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Waking up

In a stunning House vote, lawmakers began an attempt to end the war without presidential approval — creating conditions for a potentially historic legal showdown, potentially setting the stage for a legal showdown over the limits of executive power.

The Iran War exposes how a new global catastrophe may unfold. The Iran war contains echoes of not only the Suez Moment, but of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Besides signaling to the world that US hegemony is on a downhill slide

We spent five days in Cuba in April to better understand the humanitarian impacts of America’s monthslong energy blockade... We came away shocked by the inhumane effects of the policy...until the Cuban people are brought to ruin...

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.

American political leaders are openly stating that the United States is fighting Iran for Israel.

All evidence points to the US determination to release the full might of its military prowess on unseating the Islamic Republic. In the absence of massive ground invasion this goal is only achievable by total annihilation of the entire infrastructure

HANDS OFF IRAN Mr. TRUMP, said Yanis Varoufakis. “And to the rest of us: Let’s do whatever it takes to oppose another war crime—this time against the Iranian people.” An adviser to Donald Trump told Axios, “there is 90% chance we see kinetic action"

The far north has long been a region of exceptional international cooperation. It has been replaced by an emerging era of competition over resources-rare earth metals and control of shipping lanes. Trump’s designs on Greenland come at such a time.

US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter. This is the largest military buildup of US firepower in the Caribbean in decades. If regime change succeeds in Venezuela, Cuba may be next