- — How Israelis used two elderly Palestinians as human shields — then executed them
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at 8/8/26 3:50pmThe Israelis have been dropping the most destructive bombs on civilian infrastructure such as schools, universities, hospitals, and administrative buildings in the Gaza Strip and killing hundreds of civilians on the pretext that these civilians are being used as human shields by the Palestinian resistance.- — Pepe Escobar: Iran Just Unleashed BOMBSHELL BIGGER Than a Nuke, Trump BLINDSIDED
- at 8/7/26 10:00amPepe Escobar joins for an in-depth break down of Iran's latest bombshell for Trump as its proposed plan for the Strait of Hormuz sends a strong message as to just who is in charge of the critical waterway from here on out. This comes as Yemen intensifies its campaign against Saudi Arabia as the regional war gets worse for the empire of chaos. WATCH BELOW FOR ALL THIS AND MORE
- — Washington Continues War on Russia & Iran: Stockpiles Low, Capacity to Harm Still High
- at 8/7/26 12:54amThe US continues waging war and proxy war against Iran with Iran targeting US-backed Kurdish proxies in what looks like preemptive or spoiling operations in northern Iraq;
- — UK Government Targeting of Muslim Scholar Part of a Coordinated Campaign to Clamp Down on Pro-Palestine Solidarity
- at 8/6/26 1:47pmAmid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular activist and Muslim scholar arrested. Alicia Kearns, the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs has called on the U.K. Home Office to detain Sayed Hussain Makke.
- — CNN or CIA?
- at 8/6/26 1:40pmFourth estate or national security state? It is often difficult to know which one you are listening to when turning on cable news. In this series, MintPress highlights five senior media figures you might not know have extremely close links to the CIA.
- — A critical history of the European Common Defense Project: the Army that could never be
- at 8/6/26 11:42amEurope’s dream of a common army was stillborn in 1954 – and keeps dying.
- — Iran’s Military Chokehold Shocks The US-Israeli Alliance -Trump Backs Down Again
- at 8/6/26 10:12amTrump promised "maximum pressure." What he got was maximum resistance. Robert Inlakesh breaks down how Iran's strategic military capabilities have shattered the illusion of US-Israeli invincibility in West Asia, sending shockwaves through the military-industrial complex and forcing yet another humiliating backdown from Donald Trump. The hypocrisy is staggering: Washington demands disarmament from sovereign nations while arming a genocidal regime to the teeth. Iran's military chokehold has reduced the US-Israeli alliance to posturing and panic.
- — Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2026)
- at 8/6/26 6:29amWhile popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age.
- — Professor David Miller Wins Employment Appeal Tribunal
- at 8/6/26 5:59amMy article explaining what is in the judgement from the Employment Appeal Tribunal
- — Palantir’s NHS data platform: the evidence keeps unravelling
- at 8/6/26 5:20amWhen NHS England wanted to show that Palantir’s £330m software was working, it picked two examples where it claimed to have made a big difference.
- — Did Israel have a hand in Morocco’s Ceuta stunt?
- at 8/5/26 2:37pmIt’s entirely possible that Israel organised the entire thing without even the knowledge of the King, Martin Jay writes.
- — NATO’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; How Encirclement Forged the Russia–China Alliance
- at 8/5/26 2:16pmDER SPIEGEL packages public military cooperation, leaked proposals and Western intelligence claims inside an “axis of evil” morality tale whose verdict arrives before its evidence. Beneath that propaganda stands a material Russia–China partnership forged through treaty relations, complementary trade, sanctions pressure, NATO expansion and the unfinished history of Western intervention around Taiwan. The real danger is not an inexplicable conspiracy against an innocent West, but an imperial system whose pursuit of permanent military superiority produces the very counter-alliance it then cites to justify further escalation. Breaking the march toward a two-front great-power war requires independent working-class organization against sanctions, rearmament, space weaponization and the conversion of public wealth into instruments of planetary destruction.
- — The Divided Empire: Prashad, Buze and the Contradiction Between Hyper-Imperial Unity and Capitalist Rivalry
- at 8/4/26 4:11pmVijay Prashad sees the imperial fist tightening while Özcan Buze sees the national capitals and state rivalries still clawing inside it; this intervention reconstructs the contradictory unity neither perspective can explain alone. The American Pole is emerging as the harder form of U.S.-led collective imperialism, with Fortress America securing its productive, financial, technological and military rear while hyper-imperialism punishes those who refuse incorporation. Yet the multipolar transition remains an opening rather than a finished order: national liberation can be captured, sovereignty can belong to the bourgeoisie, and new development corridors can carry either emancipation or extraction toward the same old port. Against an empire that organizes rivalry abroad and hunger at home, the left must unite sovereign development, worker power, national liberation and social ownership into a force capable not merely of surviving the fortress, but of dismantling the machinery that built it.
- — Iran DOWNS MQ-9 Reaper Drone, MOCKS Trump’s Decapitation Threat | Sharmine Narwani
- at 8/4/26 10:00amTuesday, 4 August 2026 Chronicles of Haiphong The Cradle Editor Sharmine Narwani joins the show!
- — Burnham & Healey’s Militarist Madness
- at 8/4/26 9:20amWhy does every British Prime Minister make the the pilgrimage to Kiev? In this clip form the most recent Decline Fall show we look at the recently elevated Andy Burnham.
- — Yemen, an Islamic betrayal and the expanding battlefield
- at 8/4/26 9:14amNever underestimate Yemen. Yemen shall resolutely match escalation for escalation. Just as Iran is doing.
- — The previous Government’s consultation on more data brokers – envisaging a future that is already past
- at 8/4/26 7:28amThe new Government has inherited an open consultation on allowing data brokers to be ever more creepy, to buy and sell more data with less regulation. It’s coated in the language of helping individuals, but the focus is giving data brokers more permission to sell data about you, and giving you less say in the process.
- — Mohammad Marandi: Trump Folds & Iran Strikes Gulf | W/ Radhika Desai
- at 8/3/26 3:52pmIs Trump's Iran war a bluff, or has the empire simply run out of moves? Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Iranian political analyst, joins me to explain why each retreat only strengthens Iran, whose indigenous defense doctrine and Axis of Resistance have outmatched a US military still fighting last century's wars, leaving Gulf assets battered and the initiative, per the Financial Times, now with Tehran. Professor Marandi dismantles the myth of Western superiority, upheld only by imperial elites as Western publics turn against these wars, and traces how Washington's own aggression has pushed Iran, Russia, and China closer together.
- — Iran’s Military Chokehold Shocks The US-Israeli Alliance -Trump Backs Down Again
- at 8/3/26 3:00pmTrump promised "maximum pressure." What he got was maximum resistance. Robert Inlakesh breaks down how Iran's strategic military capabilities have shattered the illusion of US-Israeli invincibility in West Asia, sending shockwaves through the military-industrial complex and forcing yet another humiliating backdown from Donald Trump.
- — They came to Spain for work. Washington called it an invasion
- at 8/3/26 8:20amOn July 30 and 31, tens of thousands of Moroccan workers crossed into the Spanish-held enclave of Ceuta. At least 72 drowned or were crushed on the way. The toll kept rising as bodies washed ashore. Within two days, most had returned to Morocco. Many went back voluntarily; Spanish soldiers escorted others to the border.
- — Israel protects Mexican official wanted for mass kidnap-murder, along with accused sex criminals and fraudsters
- at 8/3/26 4:50amIsrael has become a haven for international criminals. Many are dual-nationals who have taken advantage of their ability to move seamlessly between Israel and their second country of citizenship to commit crimes and, in some cases, evade justice.
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