Should Iran be able to maintain its choke-hold on the Hormuz, the geo-politics of Asia would be recast in a new strategic reality Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the [...]
Trump is dangerous not simply because of his imbecility and unbridled narcissism, but because he lacks the core attributes of empathy and understanding that define the human soul Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist [...]
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each [...]
Now that the Weekend War That Wasn’t is in its fourth week, it’s becoming clear that just about everything to do with its progress, as well as its origins and its potential consequences, is covered [...]
Gideon Levy believes Israel’s rampant militarism has infected the minds of its entire population. Without an impossible reversal, the Jewish state’s destructive warpath will rage on. As the war between the United States, Israel, and [...]
Is the Iran war the starting gun on a multipolar world? Cross-posted from Michael Hudson’s blog NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, March 19, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolf and Michael Hudson, are [...]
Iran doesn’t have to strike a knockout blow, it just has to endure and continue to place high costs on its enemy, something it is achieving with aplomb so far. Bamo Nouri, honorary Research Fellow, [...]
The Iran war has proved that oil & gas markets are too volatile for the global economy to rely on, with a shift to renewables likely to be the long term outcome of the war, [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early [...]
