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Another broken agreement — Washington tears up the Hormuz ceasefire

July 14, 2026 Gary Wilson

On May 5, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood at the White House podium and announced what victory in the U.S. war on Iran now meant. “As President Trump has said,” Rubio told reporters, “the […]

Air conditioning is a human right!

July 14, 2026 Stephen Millies

Capitalism is cooking the earth Thousands of people are dying in the United States and Europe during the current heat wave. An estimated 20,000 people perished in Europe during June. Deadly conditions are continuing into […]

Haiti and Bastille Day

July 14, 2026 Stephen Millies

July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date, in 1789, thousands of poor people in Paris attacked a hated prison called the Bastille and began the French Revolution. The continual intervention of poor people […]

U.S. retreat from Iran prepares the next assault

July 10, 2026 Gary Wilson

On July 8, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran “over.” Over the next two days, U.S. warplanes struck some 170 targets across Iran, including railway bridges carrying mourners […]

Millions fill Tehran’s streets — Iran’s answer to Washington’s war

July 7, 2026 Gary Wilson

The coffin moved slowly. It had to. The funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, set to cross central Tehran on July 6, was rerouted and shortened because the crowds were too dense for it to […]

Fertilizer emergency shows cost of U.S. war on Iran

July 5, 2026 Gary Wilson

The White House says the war on Iran is winding down. On June 29, it declared a national emergency over the U.S. food supply. The proclamation, published in the Federal Register on July 2, temporarily […]

Behind the ‘Ukraine is winning’ headlines: Europe’s pivot to a war economy

July 1, 2026 Gary Wilson

On June 24, a senior U.S. State Department official stood at a Victor Pinchuk Foundation dinner in Gdansk, Poland, and announced that Ukraine was winning the war. “We do have a moment right now where […]

U.S. bombs Iran again because it is losing

June 28, 2026 Gary Wilson

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: The story of a nation that refuses to break

June 27, 2026 Michel Shehadeh

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. […]

85 years after Hitler’s invasion, Germany rearms for war on Russia

June 21, 2026 Gary Wilson

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 […]