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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

Thanks to Trump, we’re held in contempt even by our closest allies

The US attack on Iran may be less about American security than about the priorities of Israel’s government.

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.

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to great lengths to cling to power.

Iranians have been trying to complete their democratic revolution for over a century. Every time the US gets involved, it sets that project back by decades.

Documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft's cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images.

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, wants to send Cuba some desperately needed oil. Donald Trump sent the US Navy into the Caribbean to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.