It is the perceived American imperial interest, led by an infantile, power-hungry US president with the Epstein scandal hanging over him, that caused the Iran War.
How Reagan’s secret betrayal of America during the Iran hostage crisis helped him win the presidency, killed Carter’s clean-energy revolution, and helped create today’s crisis in the Strait of Hormuz…
I’ve studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade, and this is what I see in Hegseth’s boasts, action‑movie one‑liners and gloating over dominance
The US attack on Iran may be less about American security than about the priorities of Israel’s government.
The big one
A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment.
The ultrawealthy put Trump in power but other people will pay the price
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.
Time for acceleration
To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.
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