«Und während Sie über Ungarn mal dies hören und mal das, sollten Sie besser schleunigst nach Brüssel sehen, wo von der Leyen das Projekt der Zweckentfremdung der EU, der Vergewaltigung der europäischen Verträge und der finalen Entmachtung der Nationalstaaten vorantreibt, als gäb’s kein Morgen. Ein Projekt, das nie etwas anderes als Ihre eigene Entmachtung, werter Bürger, war, die unter dieser Kommissionspräsidentin natürlich verlässlich aufs Hässlichste verschleiert ist.» (– Martin Sonneborn)
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In Iran, the US Manufactured an Enemy and Lost All Its Friends
The war on Iran was neither inevitable nor necessary. As recently as March 3, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said the IAEA “has found no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb.” On March 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate Intelligence Committee that since […]
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Death From Above: How Drones Are Reshaping Wildlife in Ukraine
The skies over the Ukrainian frontline no longer belong to the birds. In a conflict now entering its fifth year, the rapid rise of small, low-cost drones has created a new kind of aerial pressure – one that hunters and wildlife managers would recognize as a permanent “landscape of fear.” What began with hobbyist quadcopters […]
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Bring the Troops Back. End This War Now!
As we begin a new week, the media is filled with reports that President Trump is ready to approve a US ground operation against Iran, either to seize Iran’s uranium or to attack an island off the country’s coast. Thousands of US troops have sped to the conflict area to await President Trump’s decision. The […]
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Does the Tail Wag the Dog? How Both Sides Are Missing the Bigger Picture
The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes Israel lured Trump into a trap from which he cannot extricate himself. […]
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Iran ‘Gone Wild’ in Dimona: Is Tehran Using Israel-US Madman Doctrine?
The wording is familiar. The urgency is always absolute. The implication is unmistakable: Israel is not choosing war. It is forced into it. For many, the claim is inherently contradictory. How can a state initiate war – and in Gaza’s case, sustain a genocide – while insisting that it is merely defending itself from annihilation? […]
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Iran’s Alleged 47-Year War on America: Debunking the 1,050 American Deaths Canard
On the eve of the horrific World Trade center attack on September 11, 2001, the mullahs and their IRGC hooligans had been in power for nearly 22 years. Yet the record for that two decade interval subsequent to the founding of the Iranian Revolution does not even remotely establish that the regime in Tehran had […]
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How the West Is Quietly Legitimizing Anti-Iran Terrorists
US President Ronald Reagan once declared that “Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.” While the ideological descendants of President Reagan love to incessantly describe Iran as the “#1 State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US and its Western allies have, hypocritically, supported terrorists when it benefits them. The most obvious example of […]
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When the US Supported a Brutal Chinese Conquest of Taiwan
In the Western imagination, Taiwan is cast almost exclusively as a flourishing democracy under siege by a totalitarian neighbor, a moral clarity that fuels calls for military defense and ideological solidarity. Sulmaan Wasif Khan’s magisterial new history, The Struggle for Taiwan – published in 2024 – does not deny the island’s democratic vibrancy or the […]
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War and Morality
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men’s power games. It is the health of the state. The war […]
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The Latest Big Lie About the ‘Iran War’
Let’s begin by recalling why the US Navy shot-down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 and brought 241 innocent men, women and children to their doom. The answer, of course, is that the Navy was conducting patrol operations in the Persian Gulf during the Tanker War in behalf of Iraq and its ally, Kuwait. Yet […]
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US Sanctions on Venezuela Continue: Corporate Beneficiaries and a Targeted Society
In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion. However, far from dismantling the sanctions regime, the US has merely adjusted its application through licensing mechanisms, leaving the core structure […]
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The Self-Undoing of Israel: Has Zionism Crossed the Point of No Return
Is Israel’s trajectory toward isolation and collapse self-inflicted, and has Zionism reached the point of no return? Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces two possibilities: to do or die,” Netanyahu declared on October 28, 2023, as Israel expanded its […]
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How the US Became an International Serial Killer
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. On March 17th and 18th, the United States and Israel assassinated three senior Iranian government officials in targeted air strikes: Ali Larijani, […]
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Why Donald Trump Just Can’t Stop Going to War
After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that “help is on the way.” On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched what immediately became a devastating war on Iran. American and Israeli warplanes began dropping bombs on a country of some 93 million people. Trump soon put out a […]
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The Iran War and the Collapse of Western Moral Credibility
There is something revealing about the way Western governments talk about war when Iran is involved. The language changes almost instantly. Questions of legality fade into the background. Questions of power, stability, and markets move to the front. What is presented as moral clarity is usually something much less noble: a hierarchy of concern in […]
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Free Speech for Me But Not For Thee
Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the same reasons. This followed […]
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War Abroad and Authoritarianism at Home
“War is the health of the state.” That phrase, coined by Randolph Bourne, explains why opposition to war is a priority of many libertarians. War allows governments to increase spending, taxes, and regulations in order to feed the war machine. Wars can justify measures that remain in place long after the wars end. An example […]
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After the Donald’s Demolition Derby in the Persian Gulf – A Last Ride on Marine One Won’t Be Far Behind
Well, here’s another flashing red warning light. The price of #2 diesel oil – the fuel that enables America’s giant trucking, rail and farm tractor fleets to generate and haul nearly $100 billion of GDP each and every day – including Sundays, holidays and snow days – is now up a staggering +44%from its January […]
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Think Again: Blaming Israel Is Too Easy
Blaming Israel is easy. With its actions in Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon, it is too easy. Taking responsibility is harder – and the deeper strategic malaise within the United States deserves far greater scrutiny than it receives. This malaise is not merely political; it’s intellectual. It begins with inherited traditions, is captured […]
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Trump and Hegseth Cannot Define the Truth of the US-Israeli War on Iran
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether against South Americans or in the Middle East. In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course […]
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