Iran Shows Us Why The US And Israel Should Not Be Allowed To Have Nukes

by Caitlin Johnstone, June 24, 2025 Well it’s been a crazy couple of days. Trump bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear energy facilities in an attack that CNN reports did no lasting damage, and Iran exercised extraordinary restraint with symbolic retaliatory strikes on US military bases coordinated to avoid American casualties — a move…

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We Must Oppose War With Iran At The Top Of Our Lungs

by Caitlin Johnstone, June 16, 2025 President Trump is reportedly returning to Washington early from a G7 summit in Canada and has told his national security council to prepare for an urgent meeting in the situation room, apparently to discuss Iran. The US president has taken to social media to…

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Never Let Your Government Tell You Who Your Enemies Are

by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley Never let your government tell you who your enemies are. It’s not the fault of middle eastern people that they live on top of a bunch of oil near crucial trade routes in a region which bridges three continents. And that’s all this has…

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Are US National Security Policies Counterproductive?

Reports in the US media about either verbal or violent attacks upon the US rarely include background to help a reader to understand what might motivate such attacks. There are hundred, probably thousands, of cases where US government officials have secretly opposed democracy at home and abroad, though you wouldn't…

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