American and other Western elites complain ad nauseam, decrying the Iranians’ intransigent, devious, aggressive, and unreliable behavior. They claim Iran will not make or keep an agreement. Never forget, however, that Iran is more than five millennia old with a...
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Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage
by Max Blumenthal | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in...
Neocons Strangling Iran Talks, Putting A ‘Deal’ In Jeopardy
by Daniel McAdams | May 20, 2025 | The Liberty Report
What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?
by Ron Paul | May 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this...
Why Doesn’t the ‘Deal-Maker’ Close the Deal?
by Alastair Crooke | May 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a “deal” – and both deals are available – yet he seems nonetheless to have boxed himself in. Trump presents his Administration as being something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental. It aspires...
A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation
by Alastair Crooke | Apr 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an “industrial concern” infused with Deep State ideology, centred primarily on preserving U.S. global power (rather...
Pentagon Purge: Neocons Desperate For Iran War
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2025 | The Liberty Report
NY Times Bombshell: ‘Trump Called Off Planned Iran Strike.’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 17, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Standing at the Edge of the Iran War Cliff
by Ron Paul | Apr 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
Millions of people around the world were at the edge of their seats over the weekend, waiting to hear whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff’s indirect talks with the Iranian foreign minister would ratchet down tensions or would break down and bring on a major...
War With Iran?
by Moon of Alabama | Apr 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
There are a number of discussions about a potentially imminent U.S. war on Iran. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism concludes that a war is more likely than not. Crooke, Mercouris and Diesen are ambivalent (vid) but also seem to expect a conflict....
‘Break-a-Leg’ (that old Mafia warning) – Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met
by Alastair Crooke | Apr 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump’s ultimatum to Iran? Colonel Doug Macgregor compares the Trump ultimatum to Iran to that which Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia in 1914: An offer, in short, that “could not be refused.” Serbia accepted nine out of the ten demands. But it refused one – and...
Double Whammy: Trade Wars And Real Wars!
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 3, 2025 | The Liberty Report
War With Iran Is a Path to Destruction
by George D. O’Neill, Jr. | Apr 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump rode into office—twice now—on a wave of promises to upend the Washington consensus, to drain the swamp of its self-serving mandarins and to keep America out of endless wars. His base cheered when he skewered the neoconservative architects of Iraq and...
Hold My Beer
by William Schryver | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
Ok, right up front I want to make it clear that this post is simply an extended riff on the same theme I have been fixed upon in my three previous offerings. So, if a bit of repetition annoys you, feel free to just ignore the following somewhat rambling observations –...
Trump: ‘Very Bad Things are Going to Happen.’ Netanyahu Wants the U.S. to Destroy Iran.
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
In my article, “The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the U.S. Economy,” I reminded readers of how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been behind the push for America to destroy Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Iran. I reviewed the severe...
Three Months In, Trump Already a ‘Wartime’ President
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 31, 2025 | The Liberty Report
The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the US Economy
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel is currently in turmoil, marked by widespread protests demanding Netanyahu's resignation. Critics accuse him of prolonging war for political gain, while his dismissal of top security officials and ongoing attacks on the judiciary have further intensified the...
Trump and Putin Begin Addressing Cumulated Geo-strategic Debris… Amidst Trump’s Ultimatum to Iran
by Alastair Crooke | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The phone call on 18 March between Presidents Trump and Putin has happened. It was a success, insofar as it allowed both sides to label the result as “positive.” And it did not lead to a breakdown (by virtue of the smallest of concessions from Putin – an energy...
Scorch Marks in the Sand
by William Schryver | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS ... I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Oh,...
Trump Hypes up Tensions with Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The US...
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