- — There’s More Than Iranian Protest Behind the Iran Protests
![[*]](img/ib-star_nm.png "mark favorite")
![[+]](img/ib-marked_nm.png "mark as new")
![[-]](img/ib-markold_nm.png "mark older as read")
![[x]](img/ib-delete_nm.png "delete article")
![[A+]](img/ib-fontbg_nm.png "larger font")
![[a-]](img/ib-fontsm_nm.png "smaller font")
![[l]](img/ib-link_nm.png "direct link")
at 2/5/26 5:00pmThe protests that erupted in the streets of Iran at the end of December and beginning of January were the largest since the protests of 2009. They were ignited by an economic crisis and the collapse of the Iranian rial that led to a cost-of-living crisis. As the protests grew from demands for economic change []- — Trump’s $1.5 Trillion ‘Dream’ Military’
- at 2/5/26 5:00pmReprinted from TomDispatch: What constitutes national security and how is it best achieved? Does massive military spending really make a country more secure, and what perils to democracy and liberty are posed by vast military establishments? Questions like those are rarely addressed in honest ways these days in America. Instead, the Trump administration favors preparations []
- — Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Dystopia in Motion
- at 2/4/26 5:00pmWhile the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss it as mere spectacle or farce, its criminal, inhumane, and hegemonic nature makes it far too dangerous to ignore. Last week, Trump and his new, thuggish boys’ club of heads of state publicly []
- — Trump Is Dragging World Toward a New Nuclear Arms Race
-
![[-]](img/ib-mark_nm.png "mark as read")
at 2/4/26 5:00pmAmong the critical issues facing our country today, nuclear arms control is seldom top of mind for most people, understandably, given our myriad political, social and economic crises. Recent books and films such as Annie Jacobsen’s 2004 non-fiction tome Nuclear War: A Scenario and last fall’s A House of Dynamite, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, garnered [] - — Inside Strum: How a Subscription Platform Funds Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade
- at 2/3/26 4:40pmOne of the most persistent myths in Western political thought is the idea that the United States and its European allies are principled opponents of fascism and totalitarianism. This doctrine, which many Washington elites believe at an almost religious level, has served as the basis for the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine. Numerous politicians from []
- — Trump on Iran: Will He, or Won’t He?
- at 2/2/26 4:35pmFor the past month, Americans have been wondering whether President Trump will attack Iran, or whether the massive military build-up in the Middle East is just another bluff. President Trump claims that the decision is his alone to make. Thus far, President Trump has made little effort to explain to the American people – or []
- — Iran Protesters Include Mossad and MEK
- at 2/2/26 4:35pmDonald Trump has promoted the idea – amplified by much of the international media – that protesters inside Iran are calling for U.S. military intervention and the overthrow of their government. At the same time, Trump is threatening Iran with major military action, demanding not only changes in how protesters are treated, but that Iran []
- — Trump Is Broadening His Use of Economic Warfare
- at 2/1/26 5:00pm“Tariffs,” President Donald Trump is fond of reminding us, “is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary.” It’s the most beautiful word “because tariffs are going to make us rich as hell. It’s going to bring our countries businesses back that left us.” And that’s how it started. On “Liberation Day,” on April []
- — Not a Trump Anomaly: The Board of Peace and America’s Crisis-Driven Power Plays
- at 2/1/26 5:00pmThe history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules – or designing new ones – to fit US strategic interests. This may sound harsh, but it is a necessary realization, particularly in light of US President Donald Trump’s latest political invention: the so-called Board of Peace. Some have hastily concluded []
- — The Iran Escalation Machine: Narratives, Sanctions, and the Normalization of Force
- at 1/29/26 4:00pmU.S. policy toward Iran is frequently sold as a reaction to urgent threats. In practice, it behaves more like a system: narrative escalation, economic coercion, covert pressure, and then the steady normalization of “military options.” The pattern repeats because it is institutionally convenient. It compresses debate, rewards maximal claims, and makes restraint look like failure. []
- — Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants
- at 1/29/26 4:00pmThe recent killing of Alex Pretti by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents in Minneapolis has generated a new wave of fury on the part of Americans upset about the mounting abuses that federal law enforcement personnel are committing. The alarm is fully warranted. ICE, the FBI, and other government entities increasingly both look and []
- — Who Are the Criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab
- at 1/28/26 4:00pmJanuary 29th, 2026, marks the second year since the Israeli military, using U.S. provisioned weapons, murdered Hind Rajab. Had she lived, this little Palestinian girl who liked to dress up as a princess would now be 7½ years old. An Israeli Defense Force unit fired a barrage of missiles at the car in which she []
- — ‘Don’t Politicize the Holocaust’ Says Pro-Genocide Board
- at 1/28/26 4:00pmMinnesota Governor Tim Walz, describing fear and disorder tied to federal immigration enforcement and street-level unrest, reached for a loaded analogy. “We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebodys going to write that childrens story about Minnesota.” []
- — Greenland Gambit: How Trump’s Arctic Ambition Shattered the Atlantic Alliance
- at 1/28/26 4:00pmA specter is haunting the transatlantic alliance – not from the East, but from within. What began as a seemingly quixotic real estate fantasy has evolved, through weeks of escalating pressure, into the most profound stress test of U.S.-European relations since the Cold War. President Donald Trump’s campaign to acquire Greenland has laid bare a []
- — Trump’s Doubling Down on Imperialism in Latin America Is a Formula for Decline
- at 1/27/26 4:00pmOriginally appeared at TomDispatch. Give Donald Trump credit. He’s added new meaning to that ancient phrase “gunboat diplomacy.” In fact, by the time I wrote this introduction, his administration had already attacked 35 boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 123 people. In our post-modern age, though, you would have to []
- — Iran Is Not Libya: Why Destabilization Risks Global Chaos
- at 1/27/26 4:00pmThe drumbeat of escalation against Iran has grown louder in Western capitals, from fresh sanctions rhetoric to renewed strike speculation. Beyond the headlines, a dangerous shift is occurring in the strategic thinking of policymakers. The old Neoconservative framework of regime change, which assumed one could swap a government while keeping the nation intact, is being []
- — Gaza: Caught Between Israel’s Ongoing Genocide, and Trump’s US-Led Neo-Colonial Takeover
- at 1/27/26 4:00pmReprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. In the Gaza Strip, the remaining Palestinian population, who have survived two years and three months of the most diabolically well-publicized and even relentlessly celebrated genocide in history, which is still ongoing, albeit at a slower pace than before, are squeezed into just 42% of their homeland — 60 square []
- — Democrats Are Complicit Enablers of Trump’s War Machine
- at 1/26/26 5:00pmReprinted with permission from The Screeching Kettle at Substack. The year is 2026. The US under Donald Trump kidnapped the president of Venezuela after bombing the country and killing a hundred people on the ground. This follows a year of airstrikes on Venezuelan boats, supposedly carrying drugs, with passengers treated as guilty until proven dead []
- — What if NATO Died?
- at 1/26/26 4:00pmForged under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is in critical condition. It has been brought to the brink of death by Donald Trump’s threat to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, a founding member of NATO. Trump has called acquiring Greenland “an absolute necessity.” He insists []
- — After the Headlines Fade: Gaza, Abandoned While the Genocide Persists
- at 1/26/26 4:00pmA colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza is no longer a main focus in the news. He hardly needed to say it. It is evident that Gaza has already been pushed to the margins of coverage – not only by []
- — ‘Economic Statecraft’ Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All To See
- at 1/25/26 4:00pmJohn Maynard Keynes famously wrote in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919): “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not []
As of 2/6/26 6:33pm. Last new 2/5/26 10:17pm.
- Next feed in category: Defense One