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U.S. warplanes struck Iran again June 28, the second round of bombing in two days near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran answered with missile and drone attacks on U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain. […]

Iran is not merely another nation-state on the map. It is one of history’s great civilizations, a country whose identity cannot be confined by geography or measured within the lifespan of a modern political order. […]

On June 22, 1941, more than three million soldiers of Nazi Germany and its allies crossed the Soviet border in Operation Barbarossa. What followed was a colonial war of annihilation that killed some 27 million […]

On June 20, Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz ordered the army into the streets. A 90-day state of emergency, signed that day, authorizes soldiers to clear the road blockades that workers, campesino organizations and Indigenous communities […]

The U.S. launched a war on Iran to tighten its grip on oil, the dollar and West Asia. It retreated when the war began to choke oil, shipping and industry — and to shake the […]

The general strike in Bolivia has eclipsed the 45 day mark. The main demand of the strike is the resignation of right-wing President of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz Pereira. Paz is aligned with the Trump administration […]

Trump announced on June 14 that the United States and Iran had reached a deal to suspend the war Washington launched on Feb. 28. Hours before the announcement, U.S. bombs fell on the southern suburbs […]