Conflicts of Interest: Trump Follows Netanyahu to War with Iran
June 23, 2025
On COI #813, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the US attack on Iran. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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I’ll Slug You, and If You Resist, I’ll Slug You Harder
June 22, 2025
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. U.S. messaging to Iran, courtesy of President Trump, is quite simple: We slugged you (with our bombing attacks on three nuclear sites in your country), and if you don’t like it, we’ll slug you again, even harder, much, much harder. Iran’s only real choice: “unconditional surrender,” according […]
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Washington’s Strike on Iran: A Betrayal of Diplomacy, a Gift to War
June 22, 2025
While global diplomats were still exchanging draft terms to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran, the United States launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure. This sudden act of aggression shattered any illusions of American commitment to peaceful negotiation and revealed the enduring pattern of militarized policy in the Middle East. U.S. officials justified the attack […]
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US Military Integration Means Canada Already at War With Iran
June 21, 2025
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Some are pushing Canada to join Israel’s war on Iran. It may already have. On X a former advisor to Quebec’s economics minister Jean Phillipe Fournier posted, “The US will likely join the Iran-Israel conflict eventually. Canada should stop morally equivocating and do all it can to help Israel defend […]
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His Truth Is Marching On – Will Evangelicals Get Their War?
June 21, 2025
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. The days of Gog and Magog are back. Back in 2003, during a conversation with French President Jacques Chirac, President George W. Bush expressed his view that, …Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East… The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled… This confrontation is willed by […]
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Federal Judge Orders Release of Palestine Defender Mahmoud Khalil
June 20, 2025
A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident and former Columbia University graduate student arrested in March and marked for deportation amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine activists. Politico reported that U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, announced […]
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NY Times and Roger Cohen Promote War Again
June 20, 2025
The New York Times has been a major promoter of US “regime change” operations for decades. Today, while President Trump considers directly involving a US attack on Iran, the NYT is again performing this role despite many readers being skeptical or opposed. A June 19 NYT news/analysis is titled “An Islamic Republic With Its Back […]
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From Baghdad to Tehran: Manufactured Threats and Israel’s War-First Doctrine
June 20, 2025
In the early 2000s, a web of exaggerated intelligence, fear-based narratives, and ideological agendas led to the invasion of Iraq. The justification was built around the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein’s threat to global security – especially U.S. interests. More than two decades later, we find ourselves watching a similar […]
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Conflicts of Interest: Will the US Attack Iran This Weekend?
June 20, 2025
On COI #812, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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Reject the Iran Hawks’ War of Aggression
June 20, 2025
The New York Times editors miss the mark: If Mr. Trump wants the United States to join the Israeli war against Iran, the next step is as clear: Congress must first authorize the use of military force. It is true that the president cannot lawfully launch a war against Iran on his own, but the […]
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