In 1953, the US and the UK staged a coup in Iran that deposed Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, the first democratically elected leader of a major Muslim country. The intervention, staged to regain control over Iranian oil, was a milestone...
Israel said on Wednesday it had started a new wave of 'broad-scale' strikes on Iran , as explosions were heard in the northeast of the capital, Tehran, with Iranian bombing across the Gulf. "The Israeli Air Force has begun a...
Danica De La Rey Jones’s elite fighter is targeted in a film that would be more exciting if its padded runtime was trimmed down Here is an action-thriller that opens with some zesty Call of Duty-style military violence unfolding in Angola...
For the third consecutive day, the Rafah border crossing has remained sealed, trapping thousands of Gaza residents in a limbo where illness, desperation, and bureaucratic obstacles collide. The closure, which Israel has justified by citing deteriorating security...
LONDON, (PIC) As the world’s attention is consumed by the beating drums of war and the widening scope of Zionist-American aggression across the region, with tensions flaring from Iran to Lebanon and through the Gulf, the Israeli occupation is attempting to...
Egypt has quickly started feeling the heat from the US-Israel war on Iran , with several sectors of the local economy receiving or expecting to experience fallout. Economists expect these effects to exacerbate the woes of the national economy,...
BEIRUT, (PIC) At least 11 civilians were martyred and 23 others were injured at dawn Wednesday following Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, according to the latest local news reports. Earlier, Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a four-story...
I will now show you conclusively that Trump is gaslighting the public, at least with respect to the PAC-3 MSE missiles. The PAC-3 MSE (Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement) is effectively the primary missile used...
Despite Iran threatening to target all US bases in neighbouring countries in response to an US-Israeli war and carrying out attacks on Gulf states since last Saturday morning, 28 Feburary, Turkey has not been hit. Turkey hosts the Incirlik air...
As Iranian political leaders are assassinated, girls’ schools bombed by US weapons and a wider conflagration of imperial violence saturates Iran and the easternmost side of the Mashriq, there is one major political leader in Britain calling for this escalation...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched an arrest campaign across various areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem, raiding homes and kidnaping several Palestinian citizens last night and at dawn Wednesday. In al-Khalil, the IOF kidnaped at least 12...
On the fourth day of the joint US-Israeli war , Iran crossed into what aid workers and residents are calling an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. With 787 confirmed dead across the country since strikes began on 28 February, 153 cities and...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation Authority (IOA) has maintained the closure of the Aqsa Mosque, preventing Muslim worshipers from entering the holy Islamic site for the fourth day in a row. Palestinians have been prevented from performing the Isha and Tarawih...
I’ve been here before, standing at these gates, shaking a little—another Ramadan lies just past this doorway—but it’s never quite the same I or the same here . Some things are the same, like the trepidation, always the...
Tehran, the capital of Iran. Credit: Unsplash/Hosein Charbaghi. Source: UN News By Jacqueline Cabasso and John Burroughs OAKLAND, California, Mar 4 2026 (IPS) Operation “Epic Fury” manifests an epic tantrum by President Donald Trump, supported by his sycophantic minions, with...
Jacques Baud’s odyssey continues. A person of valor fights back against persecution and slander. In response, UBS freezes his accounts without legal basis. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitica.com Introduction The story of Jacques Baud is also a reminder of what...
Civil society organizations (CSOs) are non-state, not-for-profit, voluntary entities formed by people to address social, political, or environmental issues. By Gina Romero BOGOTA, Colombia, Mar 4 2026 (IPS) A year has passed since a 90-day freeze on U.S. foreign assistance signaled...
Iran has attacked US bases in the Gulf States on the pretext that they were used to some extent by the US in its joint campaign with Israel against Iran. By that standard, however, it’s notable that Iran hasn’t attacked the two US bases in...
“Absolutely disgusting and evil.” This is how Tucker Carlson reportedly described the Trump administration’s decision to strike Iran. Carlson would add, "This is going to shuffle the deck in a profound way." Carlson was talking about Donald Trump’s original “MAGA” or “...
By their shameful, spineless stance on the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran, European leaders have doomed whatever remained of their global influence and their pretensions to promote a “rules-based international order.” They are also helping to dig the graves...
Just as the U.S. and Israel launched a war in Iran over the weekend in part due to concerns about Iran's nuclear program, Congress is waiting to receive a civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia from the president, which could...
The so-called Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity is clearly just a Trojan Horse aimed at laying the foundation to provoke a future war with Russia and Iran. Bad-Faith Behavior by Those Proclaiming Détente is now the Norm Since...
Donald Trump made a bold and provably wrong claim yesterday about the US air-defense missile inventory: The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better — was stated to me today we...
Emails show sex trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer’s daughter join an elite IDF unit. The woman, who Epstein wrote would make a “fantastic ambassador for Israel” at Columbia University, served on the board of...
Israeli strikes hit a Beirut hotel and a residential building in Lebanon's east, Lebanese state media said Wednesday, as Israel announced "broad-scale strikes" on the country. Lebanese state media said the Israeli attacks targeted a building in Baalbek, in Lebanon's east...
This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim families are navigating. It’s one of the most frightening sentences a Muslim parent can hear. Sometimes it comes directly: “I don’t know...
If the Strait of Hormuz remains threatened and constrained by the war on Iran, Asia will face its most serious test of energy security since the 1973 oil embargo. For decades, policymakers understood the vulnerability, but few likely believed it...
By: Ainur Rohmah - - - - Mahindra. Company photo The Indonesian government’s decision to import tens of thousands of vehicles from India — rather than purchase domestically manufactured models — has ignited a fierce national debate. What officials describe...
After raining thousands of bombs on Iran, the United States and Israel are outsourcing the task of overthrowing the government to civilians who are unarmed and otherwise ill-equipped to take on the heavily armed oppressive forces they would face. US...
EU elite retreated to a Belgian castle on February 12 to formalize what other powers had long priced in: Europe is losing. Not a policy debate or a trade dispute, but the century itself. The get-together was billed as a...
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the US Navy was ready to escort oil tankers through a crucial Gulf shipping route, as he attempted to justify his war on Iran by saying he believed Tehran was about to strike first. Trump has...
The United States and Israel initiated joint strikes across Iran with President Trump now advocating for regime change in the country. The strikes are largely reminiscent both in preparation, scale, and execution of Operation Desert Fox, a 1998 American bombing...
On February 28, US president Donald Trump took the United States into a de facto, but not de jure, state of war with Iran. That is, he ordered the US armed forces to strike targets in Iran (the de facto...
A UK judge on Tuesday put on hold all trials of people charged with supporting Palestine Action, scheduling a blanket review of cases for July 30. Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring's decision, made at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court, comes after the High...
Iraqi militias backed by Iran have continued to fire drones and missiles at American bases in Iraq and in the region. Both the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and Saraya Awliya al Dam have claimed responsibility for the strikes. Collectively, the...
Opposition channel IranIntl reports that the Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei to be the next Supreme Leader. Mojtaba is the eldest son of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While we await confirmation and elaboration of this report, here is...
Arab Center: The US-Israel War on Iran: Analyses and Perspectives Mar 2, 2026 Susan M. Akram, Charles W. Dunne, Amy Hawthorne, Patricia Karam, Khalil E. Jahshan, Annelle Sheline, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen The United States has joined Israel in an all-out war on the Islamic Republic of Iran....
Con la fine della diplomazia, il conflitto è passato dal regno del calcolo strategico e del realismo a quello del condizionamento psicologico. Segue nostro Telegram . I negoziati diplomatici di giovedì (26 febbraio) – nonostante il tono ottimistico dei mediatori...
On March 2 and 3, the United States and Israel struck missiles and launchers nationwide, nuclear program sites at Natanz, and a key leadership target in Qom, while also hitting IRGC, Basij, police, and intelligence facilities in Tehran and western...
The United States is seeking to destroy the UN, as well as Iran. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016....
The UK is in a doom loop and the Labour government has got no idea how to escape it. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog...
The New York Times is American imperial propaganda for liberals. Belen Fernandez is a columnist for Al Jazeera and the author, most recently, of The Darien Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2025)....
One would have thought the dummies in Brussels were united in their sycophantic response to the US-Israel war on Iran, but apparently they are fighting over who should be in the spotlight. Read the article HERE . The post...
Image: Hiroshi-Mori-Stock / shutterstock.com and 内閣広報室 / Cabinet Public Affairs Office / Wiki Commons By Ria Shibata Mar 3 2026 (IPS) Sanae Takaichi’s electoral victory in February marks a historic turning point in Japanese politics. As Japan’s first female prime...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The United Nations said on Tuesday that at least 30,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon as a result of Israeli airstrikes and shelling across several areas, particularly in the country’s south, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs. Speaking...
NAZARETH, (PIC) At least seven Israelis were injured Tuesday evening after an Iranian missile struck the Tel Aviv area. Hebrew-language sources reported that a missile hit the city of Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv, resulting in seven injuries and causing significant...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian man was injured and another was arrested on Tuesday during a settler attack and Israeli military raid in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank. Local sources reported that settlers severely beat...
Most of Iran’s air defenses have been neutralized in key areas. On March 2, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine announced that local air superiority had been established over western Iran and Tehran. The IDF reported on March...
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