In these days of war, when Red Crescent workers pull someone from beneath the rubble, they do not ask that person’s political or religious beliefs. Their service is universal, directed toward the preservation of all Iranian lives.
The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resource
As the war rages on
FIFA has always loved dictatorships. Italy was chosen in 1934 because fascism would ensure discipline. When the Soviet Union refused to play a 1973 match in Pinochet’s Chile (because the pitch was a concentration camp), FIFA disqualified the USSR.
This contradicts everything the president has said about the war. Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire.
Responding to spiraling disaster
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The war in Iran is testing the operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it
We won’t stop US wars, effectively tackle climate change, stave off US-style fascism, or halt the march to a nakedly might-makes-right world order without a vision for a transformed role for the US in today’s interconnected world.
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