Brett Wilkins

March 10, 2026

US and Israeli airstrikes have killed nearly 300 Iranian and Lebanese children over the past nine days as the attackers target apartment towers, single-family homes, schools, medical facilities, and other civilian infrastructure. Iran’s Health Ministry said Sunday that 198 women and 190 minors have been killed by US and Israeli attacks since February 28, including […]

Brett Wilkins

March 10, 2026

As US and Israeli forces continued to bomb 30 of Iran’s 31 provinces, killing more than 1,300 people including hundreds of women and children, the top Iranian diplomat said Monday that his country does not want to hurt American civilians. “Iran does not want to harm ordinary Americans who overwhelmingly voted to end involvement in […]

John Mearsheimer

March 9, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  The University of Chicago has a superb extension program called the Graham School. On 3 March 2026, I did a lengthy interview with Jennifer Lind, who teaches at Graham. We talked about various big issues involving the past 250 year of US foreign Policy.

Daniel Larison

March 9, 2026

The city of Tehran is being poisoned by a toxic cloud of smoke from the Israeli bombing of oil depots: Iran’s capital was engulfed in a cloud of toxic smoke that unleashed black rainfall dozens of miles away on Sunday after overnight Israeli strikes on several fuel depots caused fires to burn for hours. Images […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

March 9, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: A Community-wide US Intelligence assessment before the Trump attack on Iran concluded that the Iranian government was unlikely to be destroyed by outside military force. As with the Iraq war, the US Administration chose to ignore the advice of its intelligence analysts and embrace the advice of the neocons. […]

Alfie Howis

March 9, 2026

Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going under-reported and little criticized. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution […]

Janet Abou-Elias

March 9, 2026

Yes, he used the American war machine to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with a naval armada off that country’s coast and special operations forces flown into its capital to capture its leader.  And once Maduro was in a prison in Brooklyn, New York, he turned his attention passingly to Greenland and then began placing […]

Hügo Krüger

March 8, 2026

To understand the war now engulfing Iran, we should start from the obvious but rarely stated premise: this is the expression of a U.S. imperial ideology, not an accident or a defensive reflex. Since the Iranian Revolution, America has had the ambition of toppling the “regime” in Iran. The ideology is durable, institutional, and bipartisan. […]

Brett Wilkins

March 8, 2026

After Israel’s unprecedented use of artificial intelligence to select bombing targets in Gaza, experts are now sounding the alarm regarding what one analyst on Thursday called a lack of human supervision over Israeli AI targeting in Iran. “Similarities between Israel’s bombing of Gaza and Tehran are growing stronger,” Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft executive vice […]

John Mearsheimer

March 7, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 4 March 2026, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis talking about the US-Israeli war against Iran. The central argument that Danny and I drove home is that Netanyahu and Trump have no coherent strategy for winning the war and thus Iran is likely to […]