public support for the Pentagon and to justify the…

“This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran” (General Wesley Clark, 03.02.2007)

I said (to an army general), “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk….