By Nicolas J. S. Davies On May 24, Iran rejected Pres. Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the two sides are still very far apart on nuclear enrichment, on control of the Strait of Hormuz, on peace in Palestine and Lebanon, and on lifting US sanctions, paying war reparations and Iran’s $100 billion in frozen assets. Iran’s conditions for a peace [...]
by Alex Lo, South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3353953/chinas-rise-will-turn-thucydides-trap-its-head [Excerpt] It was no accident that President Xi Jinping cited the “Thucydides Trap” during his summit in Beijing with Trump, putting it forward as something for both superpowers to avoid. The theory, popularized by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, digs into an episode in Greek history to warn against the danger of war between a rising power and a declining one. Meanwhile, more scholars [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror, https://antiracist.org May Day, the celebration of International Working People's Day on May 1, arose out of labor struggles in the United States (as did International Women's Day on March 8). Specifically, the struggle for the Eight-Hour Day and 40-hour work week as sufficient to support a working class family, and the campaign to free the anarchist political prisoners who faced the death penalty [...]
Washington’s war on Iran has exposed the limits of US power, accelerated the decline of the petrodollar system, and pushed the world toward a systemic rupture. https://thecradle.co/articles/turkish-naval-strategist-warns-us-blockade-risks-global-economic-collapse Last year, retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz warned The Cradle that NATO had become a hollow alliance and that Turkiye's future lay in a sovereign Eurasian alignment. Today, as Washington-backed escalation against Iran spirals into a global economic and military crisis, his warnings appear less [...]
Take Action - Sign the Petition https://www.blockthebombs.org/action Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has entered its third year — and the US is still arming it. Since the start of Israel's genocide in October 2023, American taxpayers have footed the bill for more than $30 billion in weapons sent to Israel. Those weapons have been used to kill more than 65,000 Palestinians, flatten hospitals, schools, mosques, and churches, and drive more than [...]
May Day General Strike in the Works by Mike Elk https://paydayreport.com/no-kings-organizers-pivot-to-may-day-general-strike/ After the March No Kings rallies, the largest ever with about 8 million protesters nationally, Indivisible, one of the lead organizers of the "No Kings" protest, is pivoting to building support for the May Day Strong walkouts and actions. They intend to use their massive email lists and organizers for May Day Strong. The May Day Strong coalition is calling for [...]
© by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/the-war-before-the-war/ As bombs explode and wreak havoc across the Middle East, one wonders, What will come of this? This question arises because of events that happened over 70 years ago. 1953, to be exact, when spies from the CIA and British intelligence hatched a plan to remove Iran's democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, removed from power because he supported the nationalization of his country's vast oil reserves. The [...]
Yassamine Mather addressing the Cork (Ireland) Palestine Solidarity Campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhQMMeyUrrQ Yassamine Mather is an Iranian political activist, who was involved in the 1979 events in Iran and who has continued her struggle throughout her life. She's also an academic and involved in the school for Middle Eastern Studies in Oxford or the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Oxford. She writes very regularly on the subject of Iran and the Middle [...]
The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that few [...]
International Women's Day - Global Women's Strike Like May Day, International Women's Day has its origins in the US. First declared in 1909 by Theresa Malkiel of the Socialist Party of America to commemorate a women's garment workers strike in 1857 as National Women's Day, the commemoration was adopted on a resolution by Clara Zeitkin, another Socialist, at a Copenhagen conference in 1911. It focused on demands for equality, labor rights, and [...]
by Robert Inlakesh https://english.almayadeen.net [Excerpts] If it were easy to launch a regime change operation against Iran, it would have been carried out many years ago. While it is impossible to predict precisely what the war on the Islamic Republic of Iran and its regional allies will result in, the ability to win the regional conflict is clear. The only thing driving this attack is sheer Israeli arrogance, as there is no [...]
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/18/usc-navy-program-appears-linked-to-specific-israeli-brigade-that-massacred-paramedics-photo-shows/ In the featured graphic: People wearing a modified version of the Israeli military's Golani Brigade logo were photographed near the Navy Trauma Training Center. By Reo, Sasha Ryu, and Jackson Mills People who appear to be part of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade were seen walking through Los Angeles General Medical Center [AKA County/USC], amid ongoing reporting by Annenberg Media about a program where USC trains Israeli military medical personnel using [...]
